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De Gruyter Modifying Adjuncts
Unlike the notion of "argument" that is central to modern linguistic theorizing, the phenomena that are commonly subsumed under the complementary notion "adjunct" so far have not attracted the attention they deserve. In this volume, leading experts in the field present current approaches to the grammar and pragmatics of adjuncts. The contributions scrutinize i.a. the argument-adjunct distinction, specify conditions of adjunct placement, discuss compositionality issues, and propose new analyses of event-related modification. They are meant to shed new light on an area of linguistic structure that is deemed to be notoriously overlooked.
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De Gruyter Schlagwörter der Nachkriegszeit 1945–1949
Book SynopsisDieses (Lese-)Wörterbuch verzeichnet die wichtigsten Schlagwörter der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit (Demokratie, Wiederaufbau, Einheit usw.) und rekonstruiert damit Grundlagen des öffentlichen Diskurses in der "Zwischenzeit" vor der Gründung der Bundesrepublik bzw. der DDR. Die Quellen des Wörterbuchs sind zahlreiche Zeitungen, Parteiprogramme und Plakattexte. Jeder Artikel bietet Informationen zu Varianten des Lemmas, zur lexikalischen Umgebung und zum Aktualitätszeitraum, rekonstruiert die Wort- und Begriffsgeschichte, entfaltet den sachlich-historischen Kontext und bietet reichhaltiges Zitat- und Belegmaterial aus den Quellen. Ost- und Westzone(n) werden gleichermaßen untersucht. Im Vorspann führt der Autor in die Schlagwort-Theorie und historische Grunddaten der untersuchten Epoche "Nachkriegszeit" ein.
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De Gruyter The Expression of Possession
Book SynopsisHuman thought and action is fundamentally shaped by a small set of cognitive categories, such as time, space, causality, or possession. It is not surprising, therefore, that all natural languages have developed many devices to express these categories. Temporality, for example, is reflected in the lexical meaning of verbs, in grammatical marking of tense and aspect, in time adverbials, in special particles, and in the application of discourse principles. Many of these devices have been the subject of intensive research across languages; but as a rule, this research focuses on particular aspects, it does not look at the expression of such a category as a whole, which is precisely the aim of the present series. The short volumes bring together what is known about the expression of a particular category in human language.
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De Gruyter Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics: A Mutualistic Entente
Book SynopsisThe recent history of linguistics has witnessed the development of some disciplines that were conceived apart but benefited from common intuitions. One example of this phenomenon is the relationship established throughout time between pragmatics and corpus linguistics. Although their arrival heralded the application of two paradigms based on distant theoretical principles, they always showed an interest in their mutual advances and their practical reconciliation gave birth to an intellectual synergy that proved very fruitful. The present volume is an homage to the symbiosis of pragmatics and corpus linguistics and gathers the works of some of the scholars that have striven to create the liaison between them for a better understanding of language.
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De Gruyter Semiotics at the Circus
Book SynopsisSemiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.
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De Gruyter English Modality: Core, Periphery and Evidentiality
Book SynopsisThe book presents new issues and areas of work in modality and evidentiality in English(es), and in relation to other European languages (French, Galician, Lithuanian, Spanish). Given the complexity of the relations among modal and evidential expressions, their constant diachronic evolution, and the variation found in different English-speaking areas, and in different genres and discourse domains, the volume addresses the following issues: the conceptual nature of modality, the relationship between the domains of modality and evidentiality, the evolution and current status of the modal auxiliaries and other modal expressions, the relationship with neighbouring grammatical categories (tense, aspect, mood), and the variation in different discourse domains and genres, in modelling stance and discourse identities.
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De Gruyter Contrasting English and German Grammar: An Introduction to Syntax and Semantics
Book SynopsisThis book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
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De Gruyter Handbuch Werberhetorik
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De Gruyter Semantik: Eine Einführung
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De Gruyter Infinitives at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: A
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De Gruyter Textkomplexität und Textverständlichkeit
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De Gruyter The MIHI EST construction: An instance of
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Romanian mihi est construction (Mi-e foame/frică, me.dat = is hunger/fear ‘I am hungry/ afraid’). While it disappeared from all other Romance languages to be replaced with a habeo structure, the mihi est pattern is in Romanian the most common way of expressing psychological or physiological states. By means of synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, the book investigates the status of the core arguments of the mihi est structure, i.e. the dative experiencer and the nominative state noun, as well as its evolution throughout the centuries. The data analysis reveals that the dative experiencer syntactically behaves like nominative subjects, whereas the state noun shows predicate behavior. As for the evolution of the mihi est structure, the analysis shows a certain tendency toward innovation, since in present-day Romanian it can coerce nouns coming from other semantic fields into the construction’s psychological or physiological interpretation. Could this be another unique trait of Romanian, which causes it to seemingly go against the tendency of most Romance languages toward canonical marking of core arguments?
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De Gruyter New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics
Book SynopsisNew Directions in Second Language Pragmatics brings together varying perspectives in second language (L2) pragmatics to show both historical developments in the field, while also looking towards the future, including theoretical, empirical, and implementation perspectives. This volume is divided in four sections: teaching and learning speech acts, assessing pragmatic competence, analyzing discourses in digital contexts, and current issues in L2 pragmatics. The chapters focus on various aspects related to the learning, teaching, and assessing of L2 pragmatics and cover a range of learning environments. The authors address current topics in L2 pragmatics such as: speech acts from a discursive perspective; pragmatics instruction in the foreign language classroom and during study abroad; assessment of pragmatic competence; research methods used to collect pragmatics data; pragmatics in computer-mediated contexts; the role of implicit and explicit knowledge; discourse markers as a resource for interaction; and the framework of translingual practice. Taken together, the chapters in this volume foreground innovations and new directions in the field of L2 pragmatics while, at the same time, ground their work in the existing literature. Consequently, this volume both highlights where the field of L2 pragmatics has been and offers cutting-edge insights into where it is going in the future.
