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Book SynopsisBeyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the vast field of grammaticalization studies. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand, refine or even challenge current ideas on grammaticalization. All contributions, written by leading experts in the fields of grammaticalization and discourse markers, explore issues such as: the impact of Construction Grammar into language change; cyclicity as a driving force of change; the importance of positions and discourse units as predictors of grammaticalization; a renewed way of thinking about philological considerations, or the role of Experimental Pragmatics for hypothesis checking.Trade Review"To conclude, the volume constitutes a welcome addition to the literature on DMs and grammaticalization, discussing some theoretical aspects of both, but most of all providing a range of semantic reconstructions and insights into the sociolinguistic dynamics of grammatical change." - Bernd Heine, University of Cologne, in: Journal of Pragmatics 148 (2019), pp. 125-127Table of ContentsList of Figures, Graphs and Tables 1 Introduction  Salvador Pons Bordería 2 Modeling Language Change with Constructional Networks  Elizabeth Closs Traugott 3 Cyclic Phenomena in the Evolution of Pragmatic Markers. Examples from Romance  Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen 4 The Historical Path of eso sí as a Contrastive Connective  Ana Llopis Cardona 5 Grammaticalization, Distance, Immediacy and Discourse Traditions: The Case of Portuguese caso  David Gerards and Johannes Kabatek 6 Paragdimaticalization through Formal Ressemblance: A History of the Reinforcer bien in Spanish Discourse Markers  Álvaro Octavio de Toledo 7 New Challenges to the Theory of Grammaticalization. Evidence from the Rise of no obstante, no contrastante and no embargante  Mar Garachana 8 The Evolution of Temporal Adverbs into Consecutive Connectives and the Role of Discourse Traditions: The Case of Italian allora and Spanish entonces  Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga 9 Different Sensitivity to Variation and Change: Italian Pragmatic Marker dai vs. Discourse Marker allora  Piera Molinelli 10 Insubordination, Abtoenung, and the Next Move in Interaction. Main-Clause-Initial puisque in French  Ulrich Detges and Paul Gévaudan 11 Paths of Grammaticalization: Beyond the LP/RP Debate  Salvador Pons Bordería 12 On Argumentative Relations in Spanish: Experimental Evidence on the Grammaticalization of Cause-Consequence Discourse Markers  Inés Recio (), Laura Nadal and Óscar Loureda Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 1 Semantics contains a comprehensive overview of the semantic analysis of questions and their role in structuring discourse, next to a series of in-depth contributions on individual aspects of question meanings. The expert contributions offer novel accounts of semantic phenomena such as negation and biased questions, question embedding, exhaustivity, disjunction in alternative questions, and superlative quantification particles in questions. Some accounts are modelled in the framework of inquisitive semantics, whereas others employ alternative semantics, and yet others point to the discourse-structuring potential of marked questions. All contributions are easily accessible against the background of the general introduction. Together, they give an excellent overview of current trends in question semantics.Table of Contents1 Introduction  Klaus von Heusinger, Malte Zimmermann and Edgar Onea 2 Questions in Discourse: an Overview  Edgar Onea, Malte Zimmermann 3 Negation, Alternatives, and Negative Polar Questions in American English  Scott AnderBois 4 The *whether Puzzle  Floris Roelofsen, Michele Herbstritt and Maria Aloni 5 The English It-Cleft: No Need to Get Exhausted  Mary Byram Washburn, Elsi Kaiser and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta 6 Disjunction and Alternatives in Egyptian Arabic  Lauren Winans 7 Superlative Quantification Particles  Henk Zeevat Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. The in-depth studies discuss the effects of focus, questions and givenness in unalternative semantics, as well as the role of scalar particles, question-answer pairs and prosody from the perspective of Questions under Discussion. Two contributions compare the discourse-structuring potential of Questions under Discussion and rhetorical relations, whereas another adds a perspective from inquisitive semantics. Some contributions also look at understudied languages. Together, the contributions allow for a better understanding of question-related pragmatic and discourse-semantic phenomena, and they