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Cambridge University Press The Constructicon
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Cambridge University Press Understanding the Language of Virtual Interaction
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Cambridge University Press Lexical Multidimensional Analysis
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Cambridge University Press The Sociopragmatics of Emotion
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Cambridge University Press LegalLay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts
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Cambridge University Press The Athenian Funeral Oration
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatics Utterance Meaning and Representational Gesture
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Cambridge University Press Logic and Information
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Cambridge University Press Copilots for Linguists
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Cambridge University Press Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare
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Cambridge University Press LegalLay Discourse and Procedural Justice in Family and County Courts
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatic Inference
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Cambridge University Press Control
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Cambridge University Press Semantics and Deep Learning
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Grounding
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Cambridge University Press Types and the Structure of Meaning
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Cambridge University Press Prosodic Patterns in English Conversation
Book SynopsisLanguage is more than words: it includes the prosodic features and patterns that we use, subconsciously, to frame meanings and achieve our goals in our interaction with others. Here, Nigel G. Ward explains how we do this, going beyond intonation to show how pitch, timing, intensity and voicing properties combine to form meaningful temporal configurations: prosodic constructions. Bringing together new findings and hitherto-scattered observations from phonetic and pragmatic studies, this book describes over twenty common prosodic patterns in English conversation. Using examples from real conversations, it illustrates how prosodic constructions serve essential functions such as inviting, showing approval, taking turns, organizing ideas, reaching agreement, and evoking action. Prosody helps us establish rapport and nurture relationships, but subtle differences in prosody across languages and subcultures can be damagingly misunderstood. The findings presented here will enable both native sTrade Review'Nigel G. Ward's book presents a novel approach to a long elusive question: what are the acoustic correlates of prosody that align with communicative functions? By taking a data mining approach, acoustic features long thought to be correlates of prosodic categories and long speculated as contributing in complex ways, can be examined together. While research has been hampered by the lack of consensus defining discrete communicative functions, Ward takes a defiantly speculative approach in the interpretation of his very concrete statistical associations, paving the way for the discipline to use his methods experimentally.' Nanette Veilleux, Simmons University, BostonTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Bookended narrow pitch regions; 3. Downstep constructions; 4. Creaky voice and its functions; 5. Perspectives on prosody; 6. Late pitch peak and its functions; 7. Expressing positive assessments; 8. Superposition; 9. A big-data approach; 10. From patterns to meanings; 11. Turn-taking constructions; 12. Topic management constructions; 13. Stance-related constructions; 14. The rest of English prosody; 15. Envoi.
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Cambridge University Press Irony
Book SynopsisIrony is an intriguing topic, central to the study of meaning in language. This book provides an introduction to the pragmatics of irony. It surveys key work carried out on irony in a range of disciplines such as semantics, pragmatics, philosophy and literary studies, and from a variety of theoretical perspectives including Grice''s approach, Sperber and Wilson''s echoic account, and Clark and Gerrig''s pretense theory. It looks at a number of uses of irony and explores how irony can be misunderstood cross-culturally, before delving into the key debates on the pragmatics of irony: is irony always negative? Why do speakers communicate via irony, and which strategies do they usually employ? How are irony and sarcasm different? Is irony always funny? To answer these questions, basic pragmatic notions are introduced and explained. It includes multiple examples and activities to enable the reader to apply the theoretical frameworks to actual everyday instances of irony.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Irony as opposition; 3. Irony as echo; 4. Irony as pretense; 5. Attitude expression in irony; 6. Clues of irony; 7. Sarcasm and humour.
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Cambridge University Press Meaning in English
Book SynopsisThis lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics - the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a clear structure, it explains formal terminology in a simple and understandable way, without using formal notation or logic, and draws on dozens of examples from up-to-date empirical research findings. Offering a tight integration of classic semantic issues with cognitive science, Javier Valenzuela provides a complete and coherent overview of the main topics in this area, including a review of the empirical methods used in semantic theorizing, and discussions of both non-traditional and new topics, such as how meaning is acquired by children and how meaning is constructed cross-linguistically. Featuring illustrations, exercises, activities, suggestions for further reading, highlighted key terms, and a comprehensive glossary, this book is accessible to beginners and undergraduates, including those from non-linguistic backgrounds with no prior Table of Contents1. What is semantics?; 2. Analyzing meaning; 3. Language and thought; 4. Word meaning; 5. Meaning relations; 6. Acquisition of meaning and cross-linguistic meaning; 7. Figurative meaning; 8. Sentential meaning; 9. Discourse meaning and pragmatics.