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De Gruyter Tastes We Live By: The Linguistic Conceptualisation of Taste in English
Book SynopsisTaste is considered one of the lowest sensory modalities, and the most difficult to express in language. Recently, an increasing body of research in perception language and in Food Studies has been sparkling new interest and new perspectives on the importance of this sense. Merging anthropology, evolutionary physiology and philosophy, this book investigates the language of Taste in English, and its relationship with our embodied minds. In the first part of the book, the author explores the semantic dimensions of Taste terms with a usage-based approach. With the application of experimental protocols, Bagli enquires their possible organization in a radial network and calculates the Salience index of gustatory terms in both American and British English. The second part of the book is an overview of the metaphorical extensions that motivate the polysemy of Taste terms, with the aid of corpus analysis methods and various texts. This book is the first to review systematically and in a usage-based perspective the role of the sensory domain of Taste in English, showing a more complicated picture and suggesting that its under-representation and difficulty of encoding does not correspond to lack of importance.
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De Gruyter Trends in South Asian Linguistics
Book SynopsisThe field of South Asian linguistics has undergone considerable growth and advancement in recent years, as a wider and more diverse range of languages have become subject to serious linguistic study, and as advancements in theoretical linguistics are applied to the rich linguistic data of South Asia. In this growth and diversity, it can be difficult to retain a broad grasp on the current state of the art, and to maintain a sense of the underlying unity of the field. This volume brings together twenty articles by leading scholars in South Asian linguistics, which showcase the cutting-edge research currently being undertaken in the field, and offer the reader a comprehensive introduction to the state of the art in South Asian linguistics. The contributions to the volume focus primarily on syntax and semantics, but also include important contributions on morphological and phonological questions. The contributions also cover a wide range of languages, from well-studied Indo-Aryan languages such as Sanskrit, Hindi, Bangla and Panjabi, through Dravidian languages to endangered and understudied Tibeto-Burman languages. This collection is a must-read for all scholars interested in current trends and advancements in South Asian linguistics.
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de Gruyter Musikdiskurse
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De Gruyter A Dictionary of Austronesian Monosyllabic Roots (Submorphemes)
Book SynopsisThis book documents an understudied phenomenon in Austronesian languages, namely the existence of recurrent submorphemic sound-meaning associations of the general form -CVC. It fills a critical gap in scholarship on these languages by bringing together a large body of data in one place, and by discussing some of the theoretical issues that arise in analyzing this data. Following an introduction which presents the topic, it includes a critical review of the relevant literature over the past century, and discussions of the following: 1. problems in finding the root (the "needle in the haystack" problem), 2. root ambiguity, 3. controls on chance as an interfering factor, 4. unrecognized morphology as a possible factor in duplicating evidence, 5. the shape/structure of the root, 6. referents of roots, 7. the origin of roots, 8. the problem of distinguishing false cognates produced by convergence in root-bearing morphemes from legitimate comparisons resulting from divergent descent, and 9. the problem of explaining how submorphemes are transmitted across generations of speakers independently of the morphemes that host them. The remainder of the book consists of a list of sources for the 197 languages from which data is drawn, followed by the roots with supporting evidence, a short appendix, and references.
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De Gruyter Konstruktionssemantik
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Enhanced E-Books: Eine empirische Studie zum
Book SynopsisStefanie Lange erforscht das immersive Erleben von enhanced E-Books. Die Rezeption dieser digitalen Literaturform unterscheidet sich vor allem durch ihre Multimodalität und Interaktivität vom Lesen von Printbüchern. Somit verändern sich die Wahrnehmung und das Leseverstehen. Durch eine empirische Studie werden diese Veränderungen und Unterschiede zum Printlesen, mit Fokussierung des immersiven Lesens, sichtbar gemacht. Hierbei geht es auch darum, herauszufinden, welche Potentiale und Chancen enhanced E-Books für den Literaturunterricht haben können. Table of ContentsEnhanced E-Books und ihre Rezeption im öffentlichen Diskurs sowie im Forschungsdiskurs.- Literarisches Lesen.- Theorie des immersiven Erlebens.- Der Gegenstand enhanced E-Book.- Empirische Überprüfung: Die Erstellung eines Untersuchungsdesigns.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Didaktik der Informatik: Grundlagen, Konzepte, Beispiele
