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The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (Hardcover): Yan Huang The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (Hardcover)
Yan Huang
R4,819 Discovery Miles 48 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, the volume is divided into five thematic parts. Chapters in Part I are concerned with schools of thought, foundations, and theories, while Part II deals with central topics in pragmatics, including implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, reference, and context. In Part III, the focus is on cognitively-oriented pragmatics, covering topics such as computational, experimental, and neuropragmatics. Part IV takes a look at socially and culturally-oriented pragmatics such as politeness/impoliteness studies, cross- and intercultural, and interlanguage pragmatics. Finally, the chapters in Part V explore the interfaces of pragmatics with semantics, grammar, morphology, the lexicon, prosody, language change, and information structure. The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics will be an indispensable reference for scholars and students of pragmatics of all theoretical stripes. It will also be a valuable resource for linguists in other fields, including philosophy of language, semantics, morphosyntax, prosody, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and for researchers and students in the fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, computer science, anthropology, and sociology.

Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 (Hardcover, New): Helena Sanson Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 (Hardcover, New)
Helena Sanson
R3,626 Discovery Miles 36 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This monograph examines the relationship between women, language and grammar with particular reference to the Italian context between the sixteenth and the end of the nineteenth century, from the codification of Italian as a literary language to the formation of a unified state. It investigates the role played by women in the Italian linguistic tradition as addressees, readers or authors of grammatical texts.
In spite of the ever-growing interest in different aspects of women's life in the Western world through the centuries, little attention has been given up to now to women's linguistic education, their relationship with grammar and the ideas about their use of language. In the context of Italy, these questions were virtually unexplored.
This study is the result of extensive first-hand research and detailed analysis of primary sources (well-known texts, as well as minor and rare ones), brought together for the first time and made available to a wider public. Sources range from more specifically linguistic writings, to texts on women's education and conduct books, from literary works (e.g. novels, short-stories, poetry, plays, satirical writings, children's literature), to official government documents, newspapers articles, women's magazines, school texts, letters and memoirs.
Its interdisciplinary approach and the richness of its sources make this volume an engaging journey across four centuries in the history of the Italian language the history of grammar, the history of linguistic thought, and the history of women and their education. This is the first work of its kind in the field of Italian studies. Relevant illustrations accompany the book offering readers also a visual appreciation and understanding of the subjects and themes examined in the six chapters.

Aspects of Split Ergativity (Hardcover, New): Jessica Coon Aspects of Split Ergativity (Hardcover, New)
Jessica Coon
R4,083 Discovery Miles 40 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In languages with aspect-based split ergativity, one portion of the grammar follows an ergative pattern, while another shows a "split." In this book, Jessica Coon argues that aspectual split ergativity does not mark a split in how case is assigned, but rather, a split in sentence structure. Specifically, the contexts in which we find the appearance of a nonergative pattern in an otherwise ergative language involve added structure - a disassociation between the syntactic predicate and the stem carrying the lexical verb stem. This proposal builds on the proposal of Basque split ergativity in Laka 2006, and extends it to other languages. The book begins with an analysis of split person marking patterns in Chol, a Mayan language of southern Mexico. Here appearance of split ergativity follows naturally from the fact that the progressive and the imperfective morphemes are verbs, while the perfective morpheme is not. The fact that the nonperfective morphemes are verbs, combined with independent properties of Chol grammar, results in the appearance of a split. In aspectual splits, ergativity is always retained in the perfective aspect. This book further surveys aspectual splits in a variety of unrelated languages and offers an explanation for this universal directionality of split ergativity. Following Laka's (2006) proposal for Basque, Coon proposes that the cross-linguistic tendency for imperfective aspects to pattern with locative constructions is responsible for the biclausality which causes the appearance of a nonergative pattern. Building on Demirdache and Uribe-Etxebarria's (2000) prepositional account of spatiotemporal relations, Coon proposes that the perfective is never periphrastic - and thus never involves a split - because there is no preposition in natural language that correctly captures the relation of the assertion time to the event time denoted by the perfective aspect.