offer new perspectives on the structure of texts and discourses.Table of Contents1 Introduction  Malte Zimmermann, Klaus von Heusinger and Edgar Onea 2 Focus, Questions and Givenness  Daniel Büring 3 The Scalar Particle har’i in Ngamo (West Chadic)  Mira Grubic 4 Question-Answer Pairs in Sign Languages  Annika Herrmann, Sina Proske and Elisabeth Volk 5 Inferring Meaning from Indirect Answers to Polar Questions: the Contribution of the Rise-Fall-Rise Contour  Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Judith Tonhauser 6 Constructing QUD Trees  Arndt Riester 7 Underneath Rhetorical Relations: the Case of Result  Edgar Onea 8 Two Alternatives for Disjunction: an Inquisitive Reconciliation  Floris Roelofsen Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.Table of ContentsPreface Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data  Terttu Nevalainen, Carla Suhr and Irma Taavitsainen Part 1: Evidence from “Big Data” 2 Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics  Antoinette Renouf 3 Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design  Mark Davies 4 Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English  Lieselotte Anderwald 5 Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English  Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko Part 2: Evidence from “Rich Data”? 6 Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data  Thomas Kohnen 7 Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective  Tanja Rütten 8 Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions  Daniela Landert 9 Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence  Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider Part 3: Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? 10 Language Surrounding Poverty in Early Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth-century Perceived the Criminalised Poor  Tony McEnery and Helen Baker 11 An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English  Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Hannah Kermes, Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich 12 Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets  Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö 13 Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics  David Brett and Antonio Pinna 14 Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-genre Corpus Approach  Mikko Laitinen, Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw Indexe

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Book SynopsisEmbodiment in Cross-Linguistic Studies: The ‘Head’ edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk adds to linguistic studies on embodied cognition and conceptualization while focusing on one body part term from a comparative perspective. The ‘head’ is investigated as a source domain for extending multiple concepts in various target domains accessed via metaphor or metonymy. The contributions in the volume provide comparative and case studies based on analyses of the first-hand data from languages representing all continents and diversified linguistic groups, including endangered languages of Africa, Australia and Americas. The book offers new reflections on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change. The findings contribute to general research on metaphor, metonymy, and polysemy within a paradigm of cognitive linguistics.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Embodied Lexicon and the ‘Head’  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 1 Comparative Studies 1 ‘Head(s)’ in Portuguese: the Metaphor in European and Brazilian Portuguese  Aleksandra Wilkos and Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 2 On the Lexeme ‘Head’ in Zamucoan  Luca Ciucci 3 What the Grammaticalization of ‘Head’ Reveals about the Semantic Structure of a Language?  Zygmunt Frajzyngier 4 ‘Head’ in Some Non-Bantu Languages of the Oriental Province of DR Congo  Helma Pasch 5 “Head” as a Link of Embodiment in Chinese  Yongxian Luo 6 From Head to Toe: How Languages Extend the Head to Name Body Parts  Kelsie Pattillo 7 Metonymic Extensions of the Body Part ‘Head’ in Mental and Social Domains  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 2 Case Studies 8 The Conceptualization of HEAD among the Hausa Based on Verbal and Nonverbal Representation  Izabela Will 9 Semantics of Amharic ras ‘Head’  Abinet Sime 10 ‘Head’ Idioms in Turkish: Contrasts and Correlations  Filiz Mutlu, Aysel Kapan, Ali Yagiz Sen, Hilal Yıldırım-Gündoğdu and Aslı Göksel 11 ‘He Cracked His Head Feverishly’: Conceptualizations of HEAD and THINKING in Hungarian  Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 12 Semantic Extensions of tatini ‘Her Head’ and tati ‘His Head’ in Deni (Arawá)  Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho 13 Wulaya ‘Head’ in Yanyuwa  Alice Gaby and John Bradley Index