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Cambridge University Press Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
Book SynopsisA practical introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics that enables readers to understand key principles of statistical thinking and apply these concepts in their own research. It is intended for anyone interested in quantitative analysis of language and data visualisation.Trade Review'An indispensable guide to statistical methods in corpus linguistics for both beginners and for linguists who already know a great deal about statistics. It contains discussion of a wealth of well-chosen and stimulating linguistic problems illustrating their research design and the choice of statistical techniques.' Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg'An excellent book which is timely and accessible and includes an impressive balance of theory and practice - definitely a book the field has been waiting for.' Bróna Murphy, University of EdinburghTable of Contents1. Introduction: statistics meets corpus linguistics; 2. Vocabulary: frequency, dispersion and diversity; 3. Semantics and discourse: collocations, keywords and reliability of manual coding; 4. Lexico-grammar: from simple counts to complex models; 5. Register variation: correlation, clusters and factors; 6. Sociolinguistics and stylistics: individual and social variation; 7. Change over time: working diachronic data; 8. Bringing everything together: ten principles of statistical thinking, meta-analysis and effect sizes.
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Cambridge University Press Metaphor Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
Book Synopsis''Metaphor'', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of semanticists, pragmatists, discourse analysts and also those working at the interface of language and literature and in other disciplines such as philosophy and psychology. This book provides a summary, critique and comparison of the most important theories on how metaphors are used and understood, drawing on research from linguistics, psychology and other disciplines. In order to ground the discussion in actual language use, the book uses examples from discourse, including casual conversations, political speeches, literature, humor, religion and science. Written in a non-technical style, the book includes clear definitions, examples, discussion questions and a glossary, making it ideal for graduate-level seminars.Trade Review'David Ritchie provides a broad, thought-provoking discussion of metaphor and its applications to the real world. His writing is highly accessible, making Metaphor suitable for a wide audience. Highly recommended!' Jeannette Littlemore, University of Birmingham'David Ritchie's overview of theory and practice in metaphor studies will be really useful to students and others new to the field. It explains and illustrates a range of approaches to this exciting area.' Lynne Cameron, The Open University'There is an amazing bounty of books on metaphor these days, and David Ritchie's new volume is among the best. He tackles many of the enduring issues in metaphor scholarship, including debates on the functions of metaphor in thought, language, and the social world, by showing how metaphors work, and serve as resources for people, in an amazing array of discourse situations. Along the way, [he] offers important insights on different contemporary theories of metaphor, yet also nicely integrates research from cognitive science, to create a dynamic, context-sensitive account of how metaphorical ideas emerge in everyday life.' Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, University of California, Santa Cruz'Metaphor by Ritchie is a stimulating book that gives an overview of current theories on metaphor and gives interesting insights about a widely studied topic. The book is agreeable to read and can be used both for study and reference. The use of examples taken from actual texts and the specific structure of the book make Ritchie's work an appealing book in metaphor studies.' Donatella Resta, The Linguist ListTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Understanding metaphors: substitution and property attribution theories; 3. Categorization and relevance; 4. Conceptual metaphors; 5. Perceptual simulation; 6. Metaphors and framing effects; 7. Language play: metaphors, stories, and humor; 8. Metaphors in conversation; 9. Metaphors in politics; 10. Metaphors in literature; 11. Closing reflections.
