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Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics (Hardcover): Jerzy Bartminski Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics (Hardcover)
Jerzy Bartminski; Edited by Jorg Zinken
R2,641 R2,462 Discovery Miles 24 620 Save R179 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book will provide an introduction into a highly developed, coherent, and extensively tested cognitive linguistic approach to lexical semantics, which is not currently accessible to readers of English. This will make the book important to researchers and students in lexical semantics, in Cognitive Linguistics and beyond. It will also strengthen the Cognitive Linguistics enterprise in general, by showing that the main tenets of this approach are not an incidental historical development in a particular corner of the world, but rather are arrived at by scholars working in hugely different contexts independently of each other. The book should therefore have an appeal to all researchers in Cognitive Linguistics. Furthermore, the book constitutes a contribution to the intellectual exchange between international academic discourses that mostly develop independently of each other - an exchange that has often provided major impetus for scientific development, as illustrated by the influence of the belated translations of works by Bakhtin, Lotman, Vygotsky, and Luria, among others.

Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles - A Pragmatist's Analysis of Montague's Theory of Sentence Meaning (Hardcover,... Problems, Functions and Semantic Roles - A Pragmatist's Analysis of Montague's Theory of Sentence Meaning (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
E. M Barth, R.T.P. Wiche
R3,548 Discovery Miles 35 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Central Banks and Coded Language - Risks and Benefits (Hardcover, New): Elke Muchlinski Central Banks and Coded Language - Risks and Benefits (Hardcover, New)
Elke Muchlinski
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting. It studies coded language to explain why a central bank's decisions and communicative interactions can't be devoted to a coded language which is an artificial language.

In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense (Hardcover, New): Rachel L. Holloway In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Politics, Rhetoric, and Self-Defense (Hardcover, New)
Rachel L. Holloway
R2,207 Discovery Miles 22 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In June 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission determined that J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Manhattan Project and Father of the Atomic Bomb, was a security risk. Consequently, America's most prominent scientist was removed from government service. In contrast to historical and political explanations of the Oppenheimer case, Holloway explores the role that rhetoric played in Oppenheimer's demise. In doing so, the author draws attention to the symbolic nature of politics and character and highlights the significant interaction of political and scientific terminologies in American discourse.

Holloway's analysis and evaluation suggest that the accusations against Oppenheimer used the most powerful terms of the mid-1950s--communism, progress, and science--to legitimize the government's questionable action. Oppenheimer, for his part, failed to use his most strategic rhetorical resources in his defense, and therefore participated in his own ruin. Holloway highlights the rhetorical interaction among accusation, self-defense, and decision statements through a microscopic rhetorical analysis of the case's five central documents. An original extension and refinement of Kenneth Burke's cluster-agon method, which Holloway calls terminological algebra, is proposed as a systematic analytical tool consistent with Burke's theories. Recommended for critics of rhetoric and political communication.

Identity in (Inter)action - Introducing Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (Hardcover, New): Sigrid Norris Identity in (Inter)action - Introducing Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis (Hardcover, New)
Sigrid Norris
R3,490 Discovery Miles 34 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this monograph, the author offers a new way of examining the much discussed notion of identity through the theoretical and methodological approach called multimodal interaction analysis. Moving beyond a traditional discourse analysis focus on spoken language, this book expands our understanding of identity construction by looking both at language and its intersection with such paralinguistic features as gesture, as well as how we use space in interaction. The author illustrates this new approach through an extended ethnographic study of two women living in Germany. Examples of their everyday interactions elucidate how multimodal interaction analysis can be used to extend our understanding of how identity is produced and negotiated in context from a more holistic point of view.

The Expression of Modality (Hardcover): William Frawley The Expression of Modality (Hardcover)
William Frawley
R6,075 Discovery Miles 60 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book covers the essentials of modality and offers both foundational ideas and cutting edge advances. The book consists of what are essentially tutorials on modality and modal notions, covering definitions of modality, morphosyntactic form, conceptual and logical semantics, historical development, and acquisition. There are also specific chapters on modality in Zapotec and American Sign Language, which show the range of forms that modal notions can take. To assist its tutorial function, the book closes with a comprehensive conceptual outline of all the chapters. Key features: new series textbook covers the essentials of modality

Rethinking Idiomaticity - A Usage-based Approach (Hardcover): Stefanie Wulff Rethinking Idiomaticity - A Usage-based Approach (Hardcover)
Stefanie Wulff
R5,610 Discovery Miles 56 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases that guide speakers' judgements? Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?'.
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Rethinking Idiomaticity "is the first study to bring together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and quantitative judgement data to explore the nature of idiomaticity as a complex concept that comprises semantic and formal variation parameters. Wulff's fascinating book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of lexicography, phraseology, corpus linguistics and those who are employing quantitative approaches.
Cognitive linguists interested in the empirical underpinnings of their theoretical assumptions will also find this required reading.

