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Lexington Books Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to
Book SynopsisSuperhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines superhero narratives through the lens of American rhetoric and globalization. Michael Arthur Soares illustrates how deeply intertwined superhero narratives are with American political culture by analyzing, on the one hand, the rhetoric of American exceptionalism and the representation of American presidents in superhero narratives and, on the other, the prevalence of superhero rhetoric in speeches by American politicians. Turning toward the global mobility of the superhero genre, Soares then offers further insight into the ways in which cultural contexts inform transformations of superheroes and their narratives around the world and how American filmmakers have adjusted their narratives to guarantee their global reach and ability to place films in the global marketplace. Finally, the author considers real-life examples of licensed superhero iconography embodied by individuals around the world who seek to make change in their communities. Ultimately, the chapters examine the journey of superhero rhetoric and how it reaches out to global audiences, across cultural borders and back again.
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Lexington Books The Civically Engaged Woman
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Lexington Books Rhetorical Democracy
Book SynopsisRhetorical Democracy: How Communication Shapes Political Culture offers an explanation and diagnosis of the current state of American democracy rooted in the American pragmatist tradition. Robert Danisch analyzes the characteristics of communication systems and communication practices that inhibit or enhance democratic life. In doing so, this book provides a detailed explanation of the ways in which the communication systems and practices that constitute democratic life are currently fostering polarization and how they might be made to foster cooperation. Scholars of communication, rhetorical studies, political science, and media studies will find this book of particular interest.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Discourses at Play
Book SynopsisTodd S. Frobish is Chair and Professor in the Department of Communication, Languages, and Cultures at Fayetteville State University.
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Bloomsbury Academic From Surviving to Metaviving
Book SynopsisJulie Mengert is Collegiate Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech.
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Bloomsbury Academic Nones Fair in the World of Sport
Book SynopsisDakota Park-Ozee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Denver.Jason Jordan is Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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Seven Stars Publications The Timeless Texture of the Book of Revelation
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Must Have Books How to Do Things with Words
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Brill Experiments at the Interfaces
Book SynopsisWhile experimental data collection has been common in psycholinguistics for some time, only relatively recently have experimental methods been employed to collect data for research in formal linguistics. Experimental methods can be particularly useful for investigating phenomena at the interfaces of the components of grammar, where the sources of multiple types of information need to be carefully controlled. Experiments at the Interfaces, edited by Jeffrey T. Runner from the University of Rochester, brings together recent experimental research examining a variety of issues within syntax and semantics, and their interfaces with each other and with other domains of language. The volume showcases a wide range of experimental methods and illustrates how they can be applied to critical questions relevant to formal linguistics. Contributors are: Sergey Avrutin, Molly Diesing, Sam Featherston, Micah B. Goldwater, Martin Hackl, Justin Halberda, Edwin Howard, Tim Hunter, Arnout W. Koornneef, Hadas Kotek, Ellen F. Lau, Jeffrey Lidz, Darko Odic, Colin Phillips, Paul Pietroski, Eric Reuland, Jeffrey T. Runner, Yasutada Sudo, Klaus von Heusinger, Matthew W. Wagers, Hanna Weiland, Frank Wijnen, Draga Zec.Table of ContentsLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS EXPERIMENTS AT THE INTERFACES 1 INTERFACE EFFECTS: SERBIAN CLITICS Molly Diesing and Draga Zec 2 I’M LEAKING OIL AND LOOKING FOR A GARAGE: TESTING CONDITIONS ON MEANING TRANSFER Sam Featherston, Klaus von Heusinger and Hanna Weiland 3 TRACKING THE PREFERENCE FOR BOUND-VARIABLE DEPENDENCIES IN AMBIGUOUS ELLIPSES AND ONLY-STRUCTURES Arnout W. Koornneef, Sergey Avrutin, Frank Wijnen and Eric Reuland 4 MOST MEANINGS ARE SUPERLATIVE Hadas Kotek, Yasutada Sudo, Edwin Howard and Martin Hackl 5 GRAMMATICAL ILLUSIONS AND SELECTIVE FALLIBILITY IN REAL-TIME LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Colin Phillips, Matthew W. Wagers and Ellen F. Lau 6 SEEING WHAT YOU MEAN, MOSTLY Paul Pietroski, Jeff Lidz, Tim Hunter, Darko Odic and Justin Halberda 7 ON THE REPRESENTATIONAL NATURE OF REPRESENTATIONAL NOUN PHRASES Jeffrey T. Runner and Micah B. Goldwater SUBJECT INDEX