Book SynopsisDer zeitgemäße Ansatz für den Informatikunterricht: Im ersten Teil erklärt der Autor wichtige lernpsychologische Grundlagen sowie allgemeine didaktische Prinzipien. Er gibt konkrete Hinweise für die Unterrichtsplanung und -durchführung. Im zweiten Teil folgt seine Begründung für ein Pflichtfach "Informatik" vor dem Hintergrund einer differenzierten Informationsgesellschaft. Aus diesen Überlegungen leitet er einen Ansatz für den Unterricht ab, der über die Schulung reiner Programmierfertigkeiten hinausgeht. Konkrete Unterrichtspläne verdeutlichen in dieser 3., überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage die praktische Vermittlung der Lerninhalte.Trade ReviewAus den Rezensionen zur 3. Auflage: "Hubwieser entwickelt ein didaktisches Konzept für den Informatikunterricht und stellt ausgearbeitete Unterrichtsbeispiele für die Sekundarstufen I und II vor. Im Praxisteil überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage … eines von Lehrerstudenten und Lehrern stark nachgefragten Titels …" (Heckmann, in: ekz-Informationsdienst Einkaufszentrale für öffentliche Bibliotheken, 2007, Issue 50)Table of ContentsGrundlagen.- Lernpsychologische Fundierung.- Prinzipien didaktischen Handelns.- Theoretische Ansätze der allgemeinen Didaktik.- Unterrichtsplanung und -gestaltung.- Konzepte.- Informatische Bildung und Informatikunterricht.- Wozu Informatikunterricht?.- Entwurf einer Unterrichtsmethodik.- Die Lerninhalte.- Ein Gesamtkonzept.- Unterrichtsbeispiele.- Anfangsunterricht in Informatik.- Repräsentation von Information.- Funktionale Modellierung, Teil 1.- Datenmodellierung und Datenbanken.- Zustandsorientierte Modellierung.- Funktionale Modellierung, Teil 2.- Objektorientierte Modellierung.- Rekursive Datenstrukturen.- Formale Sprachen.- Rechnerkommunikation.- Das Halteproblem.- Das Musterprojekt InfoBank.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Computer - My Life
Book SynopsisKonrad Zuse is one of the great pioneers of the computer age. He created thefirst fully automated, program controlled, freely programmable computer using binary floating-point calculation. It was operational in 1941. He built his first machines in Berlin during the Second World War, with bombs falling all around, and after the war he built up a company that was taken over by Siemens in 1967. Zuse was an inventor in the traditional style, full of phantastic ideas, but also gifted with a powerful analytical mind. Single-handedly, he developed one of the first programming languages, the Plan Calculus, including features copied only decades later in other languages. He wrote numerousbooks and articles and won many honors and awards. This is his autobiography, written in an engagingly lively and pleasant style, full of anecdotes, reminiscences, and philosophical asides. It traces his life from his childhood in East Prussia, through tense wartime experiences and hard times building up his business after the war, to a ripe old age andwell-earned celebrity.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews:“The book tells the story of an inventor and an entrepreneur. It is refreshing because it allows one to see things outside of the box, beyond the more traditional story, so that he or she can better appreciate key aspects of computing and computation. Furthermore, the book tells the story of a father, a hard worker, and a recognized inventor, including pictures and plenty of anecdotes. … The book is probably the only reliable source about Konrad Zuse’s life and contributions to the world.” (Hector Zenil, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2011)Table of Contents1 Ancestors and parents — Early childhood memories — School days — Metropolis — Abitur.- 2 Studies (not without detours and by-ways) and general studies — First inventions — The Akademischer Verein Motiv — Student life between science and politics.- 3 The early years of the computer (and a digression on its prehistory) — Colleagues remember — From mechanics to electromechanics — Schreyer’s electronic computing machine — First outside contacts — Thoughts on the future.- 4 Outbreak of the war and (first) call-up — Structural engineer in aircraft construction — The Z2 and Z3 — Second call-up — Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau, Berlin — The first process computer.- 5 Origins of the Z4 — News from the United States — Attempt at a Ph.D. dissertation — Computing machine for logic operations — Final months of the war in Berlin — The evacuation — Z4 completed in Göttingen — Final war days in the Allgäu.- 6 End of the war — Refugees in Hinterstein — The Plankalkül — The computing universe — Automation and self-reproducing systems — A logarithmic computing machine — Computer development in Germany and the United States — Move to Hopferau near Füssen — The mill of the Patent Office.- 7 The Zuse-Ingenieurbüro, Hopferau bei Füssen — First business partners: IBM and Remington Rand — The first pipelining design — Founding of ZUSE KG in Neukirchen — The Z4 in the ETH in Zurich — The computer in Europe: taking stock — Lost opportunities — The first German contract: the Z5.- 8 The partners leave — Computing machine for land use zoning — Electronics gains acceptance — First funds from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft — Losing one’s way (and possibly a lost opportunity) — The array processor — Custom work for geodesists — The Graphomat Z64 — Growth and crisis of ZUSE KG — The end.- 9 Free for science (again) — Honors — A look to the future.- Appendices.- 1. From Forms to Program Control.- 2. Construction of Devices.- 3. On Computer Architecture.- 4. On the Plan Calculus.- 5. Lecture on the Occasion of the Award of the Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Berlin (Extract).- 6. The Computer Did Not Fall from Heaven.- Notes.- References.- Name Index.- Computer Index.
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Birkhauser Verlag AG The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician
Book SynopsisFrom reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)Table of ContentsI Growing Up.- II At the Ecole Normale.- III First Journeys, First Writings.- IV India.- V Strasbourg and Bourbaki.- VI The War and I: A Comic Opera in Six Acts.- Prelude.- Finnish Fugue.- Arctic Intermezzo.- Under Lock and Key.- Serving the Colors.- A Farewell to Arms.- VII The Americas; Epilogue.- Index of Names.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsinformatik
Book SynopsisEinführung in die Grundlagen der Wirtschaftsinformatik, in der wesentliche Themengebiete behandelt werden, die mit der Konzeption, der Entwicklung und dem Betrieb von Informations- und Kommunikationssystemen (als Gegenstand der Wirtschaftsinformatik) zusammenhängen. Table of ContentsEinführung.- Informatik und Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik.- Informationsmanagement.- Modellierung.- Datenbanken.- Softwareentwicklung.- Betriebliche Anwendungssysteme.
