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Analysing Political Discourse is a must for anyone interested in
the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on
Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use
language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical
framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and
behave politically. Domestic and global politics come under the
linguistic microscope. What do politicians really do in a radio
interview? What verbal games do they play? The book draws on
contemporary and high profile case studies. International in its
perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the
changing landscape of global political language post-September 11,
focusing on self-legitimizing language and the increasing use of
religious imagery in political discourse. Bill Clinton's address
persuading his country to go to war in Kosovo is analyzed, and
speeches by George Bush and Osama bin Laden are examined in
relation to each other. Written in a lively and engaging style,
Analysing Political Discourse offers a new theoretical perspective
on the study of Language and Politics, and provides an essential
introduction to political discourse analysis.
Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities
to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track
entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple
of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to
achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store
'cognitive maps' for locating themselves and others, locations,
directions and routes. In this, humans are like many other species.
However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order
to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the
human ability for spatial representation apparently results in
rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of
representations for three-dimensional physical space. The present
volume brings together over 20 articles from leading scholars who
investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial
language. The volume is fully representative of the state of the
art in terms of language and space research, and points to new
directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.
Analysing Political Discourse is a must for anyone interested in
the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on
Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use
language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical
framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and
behave politically. Domestic and global politics come under the
linguistic microscope. What do politicians really do in a radio
interview? What verbal games do they play? The book draws on
contemporary and high profile case studies. International in its
perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the
changing landscape of global political language post-September 11,
focusing on self-legitimizing language and the increasing use of
religious imagery in political discourse. Bill Clinton's address
persuading his country to go to war in Kosovo is analyzed, and
speeches by George Bush and Osama bin Laden are examined in
relation to each other. Written in a lively and engaging style,
Analysing Political Discourse offers a new theoretical perspective
on the study of Language and Politics, and provides an essential
introduction to political discourse analysis.
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The Heptameron (Paperback)
Marguerite de Navarre; Introduction by Paul Chilton; Translated by Paul Chilton
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Inspired by a royal project to produce a French Decameron, these seventy stories mirroring Renaissance France's version of the battle of the sexes are attributed to Rabelais's patron, the sister of Francis I.
What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the
human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to
use language. This volume brings together research from
linguistics, cognitive science and neuroscience, as well as from
religious studies, to understand the phenomena of religion as a
distinctly human enterprise. The book is divided into three parts,
each part preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors
that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the
application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive
linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of
modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary
strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to
religious language and the problem of describing religious concepts
across languages, chapters introduce the turn to cognition in
linguistics and also in theology, and explore the brain's
contrasting capacities, in particular its capacity for language and
metaphor. Part II continues the discussion of metaphor - the
natural ability by which humans draw on basic knowledge of the
world in order to explore abstractions and intangibles. Specialists
in particular religions apply conceptual metaphor theory in various
ways, covering several major religious traditions-Buddhism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism. Part III seeks to open
up new horizons for cognitive-linguistic research on religion,
looking beyond written texts to the ways in which language is
integrated with other modalities, including ritual, religious art,
and religious electronic media. Chapters in Part III introduce
readers to a range of technical instruments that have been
developed within cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis in
recent years. What unfolds ultimately is the idea that the embodied
cognition of humans is the basis not only of their languages, but
also of their religions.
Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities
to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track
entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple
of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to
achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store
cognitive maps for locating themselves and others, locations,
directions and routes. In this, humans are like many other species.
However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order
to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the
human ability for spatial representation apparently results in
rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of
representations for three-dimensional physical space. The present
volume brings together over 20 articles from leading scholars who
investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial
language. The volume is fully representative of the state of the
art in terms of language and space research, and points to new
directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.
The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of
linguistic meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put
forward by a number of linguists in recent years. This book takes
this proposal into new dimensions and develops a theoretical
framework based on simple geometric principles. All speakers are
conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in
an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and
the real world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of
verbs, including tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well
as the conceptual workings of grammatical constructions associated
with counterfactuality, other minds and the expression of moral
force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences throughout and
concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language,
brain and mind.
The idea that spatial cognition provides the foundation of
linguistic meanings, even highly abstract meanings, has been put
forward by a number of linguists in recent years. This book takes
this proposal into new dimensions and develops a theoretical
framework based on simple geometric principles. All speakers are
conceptualisers who have a point of view both in a literal and in
an abstract sense, choosing their perspective in space, time and
the real world. The book examines the conceptualising properties of
verbs, including tense, aspect, modality and transitivity, as well
as the conceptual workings of grammatical constructions associated
with counterfactuality, other minds and the expression of moral
force. It makes links to the cognitive sciences throughout and
concludes with a discussion of the relationship between language,
brain and mind.
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