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Discourse Readjustment(s) in Contemporary English
Book SynopsisThis study examines the linguistic tools which enable speakers and writers to propose adjustments and re-adjustments of the sentences they’ve just produced, as well as the goals they fulfil by doing so. We examine corrections, reformulations, specifications, modifications of points of views and link them with discursive strategies. (Re)-adjustments can be made in order to express oneself in a better way, to favor comprehension by adapting to the addressee, to structure one’s intervention, to play on the potentialities of language (polysemy, homonymy, ambiguity), to mention the main purposes associated with the use of those devices. The study focuses on the markers associated with those strategies. Therefore, it links the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic levels.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Preface xv General Introduction xvii Part 1 Definitions, Motivations and Typology of Discourse Readjustment Phenomena 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1 Definitions: Mutual Intelligibility, Adjustment,Readjustment and Intersubjectivity 5 1.1 Preliminary reminders: language activity, language as a specific system, discourse and the role of subjectivity 5 1.2 Mutual intelligibility, adjustment, readjustment 7 1.3 Exploring the starting point: adjustment in TEO by Antoine Culioli 10 1.4 Delimiting adjustment and the importance of the concept of readjustment 13 1.5 The notion of intersubjectivity: when philosophy and linguistics meet 16 1.6 Intrasubjectivity or the question of harmony between thought and speech 18 1.7 Conclusion 20 Chapter 2 Motivations Underpinning the Phenomena of Readjustment 23 2.1 Phenomena linked to denotation 24 2.1.1 Polysemy 24 2.1.2 Homonymy 26 2.1.3 Vagueness 26 2.2 Phenomena linked to questions of reference 28 2.2.1 Cases of fluctuating reference 28 2.2.2 Derived speech acts and their effects in discourse 29 2.2.3 Ambiguous utterances 30 2.2.4 Problems of linguistic non-coincidences 33 2.3 Questions linked to implicit messages 33 2.3.1 Connotations 33 2.3.2 Presupposed and implied messages 35 2.4 Phenomena of play on/with language 36 2.4.1 Metaphors 36 2.4.2 Euphemisms 38 2.4.3 Irony 38 2.5 Conclusion 40 Chapter 3 Typology of Readjustments 41 3.1 Intra- and intersubjective readjustments: concrete manifestations 41 3.1.1 Strictly intersubjective readjustments: focusing 41 3.1.2 Intrasubjective readjustments: characterization 43 3.2 Different degrees of reflexive view 44 3.3 Readjustments on the microstructural and macrostructural level 47 3.4 Readjustments to express oneself better, more correctly,or to change point of view 48 3.5 Readjustments invalidating more or less the initial commitment? 50 3.6 Conclusion 51 Conclusion to Part 1 53 Part 2 Reformulations: Readjustments to Express Oneself More Accurately? 55 Introduction to Part 2 57 Chapter 4 The Function of Reformulations in the Framework of Language Activity and Discourse 59 4.1 Reformulations and reflexive view 59 4.2 Discourse progression and the pragmatic value of reformulations 62 4.3 Reformulations, verbal interactions and textual organization 64 4.4 Readjustments with varied modalities 65 4.4.1 Immediate or deferred reformulations? 66 4.4.2 Self- or hetero-reformulations? 67 4.4.3 Total or partial reformulations 68 4.5 Configurations and associated discursive strategies 69 4.5.1 Cases of “intersubjective readjustments” 69 4.5.2 Cases of “intrasubjective” readjustments 71 4.6 Conclusion 73 Chapter 5 The Notion of Reformulation and its Linguistic Manifestations 75 5.1 What link is there between segments, in a reformulation? 75 5.1.1 Paraphrase, or absence of explicit link 76 5.1.2 Paraphrastic reformulation: when the equivalence is made explicit 77 5.1.3 Non-paraphrastic reformulation, or re-elaboration of content 78 5.2 How is an operation of reformulation identified? 