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Cambridge University Press Ideophones and the Evolution of Language
Book SynopsisIdeophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far have been almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet that there are no primitive languages, this book argues that ideophones may be an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of communication, where sounds and gestures were paired in what can justifiably be called a ''prelinguistic'' fashion. The structure of ideophones may also provide answers to deeper questions, among them how communicative gestures may themselves have emerged from practical actions. Moreover, their current distribution and behaviour provide hints as to how they may have become conventional words in languages with conventional rules.Trade Review'This is a splendid book - lively and stimulating, presenting the ideophone as a source in language phylogenesis and a new role for play in fostering the distinction between 'doing' and 'showing' at the origin. Haiman's style, erudition, and provocative hypothesis invite one into a joyful discussion.' David McNeill, University of ChicagoTable of Contents1. The gestural origin theory of language genesis; 2. What are ideophones?; 3. Lexical origins of ideophones; 4. Suiting the word to the action: oral charades; 5. Ideophones as a possible solution to the ritualization problem; 6. Taming ideophones: from showing to telling; 7. Repetition in the genesis of signs, art, and ideophones.
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Cambridge University Press Categories Constructions and Change in English
Book SynopsisA pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with contributions by world-renowned scholars as well as some emerging scholars in the field, covers a wide variety of approaches to grammatical categories and categorial change, constructions and constructional change, and comparative and typological research. Each of the fourteen chapters, based on the analysis of authentic data, highlights the wealth and breadth of the study of English syntax (including morphosyntax), both theoretically and empirically, from Old English through to the present day. The result is a body of research which will add substantially to the current study of the syntax of the English language, by stimulating further research in the field.Table of ContentsIntroduction: analysing English syntax past and present Nuria Yáñez-Bouza, Emma Moore, Linda van Bergen and Willem B. Hollmann; Part I. Approaches to Grammatical Categories and Categorial Change: 1. What is special about pronouns? John Payne; 2. What for? Bas Aarts; 3. Whatever happened to 'whatever'? Dan Mccolm and Graeme Trousdale; 4. Are comparative modals converging or diverging in English? Different answers from the perspectives of grammaticalisation and constructionalisation Elizabeth Closs Traugott; 5. The definite article in Old English: evidence from Ælfric's Grammar Cynthia L. Allen; Part II. Approaches to Constructions and Constructional Change: 6. How patterns spread: the to-infinitival complement as a case of diffusional change, or 'To-infinitives, and beyond!' Bettelou Los; 7. 'Me Liketh/Lotheth' but 'I Loue/Hate': impersonal/non-impersonal boundaries in old and Middle English Ayumi Miura; 8. 'That's luck, if you ask me': the rise of an intersubjective comment clause Laurel J. Brinton; 9. Misreading and language change: a foray into qualitative historical linguistics Sylvia Adamson; 10. The conjunction and in phrasal and clausal structures in the Old Bailey Corpus Merja Kytö and Erik Smitterberg; Part III. Comparative and Typological Approaches: 11. The role played by analogy in processes of language change: the case of English have-to compared to Spanish tener-que Olga Fischer and Hella Olbertz; 12. Modelling step change: the history of will-verbs in Germanic Kersti Börjars and Nigel Vincent; 13. Possessives world-wide: genitive variation in varieties of English Benedikt Heller and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi; 14. American English: no written standard before the twentieth century? Christian Mair.
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Cambridge University Press The Semantic Conception of Logic
Book SynopsisThis collection of new essays presents cutting-edge research on the semantic conception of logic, the invariance criteria of logicality, grammaticality, and logical truth. Contributors explore the history of the semantic tradition, starting with Tarski, and its historical applications, while central criticisms of the tradition, and especially the use of invariance criteria to explain logicality, are revisited by the original participants in that debate. Other essays discuss more recent criticism of the approach, and researchers from mathematics and linguistics weigh in on the role of the semantic tradition in their disciplines. This book will be invaluable to philosophers and logicians alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Semantic Conception of Logic: Problems and Prospects Gil Sagi and Jack Woods; Part I. Invariance Criteria for Logicality: 1. Invariance and Logicality in Perspective Gila Sher; 2. The Problem of Logical Constants and the Semantic Tradition: From Invariantist Views to a Pragmatic Account Mario Gómez-Torrente; 3. The Ways of Logicality: Invariance and Categoricity