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Analysing English as a Lingua Franca - A Corpus-driven Investigation (Hardcover, New): Alessia Cogo, Martin Dewey Analysing English as a Lingua Franca - A Corpus-driven Investigation (Hardcover, New)
Alessia Cogo, Martin Dewey
R5,951 Discovery Miles 59 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book details innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers using English as a lingua franca. There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays. This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). Dewey and Cogo analyze and interpret their own large corpus of naturally occurring spoken interactions and focus on identifying innovative developments in the pragmatics and lexicogrammar of speakers engaged in ELF talk. Dewey and Cogo's work makes a substantial contribution to the emerging field of empirical ELF studies. As well as this practical focus, this book looks at both pragmatic and lexicogrammatical issues and highlights their interrelationship. In showcasing the underlying processes involved in the emergence of innovative patterns of language use, this book will be of great interest to advanced students and academics working in applied linguistics, ELF, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative - The European Tradition (Hardcover, Reprint 2020): Roy Eriksen Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative - The European Tradition (Hardcover, Reprint 2020)
Roy Eriksen
R5,438 Discovery Miles 54 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Semiotics of the Christian Imagination - Signs of the Fall and Redemption (Hardcover): Domenico Pietropaolo Semiotics of the Christian Imagination - Signs of the Fall and Redemption (Hardcover)
Domenico Pietropaolo
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The semiotics of the Christian imagination describes the repository of signs and the logic of signification through which a community of faith envisions spiritual truths. This book analyses various examples in text, images, music, art and scientific treatise of the imaginative semiotisation of the fall of Man and the Church's semiotic perception of the Divine plan for Redemption. The book includes a chapter detailing the theory of signs, based on a close reading of primary sources, and has nine further chapters on the meaning-making inherent in ideas of the Fall and Redemption of mankind. These are filtered through and given material representation by the semiotic paradigms of various cultural fields, including philology, verbal arts and science. Central to this practice - and to the book's message - are two themes of theological semiotics fundamental to man's understanding of himself in the larger scheme of things. Two of these include the theology of the Fall and a sacramental theory of signs. The theory is grounded in the doctrine of analogy, and this is the only reliable cognitive link between the immanence of the thinking subject and the transcendence that is the object of thought.

Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (Hardcover, Digital original): Teresa Cadierno, Soren Wind Eskildsen Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning (Hardcover, Digital original)
Teresa Cadierno, Soren Wind Eskildsen
R3,872 Discovery Miles 38 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume brings together perspectives that find mutual kinship in a view of language as an embodied, semiotic, symbolic tool used for communicative and interactional purposes and an understanding of language use as the preeminent condition for language learning - perspectives that we conjoin under the umbrella term of usage based perspectives.

Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology (Hardcover): Various Authors Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology (Hardcover)
Various Authors
R30,139 Discovery Miles 301 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Semantics and semiology are two of the most important branches of linguistics and have proven to be fecund areas for research. They examine language structures and how they are dictated by both the meanings and forms of communication employed - semantics by focusing on the denotation of words and fixed word combinations, and semiology by studying sign and sign processes. As numerous interrelated fields connect to and sub-disciplines branch off from these major spheres, they are essential to a thorough grounding in linguistics and crucial for further study. 'Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology' collects together wide-ranging works of scholarship that together provide a comprehensive overview of the preceding theoretical landscape, and expand and extend it in numerous directions. A number of interrelated disciplines are also discussed in conjunction with semantics and semiology such as anaphora, pragmatics, syntax, discourse analysis and the philosophy of language. This set reissues 14 books originally published between 1960 to 2000 and will be of interest to students of linguistics and the philosophy of language.

