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Book SynopsisThis book deals with adjectival suffixes in English. Its scope of analysis is confined to the formation of adjective pairs that share a single root but end in different suffixes. Theoretically, the book adopts Cognitive Semantics and attempts to substantiate some of its tenets. One tenet is that a linguistic item is polysemous by nature. On this basis, the goal is to show that an adjectival suffix forms a category consisting of multiple senses, which gather around a centre. Another tenet is that the meaning of a linguistic item is described relative to the domain of knowledge to which it belongs. In this respect, the goal is to group the adjectival suffixes into sets, where they stand for one concept but differ in the specifics. A further tenet is that the use of a linguistic item is governed by the particular construal imposed on its content. In this regard, the goal is show that no two adjectives are synonymous even if they share the same root or look similar. They differ, as evidenced by corpus data, in terms of the alternate ways the speaker construes their common root. Empirically, the book adopts Corpus Linguistics, which helps to identify the distinctive collocates associated with the members of an adjective pair and, consequently, reveal the subtle differences in meaning between them.

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Book SynopsisContemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. The book uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal (interpersonal meaning) and The book uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual construction of the narrative events and characters (ideational meaning), the visual positioning of the reader through choices related to focalisation and appraisal (interpersonal meaning) and the discourse organization of visual meanings through choices in framing and composition (compositional meaning). The descriptions throughout are illustrated with examples from highly regarded children's picture books. This book extends previous social-semiotic accounts of the 'grammar' of the image, by focussing attention on discourse level meanings and on semantic relationships created by sequences of images. At the same time, it extends current understandings of how picture books work through its explicit and systematic account of the visual meanings and their integration with verbal aspects of the texts. It will be of interest to researchers in (multimodal) discourse analysis, systemic-functional theory and children's literature and literacy.Table of ContentsChapter one: Reading the Visual in Children's Picture Books Chapter two: Enacting Social Relations Chapter three: Construing Representations Chapter four: Composing Visual Space Chapter five: Intermodality -- Image and Verbiage

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Book SynopsisTexture - the quality that makes a text 'hang together' as a text - is a key focus of investigation in discourse analysis. This volume provides a systematic overview of recent research on textual resources that are used to construct texture, and on the ways in which these resources are deployed differently in different text types. Theme is the major resource that is explored in the first part of the book. The opening papers set out the current understanding of Theme and explore aspects of the concept which remain controversial in the field. This is followed by an examination of thematic choices in a range of text types. Issues raised include the different kinds of meanings appearing in Theme which are particularly significant for each genre, the ways in which these relate to the broader socio-cultural context, and the ways in which thematic choices interact with other kinds of texturing. In the second part of the collection, the scope widens to include an examination of other resources, particularly the contribution to texture made by patterns of interpersonal choices, in Theme and more broadly across texts as a whole. The volume closes with an overview and illustration of a methodological approach by which our understanding of texturing can be further extended.Table of ContentsGail Forey and Geoff Thompson Introduction 1 Peter H. Fries, formerly University of Michigan The textual metafunction as a site for a discussion of the goals of linguistics and techniques of linguistic analysis 2 Geoff Thompson and Susan Thompson, University of Liverpool Theme, Subject and the unfolding of text 3 John Corbett, University of Glasgow Theme, field and genre: Thematic realisations in academic articles and their popularisations 4 Hugh Gosden, formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology Thematic content in peer reviews of scientific papers 5 Ann Montemayor-Borsinger, Instituto Balseiro/Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and Instituto de Linguistica, Universidad de Buenos Aires Text-type and Texture: The potential of Theme for the study of research writing development 6 David Hyatt, University of Sheffield 'to elicit an honest answer - which may occasionally be the same as the truth': Texture and the antagonistic political interview 7 Gail Forey, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Projecting clauses: Interpersonal realisation of control and power in workplace texts 8 Michael Hoey, University of Liverpool What can linguistics tell us about writing skills? 9 Caroline Coffin, Open University, and Beverley Derewianka, University of Wollongong Multimodal layout in school history books: The texturing of historical interpretation 10 Susan Hood, University of Technology Sydney Texturing interpersonal meanings in academic argument: Pulses and prosodies of value 11 Tony Berber Sardinha and Leila Barbara, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Sao Paulo Cultural stereotype and modality: A study into modal use in Brazilian and Portuguese meetings 12 J. R. Martin, University of Sydney Boomer dreaming: The texture of re-colonisation in a lifestyle magazine