79 5.2.1 The case of paraphrastic reformulations 80 5.2.2 The case of non-paraphrastic reformulations 82 5.3 Conclusion 86 Chapter 6 Paraphrastic or Non-paraphrastic Reformulations: Prototypical Introducers and Associated Strategies 89 6.1 Study of prototypical paraphrastic readjustments: the case of in other words 89 6.1.1 Overall function of the fixed phrase 89 6.1.2 Narrow or wide readjustments 92 6.1.3 Readjustment and change in discursive level 94 6.1.4 High compatibility with the change of voice 96 6.2 Study of emblematic non-paraphrastic readjustments: the case of or rather 99 6.2.1 A meta-enunciative dimension 99 6.2.2 Different facets of the readjustment at work 101 6.2.3 Strategies and stylistic play linked to such readjustments 104 6.3 Conclusion 107 Conclusion to Part 2 109 Part 3 Phenomena of Re-examination: Readjustments to Perfect One’s Stance? 111 Introduction to Part 3 113 Chapter 7 Recentering: In fact and Competing Markers 115 7.1 Examination of “(re)centering” as a metaterm 115 7.2 Questions relating to the sequence in fact 116 7.3 Closeness and distance relating to reformulation 118 7.4 The adverbial use and the connector 121 7.4.1 The adverbial use 121 7.4.2 The connector 122 7.5 The meaning effects associated with the fixed phrase 125 7.5.1 The reconsideration associated with the adverb 125 7.5.2 The connector and the effect of rectification 126 7.5.3 The connector introducing an upgrading process 128 7.5.4 The explicitation effect associated with the connector 129 7.5.5 Connection and summarizing 130 7.6 What type of readjustment underpins these effects? 132 7.7 Semantically close sequences or markers 134 7.8 Conclusion 136 Chapter 8 Upgrading and Downgrading: the Cases of Or even and Or at least 139 8.1 Examining notions of upgrading and downgrading 139 8.2 Questions relating to the sequences or even and or at least 141 8.3 Modus operandi of these sequences 142 8.3.1 Semantico-pragmatic instructions at work 142 8.3.2 Conditions enabling readjustment and therefore predictability 145 8.4 The role of the different markers in these sequences 148 8.4.1 Crucial role of the conjunction or 148 8.4.2 Value of even and at least 150 8.5 Interpretative mechanisms and representation of readjustments at work 152 8.6 Possible discursive and rhetorical effects 154 8.7 Conclusion 157 Chapter 9 Potential Upgrading: the Sequence If not 159 9.1 Configurations enabling the readjustment to emerge 160 9.2 Components at play in this potential upgrading process 162 9.2.1 The components’ respective contribution 162 9.2.2 Interaction of these markers 164 9.3 Discursive and pragmatic effects linked to using such readjustments 165 9.4 Conclusion 170 Conclusion to Part 3 171 Part 4 Distancing Processes: Readjustments for Changing Viewpoint? 173 Introduction to Part 4 175 Chapter 10 Abandoning a First Enunciative Perspective: Examination of Anyway 177 10.1 Status of the marker anyway and questions raised 177 10.2 Overview of the different configurations of use 178 10.3 Principal hypotheses and putting into perspective 180 10.4 Typology of the uses of anyway 182 10.4.1 Distancing processes relating to an implicature 182 10.4.2 Distancing relating to a part of the propositional content 183 10.4.3 Distancing in relation to the status of a segment 184 10.4.4 Distancing in relation to an approached subject 184 10.4.5 Distancing in relation to the very act of communication 185 10.5 A specific readjustment: abandoning a perspective 186 10.6 Remarks on relating fixed phrases 187 10.7 Conclusion 189 Chapter 11 Disconnection and Renewed Stance: the Case of the Marker Now 191 11.1 Status of the marker now 191 11.2 Exploring the mechanisms in greater detail 192 11.2.1 The temporal use: interpretative adjustment and marking boundaries 193 11.2.2 The discursive use: a readjustment to be contextualized 195 11.3 The fundamental value of now and the conditions for readjustment to emerge 198 11.4 Conclusion 199 Chapter 12 The Fixed Phrase After all, or Reconsidering a Viewpoint 201 12.1 First characterization of after all and questioning 201 12.2 Reconsidering a point of view: manifestations 205 12.3 Which viewpoint is brought into question? 208 12.4 Configurations using after all and sequencing types 210 12.5 The fundamental value of after all: readjustment, in terms of enunciative perspective 214 12.6 Conclusion 216 Conclusion to Part 4 217 Part 5 Inserted Segments: Readjustments for Playing with Language? 