The Quest for Charisma - Christianity and Persuasion (Hardcover, New): Craig R. Smith The Quest for Charisma - Christianity and Persuasion (Hardcover, New)
Craig R. Smith
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Smith examines the major canons of classical rhetorical theory by demonstrating their influence on Christian speakers. He begins by explaining why charisma has become a misused term. He then explores why writing about charisma has been so difficult in terms of the academic prejudice in favor of objectivity and reason. He then constructs a three- level definition of charisma to replace the current one.

After analyzing the charisma of Jesus in terms of the three personae he developed as teacher, human, and messiah, Smith argues that his power arose from this rich development of character. The textual charisma of the Gospel narrators is explored in terms of their narrative techniques, and Smith then examines the concept of "ethos," the use of emotion in persuasion, and explicates the theories of leading existential thinkers to develop advanced notions of human responsibility and transcendent spirituality. These two notions are used to refine and improve previous definitions of charisma. Smith then establishes a matrix that crosses levels of charisma with different types of identification. This work will be of particular interest to scholars, students, and researchers involved with Christianity, philosophy, and persuasion.

Thought-Sign-Symbol - Cross-Cultural Representations of Religion (Hardcover, New edition): Monika Kopytowska, Artur Gałkowski,... Thought-Sign-Symbol - Cross-Cultural Representations of Religion (Hardcover, New edition)
Monika Kopytowska, Artur Gałkowski, Massimo Leone
R1,181 Discovery Miles 11 810 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of spirituality, multiple forms of representation, as well as spheres of religious beliefs and practices. The volume is an outcome of the Signum-Idea-Verbum-Opus project initiated by Umberto Eco’s keynote address during his visit at the University of Łódź in 2015. More theoretical insights and further explorations into contemporary semiosphere can be found in Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Signs, Signification and Communication and Current Perspectives in Semiotics: Texts, Genres and Representations, published by Peter Lang.

Logic from a Rhetorical Point of View (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Witold Marciszewski Logic from a Rhetorical Point of View (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Witold Marciszewski
R4,809 Discovery Miles 48 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction - A Linguistic Stylistic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Reshmi Dutta-Flanders The Language of Suspense in Crime Fiction - A Linguistic Stylistic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Reshmi Dutta-Flanders
R4,107 Discovery Miles 41 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book introduces readers to linguistic stylistic analysis and combines both literary and linguistic analysis to explore suspense in crime fiction. Employing critical linguistics, discourse analysis and functional grammar, it demonstrates that suspense in plot-based stories is created through non-linear, causative presentation of the narrative. The author investigates how plot sequence is manipulated to ensure the reader cannot resolve the order of events until the end of the tale. From two-dimensional circumstantial detection in mystery stories to three-dimensional re-evaluation of offender orientation, she uses a linguistic-based stylistic framework to analyse offender motive. She also employs a 'discourse-based' frame analysis to examine the plot structure of crime stories for micro context and set-up scenarios, demonstrating that it is the unravelling of these devices that creates the suspense in murder mysteries and thrillers alike. Finally, she shows how grammaticization of the offending-self reveals an embedded diegetic space in the offender engagement discourse, provoking an intellectual and affective response and reshaping our overall outlook of the crime in the story. This book will appeal to researchers and students from literary and non-literary backgrounds looking for theoretical and practical advice on the linguistic stylistic approach to reading texts.

Sociolinguistics : an International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society - Handbucher Zur Sprach Und... Sociolinguistics : an International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society - Handbucher Zur Sprach Und Konnunikationswissenschaft Vol1 (Hardcover, Reprint 2020)
Ulrich Ammon, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier
R11,724 Discovery Miles 117 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Language of Fear - Communicating Threat in Public Discourse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Piotr Cap The Language of Fear - Communicating Threat in Public Discourse (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Piotr Cap
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses. It describes the ways in which the construction of closeness and remoteness can be manipulated in the public sphere and bound up with fear, security and conflict. Featuring a series of case studies in different domains, from presidential speeches to environmental discourse, it demonstrates how political and organizational leaders enforce the imminence of an outside threat to claim legitimization of preventive policies. It reveals that the best legitimization effects are obtained by discursively constructed fear appeals, which ensure quick social mobilization. The scope of the book is of immediate concern in the modern globalized era where borders and distance dissolve and are re-imagined. It will appeal to students and researchers in linguistics, discourse analysis, media communication as well as social and political sciences.

Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - The Voice of Conscience (Hardcover, New): Carl R Burgchardt Robert M. La Follette, Sr. - The Voice of Conscience (Hardcover, New)
Carl R Burgchardt
R2,103 Discovery Miles 21 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference is the only book-length work to analyze all of the major speeches of one of the most significant politicians of the first part of the twentieth century, Robert La Follette, Sr. His speeches offer historic snapshots into the Progressive era and of the thinking of an outstanding governor of Wisconsin, U.S. senator, and social agitator. This rhetorical biography analyzes key speeches and provides texts demonstrating how Senator La Follette used melodramatic scenarios to enlist citizens in his reform crusade against the gravest danger that he saw in this country. This reference also provides texts of his most important speeches, a chronology of his major orations, and a lengthy bibliography. This unique volume is designed for students and specialists in political communication, rhetorical criticism, and American studies. This systematical analysis of Senator La Follette's public speeches is a short and highly readable history of the Progressive era, World War I and its aftermath, and the early 1920s from the perspective of a leading political figure of the times. The analysis of La Follette's rhetorical strategy illuminates his use of confrontational tactics, such as the filibuster in Congress to educate the voter and to plead for reforms that he considered essential. This reference provides the texts of five seminal orations and the most complete bibliography of speeches available to date.

Diachronic Studies on Information Structure - Language Acquisition and Change (Hardcover): Gisella Ferraresi, Rosemarie Luhr Diachronic Studies on Information Structure - Language Acquisition and Change (Hardcover)
Gisella Ferraresi, Rosemarie Luhr
R5,726 Discovery Miles 57 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the last few years a lively discussion on information packaging has arisen, where traditional dichotomies Theme/Rheme, Topic/Comment and Focus/Background have been taken up again and partly reinterpreted. The discussion is mainly being held in syntax, but also in the fields of semantics and pragmatics. Some remarkable progress has been made especially in Focus phonology. Even if the role of information conveying and information packaging in the Indoeuropean languages was hinted at as early as in the classical studies of the Neogrammarians, this field has remained neglected in today's historical linguistics. This volume tries to partly cover this lack with a sample of papers which offer a various range of new empirical data analyzed from the point of view of information structure. The novelty of the papers consists in the modern theoretical perspective from which the data are analyzed and in the various phenomena considered, which range from the rise of clitic elements to word order change and verb movement. Editorial board Dr. habil. Kai Alter (Newcastle University Medical School) Prof. Dr. Ulrike Demske (Universitat des Saarlandes) Prof. Dr. Ewald Lang (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Luhr (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena) Prof. Dr. Thomas Pechmann (Universitat Leipzig) Prof. em. Dr. Anita Steube (Universitat Leipzig)

Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto Beyond Meaning: A Journey Across Language, Perception and Experience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Gaetano Fiorin, Denis Delfitto
R3,413 Discovery Miles 34 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Natural languages - idioms such as English and Cantonese, Zulu and Amharic, Basque and Nicaraguan Sign Language - allow their speakers to convey meaning and transmit meaning to one another. But what is meaning exactly? What is this thing that words convey and speakers communicate? Few questions are as elusive as this. Yet, few features are as essential to who we are and what we do as human beings as the capacity to convey meaning through language. In this book, Gaetano Fiorin and Denis Delfitto disclose a notion of linguistic meaning that is structured around three distinct, yet interconnected dimensions: a linguistic dimension, relating meaning to the linguistic forms that convey it; a material dimension, relating meaning to the material and social conditions of its environment; and a psychological dimension, relating meaning to the cognitive lives of its users. By paying special attention to the puzzle surrounding first-person reference - the way speakers exploit language to refer to themselves - and by capitalizing on a number of recent findings in the cognitive sciences, Fiorin and Delfitto develop the original hypothesis that meaningful language shares the same underlying logical and metaphysical structure of sense perception, effectively acting as a system of classification and discrimination at the interface between cognitive agents and their ecologies.

Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition - From Plato to Postmodernism (Hardcover, New): James L. Kastely Rethinking the Rhetorical Tradition - From Plato to Postmodernism (Hardcover, New)
James L. Kastely
R2,059 Discovery Miles 20 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? In this thought-provoking book, James L. Kastely examines works by writers from Plato to Jane Austen and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice. While dealing principally with literary theory, rhetoric, and philosophy, the author's arguments extend to practical concerns and open up the way to deeper thinking about individual responsibility for existing injustices, for inadvertently injuring others, and for silencing those without power.

Challenging the traditional claim that Plato is the chief opponent of rhetoric, Kastely contends that he was its most sophisticated theorist. Plato, Sophocles, and Euripides, the author asserts, recognized an essential paradox: while urgently believing in the need for rhetoric in a world where injustice cannot be eliminated, they nevertheless regarded the possibilities of rhetoric with skepticism. Tracing the modern recovery of a skeptical rhetorical tradition to Jane Austen, the author argues that Sartre's work displays the incoherence within modernist thought on discourse and reveals the tensions between two strains of postmodern thought -- deconstructionism and Marxism. Kastely concludes by showing how the rhetorical theorist Kenneth Burke has returned to the insights of classical rhetoric in order to balance a skeptical stance toward persuasion with a commitment to act in a world with persistent injustice.

Patriarchal Representations - Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theatre (Hardcover, First): Maggie Gunsberg Patriarchal Representations - Gender and Discourse in Pirandello's Theatre (Hardcover, First)
Maggie Gunsberg
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume offers a current reading of the Italian writer, Pirandello. The author examines the representation of gender relations in Pirandello's writing in the light of recent developments in textual analysis. She reassesses Pirandello's status as an innovative, avant-garde writer, arguing that whilst on the level of dramatic form he is certainly avant-garde, he is not so on the more covert level of gender relations. The author uses contemporary feminist theory to show how textual analysis can expose the covert reinforcement of patriarchal values. The study provides an illustration of a variety of methods which could be applied to texts other than those of Pirandello's.

Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (Hardcover): Zoltan Doernyei, Ema Ushioda Motivation, Language Identity and the L2 Self (Hardcover)
Zoltan Doernyei, Ema Ushioda
R3,351 Discovery Miles 33 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Due to its theoretical and educational significance within the language learning process, the study of L2 motivation has been an important area of second language acquisition research for several decades. Over the last few years L2 motivation research has taken an exciting new turn by focusing increasingly on the language learner's situated identity and various self-perceptions. As a result, the concept of L2 motivation is currently in the process of being radically reconceptualised and re-theorised in the context of contemporary notions of self and identity. With contributions by leading European, North American and Asian scholars, this volume brings together the first comprehensive anthology of key conceptual and empirical papers that mark this important paradigmatic shift.

Pragmatics of Society (Hardcover): Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer Pragmatics of Society (Hardcover)
Gisle Andersen, Karin Aijmer
R9,499 Discovery Miles 94 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use. The volume covers a wide range of topics within the field of sociopragmatics. This subfield of pragmatics encompasses sociolinguistic studies that focus on how pragmatic and discourse features vary according to macro-sociological variables such as age, gender, class and region (variational pragmatics), and discourse/conversation analytical studies investigating variation according to the activity engaged in by the participants and the identities displayed as relevant in interaction. The volume also covers studies in linguistic pragmatics with a more general socio-cultural focus, including global and intercultural communication, politeness, critical discourse analysis and linguistic anthropology. Each article presents the state-of-the-art of the topic at hand, as well as new research.