RLE: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology & Anthropology (Hardcover): Various RLE: Japan Mini-Set E: Sociology & Anthropology (Hardcover)
Various
R30,509 Discovery Miles 305 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mini-set E: Sociology & Anthropology re-issues 10 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1995 and covers topics such as japanese whaling, marriage in japan, and the japanese health care system. For institutional purchases for e-book sets please contact [email protected] (customers in the UK, Europe and Rest of World)

The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado - A Linguistic Atlas (Hardcover): G.D. Bills, Neddy A. Vigil The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado - A Linguistic Atlas (Hardcover)
G.D. Bills, Neddy A. Vigil
R3,790 Discovery Miles 37 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Spanish language and Hispanic culture have left indelible impressions on the landscape of the southwestern United States. The role of cultural and geographical influence has had dramatic effects on the sustainability of the Spanish language and also its development and change. In a linguistic exploration that delves into a language as it is spoken by the Hispanic population of New Mexico and southern Colorado, historical substantiation shows the condition of New Mexican Spanish and what the future holds for its speakers. With two major dialect regions, one in the north and one in the south, detailed maps illustrate the geography of linguistic variation for the Spanish spoken in the region, whose generations of speakers were not only influenced by other languages, but also developed their own variations of words and structure out of need or innovation.

This diverse language has evolved since its origin in Spain with influences that include Native American languages, exposure to English, and Mexican immigration in the twentieth century. Snippets of New Mexican folklore and folk etymology give voice to that evolution. Though this work doesn't attempt to save the New Mexican Spanish language, Bills and Vigil detail the effects of inevitable encroachment that intensified during the twentieth century and seriously threaten the continued viability of this unique dialect.

RLE: Japan Mini-Set D: Politics (POD) (8 vols) (Hardcover): Various RLE: Japan Mini-Set D: Politics (POD) (8 vols) (Hardcover)
Various
R24,480 Discovery Miles 244 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mini-set D: Politics re-issues works originally published between 1920 & 1987 and examines the government, political system and foreign policy of Japan during the twentieth century.

Locality (Hardcover): Enoch Olade Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, Ian Roberts Locality (Hardcover)
Enoch Olade Aboh, Maria Teresa Guasti, Ian Roberts
R3,994 Discovery Miles 39 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well. If syntax relates sound and meaning over an infinite domain, syntactic dependencies and operations must be restricted in such a way to apply over limited, finite domains in order to be detectable at all (although of course they may be allowed to iterate indefinitely). The theory of what these finite domains are and how they relate to the fundamentally unbounded nature of syntax is the theory of locality. The papers in this collection all deal with the concept of locality in syntactic theory, and, more specifically, describe and analyze the various contributions Luigi Rizzi has made to this area over the past three and a half decades. The authors are all eminent linguists in generative syntax who have collaborated with Rizzi closely, and in eleven chapters, they explore locality in both pure syntax and psycholinguistics. This collection is essential reading for students and scholars of linguistic theory, generative syntax, and comparative syntax.

The History of Languages - An Introduction (Hardcover): Tore Janson The History of Languages - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Tore Janson
R3,376 Discovery Miles 33 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an introduction to the history of languages, from the distant past to a glimpse at what languages may be like in the distant future. It looks at how languages arise, change, and ultimately vanish, and what lies behind their different destinies. What happens to languages, he argues, has to do with what happens to the people who use them, and what happens to people, individually and collectively, is affected by the languages they speak.
The book opens by examining what the languages are the hunter-gatherers might have spoken and the changes to language that took place when agriculture made settled communities possible. It then looks at the effects of the invention of writing, the formation of empires, the spread of religions, and the recent dominance of world powers, and shows how these relate to great changes in the use of languages. Tore Janson discusses the appearance of new languages, the reasons why some languages spread and others die, considers whether similar cyclical processes are found at different times and places, and examines the causes of internal changes in languages and dialects.
The book ranges widely among the world's languages and mixes thematic chapters on general processes of change with accounts of specific languages, including Chinese, Arabic, Latin, Greek, and English.

Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English (Hardcover): Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English (Hardcover)
Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence Horn
R4,096 Discovery Miles 40 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

By comparing linguistic varieties that are quite similar overall, linguists can often determine where and how grammatical systems differ, and how they change over time. Micro-Syntactic Variation in North American English provides a systematic look at minimal differences in the syntax of varieties of English spoken in North America. The book makes available for the first time a range of data on unfamiliar constructions drawn from several regional and social dialects, data whose distribution and grammatical properties shed light on the varieties under examination and on the properties of English syntax more generally. The nine contributions collected in this volume fall under a number of overlapping topics: variation in the expression of negation and modality (the "so don't I " construction in eastern New England, negative auxiliary inversion in declaratives in African-American and southern white English, multiple modals in southern speech, the "needs washed " construction in the Pittsburgh area); pronouns and reflexives (transitive expletives in Appalachia, personal dative constructions in the Southern/Mountain states, long-distance reflexives in the Minnesota Iron Range); and the relation between linguistic variation and language change (the rise of "drama SO " among younger speakers, the difficulty in establishing which phenomena cluster together and should be explained by a single point of parametric variation). These chapters delve into the syntactic analysis of individual phenomena, and the editors' introduction and afterword contextualize the issues and explore their semantic, pragmatic, and sociolinguistic implications.

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover): Mamoru Saito Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective (Hardcover)
Mamoru Saito
R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Japanese syntax has been studied within the framework of generative linguistics for nearly 50 years. But when it is studied in comparison with other languages, it is mostly compared with English. Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages, including Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of India. By focusing on Japanese and other Asian languages, the ten papers in this volume (on topics such as ellipsis, postponing, and wh-questions) make a unique contribution to the study of generative linguistics, and to the Principles and Parameters theory in particular.

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar - Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction (Hardcover): Louise Nuttall Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar - Language and Worldview in Speculative Fiction (Hardcover)
Louise Nuttall
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances our understanding of mind style: the experience of other minds, or worldviews, through language in literature. This book is the first to set out a detailed, unified framework for the analysis of mind style using the account of language and cognition set out in cognitive grammar. Drawing on insights from cognitive linguistics, Louise Nuttall aims to explain how character and narrator minds are created linguistically, with a focus on the strange minds encountered in the genre of speculative fiction. Previous analyses of mind style are reconsidered using cognitive grammar, alongside original analyses of four novels by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Richard Matheson and J.G. Ballard. Responses to the texts in online forums and literary critical studies ground the analyses in the experiences of readers, and support an investigation of this effect as an embodied experience cued by the language of a text. Mind Style and Cognitive Grammar advances both stylistics and cognitive linguistics, whilst offering new insights for research in speculative fiction.

Well I Never Knew That! - Do Spies Win Olympic Medals? (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! - Do Spies Win Olympic Medals? (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding 2
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume looks at the impact of evergreen activities - sports, games and gambling - upon the way we talk and the things we say. Peter Ryding takes us from cricket to roulette via some very tricky and diverting tangents.

DICTIONNAIRE D'ARABE DIALECTAL TUNISIEN (Paperback): Louis Bardou DICTIONNAIRE D'ARABE DIALECTAL TUNISIEN (Paperback)
Louis Bardou
R587 Discovery Miles 5 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dictionary of the language spoken in Tunisia -French-Arabic-, designed for the benefit of beginners and more experienced learners, the fruit of years of research. The vocabulary is in Arabic, and the transliteration helps with the pronunciation. References to literary Arabic make interesting comparisons possible. Dictionnaire de la langue parlA (c)e en Tunisie -franAais-arabe-, destinA (c) aux dA (c)butant et aux plus chevronnA (c)s, fruit da annA (c)es de recherches. Le vocabulaire est rA (c)digA (c) en arabe et la translitA (c)ration en facilite la comprA (c)hension. Les rA (c)fA (c)rences A la langue littA (c)raire permettent des comparaisons intA (c)ressantes.