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Book SynopsisDiscourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Besides theoretical investigations, discourse analysis is central in a number of application areas such as dialogue and negotiation, the semantic web, question answering or authoring systems. Music is also a natural language, more abstract and mathematical, which follows very strict construction principles. However, there is very limited and no recent literature on Music Discourse analysis using computational principles. This book aims at developing a central issue in musical discourse: modeling rhetoric and argumentation. It also contributes to the development of high-level multimedia annotation schemes for non-verbal communication.Table of ContentsPREFACE xi CHAPTER 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL RHETORIC 1 1.1. A few basic definitions 2 1.2. The structure of rhetoric 4 1.2.1. Rhetoric and communication 5 1.2.2. The structure of classical rhetoric 6 1.2.3. The invention step 7 1.2.4. The arrangement 9 1.2.5. The style or elocution step 12 1.2.6. The delivery or action 14 1.2.7. The facets of rhetoric 15 1.3. Some figures of speech 17 1.3.1. Introduction 17 1.3.2. The major figures of speech of interest in music rhetoric 18 1.4. Argumentation and explanation 21 1.5. Conclusion: a few historical milestones of traditional rhetoric 25 1.6. A few historical references for classical rhetoric 28 CHAPTER 2. LANGUAGE, MUSIC AND THE RHETORIC DISCOURSE 31 2.1. Music and language 31 2.1.1. On the relations between language and music 32 2.1.2. Going into the details of music parameters, music for rhetoric 36 2.1.3. Music and rhetoric 42 2.2. A few historical milestones of music rhetoric emergence and evolution 43 2.2.1. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance 44 2.2.2. The transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque period 48 2.2.3. The Baroque period 51 2.2.4. The Classical period 54 2.2.5. The Romantic period 56 2.3. Main contemporary trends in music rhetoric 58 CHAPTER 3. THE SYMBOLISM OF MUSICAL ELEMENTS 61 3.1. Symbolic and perceptual properties of modes and tonalities 62 3.2. Perceptual and symbolic properties of intervals 65 3.3. Musical figures and their role in rhetoric 67 3.4. Figures of rhythm and their roles in rhetoric 74 3.5. Motive alternations 79 3.6. Figures of counterpoint 80 3.7. The symbolism of numbers and proportions 83 3.8. The rhetoric contents of classical forms 87 3.8.1. The perception of large forms 87 3.8.2. The simple bi- and tripartite forms 88 3.8.3. The sonata forms 95 3.9. Conclusion 98 CHAPTER 4. FEATURE STRUCTURES FOR REPRESENTING MUSICAL CONSTRUCTIONS 101 4.1. Feature structures in language 102 4.2. Representation of a melody by a feature structure 104 4.3. From musical motives to polyphony 109 4.4. Dealing with harmony 110 4.5. A few generic operations of feature structures 112 4.5.1. Transformations by augmentation or diminution 112 4.5.2. Mirror forms 114 4.5.3. Reverse forms 116 4.5.4. A few other transformations 117 4.5.5. Expressive power of this formalism 117 4.6. Elements of annotation of musical structures in XML 118 4.6.1. Basic feature structures 118 4.6.2. Advanced XML annotations for two-dimension structures 120 4.6.3. Figures of sound in XML 121 4.7. Perspectives 125 CHAPTER 5. A RHETORIC ANALYSIS OF MUSICAL WORKS 127 5.1. Discourse theories in linguistics 128 5.1.1. The rhetorical structure theory 129 5.1.2. The pragma-dialectic movement 131 5.2. The rhetoric of the stylus phantasticus 132 5.3. The rhetoric and argumentation dimensions of J.S. Bach’s C. minor Passacaglia 140 5.3.1. The global structure and the symbolic of numbers 140 5.3.2. The structure of the argumentation in the Passacaglia 142 5.4. The dialectics of the personality split 147 5.5. Beethoven’s Muss es sein? Question and debate 149 5.5.1. The personal context 149 5.5.2. The questions and their formulations 150 5.5.3. The response formulations 155 5.6. A high-level notation for the structure of musical works 161 5.7. Conclusion 166 BIBLIOGRAPHY 167 INDEX 177