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Book SynopsisIn A Discourse Analysis of Galatians and the New Perspective on Paul, David I. Yoon outlines discourse analysis from the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics for analyzing Paul’s letter to the Galatians. From this analysis, he determines whether the context of situation better reflects the New Perspective on Paul, covenantal nomism, or a more traditional perspective, legalism. The first half of the book introduces the New Perspective on Paul and discourse analysis, followed by a detailed model of SFL discourse analysis with respect to register and context of situation. The second half is a discourse analysis of Galatians. This is the first monograph-length study to address the New Perspective on Paul from a linguistic approach, and will as such be of great interest to scholars of Pauline Studies, linguistics, and theology.Trade Review"Anyone employing discourse analysis in biblical studies should engage with this illuminating study" - Andrew Boakye, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament 42:5, 2020Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Part 1: Theory 1 An Introduction to the New Perspective on Paul  1 A Brief Survey of the New Perspective and Covenantal Nomism  2 Covenantal Nomism and Legalism  3 Conclusion 2 A Definition and Survey of Discourse Analysis  1 The Development of Discourse Analysis in Linguistics  2 Discourse Analysis in New Testament Studies  3 Conclusion 3 Introduction to SFL Discourse Analysis with Reference to Register  1 An Overview of SFL Discourse Analysis  2 Register and Context of Situation  3 Three Contextual Components of Register  4 Conclusion Part 2: Analysis 4 Mode Analysis of Galatians  1 Cohesion  2 Thematization  3 Prominence  4 Conclusion  5 Outline of Galatians 5 Field Analysis of Galatians  1 Transitivity Network  2 Lexis  3 Conclusion  4 Excursus: The Meaning of ἔργα νόμου: A Response to Dunn Considering Lexical Semantics and Case Semantics  5 A Brief Overview of Lexical Semantics  6 Case Semantics of the Genitive  7 Analysis of ἔργα νόμου in the Pauline Corpus  8 Conclusion 6 Tenor Analysis of Galatians  1 Speech Functions  2 Social Roles  3 Conclusion 7 A Summary and a Contextual Configuration of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians Appendix 1: Thematization in Galatians Appendix 2: Transitivity Network in Galatians Appendix 3: Speech Functions in Galatians Bibliography Author Index Scripture Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume proposes original semantic analyses on items marking grammatical aspect. The contributions deal with structurally divergent languages, setting to the fore some less studied forms coding aspect, revisiting or challenging certain conventionalized views on aspectual categories and shedding light on interactions between aspect and modality, another multifaceted semantic category. In doing so, the volume is intended to emphasize the diversity of aspectual systems and the fuzzy semantics of grammatical aspect and help the reader to make their own mind on a topic traditionally viewed as a subcategory of verbal aspect together with lexical aspect. Contributors are Denis Apothéloz, Trang Phan and Nigel Duffield, Galia Hatav, Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska, Stephen M. Dickey, Adeline Patard, Laura Baranzini, Jaroslava Obrtelova.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Semantics of Grammatical Aspect  Adeline Patard, Rea Peltola and Emmanuelle Roussel Part 1 News on Perfects 2 La surcomposition verbale et ses emplois en français  Denis Apothéloz 3 The Vietnamese Perfect: A Compositional Analysis  Tang Phan and Nigel Duffield Part 2 Issues on Perfectivity 4 Perfectivity and Reference-Time Building  Galia Hatav 5 Perfectivity and Atelicity: The Role of Perfective Aspect in Aspectual Composition  Jens Fleischhauer and Ekaterina Gabrovska Part 3 Aspect Meets Modality and (Inter)subjectivity 6 Subjectivity, Intersubjectivity, and the Aspect of Imperatives in Slavic Languages  Stephen M. Dickey 7 To the Roots of Fake Tense and Counterfactuality  Adeline Patard 8 Le « récit de récit » à l’ imparfait en italien : la piste évidentielle  Laura Baranzini Part 4 Grammatical Aspect Challenged 9 Discourse-Pragmatic Functions of Tense-Aspect Verb Forms in Wakhi  Jaroslava Obrtelova Index