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Language Science Press Analyzing meaning
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Kalpaz Publications The Elements Of Style
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General Press India The Elements of Style
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Hank Youngman Pythagoras' Prison
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dictionary of Semiotics
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Analysing Talk Investigating Verbal Interaction in English Studies in English Language
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Edinburgh University Press Critical Discourse Analysis and Language
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary study of issues of language manipulation, this book explores the interpretation stage of critical discourse analysis (CDA) for students in areas such as English language, media studies and applied linguistics, as well as practitioners in the field. It also offers a new way forward for highlighting manipulative language, accomplishing this through the innovation of a model of reading for gist. The model is an original synthesis of elements from four contemporary cognitive frameworks: connectionism, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistic evidence on inference generation, and relevance theory. Significantly, Kieran O''Halloran also shows how each of these frameworks challenges current notions of cognition in CDA and he carefully works through the implications of this for how CDA highlights manipulative language.Table of ContentsTable of Contents: Introduction; SECTION A: THE INTERPRETATION STAGE IN CDA; 1. How CDA currently highlights biased or manipulative text; 2. Symbolicism; 3. The symbolicism of CDA; SECTION B: NEWER APPROACHES TO COGNITION; 4. Connectionism; 5. Cognitive linguistics; 6. Recent psycholinguistic evidence on inference generation; 7. Relevance Theory; SECTION C: THE NON-CRITICAL LAY-READER; 8. Constructing a model of a non-critical lay-reader; 9. Applications I; 10. Applications II; Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisA clear and lively introduction to current trends in the theory, method and tools of discourse studies, this book is a valuable guide for students and teachers of linguistics as well as for those with an interest in the linguistic methods of analysing discourse.Trade ReviewA scholarly and ambitious work, which attempts to integrate insights from many theoretical positions on discourse - all the gurus are there ...The reader activities should be of considerable interest to all teachers and students in the field of discourse studies. The texts are immensely diverse, ranging from plot summaries to NYPD Blue, to excerpts from books by Stephen Hawking and Peter Hoeg, to comments by Sviatoslav Richter. -- Jenny Miller, University of Queensland Characterised by in-depth discussions of theoretical issues, accompanied by profound practical analyses of authentic data ... a guide to the analysis of narrative and non-narrative authentic texts that combines a structure-oriented and a function-oriented viewpoint. -- Wolfram Bublitz, University of Augsburg A scholarly and ambitious work, which attempts to integrate insights from many theoretical positions on discourse - all the gurus are there ...The reader activities should be of considerable interest to all teachers and students in the field of discourse studies. The texts are immensely diverse, ranging from plot summaries to NYPD Blue, to excerpts from books by Stephen Hawking and Peter Hoeg, to comments by Sviatoslav Richter. Characterised by in-depth discussions of theoretical issues, accompanied by profound practical analyses of authentic data ... a guide to the analysis of narrative and non-narrative authentic texts that combines a structure-oriented and a function-oriented viewpoint.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Study of Discourse; 2. The Modes of Discourse; 3. Discourse Units and Relations; 4. Discourse Organisation; 5. Structure and Functions; 6. Narrative and Non-narrative in Interaction; 7. Emerging Perspectives on Discourse; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press A Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics
Book SynopsisThis alphabetic guide introduces terms referring to key concepts in semantics and pragmatics.Trade ReviewCruse's Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics, is a most welcome work of reference, not only because there are no competing volumes on the market to date, but also because, like its sister volumes from the same series, the glossary is a useful terminological dictionary, especially, but not exclusively, for the intended readership. Cruse's Glossary of Semantics and Pragmatics, is a most welcome work of reference, not only because there are no competing volumes on the market to date, but also because, like its sister volumes from the same series, the glossary is a useful terminological dictionary, especially, but not exclusively, for the intended readership.
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Edinburgh University Press Media Discourse
Book SynopsisA lively and accessible study of media and discourse.Table of ContentsPART I: KEY ISSUES IN ANALYSING MEDIA DISCOURSE; 1. Introduction: Media and Discourse; 2. Reconfigurations; 3. Texts and Positioning; 4. Dialogism and 'voice'; PART II: REPRESENTATION AND INTERACTION; 5. Simulated Interaction; 6. Interpersonal Meaning in Broadcast Texts: Representing Social Identities and Relationships; 7. Production Communities and Audience Communities; 8. Interactivity.