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Book SynopsisResearch in semantics is conducted in a wide variety of disciplines, and the strength of this book is in bringing those areas together in one volume. Contributions come from an international group of applied researchers. Models of semantics are being influenced by research on the development of semantic processing in children, and by work on the disruption of semantic processing in brain damage such as stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. Clinical work is benefiting from the application of theoretical models while pathological findings are crucial for testing and developing such models. The book has chapters on: models of semantic processing, connectionist modelling, sentence processing in children and adults, semantic processing in the normal elderly, semantic category disorders, semantic therapy in aphasia, semantic processing in Alzheimer’s disease, semantic dementia and conceptual semantics. The book is aimed primarily at the undergraduate reader although some chapters will be of interest to graduate and research students. Students of linguistics, psychology and speech and language sciences will find the book immensely useful.Table of ContentsModels of Semantic Memory, Elaine Funnell. Connectionist Modelling of semantic Deficits, Joseph P. Levy. Putting Thoughts Into Verbs - Developmental and Acquired Impairments, Maria Black and Shula Chiat. Category-specific semantic Disorders, Wendy Best. Semantics and Therapy in Aphasia, Lyndsey Nickels. Semantic Processing Problems of Older Adults, Susan Kemper and Laureen O'Hanlon. Semantic Processing in Alzheimer's Disease, Jane Maxim, Karen Bryan and Kim Zabihi. Semantic Dementia - Assessment and Management of Private, Julie S. Snowdon and Helen Griffiths. Language and Knowledge - Knowing and Thinking in The Absence of Language, Rosemary Varley. Two Subsystems for Semantic memory, Wendy Best. Understanding Meanings, Karen Bryan, Jane Maxim and Alison Constable.