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Book SynopsisPaul Thom’s book presents Kilwardby’s science of logic as a body of demonstrative knowledge about inferences and their validity, about the semantics of non-modal and modal propositions, and about the logic of genus and species. This science is thoroughly intensional. It grounds the logic of inference on that in virtue of which the inference holds. It bases the truth conditions of propositions on relations between conceptual entities. It explains the logic of genus and species through the notion of essence. Thom interprets this science as a formal logic of intensions with its own proof theory and semantics. This comprehensive reconstruction of Kilwardby’s logic shows the medieval master to be one of the most interesting logicians of the thirteenth century.Trade Review"Robert Kilwardby (d. 1279) was almost always of interest to medieval philosophers. This interest, however, has seldom been replicated by modern editorial initiatives, leaving our appreciation of the Oxford master’s intellectual profile incomplete, and perhaps uneven. We are aware of the different contributions that Kilwardby made to metaphysics and to the natural philosophy of his time, and we know that he was a dedicated and influential logician. We may even claim that Kilwardby was a fortunate logician, for he was one of the first scholars in the Latin West to read and to comment on the newly discovered books of Aristotle’s logic. This feature is greatly stressed in Paul Thom’s second book devoted exclusively to Kilwardby’s "science of logic", as described in the title.[...] Thom’s volume already stands as a great and inspiring work for the almost timeless interpretative potential he fairly attributes to Robert Kilwardby’s logic." Edit Anna Lukacs, in Speculum 96/1 , (January 2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations  Introduction  1Logic as Science and Art  1 The Evolution of Logic  2 The Art of Logic  3 Branches of the Science of Logic  4 The Science of Logic as Sermocinal  5The Science of Logic Distinguished from Other Content in the Organon  6 Kilwardby’s Writings on Logic  7 Aspects of Kilwardby’s Thought  8 Formalisation  2 The Logic of Terms: Categories and Complex Terms  1 The Categories  2 Complex Terms  3 Formal Language  4 Models  5 Theorems  3The Logic of Terms: Relations between Terms  1 The Predicables  2 Genus and Species  3 Differentia  4 Proprium  5 Accident  6 Formal Analysis  7 Formal Language  8 Models  9 Truth in a Model  10 Postulates  11 Theorems  4 The Logic of Statements: Assertoric Statements  1 Propositions and Statements  2 Assertoric Statements  3 Truth  4 Ut nunc assertorics  5 Simpliciter Assertorics  6 Natural simpliciter Assertorics  7 Opposition and Equipollence  8 Conversion  9 Non-Aristotelian Consequences among Assertorics  10 Formal Analysis  11 Theorems  5 The Logic of Statements: Necessity and Possibility Statements  1 Modal Statements  2 Necessity Statements  3 Possibility Statements  4 Formal Analysis  5 Formal Language  6 Models  7 Theorems  6 The Logic of Statements: Contingency Statements  1 Unampliated Contingencies  2 Kilwardby’s Examples  3 Ampliated Contingencies  4 Kilwardby’s Rules for the Truth of Ampliated Contingency Statements  5 Kilwardby’s Examples  6 Formal Analysis  7 Theorems  7 The Logic of Inferences: Consequences  1 Consequences According to the Relations between Terms  2 Formal Consequences  3Pure Rules of Consequence  4Rules of Consequence and Conversion  5Rules of Consequence and Opposition  6Rules of Consequence, Opposition and Repugnance  7Rules of Consequence and Possibility  8Rules of Consequence and Assertion  9Rules of Consequence and Denial  10Essential Consequences  11Essential Consequence and Essential Inseparability  12Syllogistic Consequences  13Formal Analysis  14Truth Conditions  15Postulates  16Theorems  8The Logic of Inferences: Assertoric Syllogisms  1Syllogistic Figures and Moods  2Reduction  3Perfection  4Being Said of All  5Families of Syllogism  6Principles, Validity, Perfectibility  7Mixed ut nunc / simpliciter Inferences  8Summary  9Formal Analysis  10Generative Rules  11Theorems  9The Logic of Inferences: Necessity Syllogisms  1Family 3. The LLL Family  2Principles for LL Premises  3Being Said of All  4Reduction  5Summary  6Family 4. The LXlL Family  7Principles for L / Xl Premises  8Being Said of All  9Inferences Related to the Perfect Syllogisms  10Reduction  11Summary  12Formal Analysis  13Theorems  10The Logic of Inferences: Contingency Syllogisms  1Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 3  2Unrestricted Syllogistic Conversion in Family 4  3Family 5. The Q’ Q’ Q’ Family  4Family 6. The QXlQ Family  5Family 7. The QLQ Family  6Formal Analysis  11The Logic of Inferences: Non-perfectible Inferences  1xq Premises  2Realised Modals  3Formal Analysis  4Envoi  References  Modern Author Index  Subject Index  Ancient an Medieval Author Index