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Edinburgh University Press The Handbook of Business Discourse
Book SynopsisA single-volume reference companion to the multi-disciplinary field of business discourse.Trade ReviewThe discourse of business, and about business, is now at the centre of contemporary culture. While many authors offer partial insights into business discourse, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has made a heroic effort to collect many such insights together in this impressive Handbook. She has also managed both to discipline the contributors and give free rein to their creativity; an achievement considering the variety of cultures and research fields that they represent. The result is a rich volume that will become indispensable to those students and scholars in social sciences and humanities who are interested in contemporary phenomena. -- Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 'Those researchers interested in understanding and applying the various disciplinary perspectives and approaches used to study discourse in the context of business will not be disappointed by The Handbook of Business Discourse. This much needed and welcome resource, provides an authoritative set of up-to-date contributions from an impressive line-up of distinguished as well as emergent scholars.' -- David Grant, Professor of Organizational Studies, University of Sydney 'Drawing on a remarkably diverse range of disciplines, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has courageously addressed the challenge of providing a research and teaching resource for an area which is notoriously difficult to define.' -- Janet Holmes, Victoria University of Wellington Discourse Studies There are no other books on the market which have such a broad scope as The Handbook of Business Discourse. lts great strength lies with its scope and diversity, and with the overall themes it presents, of critique, context, collaboration and intercultural awareness, all of which are relevant to a future in which the field of business discourse research can continue to thrive. In conclusion, this book is thoroughly recommended. It is ideally suited to students and teachers of business communication looking for a thorough reference to the field. Furthermore, academics and experienced researchers searching for synergies between different disciplinary approaches, or for methodologies to complement their own, will also find it invaluable. -- Emma Sweeney, Birkbeck College, University of London Language and Intercultural Communication This handbook provides an essential foundation that integrates communication, globalization, and engagement scholarship from around the world and nicely complements the current discussion of discourse by challenging readers to think anew about the functions, processes, and consequences of discourse theory and practice. The chapters in this handbook redefine, reinterrogate, and reintegrate some of our common understandings of discourse, and in so doing, this handbook leaves the reader with a nuanced, well-rounded, and clear understanding about the trajectory of future research on discourse! Part 1 signals to the reader immediately that it is essential to incorporate global voices consistently into any discussion of business discourse, and this is one of the greatest strengths of this collection. -- Patrice M. Buzzanell, Purdue University, Suzy D'Enbeau University of Kansas and Rebecca Dohrman, Maryville University Management Communication Quarterly The discourse of business, and about business, is now at the centre of contemporary culture. While many authors offer partial insights into business discourse, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has made a heroic effort to collect many such insights together in this impressive Handbook. She has also managed both to discipline the contributors and give free rein to their creativity; an achievement considering the variety of cultures and research fields that they represent. The result is a rich volume that will become indispensable to those students and scholars in social sciences and humanities who are interested in contemporary phenomena. 'Those researchers interested in understanding and applying the various disciplinary perspectives and approaches used to study discourse in the context of business will not be disappointed by The Handbook of Business Discourse. This much needed and welcome resource, provides an authoritative set of up-to-date contributions from an impressive line-up of distinguished as well as emergent scholars.' 'Drawing on a remarkably diverse range of disciplines, Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini has courageously addressed the challenge of providing a research and teaching resource for an area which is notoriously difficult to define.' There are no other books on the market which have such a broad scope as The Handbook of Business Discourse. lts great strength lies with its scope and diversity, and with the overall themes it presents, of critique, context, collaboration and intercultural awareness, all of which are relevant to a future in which the field of business discourse research can continue to thrive. In conclusion, this book is thoroughly recommended. It is ideally suited to students and teachers of business communication looking for a thorough reference to the field. Furthermore, academics and experienced researchers searching for synergies between different disciplinary approaches, or for methodologies to complement their own, will also find it invaluable. This handbook provides an essential foundation that integrates communication, globalization, and engagement scholarship from around the world and nicely complements the current discussion of discourse by challenging readers to think anew about the functions, processes, and consequences of discourse theory and practice. The chapters in this handbook redefine, reinterrogate, and reintegrate some of our common understandings of discourse, and in so doing, this handbook leaves the reader with a nuanced, well-rounded, and clear understanding about the trajectory of future research on discourse! Part 1 signals to the reader immediately that it is essential to incorporate global voices consistently into any discussion of business discourse, and this is one of the greatest strengths of this collection.Table of ContentsForeword; Acknowledgements; Editorial Advisory Board; Notes on Contributors; Reviewers; Introduction: Business discourse, F. Bargiela-Chiappini; Part One: Foundation and Context; Introduction; 1: Europe: the state of the field, C. Nickerson and B. Planken; 2: New Zealand and Australia: the state of the field, T. Zorn and M. Simpson; 3: North America: the state of the field, D. C. Andrews; 4: Discourse, communication and organisational ontology, B. Brummans, F. Cooren and M. Chaput; Part Two: Approaches and methodologies; Introduction; 5: Rhetorical analysis, M. Zachry; 6: Organisational discourse analysis, R. Iedema and H. Scheeres; 7: Ethnomethodology, D. Samra-Fredericks; 8: Corpus linguistics, T. Berber Sardinha and L. Barbara; 9: Critical studies, S. Deetz and J. G. McClellan; 10: Mediated communication, J. Gimenez; 11: Negotiation studies, A-M Bulow; 12: Multimodal analysis, G. Garzone; 13: Politeness studies, R. Marquez-Reiter; 14: BELF: Business English as a Lingua Franca, M. Gerritsen and C. Nickerson; Part Three: Disciplinary Perspectives; Introduction; 15: Linguistic anthropology, C. Wasson; 16: Gender studies, L. Mullany; 17: Sociology, narrative and discourse, T. Watson; 18: Pragmatics, K. C. C. Kong; 19: Organisational communication, A. M. Schmisseur, J. Jian and G. T. Fairhurst; 20: International management, R. Piekkari; 21: Management communication, L. Reinsch; 22: Race and management communication, P. S. Parker and D. S. Grimes; 23: Business communication, L. Louhiala-Salminen; 24: Intercultural Communication, I. Pillier; Part Four: Localised Perspectives; Introduction; 25: Japan, H. Tanaka; 26: China, Y. Zhu and L. Li; 27: Korea, Y. Jung; 28: Vietnam, G. Chew; 29: Malaysia, S. Nair-Venugopal; 30: Brazil, L. Pacheco de Oliveira; 31: Spain, E. Montolio and F. Ramallo; 32: Francophone research, L. Filliettaz and de Saint-Georges; 33: Kazakhstan, E. Suleimenova and G. G. Burkitbayeva; Conclusions; 34: Future horizons: Europe, M. Charles; 35: Future horizons: North America, R. Dulek and M. Graham; 36: Future horizons: Asia, W. Cheng.