Consecutive Interpreting - An Interdisciplinary Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Alexander V. Kozin Consecutive Interpreting - An Interdisciplinary Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Alexander V. Kozin
R3,565 Discovery Miles 35 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting. It combines phenomenological and empirical analyses to build a communication theory of interpreting. The author begins by reviewing mainstream research on consecutive interpreting and then dissociates himself from it, conducting a three-tier analysis of interpreting data. He concludes by presenting an alternative theory of consecutive interpreting. As he makes clear from the outset, a new and combined methodology for consecutive interpreting needs to be constructed to satisfy both the relation of the phenomenon to experience as well as its social foundation. He also stresses the potential within the humanities for wider employment of the phenomenological empirical method. This book will appeal to students and scholars of linguistics, translation, phenomenology, social interaction and communication

Romance Objects - Transitivity in Romance Languages (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Giuliana Fiorentino Romance Objects - Transitivity in Romance Languages (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Giuliana Fiorentino
R4,709 R4,215 Discovery Miles 42 150 Save R494 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University. It is characterized by a striking uniformity of approach, which is functional, and of methodology. The various case studies regarding the object focus on the syntax/semantics and syntax/pragmatics interfaces. The common denominator of the ten enquiries is the identification of the object category, the DO in particular, in Romance languages; at the same time some of the contributors relate the specific topic to more general questions of linguistic typology. Some of the essays are based on the analysis of data from a corpus and present a diachronic picture of the evolution of the specific topic investigated. Thus this volume is addressed not only to scholars interested in the Romance languages but also all those who study the object category in a cross-linguistic perspective. Michela Cennamo: (In)transitivity and object marking: some current issues.

English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells - From Corpus to Cognition (Hardcover, Reprint 2012): Hans-Joerg Schmid English Abstract Nouns as Conceptual Shells - From Corpus to Cognition (Hardcover, Reprint 2012)
Hans-Joerg Schmid
R4,825 Discovery Miles 48 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Language in Its Cultural Embedding - Explorations in the Relativity of Signs and Sign Systems (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Harald... Language in Its Cultural Embedding - Explorations in the Relativity of Signs and Sign Systems (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Harald Haarmann
R5,123 Discovery Miles 51 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Television Discourse - Analysing Language in the Media (Hardcover): Nuria Lorenzo-Dus Television Discourse - Analysing Language in the Media (Hardcover)
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
R4,580 Discovery Miles 45 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around four key features of the current broadcast landscape (storytelling, closeness, conflict and persuasion), "Television Discourse" examines the specific forms and structures of talk across media genres as varied as exploitative shows and political interviews.

Metaphor Networks - The Comparative Evolution of Figurative Language (Hardcover): Anisa Caine Metaphor Networks - The Comparative Evolution of Figurative Language (Hardcover)
Anisa Caine; R. Trim
R1,642 Discovery Miles 16 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Metaphor Networks" focuses on the historical evolution of metaphor and proposes new theories on language change based on substantial empirical data. It explores how the metaphors of today are very often linked to images existing in the past and traces metaphor paths back to the Middle Ages and Antiquity. The findings reveal that regular patters of evolution emerge and the aims of the book are to find out what lies behind these patterns.

Politics & Rhetoric - Coming to Terms with Terms (Hardcover): G. Yoos Politics & Rhetoric - Coming to Terms with Terms (Hardcover)
G. Yoos
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since we need words with new meanings to discover what is true, it follows that without those words there could be no truth as we know it. Without just those words that we create there would be no knowledge for us. In that case knowledge is found embedded in the very words that we formulate. Interpretation and definition as rhetorical and logical modes are interactive in determining and precising meaning that transcends our repertoire of literal usage. "Language use" by abandoning old trails of usage and by refining usage gives us the opportunity and freedom to explore and discover what never has been thought about, used, or expressed before.

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