Denis Bonnay and Sebastian G. W. Speitel; 4. Invariance without Extensionality Beau Madison Mount; 5. There Might Be a Paradox of Logical Validity After All Roy Cook; Part II. Critiques and Applications of the Semantic Approach: 6. Semantic Perspectives in Logic Johan van Benthem; 7. Overgeneration in the Higher Infinite Luca Incurvarti and Salvatore Florio; 8. Propositional Logics of Logical Truth A.C. Paseau and Owen Griffiths; 9. Reinterpreting Logic Alexandra Zinke; Part III. Logic and Natural Language: 10. Models, Model Theory, and Modeling Michael Glanzberg; 11. On Being Trivial: Grammar vs. Logic Gennaro Chierchia; 12. Grammaticality and Meaning Shift Márta Abrusán, Nicholas Asher and Tim Van de Cruys; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Conversational Repair and Human Understanding
Book SynopsisHumans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology.Trade Review'Repair is absolutely central to any analysis of language and social life as self-organizing natural systems. Here, major scholars insightfully demonstrate repair's relevance to action formation, human understanding and language diversity. A central resource!' Charles Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles'… breaks new ground in our understanding of human interaction, and of conversational repair in particular. Essential reading for anyone analysing talk and interaction.' Celia Kitzinger, University of York'Conversational repair has been a classic research topic in conversation analysis, and the present volume counts as one of the best collections of studies on this topic … Conversational Repair and Human Understanding is a new classic of conversational repair research.' Xiaoli Zhou and Guodong Yu, Shanxi UniversityTable of Contents1. Conversational repair and human understanding: an introduction Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond and Jack Sidnell; 2. Ten operations in self-initiated, same-turn repair Emanuel A. Schegloff; 3. Self-repair and action construction Paul Drew, Traci Walker and Richard Ogden; 4. On the place of hesitating in delicate formulations: a turn constructional infrastructure for collaborative indiscretion Gene H. Lerner; 5. One question after another: same-turn-repair in the formation of yes/no type initiating actions Geoffrey Raymond and John Heritage; 6. On the interactional import of self-repair in the courtroom Tanya Romaniuk and Susan Ehrlich; 7. Defensive mechanisms: I-mean prefaced utterances in complaint and other conversational sequences Douglas W. Maynard; 8. Availability as a trouble source in directive-response sequences Mardi Kidwell; 9. Epistemics, action formation, and other-initiation of repair: the case of partial questioning repeats Jeffrey D. Robinson; 10. Proffering insertable elements: a study of other-initiated repair in Japanese Makoto Hayashi and Kaoru Hayano; 11. Alternative, subsequent descriptions Jack Sidnell and Rebecca Barnes; 12. Huh? What? - A first survey in 21 languages N. J. Enfield, Mark Dingemanse, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Penelope Brown, Tyko Dirksmeyer, Paul Drew, Simeon Floyd, Sonja Gipper, Rósa Gísladóttir, Gertie Hoymann, Kobin H. Kendrick, Stephen C. Levinson, Lilla Magyari, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, Lila San Roque and Francisco Torreira.
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Cambridge University Press Universal Semantic Syntax
Syntactic theory has been dominated in the last decades by theories that disregard semantics in their approach to syntax. Presenting a truly semantic approach to syntax, this book takes as its primary starting point the idea that syntax deals with the relations between meanings expressed by form-meaning elements and that the same types of relations can be found cross-linguistically. The theory provides a way to formalize the syntactic relations between meanings so that each fragment of grammar can be analyzed in a clear-cut way. A comprehensive introduction into the theoretical concepts of the theory is provided, with analyzes of numerous examples in English and various other languages, European and non-European, to illustrate the concepts. The theory discussed will enable linguists to look for similarities between languages, while at the same time acknowledging important language specific features.
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Cambridge University Press Brexitspeak
Book SynopsisWere we talked into Brexit? And who is ''we''? It''s impossible to do politics without words and a context to use them in. And it''s impossible to make sense of the phenomenon of Brexit without understanding how language was used ? and misused ? in the historical context that produced the 2016 referendum result. This interdisciplinary book shows how the particular idea of ''the British people'' was maintained through text and talk at different levels of society over the years following World War II, and mobilised by Brexit propagandists in a socially, economically and culturally divided polity. The author argues that we need the well-defined tools of linguistics and language philosophy, tied in with a political science framework, to understand a serious, modern concept of demagoguery. Written in an accessible manner, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to probe the social, political and ideational contexts that generated Brexit.