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Edinburgh University Press Understanding Pragmatic Markers
Book SynopsisPragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describe their meaning and potential. This book looks at pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text. It explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspects of the markers.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The pragmatic marker well; 3. In fact and actually - a class of factuality markers; 4. General extenders; 5. Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press Understanding Pragmatic Markers
Book SynopsisPragmatic markers are multifunctional and this can make it difficult to describe their meaning and potential. This book looks at pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text. It explores the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and discourse aspects of the markers.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The pragmatic marker well; 3. In fact and actually - a class of factuality markers; 4. General extenders; 5. Conclusion.
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Edinburgh University Press English Historical Pragmatics
Book SynopsisA guide to historical pragmatics in English studies. It gives students a grounding in historical pragmatics and teaches the methodology needed to analyse language in social, cultural and historical contexts. It provides insights into the analysis of discourse markers, interjections, terms of address and speech acts.Table of Contents1. Historical pragmatics: Communicative patterns of the past; 2. The lack of native speakers: Data problems in historical pragmatics; 3. Excavating usage patterns: Methods in historical pragmatics; 4. "Or I wol crie"out, harrow and "allas!": Discourse markers and interjections; 5. "If thou thoust him some thrice": Terms of address; 6. "Do you wish to insult me?": Speech acts; 7. "For your curteisie": Forms of politeness; 8. The pragmatics of language change: Grammaticalization, subjectification and pragmaticalization; 9. "Take a pounde of sugir and halfe a pounde of tendir roses lyues...": Genres and text types; 10. "I pray thee friend Humfrey, what is phisicke?": Scientific and medical discourse; 11. "Our Letters from the Levant inform us": Historical news discourse; 12. "All of a sudden the bells ceased to chime": Narrative patterns in the course of time; References and glossary.
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Edinburgh University Press English Historical Semantics
Book SynopsisThis guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. .
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Bloomsbury Academic How to Write Poetry
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Macmillan Learning Understanding Rhetoric
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Macmillan Learning WriterDesigner
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Macmillan Higher Education The Writers Loop with 2020 APA Update
Book SynopsisThe Writer?s Loop, presents a refreshing, practical approach to writing, based on the habits of strong writers, who pause often, reflect, and loop backwards and forwards as they revise on their way to a final draft. With integrated videos, relatable examples, clear explanations, and a consistent, scaffolded learning framework, each brief chapter engages writers through reflection and practices that support the most common types of academic writing, including essays, arguments, and research projects Achieve with Ingraham and Bohannon, The Writer?s Loop combines instruction with integrated videos, powerful writing tools, and customizable multi-draft writing assignments.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC News Discourse
Book SynopsisMonika Bednarek is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.Helen Caple is Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the University of New South Wales, Australia.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. News Discourse in Context 3. News Values 4. Language in the News 5. Images in the News 6. Evaluation in the News 7. Balancing Act: Image Composition 8. The Big Picture: A Case Study of Stand-Alones in Print News 9. Killing Osama: A Case Study of Online News Appendices Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Change and Stability in Thesis and Dissertation
Book SynopsisExamining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the nature of the doctoral thesis/dissertation itself. Covering different theories of genre, Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield focus on the concepts of evolution, innovation and emergence in the context of the production and reception of doctoral theses and dissertations. Specifically concerned with this genre in the humanities, social sciences and visual and performing arts, this book also investigates the forces which are shaping changes in this high-stakes genre, as well as those which act as constraints. Employing textography as its methodological approach, the book provides multiple perspectives on the ways in which doctoral theses and dissertations are subject to forces of continuity and change in the academy. Analyses of the new humanities' doctorate, professional doctorates, practice-based doctorates, and the doctorate bTrade ReviewThis is a book that should be of interest to anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the moving target we call the PhD thesis/dissertation genre in all its rapidly morphing, increasingly multimodal, disciplinarily diverse and complex manifestations. -- Diane D. Belcher, Georgia State University, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. The Doctoral Thesis/Dissertation as an Evolving Genre 3.Investigating Change and Stability in Doctoral Theses and Dissertations 4. The Evolution of Thesis and Dissertation Types 5. The ‘New Humanities’ PhD 6. Professional Doctorates 7. Practice-based Doctoratesin the Visual Arts 8. Practice-based Doctorates in Music 9. Doctorates by Publication 10. Genre Evolution in Thesis and Dissertation Writing References Appendix Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook of Lexicography