Metaphor and Discourse (Hardcover): A. Musolff, J. Zinken Metaphor and Discourse (Hardcover)
A. Musolff, J. Zinken
R1,544 Discovery Miles 15 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadly cognitive-linguistic background, providing a state-of-the-art overview of research on the discursive grounding of metaphor from a cognitive-linguistic perspective.

Where I'm Bound - Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography (Hardcover): Sidonie Smith, Robert H.... Where I'm Bound - Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography (Hardcover)
Sidonie Smith, Robert H. Walker
R1,944 Discovery Miles 19 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interlanguage Pragmatic Development - The Study Abroad Context (Hardcover): Gila Schauer Interlanguage Pragmatic Development - The Study Abroad Context (Hardcover)
Gila Schauer
R5,614 Discovery Miles 56 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gila Schauer's study of interlanguage pragmatic development in English is situated in the context of studying abroad. It is the first book-length study of a common occurrence worldwide, but one that has not received the focus it deserves. Schauer examines the interlanguage pragmatic development of German learners of English at a British University over the course of a year. The focus is not only on the learners' productive pragmatic development, but also on their pragmatic awareness, which is compared with their grammatical awareness. The analysis undertaken is both qualitative and quantitative, and the book draws some important conclusions relevant to the whole field of interlanguage pragmatics. It will be engaging reading for researchers and for those doing postgraduate studies in applied linguistics, especially those working on interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics, multilingualism and second language acquisition.

Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain (Hardcover): John Regan Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain (Hardcover)
John Regan
R3,259 Discovery Miles 32 590 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis. There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting these forces, this book demonstrates how distant reading 18th-century corpora can tell us something new, methodologically defensible and, crucially, interesting, about the most common constructions of word meanings and epistemes in the printed British 18th century. In the case studies in this book, computation brings to light some remarkable facts about collectively-produced forms of meaning, without which the most common meanings of words, and the ways of knowing that they constituted, would remain matters of conjecture rather than evidence. Providing the first investigation of collective meaning and knowledge in the British 18th century, this interdisciplinary study builds on the existing stores of close reading, praxis, and history of ideas, presenting a view constructed at scale, rather than at the level of individual texts.

The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book - The Latest in Linguistics (Hardcover, Reprint 2014): Lisa Cheng, Rint... The Second Glot International State-of-the-Article Book - The Latest in Linguistics (Hardcover, Reprint 2014)
Lisa Cheng, Rint Sybesma
R3,815 R2,983 Discovery Miles 29 830 Save R832 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Glot International State-of-the-Article books constitute the ideal solution for every-one who wants to have a good idea of what the others are doing but does not have time to follow the developments in all other parts of the field on a day to day basis. All articles were previously published in Glot International and have been revised and updated, and special attention was given to the extensive bibliography, which constitutes an important part of each overview article. Among the essays in the first volume are overview articles dealing with VP ellipsis (by Kyle Johnson), Ergativity (by Alana Johns), tone (by San Duanmu), acquisition of phonology (by Paula Fikkert), and semantic change (by Elizabeth Closs Traugott). The second volume offers articles on subjects ranging from the development of grammars (by David Lightfoot) and markedness in phonology (by Keren Rice) to the syntactic representation of linguistic events (by Sara Thomas Rosen), optionality in Optimality syntax (by Gereon Muller) and the nature of coordination (by Ljiljana Progovac).

The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005 (Hardcover): K. Dorney The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005 (Hardcover)
K. Dorney
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contains an account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the period, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period.

Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian - A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case (Hardcover, 2013 ed.):... Semantics of Genitive Objects in Russian - A Study of Genitive of Negation and Intensional Genitive Case (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Olga Kagan
R4,125 Discovery Miles 41 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The genitive/accusative opposition in Slavic languages is a decades-old linguistic conundrum. Shedding new light on this perplexing object-case alternation in Russian, this volume analyzes two variants of genitive objects that alternate with accusative complements-the genitive of negation and the intensional genitive. The author contends that these variants are manifestations of the same phenomenon, and thus require an integrated analysis. Further, that the choice of case is sensitive to factors that fuse semantics and pragmatics, and that the genitive case is assigned to objects denoting properties at the same time as they lack commitment to existence. Kagan's subtle analysis accounts for the complex relations between case-marking and other properties, such as definiteness, specificity, number and aspect. It also reveals a correlation between the genitive case and the subjunctive mood, and relates her overarching subject matter to other instances of differential object-marking.

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (Hardcover): U. Sauerland, P. Stateva Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (Hardcover)
U. Sauerland, P. Stateva
R2,888 Discovery Miles 28 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.

Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict - Wording the War (Hardcover): John Morley, Paul Bayley Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict - Wording the War (Hardcover)
John Morley, Paul Bayley
R4,647 Discovery Miles 46 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, with classical discourse analysis, which seeks to investigate naturally occurring language in the context in which it is produced. Interpreting the field of politics quite widely, to include news reporting and a quasi-judicial inquiry into the behavior of politicians and journalists, discourses in the USA and the UK are considered. The central purpose of the volume is to gain insights not just into language, and the ways in which we can investigate it through a corpus, but also into the ways in which political action is realized through discourse.

Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence - The Pragmatics of Discourse Type (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): C. Unger Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence - The Pragmatics of Discourse Type (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
C. Unger
R2,889 Discovery Miles 28 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Genre, Relevance and Global Coherence" seeks to explain how discourse types or genre may influence the addressee's inferential processes in identifying the communicator's intention. It examines global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, arguing that the key to a solution lies in the interplay of the cognitive and communicative principles of relevance proposed by Sperber & Wilson. It unravels intricate relations between cognitive mechanisms, communicative principles and expectations of relevance in complex ostensive stimuli such as texts.

Communicating Rights - The Language of Arrest and Detention (Hardcover): Frock Communicating Rights - The Language of Arrest and Detention (Hardcover)
Frock
R2,908 Discovery Miles 29 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Organisations which act on behalf of society are expected to act fairly, explaining themselves and their procedures to people they encounter. For the police, explanation is routine and repetitive. It is also extremely powerful. "Rights Communication" provides an unusual opportunity to observe different speakers and writers explaining the same texts in their own words in British police stations. Data analyses cast explanation not as a skill but a technology, a rich resource for making meaning, representing identities and organising social participation.

Dislocated Elements in Discourse - Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives (Hardcover): Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook,... Dislocated Elements in Discourse - Syntactic, Semantic, and Pragmatic Perspectives (Hardcover)
Benjamin Shaer, Philippa Cook, Werner Frey, Claudia Maienborn
R5,567 Discovery Miles 55 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is about dislocation, i.e. the removal of phrases from their canonical positions in a sentence to its left or right edge.

Dislocation encompasses a wide range of linguistic phenomena, related to nominal and adverbial expressions and to the information structuring notions of topic and focus; and takes intriguingly different forms across languages. This book reveals some of the empirical richness of dislocation and some key puzzles related to its syntactic, semantic, and discourse analysis.

A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse - The Intonation of Increments (Hardcover, New): Gerard O'Grady A Grammar of Spoken English Discourse - The Intonation of Increments (Hardcover, New)
Gerard O'Grady
R5,612 Discovery Miles 56 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

David Brazil's pioneering work on the grammar of spoken discourse ended at A Grammar Of Speech (1995) due to his untimely death. Gerard O'Grady picks up the baton in this book and teststhedescription of usedlanguageagainst a spoken corpus. He incorporates findings from the last decade of corpus linguistics study, notably concerning phrases and lexical items larger than single orthographic words and ellipsis. He demonstrates theadded communicative significance that the incorporation of two systems of intonation ('Key' and 'Termination') bring to the grammar. O'Grady reviews the literature andcovers the theorybefore moving on to a practical, analytic section. His final chapter reviews the arguments, maps the road ahead and lays out the practical applications of the grammar. The book will be of great interest to researchers in applied linguistics, discourse analysis and also EFL/ESL.