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Cambridge University Press On the Offensive
Book SynopsisI''m not a racist, but You look good, for your age She was asking for it You''re crazy That''s so gay Have you ever wondered why certain language has the power to offend? It is often difficult to recognize the veiled racism, sexism, ageism (and other isms) that hide in our everyday discourse. This book sheds light on the derogatory phrases, insults, slurs, stereotypes, tropes and more that make up linguistic discrimination. Each chapter addresses a different area of prejudice: race and ethnicity; gender identity; sexuality; religion; health and disability; physical appearance; and age. Drawing on hot button topics and real-life case studies, and delving into the history of offensive terms, a vivid picture of modern discrimination in language emerges. By identifying offensive language, both overt and hidden, past and present, we uncover vast amounts about our own attitudes, beliefs and values and reveal exactly how and why words can offend.Trade Review'I don't think there is any more difficult topic in present-day language study than the vocabulary of offence. Karen Stollznow has done us all a great service in bringing together the largest collection of usages I have ever seen, in all the main areas of linguistic prejudice, and treating them in an enlightened, informative, and sensitive manner. It will help anyone who has ever offended others or been offended by a use of language – which means all of us.' David Crystal, University of Wales, Bangor'The strength of the book is its comprehensiveness: it covers terms from history, current affairs, literature, public policy, advertising, and popular culture, and includes brief etymological notes... will be of immense value to scholars studying offensive language, both as a baseline for research and a source of ideas to be explored further … Highly Recommended.' E. L. Battistella, Choice'… an accessible read for a broad audience in a wide range of settings. The book is intended for use in professional settings such as workplaces and schools as well as in social settings like within families and communities.' Dominique Branson, Language in SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction. You can't say anything these days; 1. I'm not a racist, but…; 2. Boys will be boys; 3. Not that there's anything wrong with that; 4. Don't be a Jew; 5. That's crazy; 6. Hit by the ugly stick; 7. God's waiting room; Conclusion. Walk a mile in someone's shoes.
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Cambridge University Press Elasticity in Healthcare Communication
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Methods in Conversation
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural
Book SynopsisIntercultural pragmatics addresses one of the major issues of human communication in the globalized world: how do people interact with each other in a language other than their native tongue, and with native speakers of the language of interaction? Bringing together a globally-representative team of scholars, this Handbook provides an authoritative overview to this fascinating field of study, as well as a theoretical framework. Chapters are grouped into 5 thematic areas: theoretical foundation, key issues in Intercultural Pragmatics research, the interface between Intercultural Pragmatics and related disciplines, Intercultural Pragmatics in different types of communication, and language learning. It addresses key concepts and research issues in Intercultural Pragmatics, and will trigger fresh lines of enquiry and generate new research questions. Comprehensive in its scope, it is essential reading not only for scholars of pragmatics, but also of discourse analysis, cognitive linguisticsTable of ContentsPart I. Theoretical Foundation: 1. Post-Gricean pragmatics for intercultural communication Kasia Jaszczolt; 2. Relevance theory and intercultural interaction Jacques Moeschler; 3. Cognitive psychology in pragmatics Rachel Giora; 4. The theoretical framework of intercultural pragmatics Istvan Kecskes; Part II. Key Issues in Intercultural Pragmatics Research: 5. The cultural, contextual and computational dimensions of common ground Brian Nolan; 6. Role of context Anita Fetzer; 7. Sources of (mis)understanding in intercultural interactions Jagdish Kaur; 8. Creativity and idiomaticity in intercultural interactions Marie-Luise Pitzl; 9. Metaphors in intercultural communication Marianna Bolognesi; 10. Common ground in linguistic theory and internet pragmatics: forms of dynamic, multicultural interaction Elke Diedrichsen; 11. Vague language from a pragmatic perspective Grace Zhang; 12. Humor in intercultural interactions Kerry Mullan and Christine Béal; 13. Emotion in intercultural interactions Laura Alba; 14. Research methods in intercultural pragmatics Monika Kirner-Ludwig; Part III. Interface of Intercultural Pragmatics and Related Disciplines: 15. Semiotics and intercultural pragmatics Marcel Danesi; 16. Sociopragmatics and intercultural interaction Michael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang; 17. An English-as-a-lingua-franca perspective on intercultural