Book SynopsisHoward Jackson is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the School of English at Birmingham City University, UK.Trade ReviewAn enormously valuable and instructive starting point for research into lexicography and meta-lexicography; the contributions include helpful and detailed examples, and the relatively compact size of each paper makes the book particularly manageable for students and other researchers. * The Year's Work in English Studies (of the first edition) *A strong catalyst for lexicographers of every stripe. It presents contemporary research, summarized for review at a readable scale, with the happy outcome that both specialists and new researchers may reach a clearly contextualized understanding of the trajectories of sub-fields other than their own. * Kernerman Dictionary News (of the first edition) *This volume is useful for students who know little about lexicography, or for professors who use lexicons consistently and want to become more aware of the issues involved in approaching them. * Exegetical Tools Quarterly (of the first edition) *Beautifully edited and organized. * SKY Journal of Linguistics (of the first edition) *An excellent resource that I would strongly recommend for students of lexicography and practitioners alike ... This new edition is a valid and valuable contribution to the library of lexicographic research. * Lexikos *The new Bloomsbury Handbook to Lexicography provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and highly accessible overview of a field that has changed dramatically over the last decades. The 25 chapters and more than 800 pages, written by leading dictionary experts from all over the world, are focused on the key issues of dictionary writing and research, and explore the many questions that lexicographers have to solve and metalexicographers to assess. -- Henri Béjoint, Emeritus Professor, University Lyon 2, FranceHoward Jackson has designed the quintessential handbook for insights into dictionary research and metalexicography. With its current revisions and updates, this volume will be an important resource for students and scholars of lexicography for many years to come. -- Sarah Ogilvie, Senior Research Fellow in Linguistics, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction, Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK) Part I: Research Methods and Problems 2. A History of Research in Lexicography, Paul Bogaards (Leiden University, Netherlands) 3. Researching Lexicographical Practice, Lars Trap-Jensen (Society for Danish Language and Literature, Denmark) 4. Methods in Dictionary Criticism, Kaoru Akasu (Toyo University, Japan) 5. Methods in (Meta)Lexicography, Howard Jackson (Birmingham City University, UK) 6. Researching Users and Uses of Dictionaries, Hilary Nesi (Coventry University, UK) Part II: Current Research and Issues 7. Using Corpora as Data Sources for Dictionaries, Adam Kilgarriff (University of Leeds, UK) 8. Researching the Use of Electronic Dictionaries, Veronica Pastor and Amparo Alcina (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) 9. Researching Historical Lexicography and Etymology, John Considine (University of Alberta, Canada) 10. Researching Pedagogical Lexicography, Amy Chi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) 11. Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries, Shigeru Yamada (Waseda University, Japan) 12. Issues in Compiling Bilingual Dictionaries, Arleta Adamska-Salaciak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 13. Issues in Compiling Minority and Endangered Language Dictionaries, Verna Stutzman (SIL International, USA) 14. Issues in Compiling Dictionaries for African Languages, Daniel J. Prinsloo (University of Pretoria, South Africa) 15. Issues in Compiling Dictionaries for Asian Languages, Vincent B Y Ooi (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Ai Inoue (National Defense Academy, Japan), Kilim Nam (Kyungpook University, South Korea) and Cuilian Zhao (Sichuan International Studies University, China) 16. Issues in Onomasiological Lexicography, Gerardo Eugenio Sierra Martínez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico) 17. Issues in Collaborative Lexicography, Kevin Warfel, Franck Sajous and Amélie Josselin-Leray (Université de Toulouse 2, France) 18. Issues in Sign Language Lexicography, Inge Zwitserlood (Radboud University, Netherlands), Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen and Thomas Troelsgard (University College Capital, Denmark) 19. Identifying, Ordering and Defining Senses, Robert Lew (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 20. A Theory of Lexicography - Is There One?, Tadeusz Piotrowski (Wroclaw University, Poland) Part III: New Directions in Lexicography 21. E-Lexicography, Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera (University of Valladolid, Spain) 22. The Design of Internet Dictionaries, Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus (Institute for the German Language, Germany) 23. The Future of Historical Dictionaries, Charlotte Brewer (University of Oxford, UK) 24. The Future of Dictionaries, Dictionaries of the Future, Sandro Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark) and Frank Michaelis (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language, Germany) Key Resources for Lexicography, Reinhard Hartmann (Birmingham University, UK) Glossary, Barbara Ann Kipfer (Zeta Global) Annotated Bibliography Index of Proper Names Index
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Edinburgh University Press Morphology
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an in-depth introduction to morphology, while also engaging with the latest research and developments in the field. By presenting the latest theories and highlighting the current challenges in morphology, it offers a firm grounding for starting your own original research and will inspire your own thinking about the morphology of your target languages. It guides you through the context, theories and latest research in morphology with end-of-chapter exercises designed to strengthen your understanding of key topics and suggestions for further reading offered as a starting point for further study.This second edition incorporates the latest research within morphology, drawing on new research from the fields of psycholinguistics and language acquisition and discussing morphology in relation to syntax, lexical semantics and phonology. It also pays particular attention to the debate between lexicalism and constructionism. With two new chapters on morphology and language acquisition and morphology and psycholinguistics and updated accounts of the claims made within each theory to reflect current research trends, there is so much here to invigorate and inspire your study of morphology.
