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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics
This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live
continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It
explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which
meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are
mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics of place.
Drawing on examples of linguistic landscapes (LL) over the world,
such as gentrified landscapes in Johannesburg and Brunswick,
Mozambican memorializations, volatile train graffiti in Stockholm,
Brazilian protest marches, Guadeloupian Creole signs, microscapes
of souvenirs in Guinea-Bissau and old landscapes of apartheid in
South Africa in contemporary time, this book explores how we are
what we are through how we are emplaced. Across these examples,
world-leading contributors explore how LLs contribute to the
(re)imagining of different selves in the living past (living the
past in the present), alternative presents and imagined futures. It
focuses particularly on how the LL in all of these mediations is
read through emotionality and affect, creating senses of belonging,
precarity and hope across a simultaneous multiplicity of worlds.
The volume offers a reframing of linguistics landscape research in
a geohumanities framework emphasizing negotiations of self in place
in LL studies, building upon a rich body of LL research. With over
40 illustrations, it covers various methodological and
epistemological issues, such as the need for extended temporal
engagement with landscapes, a mobile approach to landscapes and how
bodies engage with texts.
In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a
novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional
perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and
topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and
integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a
type theory with records. Argumentation analysis and formal
approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of
arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god's-eye
perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz's account emphasises the
individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and
acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an
analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to
different topoi and therefore make different inferences.
Habakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its interchange
between YHWH and the prophet. Many open research questions exist
regarding the identities of the antagonists throughout and the
relationships amongst the different sections of the book. In A
Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J. Fuller develops a model
for discourse analysis of Biblical Hebrew within the framework of
Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analytical procedure is
carried out on each pericope of the book separately, and then the
respective results are compared in order to determine how the
successive speeches function as responses to each other, and to
better understand changes in the perspectives of the various
speakers throughout.
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