pragmatics Barbara Seidlhofer and Henry Widdowson; 18. Intercultural rhetoric Ulla Connor; 19. Politeness and rapport management Helen-Spencer-Oatey; 20. Corpus-based intercultural pragmatic research Jesus Romero-Trillo; Part IV. Intercultural Pragmatics in Different Types of Communication: 21. Visual and multimodal communication across cultures Charles Forceville; 22. Intercultural teamwork via videoconferencing technology: A multimodal (inter)action analysis Sigrid Norris and Jarret Geenen; 23. Intercultural communication in computer-mediated discourse Carmen Maiz-Arevalo; 24. Intercultural aspects of business communication Liu Ping; 25. Intercultural pragmatics in healthcare communication Maria Grazia Rossi and Fabricio Macagno; 26. Academic and professional discourse in intercultural pragmatics María Luisa Carrió Pastor; 27. The dynamic model of meaning approach: Analyzing the interculturality of conspiracy theory in far-right populist discourses Fabienne Baider; Part V. Language Learning: 28. Pragmatic competence Elly Ifantidou; 29. Pragmatic awareness in intercultural language learning Troy McConachy; 30. Interculturality and the study abroad experience: Pragmatic and sociolinguistic development Martin Howard and Rachel Shiverly; 31. Intercultural mediation in language learning Anthony Liddicoat; 32. Interaction in the multilingual classrooms Marie Källkvist, Erica Sandlund, Pia Sundqvist and Henrik Gyllstad.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics
The first ever Handbook dedicated to the rapidly growing field of sociopragmatics, this volume provides a systematic, cutting-edge introduction to the key concepts of sociopragmatic research. Engaging and accessible, it will be of interest to researchers and students, and anyone fascinated by language and its use in different contexts.
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Pearson Education (US) Envision in Depth
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Pearson Education Writers World The
Book SynopsisLynne Gaetz, a professor of English language and literature, has been teaching at the college level for over 20 years. She obtained a masters degree in English literature, as well as a TESL diploma and a college teaching diploma. In addition to the series, The Writer's World, she has written over 30 successful English second language textbooks for college-level students. Her most recent series, containing a separate skills and grammar component, is Avenues. In her spare time, she loves creating art; her preference is mixed media and oil painting. She is also an avid traveler, who intends to visit every continent. Suneeti Phadke has a graduate degree in Russian language and literature, as well as a bachelor of education degree in teaching English as a second language. She has been teaching English language and literature to college students for more than 20 years. She started her writing career around the same time as her teaching career. Her first writing project was to develop correspondence courses for college-level English for the Quebec Ministry of Education. This experience led her to writing academic textbooks for Pearson. Currently, she is also trying her hand at other types of writing, such as short stories and poetry. Table of ContentsBrief Contents Part I: The Writing Process Exploring Developing Revising and Editing Paragraph Patterns Writing the Essay Part II: The Editing Handbook Nouns, Determiners, and Prepositions Pronouns Identifying Subjects and Verbs in Simple Sentences Present and Past Tenses Past Participles Progressive Tenses Other Verb Forms Subject—Verb Agreement Tense Consistency Compound Sentences Complex Sentences Sentence Variety Fragments Run-Ons Faulty Parallel Structure Adjectives and Adverbs Mistakes with Modifiers Exact Language Spelling Commonly Confused Words Commas The Apostrophe Quotation Marks and Capitalization Editing Practice Part III: Reading Strategies and Selections Reading Strategies and Selections Appendix 1: Grammar Appendix 2: Verb Tenses Appendix 3: Combining Ideas in Sentences Appendix 4: Punctuation and Mechanics Appendix 5: Spelling, Grammar, and Vocabulary Logs
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Pearson Education Mosaics Reading and Writing Paragraphs
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Penguin Putnam Inc Letters of Note Love 3
Book SynopsisFrom Napoléon Bonaparte and Frida Kahlo to Nelson Mandela and Ayn Rand glimpse the ardors of artists, painters, writers, and more in this touching volume of beautiful missives, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collectionsBeethoven yearns to see his famously unknown Immortal Beloved. A Victorian farmer proposes marriage to a woman he's never met. Zora Neale Hurston gives her ex-husband relationship advice. Mildred Loving asks the ACLU for help challenging the racist marriage laws of the Jim Crow South. Revealing deep, eternal truths from the heart, this intimate collection of 30 letters traces all of love's incarnations, from first blush and mutual enchantment to unrequited feelings and the ache of passions past. It offers a rare, passionate, and timeless look at what it means to love and be loved.
