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Interlanguage Pragmatic Development - The Study Abroad Context (Hardcover): Gila Schauer Interlanguage Pragmatic Development - The Study Abroad Context (Hardcover)
Gila Schauer
R5,282 Discovery Miles 52 820 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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
R1,797 Discovery Miles 17 970 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005 (Hardcover): K. Dorney The Changing Language of Modern English Drama 1945-2005 (Hardcover)
K. Dorney
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters (Hardcover): Maria De La O. Hernandez Lopez, Lucia Fernandez Amaya A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters (Hardcover)
Maria De La O. Hernandez Lopez, Lucia Fernandez Amaya
R3,729 Discovery Miles 37 290 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In A Multidisciplinary Approach to Service Encounters, Maria de la O Hernandez-Lopez and Lucia Fernandez-Amaya have joined marketing researchers and linguists to provide the tools to understand consumers' communication in different professional settings. Service encounters have been widely studied due to the fact that the communicative exchange between the customer and the server is essential for the success of the service encounter itself. In this volume, the role of language, linguistics and communication is examined in an area of research that has traditionally been related to business and marketing. This is achieved through the presentation of works from a variety of perspectives that may help to advance in this particular context and also contribute to improving communication in service encounters.

Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (Hardcover): U. Sauerland, P. Stateva Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics (Hardcover)
U. Sauerland, P. Stateva
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

Nonveridicality and Evaluation - Theoretical, Computational and Corpus Approaches (Hardcover): Maite Taboada, Rada Trnavac Nonveridicality and Evaluation - Theoretical, Computational and Corpus Approaches (Hardcover)
Maite Taboada, Rada Trnavac
R3,354 Discovery Miles 33 540 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Nonveridicality and evaluation interact in obvious ways in conveying opinion and subjectivity in language. In Nonveridicality and Evaluation Maite Taboada and Radoslava Trnavac bring together a diverse group of researchers with interests in evaluation, Appraisal, nonveridicality and coherence relations. The papers in the volume approach the intersection of these areas from two different points of view: theoretical and empirical. From a theoretical point of view, contributions reflect the interface between evaluation, nonveridicality and coherence. The empirical perspective is shown in papers that employ corpus methodology, qualitative descriptions of texts, and computational implementations.

The Expression of Modality (Hardcover): William Frawley The Expression of Modality (Hardcover)
William Frawley
R5,715 Discovery Miles 57 150 Ships in 10 - 15 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

The Pragmatics of Translation (Paperback): Leo Hickey The Pragmatics of Translation (Paperback)
Leo Hickey
R781 Discovery Miles 7 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pragmatics, often defined as the study of language use and language users, sets out to explain what people wish to achieve and how they go about achieving it in using language. Such a study is clearly of direct relevance to an understanding of translation and translators. The thirteen chapters in this volume show how translation - skill, art, process and product - is affected by pragmatic factors such as the acts performed by people when they use language, how writers try to be polite, relevant and cooperative, the distinctions they make between what their readers may already know and what is likely to be new to them, what is presupposed and what is openly affirmed, time and space, how they refer to things and make their discourse coherent, how issues may be hedged or attempts made to produce in readers of the translation effects equivalent to those stimulated in readers of the original. Particular attention is paid to legal, political, humorous, poetic and other literary texts.

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
R3,285 Discovery Miles 32 850 Ships in 10 - 15 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 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
R3,514 R2,754 Discovery Miles 27 540 Save R760 (22%) Ships in 18 - 22 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).

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
R2,668 Discovery Miles 26 680 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

The Metaphor Compass - Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity (Paperback):... The Metaphor Compass - Directions for Metaphor Research in Language, Cognition, Communication, and Creativity (Paperback)
Marianna Bolognesi, Ana Werkmann Horvat
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

* Features/Benefits o Uniquely provides a clear, accessible, introduction to a range of aspects of theoretical and applied metaphor studies - metaphor variability, processing, use, multimodality, and creativity - across languages (including non-Western languages), communicative settings, and modes of expression. It thus enables understanding of the main issues, terminology, and big picture relating to metaphor. o Presents diverse studies that employ a variety of empirical methods, from neuroimaging to corpus analysis to behavioral experimentation to computational modelling. o Offers a rich array of pedagogical material in every chapter and points to future directions for metaphor research. * Demand/Audience o Meets the demand for a comprehensive, introductory work in metaphor, which has had an explosion of interest and output in the research literature, conferences, and taught courses. o Students/instructor and researchers of linguistics, communication, anthropology, cognitive science, discourse analysis, and more interested in learning/teaching more about metaphor, figurative language, and cognitive linguistics will benefit from this synthesis, which will enable them to read more specifically oriented books in this area (of which there are many). * Competition o No extant book directly competes with the proposed book. Other books about metaphor are highly specialized, narrowly focused monographs on metaphor in specific domains, and are inaccessible/inappropriate for student/course or introductory use to the broad subject of metaphor. This synthetic, zoomed-out book fills that gap by pulling together a wide range of topics and offering an overview of current metaphor research.