219 Introduction to Part 5 221 Chapter 13 The Use of Metalinguistic Expressions: Readjustments With Rhetorical Aim 223 13.1 Questions raised by these expressions 223 13.2 First characterization 224 13.2.1 The metalinguistic dimension 224 13.2.2 A reflexive view centered on an element 225 13.3 Locating the target element 227 13.4 The mechanisms at play in readjustment 230 13.4.1 Partial opacification of the target element 230 13.4.2 The nature of the readjustment at work 231 13.5 Conclusion 236 Chapter 14 Readjustments in Parenthetical Form 239 14.1 Syntactical and enunciative characterization 239 14.2 Parameters that trigger the identification of readjustment 243 14.3 Discursive and pragmatic function of such readjustments 245 14.4 The difference between parentheses and dashes 249 14.5 The different types of non-coincidences motivating these readjustments 251 14.6 Conclusion 253 Chapter 15 Dialogical Readjustments: Structures in It is not that… 255 15.1 First approach and questioning 255 15.2 Syntactic characteristics of the construction 257 15.3 The value of the markers, the construction and its variants 262 15.4 Between the content and the wording: the nature of the readjustment at work 265 15.5 A dialogical readjustment 269 15.6 Conclusion 270 Conclusion to Part 5 273 Part 6 Readjustments Characteristic of Oral Discourse: Phenomena of Co-enunciative (Re)Structuring? 275 Introduction to Part 6 277 Chapter 16 The Sequence I mean: From “Gap Filler” to Readjustment Marker 281 16.1 Intended meaning and related issues 281 16.2 Types of use and interpretations 283 16.3 Self-interpretation and structuring 288 16.3.1 Macro-readjustments and organizing information 288 16.3.2 Micro-readjustments 290 16.4 Conclusion 292 Chapter 17 Readjustments Calling on the Co-enunciator: You know and You see 295 17.1 Compatibility with introducing readjustments 295 17.2 Detachment and meta-enunciative status 298 17.3 Different types of use and specificities of these readjustments 301 17.3.1 Uses outside the readjustment framework 301 17.3.2 Uses within the readjustment framework 303 17.4 Interpersonal dimension and enunciative construction in process 307 17.5 Conclusion 311 Chapter 18 Expectations of the Co-enunciator: the Use of Mind you 313 18.1 Observation of host configurations 313 18.2 Argumentative contexts linked to using the fixed phrase 316 18.2.1 Concessive anti-oriented linking 317 18.2.2 Refutative anti-oriented linking 317 18.2.3 Co-oriented linking 318 18.3 What fundamental value for mind you? 319 18.4 Parameters explaining the type of readjustment at work 323 18.5 Conclusion 325 Conclusion to Part 6 327 General Conclusion 329 Bibliography 335 Index 349
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Lexington Books Glossing Practice
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Key Terms in Discourse Analysis
Book SynopsisThis title offers a clearly written and comprehensive set of definitions of key terms in discourse analysis, a core area of all linguistics and language studies courses. Unlike many other areas of linguistics, Discourse analysis is a complex field to define, comprising a number of related but different theoretical and methodological frameworks. Discourse can mean many different things to different people. Students often find these multiple meanings to be confusing and this book attempts to spell out and reconcile the different approaches, to give a holistic picture of Discourse Analysis as a branch of several disciplines. As well as comprising a glossary of key terms, the book provides clear, illustrative examples, a section on key thinkers and their ideas, and key texts for further reading. This book is essential reading for students on linguistics, language studies and media and cultural studies courses who are engaging in discourse analysis. The Key Terms series offers undergraduate students clear, concise and accessible introductions to core topics. Each book includes a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in the area covered and ends with a guide to further resources.Trade ReviewStudents embarking on any form of discourse analysis will be grateful to have such a thorough, wide-ranging and scholarly resource to guide them through the complexities of the terms and ideas associated with the field. Baker and Ellece's impressively comprehensive and rigorously cross-referenced glossary of key terms of discourse analysis engages with a wealth of diverse frameworks and thinkers, acknowledging the methodological and theoretical breadth of Discourse Analysis as an analytical approach. Each entry is distinguished by illustrative examples, mostly taken from naturally occurring instances of language use, which both enliven the explanation and ground the reader's understanding in working illustrations of the terms or phenomena under discussion. An invaluable resource and 'must own' text for any discourse analysis student or researcher. -- Bethan Benwell, Department of English Studies, University of Stirling, UKTable of ContentsI. Introduction; II. Key Terms; III. Key Thinkers; IV. Key Texts; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Key Terms in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Book SynopsisThis title details the key terms, thinkers and texts in systemic functional linguistics. The field of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a social semiotic approach to language pioneered by M. A. K. Halliday, which has assumed a central importance in linguistics