Well I Never Knew That! - Who Put the Great in Great Britain? (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! - Who Put the Great in Great Britain? (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding 2
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume looks at the legacy of British history in the way we talk and the things we say. It takes us from the departure of the Romans from Britain up to and including the Middle Ages.

Well I Never Knew That! Did Noah Invent Tennis? - An Historic Miscellany (Hardcover): Peter Ryding Well I Never Knew That! Did Noah Invent Tennis? - An Historic Miscellany (Hardcover)
Peter Ryding
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The author presents a humorous journey through the English language, exploring the fascinating facts and phrases that make English so rich and exciting.

The Life and Growth of Language (Paperback): William Dwight Whitney The Life and Growth of Language (Paperback)
William Dwight Whitney
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Life and Growth of Language - an Outline of Linguistic Science (Paperback): William Dwight Whitney The Life and Growth of Language - an Outline of Linguistic Science (Paperback)
William Dwight Whitney
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Rudiments of English Grammar - Adapted to the Use of Schools (Paperback): Joseph Priestley The Rudiments of English Grammar - Adapted to the Use of Schools (Paperback)
Joseph Priestley
R491 Discovery Miles 4 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Linguistic Cycle - Language Change and the Language Faculty (Hardcover, New): Elly van Gelderen The Linguistic Cycle - Language Change and the Language Faculty (Hardcover, New)
Elly van Gelderen
R2,050 Discovery Miles 20 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles. A cycle involves grammaticalization from lexical to functional category followed by renewal. Some well-known cycles involve negatives, where full negative phrases are reanalyzed as words and affixes and are then renewed by full phrases again. Verbal agreement is another example: full pronouns are reanalyzed as agreement markers and are renewed again. Each chapter provides data on a separate cycle from a myriad of languages. Van Gelderen argues that the cross-linguistic similarities can be seen as Economy Principles present in the initial cognitive system or Universal Grammar. She further claims that some of the cycles can be used to classify a language as analytic or synthetic, and she provides insight into the shape of the earliest human language and how it evolved.

Greek-English Word-list (Hardcover): Robert Baird Greek-English Word-list (Hardcover)
Robert Baird
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancient Rhetoric and the Style of Paul's Letters - A Reference Book (Hardcover): Timothy A. Brookins Ancient Rhetoric and the Style of Paul's Letters - A Reference Book (Hardcover)
Timothy A. Brookins
R1,133 R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Save R177 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
First-Ever Full Translation - Genesis 1 through 11: The Aliens' Sexual Revelation (Hardcover): Albert E Potts First-Ever Full Translation - Genesis 1 through 11: The Aliens' Sexual Revelation (Hardcover)
Albert E Potts
R880 R816 Discovery Miles 8 160 Save R64 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That's the Ticket for Soup! - Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' (Hardcover): David... That's the Ticket for Soup! - Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' (Hardcover)
David Crystal
R528 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R94 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its class awareness and the jargon of steam engines, motor cars and other products of the Industrial Revolution. Then as now, people had strong feelings about the flood of new words entering English. Swearing, new street names and the many borrowings from French provoked continual irritation and mockery, as did the Americanisms increasingly encountered in the British press. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine, Punch, between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and extracted the articles and cartoons that poked fun at the jargon of the day, adding a commentary on the context of the times and informative glossaries. In doing so he reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.

Linguistic Theories of Humor (Hardcover): Salvatore Attardo Linguistic Theories of Humor (Hardcover)
Salvatore Attardo
R6,830 Discovery Miles 68 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language-based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all

Learn New Testament Greek (Paperback, 3rd Edition): John H Dobson Learn New Testament Greek (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
John H Dobson
R1,029 Discovery Miles 10 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive guide uses a highly effective teaching method to introduce readers to New Testament Greek quickly. The book provides all the basics of a beginning grammar. In addition, it includes a wealth of reading and translation exercises and activities, helpful grammatical resources, and accented Greek text. Audio files for the book are available through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources. Now in paper.

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