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Transnational Tolstoy Between the West and the
Book SynopsisJohn Burt Foster, Jr., is University Professor of English and Cultural Studies at George Mason University, USA. He is the author of Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1981) and Nabokov's Art Memory and European Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993) and the editor, with Wayne J. Froman, of Dramas of Culture: Theory, History, Performance (Lexington Books, 2008). He is the past editor of The Comparatist and of Recherche littéraire / Literary Research, the journal of the International Comparative Literature Association.Trade ReviewTransnational Tolstoy is a welcome and groundbreaking addition to Tolstoy studies, and to the transnational reading of Russian literature generally … In this rewarding volume, John Burt Foster has updated and extended the exhausted genres of ‘Tolstoy and the West’ and ‘Tolstoy and World Literature.’ … Transnational Tolstoy provokes consideration … and plays an exemplary role in opening Tolstoy’s complex position ‘between the west and the world’ to new and productive approaches. -- William Nickell, University of Chicago * Slavic and East European Journal *Transnational Tolstoy is unlike any other current work on Tolstoi today. It provides a refreshing and thought-provoking look at one of the major figures of Russian literature and the dialogues he inspired and initiated around the globe. -- Justin Weir, Harvard University * Slavic Review *Foster ... clearly has a gift for condensing his arguments into self-contained, well-expressed units. He also writes with a stylistic finesse and an apparent aversion to generating critical antipathy; his focus is always on saying things as well and persuasively as possible. Judging by his wide cultural knowledge, refined style, and pleasing attitude, he could have been a diplomat. * Cambridge Quarterly Review *Foster's book is a laudable venture into a new critical method of reading great fiction transnationally ... [He] works with splendid erudition and ingenuity ... [to provide] a refreshing and welcome method of reading and understanding Tolstoi. * Modern Language Review *Transnational Tolstoy is a tour de force of old-fashioned comparative literature, taking in, as it does, such a wide selection of authors from such a wide selection of cultures and nations. * The European Legacy *Foster's engaging study makes a crucial point: that, far from being a monologist or solipsist or hegemonic universalist, Tolstoi developed an ever more nuanced recognition of the incredibly complex interplay of different influences on which any cultural product must depend . . . To have returned this magnificently plural Tolstoi to us, as Foster has in lucid and mercifully jargon-free prose, is a substantial achievement. -- Jeff Love, Clemson University, US * Slavonic and East European Review *I immensely enjoyed reading John Burt Foster's Transnational Tolstoy, a monumental work that puts Tolstoy at the very heart of world literature, relating his work, and especially War and Peace, Anna Karenina and Hadji Murad, to that of immediate predecessors such as Stendhal, contemporaries like Flaubert, and successors including Malraux and Lampedusa, Premchand and Mahfouz. Fully informed by the most recent thinking on comparative and world literature, yet always wearing its learning lightly, Transnational Tolstoy stands as a guide and an inspiration for literary scholars worldwide. -- Theo D'haen, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Leuven, Belgium, and author of The Routledge Concise History of World LiteratureIn Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World John Burt Foster, Jr., offers a new framework for reading the works of Lev Tolstoy. Often viewed as one of the pillars of 'western' literature, Tolstoy’s works now receive a thorough consideration from a fresh perspective, defining Tolstoy’s art through the concepts of 'transnational' writing and 'global' literature. Foster uses these concepts effectively to open up intriguing sides of Tolstoy’s art and to encourage readers to think differently about Tolstoy. Foster probes the middle-aged and aged Tolstoy’s views of himself as non-Western. Finally, he investigates the ways in which twentieth-century non-Western writers of various stylistic bents—modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial; imagist and magical realist—have engaged with Tolstoy’s art. The result is a stimulating read for literary scholars and the educated public alike. -- Edith W. Clowes, Brown-Forman Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia, USA, and author of Russia on the Edge: Imagined Geographies and Post-Soviet IdentityTransnational Tolstoy is a consistently illuminating and lucidly written examination of Tolstoy as a central figure in the fluid movement of culture around the world. More broadly, this wonderful book is also a methodologically innovative, provocative, and inspiring example of how to conduct literary study in the twenty-first century. -- Vladimir Alexandrov, B. E. Bensinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Director of Graduate Studies, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Transnational Tolstoy and the New Comparatism Part One: Facing West 1. "Occidentalism" in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: Culture Shock on European Visits 2. Vengeance is Mine: Anna Karenina and Stendhal's Italy 3. Napoleonic Anniversaries: War and Peace and Flaubert's Sentimental Education 4. From Worldliness to World Literature: Tolstoy between Goethe and Proust Part Two: Outside the Soviet Canon 5. Realism as Imagism: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Modernist Fiction 6. Toxic Nationalism: From Tolstoy and Stendhal to Malraux and Lampedusa 7. Felt History: From Anna Karenina to Magical Realism Part Three: Into the World 8. What is Art?, Hadji Murad, and World Literature 9. Dialogues with Tolstoy: Premchand and Mahfouz 10. "Show Me the Zulu Tolstoy": Who Owns War and Peace? 11. Postcoloniality and Islamic Identity in Hadji Murad Conclusion: Between the West and the World Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Saussure A Guide For The Perplexed Guides for the
Book SynopsisFerdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. This title introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language and demystifies his complex theories.Trade ReviewThe current volume, by someone who is not just a competent semiotician but a giant of contemporary semiotics, explains and assesses Saussure's bequest to sign study. Paul Bouissac's Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed prints the bigger picture, not just the legend, and helps to open up a whole new era in the analysis of the cultural sign. -- Paul Cobley, Reader in Communications London Metropolitan University, UKTable of Contents1. Saussure's last lectures: a perplexed man; 2. Saussure's student years: insights and accomplishments; 3. Saussure in Berlin and Paris: What did it mean to be a linguist in 1880?; 4. Saussure the maverick: thinking outside the box; 5. S. like synchrony, structure, sign and semiology; 6. Diachrony: Saussure and the problem of time; 7. The Course in General Linguistics: Saussure's conceptual legacy; 8. From Saussure to Saussurism and back: the unfinished task; Appendix 1: Saussurean scholarship; Appendix 2: Quotes from Saussure.
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