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OUP India So What
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OUP India Good Writing
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Words Discourse and Critical Agency in
Book SynopsisExplores how anthropology can come to terms with "colonial library" and begin to develop an ethnographic practice that transcends politics of Africa's imperial past. This book develops a model of critical agency, focusing on a variety of language genres in Africa situated in rituals that transform socio-political relations.Trade Review"A counterintuitive rereading of classic anthropological texts from the colonial archive, Beyond Words proposes a brilliant solution to one of the most pressing intellectual/political issues in African studies today. Responding to trenchant critiques of anthropology's complicity with colonialism and Eurocentric thought, Apter argues that these texts - of Dogon cosmological reflection, of Tswana praise poetry - be reread as critical reflection on power and authority, as vernacular criticism that was history-making rather than history-erasing and politics-averse." - Charles Piot, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press The Essential Wayne Booth Emersion Emergent
Book SynopsisWayne Booth wrote some of the most influential and engaging criticism, most notably the 1961 classic The Rhetoric of Fiction. This work illuminates the scope of Booth's rhetorical inquiry: the entire range of resources that human beings share for producing effects on one another.Trade Review"Wayne C. Booth [was] one of the preeminent literary critics of the second half of the twentieth century, whose life-long study of the art of rhetoric illuminated the means by which authors seduce, cajole, and more than occasionally lie to their readers in the service of narrative.... To Professor Booth, literature was not so much words on paper as it was a complex ethical act. He saw the novel as a kind of compact between author and reader: intimate and rewarding, but rarely easy. At the crux of this compact lay rhetoric, the art of verbal persuasion." - Margalit Fox, New York Times"
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The University of Chicago Press Dynamics of Meaning Anaphora Preposition and the
Book SynopsisThis text illustrates how seemingly abstract stances on the nature of meaning can have significant and far-reaching linguistic consequences, leading to the detection of new facts and influencing the understanding of the syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface.Table of ContentsPreface 1: The Two Souls of Discourse Representation Theory 2: Dynamic Binding 3: Extensions: Reconstruction, Topicalization, and Crossover 4: Presuppositions and Definites Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Spaces Worlds Grammar Cognitive Theory of
Book SynopsisThese 12 original papers extend the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier and demonstrate its utility in solving deep problems in linguistics and discourse theory. The contributors analyze a wide range of phenomena, including analogical counterfactuals and deictic expression.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Cognitive Links and Domains: Basic Aspects of Mental Space Theory Eve Sweetser, Gilles Fauconnier. 2: Mental Spaces, Constructional Meaning, and Pragmatic Ambiguity Claudia Brugman 3: Analogical Counterfactuals Gilles Fauconnier 4: Sorry, I'm Not Myself Today: The Metaphor System for Conceptualizing the Self George Lakoff 5: Subjective-Change Expressions in Japanese and Their Cognitive and Linguistic Bases Yo Matsumoto 6: Space Accessibility and Mood in Spanish Errapel Mejias-Bikandi 7: Cross-World Continuity and the Polysemy of Adverbial Still Laura A. Michaelis 8: Alternate Grounds in the Interpretation of Deictic Expressions Jo Rubba 9: Roles and Identificational Copular Sentences Shigeru Sakahara 10: Perspective and the Representation of Speech and Thought in Narrative Discourse Jose Sanders, Gisela Redeker. 11: Mental Spaces and the Grammar of Conditional Constructions Eve Sweetser 12: Conceptual Locations for Reference in American Sign Language Karen van Hoek Index
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The University of Chicago Press Secret History of Emotion From Aristotles