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Book SynopsisHabakkuk is unique amongst the prophetic corpus for its interchange between YHWH and the prophet. Many open research questions exist regarding the identities of the antagonists throughout and the relationships amongst the different sections of the book. In A Discourse Analysis of Habakkuk, David J. Fuller develops a model for discourse analysis of Biblical Hebrew within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The analytical procedure is carried out on each pericope of the book separately, and then the respective results are compared in order to determine how the successive speeches function as responses to each other, and to better understand changes in the perspectives of the various speakers throughout.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction  1 Introduction 1  2 Previous Approaches to Habakkuk  3 Structural Divisions in Habakkuk  4 Conclusions and Chapter Outline 1 Methodology  1 Introduction  2 SFL Discourse Analysis: Framework  3 Discourse Analysis Using SFL: Methodological Steps  4 Conclusion 2 Habakkuk 1:2–11  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:2–4  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:5–11  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:2–4 and 1:5–11  5 Conclusions 3 Habakkuk 1:12–17  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 1:12–17  3 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:12–17 and 1:5–11  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 1:12–17 and 1:2–4  5 Conclusions 4 Habakkuk 2:1–2:2.2 and 2:2.3–2:6.2  1 Introduction  2 Habakkuk’s Narrative Aside in 2:1–2  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison of Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2 and 1:12–17  5 Comparison of Habakkuk 2:2.3–2:6.2 and 1:5–11  6 Conclusions 5 Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:20 (Part One)  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:8.2  3 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:9.1–2:11.2  4 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:12.1–2:14.1  5 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:15.1–2:17.2  6 Analysis: Habakkuk 2:18–20  7 Comparison of the Woe Oracles  8 Conclusions 6 Habakkuk 2:6.3–2:20 (Part Two)  1 Introduction  2 Global Analysis of the Woe Oracles as a Unit  3 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and YHWH’s Speech in Hab 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and Habakkuk’s Speech in Hab 1:12–17  5 Comparison of the Woe Oracles and YHWH’s Speech in Hab 1:5–11  6 Conclusions 7 Habakkuk 3 (Part One)  1 Introduction  2 Analysis: Habakkuk 3:2–19  3 Conclusions 8 Habakkuk 3 (Part Two)  1 Introduction  2 Comparison of Hab 3:2–19 with the Woe Oracles  3 Comparison of Hab 3 with YHWH’s Speech in Hab 2:2.3–2:6.2  4 Comparison between Habakkuk’s Speeches in 1:12–17 and 3:2–19  5 Comparison between Habakkuk’s First Speech (1:2–4) and Final Prayer (3:2–19)  6 Conclusions 9 Conclusions  1 Introduction  2 Review of Conclusions  3 The Register and Context of Situation of Habakkuk  4 Possibilities for Future Research Appendix A: Mode Charts Appendix B: Field Charts Appendix C: Tenor Charts Bibliography Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors

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Book SynopsisIn The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the many words in biblical Hebrew that refer to being silent, investigating how they are used in biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ben Sira. She also examines the tradition of interpretation for these words in the early versions (Septuagint, Vulgate, Targum, Peshitta), modern translations, and standard dictionaries, revealing that meanings are not always straightforward and that additional work is needed in biblical semantics and lexicography. The traditional approach to comparative Semitics, with its over-simplistic assumption of semantic equivalence in cognates, is also challenged. The surprising conclusion of the work is that there is no single concept of silence in the biblical world; rather, it spans multiple semantic fields.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction  1 What is Silence?  2 Silence in Modern Literature  3 Why Study Silence?  