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Book SynopsisA Multimodal Analysis of Picture Books for Children goes beyond the relation between the representation of reality and language alone; instead, it aims to analyze the intersemiosis between verbal and visual elements in a sample of nine picture books. The chapters included in this book take the most relevant systemic-functional and visual social semiotic theories a step further from previous studies and apply them to the genre of children's tales. Within the frameworks of Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics and Kress and van Leeuwen's Visual Social Semiotics, the aim is to identify the verbal and visual strategies available to the writer and illustrator (i) to convey representational meanings, (ii) to set up interpersonal relationships within the tale itself, as well as external relationships between writer and reader and, finally, (iii) to create coherent tales. This is achieved by analyzing and identifying the ideational, interpersonal and textual choices available to the writer to make meaning in picture books, and comparing them with the corresponding representational, interactive and compositional choices made by the illustrator. The analysis reveals how the verbal and visual modalities contribute to each other's meaning and makes the potential of combining verbal and non-verbal language in picture books evident.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Systemic Functional Grammar and Visual Social Semiotics Chapter 3. Representational Meaning: Characters, Narrative Events and Settings Chapter 4. The Writer/ Illustrator and the Child-Viewer's Interaction Chapter 5. Creating Textuality and Compositional Meaning Chapter 6. Processing Reality: The Synergy between Image and Text at Representational Level Chapter 7. Interpersonal Verbal and Visual Interdependence in the Sample Texts Chapter 8. The Interplay of Images and Words to Create Textuality Chapter 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis Sourcebook is intended for students of liberal arts and great books. It treats such books as primary sources for inquiring into the nature of human speech because they clarify the terms and stakes of perennial questions thinking human beings ask themselves about persuasive speaking. By crystallizing viable claims about the nature of what we confront in politics and society--live claims for us to confront in our own, with the stakes of that confrontation being live as well--they originate a dialectic with one another and with us their readers.Cicero called rhetoric a liberal art necessary for every citizen of a free republic. In the polities of ancient Greece and Rome, rhetoric was politically potent because oratory was the regular means of political decision. Words were decisive, often a matter of life and death, not merely for individuals but for peoples. In human milieux where human speech is so politically decisive, reflection upon its nature became keen.The selections of this sourcebook have been arranged in three sequences. The first two sequences comprise philosophical dialogues on the ends of rhetoric. Selections from Plato's Gorgias, Phaedrus, and Apology examine the rhetorician or teacher of rhetoric, and then Cicero's De oratore offers us a dialectic among practitioners about its practice. The philosophical dialogues on the art's intended ends and causative effects provide the theoretical and ethical context for examining its means. These philosophical dialogues are thus propaedeutic to the third sequence, which focusses on the art itself with selections from Aristotle's treatise On Rhetoric, paired with orations from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis edited book analyses the relationship between discourse and conflict, exploring both how language may be used to promote conflict and also how it is possible to avoid or mitigate conflict through tactical use of language. Bringing together contributions from both established scholars and emerging voices in the fields of Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies, it argues for a discourse approach to making sense of conflict and disagreement in the modern world. ‘Conflict’ is understood here as having a national or global focus and consequences, and includes verbal aggression and hate speech, as well as physical confrontation between political and ethnic groups or states over values, claims to status, power and resources. Themes explored in the volume include the language of conflict, hate speech in online and offline media, and discourse and peace-building, and the chapters examine various national contexts, including Lithuania, Brazil, Belgium, North Macedonia, Sri Lanka, the USA and Afghanistan. The chapters cover conflict-related topics within the fields of Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Media Studies, and Applied Linguistics, and the book will be of interest to students, researchers and experts in these and related fields, as well as professionals in conflict and peace-building/peace-keeping.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Discourse, Conflict and Conflict Resolution (Innocent Chiluwa).- Part 1: The Language of Conflict.- Chapter 2: Taking radical disagreement seriously: Filling the discourse analytic gap in the study of intractable asymmetric conflicts (Oliver Ramsbotham).- Chapter 3: Language in the service of lawfare: The "working definition of antisemitism" of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) (Susan Blackwell).- Chapter 4: Metaphors of Intolerance: A Comparative Analysis between the Speeches and Cartoons of Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump on Immigration (Argus Romero Abreu de Morais and Luciane Correa Ferreira).- Part 2: Hate Speech in Online and Offline Media.- Chapter 5: How do haters hate? Verbal aggression in Lithuanian online comments (Jūratė Ruzaitė).- Chapter 6: Different Shades of Hate: The Grey Zone between Offensive and Discriminatory Language in the Social Media Accounts of Flemish Politicians (Martina Temmerman and Raymond Harder).-Chapter 7: Reframing Hate: From Disaffected Young Men to Domestic Terrorists (Federica Fornaciari and Laine Goldman).- Chapter 8: Communicating hate on YouTube: The Macedonian identity in focus (Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis).- Chapter 9: “Who Wants to Sterilise the Sinhalese?” A Discourse Historical Analysis of Extreme Speech Online in Post-War Sri Lanka (Carmen Aguilera-Carnerero).- Chapter 10: Facebook comments on the ‘refugee crisis’: Discursive strategies to legitimise hate speech online (Dario Lucchesi).- Part 3: Discourse and peace-building.- Chapter 11: Positioning the voices of conflict: Language manipulation in the Diálogos de Paz (Lawrence N. Berlin).- Chapter 12: Building bridges after a riot: Talking towards mutual understanding following Charlottesville (Linda M. Doornbosch and Mark van Vuuren).- Chapter 13: Person to person peace building through intercultural communication: Discourse analysis of an online intercultural service-learning project with Afghanistan (Amy Jo Minett et al).- Chapter 14 Talk and Action as Discourse in UN Military Observer Course: Routines and Practices of Navigation (Iira Rautiainen).- Chapter 15: An analysis of public discourse on Albania’s transitional justice system (Islam Jusufi et al.).- Chapter 16: Afterword (Innocent Chiluwa).