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
R3,806 Discovery Miles 38 060 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

Communicating Rights - The Language of Arrest and Detention (Hardcover): Frock Communicating Rights - The Language of Arrest and Detention (Hardcover)
Frock
R2,685 Discovery Miles 26 850 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

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
R5,281 Discovery Miles 52 810 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

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
R5,238 Discovery Miles 52 380 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Positioning Gender in Discourse - A Feminist Methodology (Hardcover, First): J Baxter Positioning Gender in Discourse - A Feminist Methodology (Hardcover, First)
J Baxter
R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

Silence, Civility, and Sanity - Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age (Hardcover): Stephanie Bennett Silence, Civility, and Sanity - Hope for Humanity in a Digital Age (Hardcover)
Stephanie Bennett
R2,403 Discovery Miles 24 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Silence, Civility, and Sanity addresses the reclamation of civil communication and healthy public conversation at a time when people are very divided. Throughout this book, Stephanie Bennett focuses on the importance of silence to temper speech and embrace the art of listening to foster a more positive dialogue and civil society. Throughout this book, the author addresses the place of silence as a communicational good, intrapersonal silence in the history of contemplative prayer, the importance of attentive silence, the reflective use of silence, the ethnical dimensions of silence, and the abuses of silence. This book also delves into the layers of technological advancement that obscure perception and act as noise that poses as silence, phantom silence. Bennett offers readers an alternative to the false binaries of culture-warring that plague our relationships, institutions, and public sphere. Scholars of communication, rhetoric, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.

Plurality and Quantification (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): F. Hamm, Erhard W. Hinrichs Plurality and Quantification (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
F. Hamm, Erhard W. Hinrichs
R4,221 Discovery Miles 42 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: * Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification * Distributivity and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations * Distributivity and Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the semantics of natural languages were in dependently introduced for the study of generalized quantification, pred ication, intensionality, mass terms and plurality. The most prominent modern advocate for an algebraic theory of plurality (and mass terms) is certainly Godehard Link. It is indicative of the Wirkungsgeschichte of Link's work that most of the contributions in this volume take the logic of plurals proposed by Godehard Link (Link 1983, 1987) as their foundation or, at the very least, as their point of reference. Link's own paper in this volume provides a concise summary of many of the central research issues that have engaged semanticists during the last decade. Link's paper also contains an extensive bibliography that provides an excellent resource for scholars interested in the semantics of plurals. Since we can refer readers to Link's paper for an excellent survey of the subject matter of this book, we will limit our attention in this in troduction to summarizing the individual contributions in this volume. The book is organized into three main sections; within each section the papers are ordered alphabetically. However, as in much of linguistic the orizing, there is an exception: for reasons pointed out above, Godehard Link's article appears as Chapter 1.

Prominence in a Pitch Language - The Production and Perception of Japanese (Hardcover): Koichi Tateishi Prominence in a Pitch Language - The Production and Perception of Japanese (Hardcover)
Koichi Tateishi
R2,047 Discovery Miles 20 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R2,792 Discovery Miles 27 920 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

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
R5,281 Discovery Miles 52 810 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Rhetoric (Hardcover): Jennifer Richards Rhetoric (Hardcover)
Jennifer Richards; Series edited by John Drakakis
R3,065 Discovery Miles 30 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture. The nature and practise of rhetoric was central to Classical, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures and its relevance continues in our own postmodern world to inspire further debate. Examining both the practice and theory of this controversial concept, Jennifer Richards explores: historical and contemporary definitions of the term 'rhetoric' uses of rhetoric in literature, by authors such as William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce classical traditions of rhetoric, as seen in the work of Plato, Aristotle and Cicero the rebirth of rhetoric in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment the current status and future of rhetoric in literary and critical theory as envisaged by critics such as Kenneth Burke, Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. This insightful volume offers an accessible account of this contentious yet unavoidable term, making this book invaluable reading for students of literature, philosophy and cultural studies.

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
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Aspect in English - A "Common-Sense" View of the Interplay between Verbal and Nominal Referents (Hardcover, 2000 ed.): K.... Aspect in English - A "Common-Sense" View of the Interplay between Verbal and Nominal Referents (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
K. Kabakciev
R4,213 Discovery Miles 42 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Based on an earlier edition published in 1992 in Bulgarian, this book offers a specific approach to one of the most controversial problems in linguistics. According to it, aspect is the result of a subtle and complex interplay between the referents of verbs and nouns in the sentence. Special attention is paid to the role nouns and noun phrases play in the explication of aspect in English (and similar languages). The grammatical marking of aspect is shown to be a compensatory phenomenon imposed by language structure. Comparisons made using Slavic (mainly Bulgarian) data reveal that compositional aspect is a mirror image of verbal aspect. When explicated compositionally, aspect is also determined by pragmatic factors. Ultimately, it is part of man's cognitive potential.

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