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice - A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles' The Magus (Hardcover): Yufang Ho Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice - A Stylistic Exploration of John Fowles' The Magus (Hardcover)
Yufang Ho
R5,613 Discovery Miles 56 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' "The Magus," exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach.
"The Magus "was first published in 1966 and was revised and republished by Fowles in 1977. Fowles' own comment on the second edition was that it was 'rather more than a stylistic revision.' The book explores how the revised version is linguistically different from the original, especially in terms of point of view (re) representation. The corpus stylistic approach adopted combines qualitative and quantitative comparison to confirm the overall text style difference. The analysis demonstrates that computer assisted methods can identify significant linguistic features which literary critics have not noticed and provide a more detailed descriptive basis for literary interpretation of (either edition) of the novel. This analysis of "The Magus "serves as a case study and exemplar of how corpus techniques may be used generally in the study of linguistics.

Metaphor from the Ground Up - Understanding Figurative Language in Context (Paperback): Daniel C. Strack Metaphor from the Ground Up - Understanding Figurative Language in Context (Paperback)
Daniel C. Strack
R1,032 R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Save R57 (6%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Metaphor from the Ground Up introduces Conceptual Filtering Theory, a theory of mental processing that describes figurative language communication in terms of conceptual domain projection and contextual disambiguation. In an attempt to match theoretical observations from cognitive semantics and pragmatics with related knowledge about mental processes from cognitive neuroscience, CFT first examines the distributed nature of conceptualization and then uses this background information to explain metonymic "binding" and metaphoric "mapping." Once the perceptual origins of metonymy and metaphor have been demonstrated, CFT offers a detailed account of how salient aspects of conceptualization differentially combine to achieve predictable inferencing results in linguistic communication. In addition, CFT characterizes the role of contextual effects in pruning salient inferencing options and demonstrates how situational frames can be manipulated to guide semantic outcomes. The book as a whole will assert that figurative language processing cannot be characterized in terms of a generically constituted base system that receives inputs and spits out predictable results according to logical probability in a situational vacuum. Rather, it is a dynamic, context-sensitive process that continually reweights the underlying system so as to rapidly select situation-relevant lines of inferencing from among a variety of salient inferencing options.

Anaphora and Definite Descriptions - Two Applications of Game-Theoretical Semantics (Hardcover, 1985 ed.): Jaakko Hintikka, J.... Anaphora and Definite Descriptions - Two Applications of Game-Theoretical Semantics (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Jaakko Hintikka, J. Kulas
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I n order to appreciate properly what we are doing in this book it is necessary to realize that our approach to linguistic theorizing differs from the prevailing views. Our approach can be described by indicating what distinguishes it from the methodological ideas current in theoretical linguistics, which I consider seriously misguided. Linguists typically construe their task in these days as that of making exceptionless generalizations from particular examples. This explanatory strategy is wrong in several different ways. It presupposes that we can have "intuitions" about particular examples, usually examples invented by the linguist himself or herself, reliable and sharp enough to serve as a basis of sharp generalizations. It also presupposes that we cannot have equally reliable direct access to general linguistic regularities. Both assumptions appear to me extremely dubious, and the first of them has in effect been challenged by linguists like Dwight Bol inger. There is also some evidence that the degree of unanimity among linguists is fairly low when it comes to less clear cases, even in connection with such relatively simple questions as grammaticality (acceptability). For this reason we have tried to rely more on quotations from contemporary fiction, newspapers and magazines than on linguists' and philosophers' ad hoc examples. I also find it strange that some of the same linguists as believe that we all possess innate ideas about general characteristics of humanly possible grammars assume that we can have access to them only via their particular consequences.

The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics (Hardcover, Reprint 2019): Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics (Hardcover, Reprint 2019)
Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok; Contributions by Evan P. Young
R4,591 Discovery Miles 45 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Positioning Gender in Discourse - A Feminist Methodology (Hardcover, First): J Baxter Positioning Gender in Discourse - A Feminist Methodology (Hardcover, First)
J Baxter
R2,870 Discovery Miles 28 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Positioning Gender in Discourse offers a newly emerging approach to the study of spoken discourse. Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis has particular relevance to analyzing the significance of gender in relation to the competing and intertextualized ways in which speakers construct their identities and their relationships through talk. This book gives readers a full account of the methodology through a study of teenagers' conversations in class, and a study of managers' discussions in team meetings.

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