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This book offers a new perspective on selected discourses and texts
bearing on the evolution of a distinctively American tradition of
free speech. The author's approach privileges fallacy theory,
especially the fallacy of ad socordiam, in a key Congressional
debate in 1789 and other forms of verbal manipulation in newspaper
editorials during the War of 1812. He argues that in order to
understand James Madison's role in the evolution of a broad
conception of freedom of speech, it is imperative to examine the
nature of the verbal attacks targeted at him. These attacks are
documented, analyzed with the concept of aggravated impoliteness,
and used to demonstrate that it was Madison's toleration of
criticism, even in wartime, that provided a foundation for a broad
conception of freedom of speech. This book will be of interest to
both scholars and lay readers with an interest in the application
of discourse analysis and historical pragmatics to political
debates, argumentation theory and fallacy theory, and the evolution
of the concept of freedom of speech in the early years of the
United States.
This book explores the concept of complementation in the adjectival
domain of English grammar. Alternation between non-finite
complements, especially to infinitives and gerundial complements,
has been investigated intensively on the basis of large corpora in
the last few years. With very few exceptions, however, such work
has hitherto been based on univariate analysis methods. Using
multivariate analysis, the authors present methodologically
innovative case studies examining a large array of explanatory
factors potentially impacting complement choice in cases of
alternation. This approach yields more precise information on the
impact of each factor on complement choice as well as on
interactions between different explanatory factors. The book thus
presents a methodologically new perspective on the study of the
system of non-finite complementation in recent English and
variation within that system, and will be relevant to academics and
students with an interest in English grammar, predicate
complementation, and statistical approaches to language.
This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing
clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and
semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great
Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author
explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general
spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to
infinitives. The author draws on large electronic corpora, ensuring
that new perspectives are opened on the basis of authentic corpus
evidence. He identifies trends of variation and change in the use
of the two constructions and proposes The Choice Principle, an
innovative perspective on the semantics of to infinitives and
gerundial -ing complements. This book will be of interest to
researchers and students working on English grammar or the recent
history of English grammar.
This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory
of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to'
infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large
electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control
in adjectival predicate constructions with 'scared', 'terrified'
and 'afraid', moving on to a study of object control with the
verbal predicate 'warn'. In each chapter a case study is presented
of a matrix adjective that selects both infinitival and gerundial
complements, and a central theme is the application of the Choice
Principle as a novel factor bearing on complement selection. The
authors argue that it is helpful to view the patterns in question
as constructions, as combinations of form and meaning, within the
system of English predicate complementation, and convincingly
demonstrate how a new gerundial pattern has emerged and spread in
the course of the last two centuries. This book will appeal to
scholars of semantics, corpus linguistics, and historical
linguistics as well as those with an interest in variation and
change in recent English more generally.
This book sheds new light on the nature of gerunds in English,
utilizing data from very large electronic corpora in order to
compare pairs of patterns viewed as constructions. It serves as a
contribution to the study of complementation, an under-researched
area of investigation which bridges observations at the
intersection of lexico-grammar, syntax and semantics. As a result,
the reader develops their understanding of the meaning and use of
each pattern within the system of English predicate complementation
as it has evolved in recent times. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars of English linguistics, especially English
grammar.
This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative
tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of
the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be
used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of
different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by
the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a
frequent ingredient of manipulation. They also show how different
speakers can use different subtypes of the same fallacy in a
debate, and investigate the tension between the policy preferences
and goals of politicians, and existing laws. The book has been
written without jargon, all concepts and terminology from the field
of linguistic pragmatics are clearly defined, and it is accessible
to the interested layperson wishing to become familiar with
manipulative techniques in political rhetoric.
Complementation in British and American English applies a new
empirical methodology to the study of the English language. It
focuses on predicate complementation as a core area of English
grammar on the basis of the Bank of English Corpus. At over 600
million words, this electronic corpus is the largest systematic
corpus of the language in existence today. It offers a unique
database of authentic usage for the study of the system of
predicate complementation in British and American English. The
authors make full use of this database, paying special attention to
the language of newspapers and the spoken language in the two main
regional varieties of English. The book illustrates a new and
methodologically exciting direction in the study of the English
language in the twenty-first century.
In this book, Juhani Rudanko sheds important new light on James
Madison's contributions to the debates on freedom of speech, during
the formative period of 1789 to 1801 in the United States. When
Madison proposed amendments that eventually formed the core of the
Bill of Rights (June 8, 1789), the reaction from the Federalist
party majority was initially hostile. Rudanko examines Madison's
patterns of argumentation in eventually persuading the House of
Representatives to proceed with consideration of the Bill of
Rights. The book also presents new insights on key debates of the
Sedition Act, examining initial Federalist arguments when the Act
was approved, July 1798, and identifies changes in those arguments
soon afterwards.
Juhani Rudanko, in Complements and Constructions, offers a
pioneering perspective on the grammar of important prepositional
complementation patterns in English. Rudanko focuses on sentential
complements dependent on the prepositions from and to and on
transitive and intransitive verbs selecting such complements. The
study introduces and develops the proposal that such patterns, as
well as the into -ing pattern, should be viewed as constructions in
the sense of construction grammar. Rudanko's analysis of the
complementation patterns as constructions serves to explain
important aspects of their meaning. With data from both
eighteenth-century and present-day English, Rudanko reveals the
increasing productivity of the patterns, which is an additional
argument supporting their status as constructions. The
data-oriented approach lends strength and solidity to the analysis
of the patterns as constructions.
This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing
clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and
semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great
Complement Shift. Over the course of six chapters, the author
explores the semantic properties of constructions where the general
spread of gerundial -ing clauses occurs at the expense of to
infinitives. The author draws on large electronic corpora, ensuring
that new perspectives are opened on the basis of authentic corpus
evidence. He identifies trends of variation and change in the use
of the two constructions and proposes The Choice Principle, an
innovative perspective on the semantics of to infinitives and
gerundial -ing complements. This book will be of interest to
researchers and students working on English grammar or the recent
history of English grammar.
This book showcases fresh research into the underexplored territory
of complementation through a detailed analysis of gerunds and 'to'
infinitives involving control in English. Drawing on large
electronic corpora of recent English, it examines subject control
in adjectival predicate constructions with 'scared', 'terrified'
and 'afraid', moving on to a study of object control with the
verbal predicate 'warn'. In each chapter a case study is presented
of a matrix adjective that selects both infinitival and gerundial
complements, and a central theme is the application of the Choice
Principle as a novel factor bearing on complement selection. The
authors argue that it is helpful to view the patterns in question
as constructions, as combinations of form and meaning, within the
system of English predicate complementation, and convincingly
demonstrate how a new gerundial pattern has emerged and spread in
the course of the last two centuries. This book will appeal to
scholars of semantics, corpus linguistics, and historical
linguistics as well as those with an interest in variation and
change in recent English more generally.
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