in recent years, anchored by a growing body of work. This book details the key terms, the key thinkers and the key texts in this field in an approachable, easy to understand and accessible manner. It is authored by leading names in the field and is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates studying linguistics and language studies. "The Key Terms" series offers undergraduate students clear, concise and accessible introductions to core topics. Each book includes a comprehensive overview of the key terms, concepts, thinkers and texts in the area covered and ends with a guide to further resources.Trade Review"This volume is a rich resource for anyone who wishes to find out how Systemic Functional Linguistics approaches the task of describing language, or to deepen their understanding of key concepts in SFL and the relationships between them. The book is no mere dictionary-type list of entries: there is a consistent and fully-justified emphasis on the central importance of understanding the place of each item in the overall architecture of the theory. This is highlighted not only through a network of cross-references to other entries but through a range of ingenious and effective visual representations of broader areas of the model. The stress on locating concepts in their wider context reflects the fundamentally systemic nature of the enterprise: grammatics (the theory of grammar) is treated in the same way as the grammar (the description of language or languages), as systems of interlocking choices. The book does not attempt to minimise the inherent complexity and extravagance of language, or the corresponding complexity and extravagance required in any adequate descriptive or theoretical account of language; but it establishes clear pathways through the complexity by shunting in an illuminating way between concise, lucid explanations of individual terms and impressively panoramic overviews of the systems in which these terms play a part. The picture that emerges from viewing SFL through the window of technical terms - "those meanings of the theory that have been lexicalised within the register or registers of that theory", as the Introduction puts it - is unexpectedly comprehensive and rewarding. This is a book that sets new standards of coverage, depth and coherence for glossaries of technical terms in any field." - Geoff Thompson is Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA TESOL at the School of English, University of Liverpool, UK‘A much-needed resource bringing together key terms from the broad theoretical and descriptive scope of SFL within a single work. Advanced students who are used to trawling through volumes will find this book indispensible: each entry provides an up-to-date definition and refers the reader to core works in SFL for fuller treatment, while the cross referencing between items will lead to many fruitful hours refreshing connections and discovering new ones.'- Dr Tom Bartlett, Centre for Language and Communication Research Cardiff University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; I. Key Terms; II. Key Thinkers; III. Key Texts; Bibliography; Index.
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Benediction Classics On the Art of Writing
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Maven Publishing The Little Red Writing Book
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Parlor Press Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motives, 1950-1955
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Parlor Press Searching for Latini
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De Gruyter Talk as Therapy: Psychotherapy in a Linguistic Perspective
Book SynopsisThe book is an empirical study of naturally occurring talk between psychotherapist and clients experiencing various anxieties and traumas that most of us recognize and can relate to. By relying on contemporary theories about sequential, situated discourse as well as drawing on “praxis” literature, it aims to investigate how psychotherapy as practice is contextually and interactionally accomplished. By scrutinizing patterns of language use, which reflect the core norms of the speech event of psychotherapy, it offers a unique look into the therapeutic dialogue at the micro level. The book presents a host of practical guidelines as to how to conduct ethnographic fieldwork at the (inter)professional research site in order to produce practically relevant findings. It also addresses the infiltration of therapeutic norms and strategies into new social contexts. Talk as Therapy is about disclosing one’s (usually) dysphoric experiences, clarifying and exploring them in the interactional here-and-now as well as focusing on their emotional aspects in the safety of the relationship with the therapist.