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Book SynopsisThis edited book provides cutting edge contributions from an international array of prominent experts who discuss the relevance of pedagogical stylistics in relation to diverse contexts and areas, including empirical approaches, corpus stylistics, creative writing, literary-linguistic criticism, students as researchers, critical discourse, academic register, text-world pedagogy, cognitive stylistics, classroom discourse, language of literary texts, L1/L2 education, EFL learners, and multimodal stylistics. Intended as a follow-up to Watson and Zyngier (2007), this volume situates the reader by offering a broad assessment of how the field has developed during the past 15 years and where it stands now. By examining both contemporary research and future challenges, it should be regarded as essential reading for all teachers, researchers, scholars, and students interested in understanding language and how to apply stylistics in educational settings. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in stylistics, cognitive linguistics, language teaching, applied linguistics, literary studies, and materials development. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis 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.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Opposition to Amending the Constitution in a Congressional Debate in 1789.- Chapter 3: Edward Livingston’s Motion for Reconciliation with France in July 1798.- Chapter 4: Arguing for the Sedition Act in the Debate of July 5, 1798.- Chapter 5: Debating the Expulsion of Matthew Lyon in February 1799.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text deals with a variety of issues including hyperbole, synonymy, reference, argumentation, schizophrenia, rationality, morality, silence and clinical pragmatics. Contributions also address the semantics/pragmatics debate and show to what extent the theory of contextualism can be applied. This volume is based on a unitary research project financed by the University of Messina and appeals to students and researchers working in linguistics and the philosophy of language. Table of Contents0. IntroductionAlessandro Capone, Assunta PennaI. Pragmalinguistics- Chapter 1. Reference in Context. Alessandro Capone- Chapter 2. For a definition of hyperbole as operative on the scenes of the ancient Greektheatre: situations and lexicon. Paola Radici Colace- Chapter 3. Synonymy and contextual dependence. Grazia BasileII. Performativity and social pragmatics- Chapter 4. Genre as a context for persuasion: the construction of identities in differentforms of institutionalised discourse. A case study. Francesca Santulli- Chapter 5. Pragmatics, Metaphor Studies and the Challenge of Mental Imagery. StefanaGarello, Marco Carapezza- Chapter 6. Material engagement and mediation: two necessary concepts. Francesco Parisi- Chapter 7. Silence as a meaning framework. Antonia Cava- Chapter 8. Schtroumpf: forms of life and forms of talk. Assunta PennaIII. Neurocognition and Clinical studies- Chapter 9. Cognitive-Linguistic Difficulties in COVID-19. Louise Cummings- Chapter 10. Reasoning as a tool at the service of our goals. Amelia Gangemi- Chapter 11. When context really matters: the case of schizophrenia. Valentina Cardella- Chapter 12. Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, ClinicalPragmatics and Schizophrenic Language. Rosalia Cavalieri, Antonino Bucca- Chapter 13. Moral enhancement and contextualism: some reasons for the unattainability ofthe program for moralizing people. Consuelo Luverà- Chapter 14. Clinical pragmatics and contextualism. Roberto Graci

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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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Book SynopsisDeixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.

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Book SynopsisDieser Band informiert über alle Aspekt und Gebiete der Semantik, ohne einer bestimmten Theorie verpflichtet zu sein. Er erläutert zentrale Grundbegriffe wie Referenz, Prädikation, Bedeutung und Proposition. Umfangreiche Kapitel beschreiben die Semantik der Wortarten des Deutschen (Verben, Nomen, Adjektive, Präpositionen, Konjunktionen, Partikeln), von komplexen Wortgruppen und Satztypen. Das Schlusskapitel stellt theoretische Ansätze vor (von kognitiver Semantik bis hin zu modelltheoretischen Ansätzen) und führt in deren Methoden und Begriffe ein. - In zweifarbiger Gestaltung, mit zahlreichen Grafiken und Tabellen, mit Definitionen und Beispielen sowie Vertiefungskästen. Mit Übungen und Lösungen (auf der Webseite des Verlags).Trade Review“... Die gut lesbare Darstellung ist stets auf das Wesentliche konzentriert und auf Klärung der Fachtermini ausgerichtet. Es gibt unterschiedliche grafische Hervorhebungen für Definitionen und Begriffserläuterungen, für Beispiele und für die Vertiefung des Ausgeführten (häufig mit interessanten Informationen aus der Wissenschaftsgeschichte) ...” (Mechthild Habermann, in: Germanistik, Jg. 58, Heft 1-2, 2017)