Book SynopsisPrincess Diana's death was a tragedy that provoked mourning across the globe. How can we account for this uneven distribution of emotion? Can it simply be explained by the prevailing scientific understanding? Addressing such questions, this title offers a counterpoint to the way we generally understand emotions.Trade Review"With The Secret History of Emotion, Daniel Gross has achieved what I thought impossible: he compresses into these pages a compelling history of emotion from Aristotle to today. His argument that there exists a great tradition of understanding the emotions as a psychosocial phenomenon is cogent, coherent, and interesting from beginning to end. This is a remarkable book." - David Konstan, Brown University"
£80.00
The University of Chicago Press Blank Darkness Africanist Discourse in French
Book SynopsisBlank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world and have called it 'Africa.' There are excellent readings here of writers ranging from Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Sade, and Céline to Conrad and Yambo Ouologuem, but even more impressive and important than these individual readings is Mr. Miller's wide-ranging, incisive, and exact analysis of 'Africanist' discourse, what it has been and what it has meant in the literature of the Western world.James Olney, Louisiana State University
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The University of Chicago Press Natural Histories of Discourse
Book SynopsisThis collection of ethnographies demonstrates that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals culture. The cultural processes of entextualization and contextualization are examined.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments The Natural History of Discourse Michael Silverstein, Greg Urban. 1: Entextualization, Replication, and Power Greg Urban 2: Text from Talk in Tzotzil John B. Haviland 3: The Secret Life of Texts Michael Silverstein 4: "Self"-Centering Narratives Vincent Crapanzano 5: Shadow Conversations: The Indeterminacy of Participant Roles Judith T. Irvine 6: Exorcism and the Description of Participant Roles William F. Hanks 7: Socialization to Text: Structure and Contradiction in Schooled Literacy James Collins 8: Recontextualization as Socialization: Text and Pragmatics in the Law School Classroom Elizabeth Mertz 9: The Construction of an LD Student: A Case Study in the Politics of Representation Hugh Mehan 10: National Spirit or the Breath of Nature? The Expropriation of Folk Positivism in the Discourse of Greek Nationalism Michael Herzfeld 11: Transformations of the Word in the Production of Mexican Festival Drama Richard Bauman Codafication [sic] Greg Urban, Michael Silverstein. List of Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sweet Reason Rhetoric the Discourses of
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a rhetorical model for understanding the diverse discourses of modernity. Wells describes modernity as a system of texts which we are only now learning to read and offers a rhetoric based on an understanding of meaning as intersubjectivity created through the work of language.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Reading Ronell
Book SynopsisA scintillating exploration of the responsibility of reading in Avital Ronell's workTrade Review"This collection of energetic essays engages the writing of Avital Ronell while contributing fresh, sophisticated thinking to such fields as philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, and literary criticism. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"By assembling essays by eminent scholars from a wide range of fields, this volume stages an engagement with Avital Ronell that, stimulated by her dazzlingly capacious intellectual and aesthetic imagination, bears on many of the most important topics in the humanities today."--Frederick M. Dolan, coeditor of Between Terror and Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and Fiction Speak of ModernityTable of ContentsList of contributors; Editor's introduction; 1. Addressee: Avital - Jean-Luc Nancy; 2. Ronell as Gay Scientist - Judith Butler; 3. The Courage of the Critic: Avital Ronell and the Idea of Emergence - Peter Fenves; 4. Conference Call: Ronell, Heidegger, Oppen - Susan Bernstein; 5. Take Me to Your Reader - Laurence A. Rickels; 6. Uncalled: A Note on Kafka's Test - Werner Hamacher; 7. Avital Ronell's Body Politics - Elissa Marder; 8. Serial - A poem by Pierre Alferi; 9. War Bodies - Gil Anidjar; 10.The Indefinite Article or the Love of a Phrase - Samuel Weber; 11. Learning Impossibility: Pedagogy, Aporia, Ethics - Shireen R.K. Patell; 12. Testing Existence, Exacting Thought: Reading Ronell with Deleuze - Hent de Vries; 13. The Problems of a Generation: Thinking and Thanking Zwang and Drang - Thomas Pepper; 14. Roaming (Dis)Charges: Catastrophe of the Liquid Oozing - Tom Cohen; 15. "Vectorizing Our Thoughts Toward 'Current Events' ": For Avital Ronell - Elisabeth Weber
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