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Innovative Eggz LLC The Elements of Style
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Agincourt Press Savage Words
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Punctum Books Rhetorical Agency: Mind, Meshwork, Materiality, Mobility
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Institute of General Semantics The Unspeakable Level
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Editions L'Harmattan Langues et réseaux de communication. Usages et stratégies
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BoD - Books on Demand Lapposition est morte vive la phrase
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric,
Book SynopsisThis book takes a fresh look at Tolkien’s literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings. The authors study Tolkien’s use of words, style, narrative techniques, rhetoric and symbolism to highlight his status as literary artist. Dirk Siepmann uses a corpus stylistic approach to analyse Tolkien’s vocabulary and syntax, while Thomas Kullmann uses discourse theory, literary history and concepts of intertextuality to explore Tolkien’s literary techniques, relating them to the history of English fiction and poetry. Issues discussed include point of view, speeches, story-telling, landscape descriptions, the poems inserted into the body of the narrative, and the role of language in the characterization of the novel’s protagonists. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of literature, corpus linguistics and stylistics, as well as Tolkien fans and specialists. Trade Review“This work will serve as a valuable reference for the serious Tolkien scholar for many years to come, laying the groundwork for future studies into the artistry of Middle-earth.” (Sharon L. Bolding, Mythlore, Vol. 41 (1), October, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Tolkien as a Stylist: Key Words and Key Collocations.- Chapter 3: The Narrative Syntax of The Lord of the Rings.- Chapter 4: Points of View.- Chapter 5: Landscape Descriptions.- Chapter 6: Speeches and Declarations.- Chapter 7: Storytelling.- Chapter 8: Poems and Songs.- Chapter 9: Language and Character.- Chapter 10: Tolkien’s Position in Literary History.
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Palgrave Macmillan Alternatives in Grammar and Cognition
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction - Alternatives in grammar and cognition (Nicole Gotzner & Jesse A. Harris).- Part I: The online generation and selection of alternatives in context.- Chapter 2. Generating and selecting alternatives for scalar implicature computation: The Alternative Activation Account and other theories (Nicole Gotzner & Radim Lacina).- Chapter 3. Informational sources and discourse in the generation and maintenance of alternatives (E. Matthew Husband and Nikole D. Patson).- Chapter 4. Constructing alternatives: Evidence for the early availability of contextually relevant focus alternatives (Christian J. Muxica & Jesse A. Harris).- Part II: Operations on salient alternatives.- Chapter 5. Probing the probe: why inference tasks may inflate response rates for scalar implicature (Paul Marty, Jacopo Romoli, Yasutada Sudo & Richard Breheny).- Chapter 6. How to operate over alternatives: The place of the L*+H pitch accent among possible focus meanings (Alexander Göbel).- Chapter 7. Answerability Constraints on alternative-introducing salient sentences - Support from the evaluativity effects of only and from scalar implicatures (Yael Greenberg:).- Chapter 8. Any vs. or and indefinites vs. Modals (Sam Alxatib & Andreea Nicolae).- Commentary.- Chapter 9. Monotonicity, substitution sources, and the robustness of disjunct alternatives (Raj Singh).
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Springer Politeness Metapragmatics
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction. - Chapter 2: Politeness Metapragmatics.- Chapter 3: Politeness in Korean. - Chapter 4: Methodology. - Chapter 5: Analysis 1: Underlying principles and contextual applications. - Chapter 6: Analysis 2: Multimodal expression of politeness. - Chapter 7. Analysis 3: Individual case studies. - Chapter 8: Towards an integrated theory of im/politeness. - Chapter 9: Towards an emic metalanguage for Korean im/politeness.-Chapter 10: Conclusion.
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Springer Changing the Topic An Interactional Linguistics Analysis of Topic Flow in English Conversation
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Theoretical Background.- Chapter 2: From Theory to Practice.- Chapter 3: Yes/No Questions as Topic Proposing Strategies.- Chapter 4: WH-Questions as Topic Proposing Strategies.- Chapter 5: Topic-Eliciting Strategies.- Chapter 6: Successful Topic Negotiation.- Chapter 7: Trouble Spots and Abortive Topic Introductions.- Chapter 8: Action-Oriented Topic Introductions.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.- References.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Colours the Words Cast
Book Synopsis1. Prologue: aims of the study and structure of the book.- 2. Studying colour in poetry, with particular reference to the poems of Dylan Thomas.- 3. Corpus of poems and methodology.- 4. Accounts of symbolic associations of colours with other domains.- 5. Frequency data.- Part II: Chromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 6. Green.- 7. Red, blue and yellow.- Part III: Achromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 8. White.- 9. Black.- Part IV: The remaining colour terms.- 10. Secondary basic colour terms: brown and grey – but why not pink, purple or orange?- 11. Non-basic metonymic colour terms derived from the names of metals: gold(en) and silver.- 12. Summarising modification of basic colour terms and distribution of colour words among entity types.- 13. The use of more than one colour word in a poem.- 14. Epilogue: a kaleidoscope of colour.
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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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