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Book Synopsis​Dieser Band bietet eine Einführung in die Semantik mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den formalen Methoden. Er erklärt semantische Modelle sowie die Grundlagen der kompositionellen Interpretation und stellt die wichtigsten Konzepte vor, z.B. Funktionen, Junktoren, Quantoren wie auch Typentheorie, den Lambda-Operator und mögliche Welten. Die einzelnen Kapitel bauen sukzessive aufeinander auf, erläutern die modelltheoretischen Analysemethoden der Semantik und schaffen Studierenden somit einen Zugang zu den Grundlagen formal-semantischer Analyse. - In zweifarbiger Gestaltung mit vielen Beispielen, Übungen und einem Sachregister.Table of ContentsEigennamen und Eigenschaften.- Relationen.- Funktionen.- Semantische Typen.- Junktoren.- Pronomen.- Prädikatskoordination und Relativsätze.- Quantoren.- Quantifizierte Nominalphrase.- Propositionen.- Modalität.- Kontextabhängigkeit.- Anhang: Literaturverzeichnis und Sachregister (deutsch/englisch).

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Book SynopsisThis book takes on critical problems in current Macedonistics, with a special emphasis on text linguistics and linguistics of discourse. It focuses on the language of modern Macedonian discourses, including scientific, political, parliamentary, and media, and on the Macedonian literary text and the language in public communication. Particular attention is dedicated to the conditions in which the Macedonian standard language was born.

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Book SynopsisThis book interprets rhetorical style within a theoretical frame, and it aims to give a more unifying account than has been given in most publications on style. The aim is to establish the concept of rhetorical style that will not only achieve a greater conceptual consensus, but also help make it both powerful and useful in line with other concepts in the practical and critical disciplines of rhetoric. The examination of rhetorical style is aimed at conceptual development based on theoretical reflection and rhetorical analysis. The goal is to achieve a clearer understanding of some of the ways in which rhetorical style supplies the conceptual frameworks for reflecting, perceiving, arguing, and gaining influence in practical life.

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Trade ReviewThis volume provides very valuable insights into the roles which questioning enables speakers and listeners to adopt within a broad range of institutional discourse. It contributes significantly to our understanding of how questioning occurs and how interactants can and do use questions for their own ends or to achieve institutional goals. * Helen de Silva, Discourse Studies *Table of Contents1. The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse: An Introduction ; 2. The Design and Positioning of Questions in Inquiry Testimony ; 3. Questioning in Medicine ; 4. Interrogating Tears: Some Uses Of 'Tag Questions' In A Child Protection Helpline ; 5. Grammar and Social Relations: Alternative Forms of Yes/No Type Initiating Actions in Health Visitor Interaction ; 6. Asking Ostensibly Silly Questions in Police-Suspect Interrogations ; 7. Pursuing Views and Testing Commitments: Hypothetical Questions in the Psychiatric Assessment of Transsexual Patients ; 8. Questions that Convey Information in Teacher-Student Conferences ; 9. Is that right? Questions and Questioning as Control Devices in the Workplace ; 10. Questioning in Meetings: Participation and Positioning ; 11. The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Reflective Questions in Genetic Counselling ; 12. Questions in Broadcast Journalism ; 13. Questions and Institutionality in Public Participation Broadcasting ; 14. "I'm calling to let you know!": Company Initiated Telephone-Sales ; 15. "How may I help you?" Questions, Control and Customer Care in Telephone Call Centre Talk

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized scalar implicature and seeks to identify the common core of the polarity system by examining many of its manifestations as well as the choices that determine its diversity. To do so he reassesses the relations between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and in the process makes startling insights into the relation of syntax to logic. Rudolf Carnap''s classic, The Logical Syntax of Language, defines syntax as a lexicon and a set of formation rules and logic as a set of inference rules. Modern generative linguistics maintains a similar modular approach: a combinatorial apparatus is said to generate structures over which semantic and pragmatic relations, such as presupposition and implicature, are defined. This book argues by contrast that many Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Spontaneous Logicality of Language ; 2. Scalar Implicatures at the Interface Between Pragmatics and Syntax ; 3. Even Negative Polarity Items and Only Negative Polarity Items ; 4. Presuppositionality, Strength, and Concord in Polarity Systems ; 5. Existential Free Choice ; 6. Universal Free Choice ; 7. Intervention ; 8. Where We Stand ; References

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