4 Silence in Biblical Hebrew Part 1 Restraint 1 חרשׁ  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Biblical References: Grammatical and Semantic Analysis  4 Extrabiblical References  5 Cognate Evidence  6 Conclusion 2 אלם  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Biblical References: Grammatical and Semantic Analysis  4 Translations and Versions  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Semantic Field  8 Conclusion 3 חשׁה  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Biblical References: Grammatical and Semantic Analysis  4 Translations and Versions  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Conclusion Part 2 Cessation 4 דמם/דום/דמה  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Grammatical Analysis  4 Semantic Analysis  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence and Post-biblical Hebrew  7 Conclusion 5 הס  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Grammatical Analysis  4 Semantic Analysis of Biblical References  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Onomatopoeia  8 Conclusion 6 שׁתק  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Grammatical and Semantic Analysis (Qal: Cease)  4 Versions  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Conclusion 7 סכת  1 Introduction  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Grammatical and Semantic Analysis  4 Translations and Versions  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Relation to Other Hebrew Roots  8 Conclusion Part 3 Related Meanings 8 Semantic Periphery of Silence 9 שׁקט  1 Distribution  2 Lexicographical Survey  3 Grammatical and Semantic Analysis  4 Versions and Translations  5 Extrabiblical References  6 Cognate Evidence  7 Conclusion and Semantic Field Conclusion  1 Distribution  2 Representation of the Semantic Field  3 Further Research Bibliography Index of Hebrew Words Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Literature Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers the first comprehensive study on the history of Middle Western Karaim dialects. The author provides a systematic description of sound changes dating from the 17th–19th-centuries and reconstructs their absolute- and relative chronologies. In addition, the main morphological peculiarities are presented in juxtaposition to Modern Western Karaim data. The textual basis for this historical-linguistic investigation is a critical edition of pre-1800 Western Karaim interpretations of Hebrew religious songs called piyyutim (149 texts altogether). The reason behind this choice is that some of these texts are among the oldest known Western Karaim texts in general, and that until now no study has brought the Karaim translation tradition in this genre closer to the reader.

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Book SynopsisThe Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the ‘logical’ rather than the ‘stylistic’ aspect of narratives within the range of current issues in the interdisciplinary study of narratives being conducted in linguistics, philosophy, literature, cognitive science, and Artificial Intelligence. The book quantitatively analyzes naturally occurring narratives randomly selected from the British National Corpus (BNC) as well as James Joyce’s (1882-1941) The Dead (1914) and Fredrik Backman’s (1981-) A Man Called Ove (2012). Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) is employed and enriched with the representations and interpretations of perspective/point of view, genre differences, coherence relations, and episodes, which are called in the book Perspectival DRT (PDRT).Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Part 1 Foundations 1 Introduction  1 Why the “Logic” of Narratives?  2 An Overview of the Book 2 Narrative Structure  1 Defining Narratives  2 The Temporal Interpretation of Narratives  3 Coherence 3 The Theoretical Toolkit  1 Dynamic Semantics  2 Discourse Representation Theory  3 Perspectival DRT Part 2 Timeline 4 Tense and Aspect  1 Tense in Narratives  2 Narrative Progression and Aspect  3 A PDRT Analysis of Tense and Aspect 5 The Pluperfect  1 Background  2 A Corpus Study of the Pluperfect in Narratives  3 A PDRT Analysis of the Pluperfect 6 The Progressive  1 Background  2 A Corpus Study of the Progressive in Narratives  3 A PDRT Analysis of the Progressive 7 Temporal Adverb Now  1 Background  2 A Corpus Study of Now  3 A PDRT Analysis of Now Part 3 Character 8 Free Indirect Discourse  1 Background  2 An Empirical Study of FID  3 A PDRT Analysis for FID 9 Indexicals  1 Background  2 An Empirical Study  3 A PDRT Analysis of Indexicals 10 Definite NP s  1 Background  2 An Empirical Study  3 A DRT Analysis of Definites 11 Expressives  1 Background  2 An Empirical Study of Expressives  3 A PDRT Analysis of Expressives 12 Conclusion  1 Summary  2 Linguistic Study of Narratives and Its Implications Appendix: Episode Structure of The Dead References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth account of the meaning of grammatical elements representing evidentiality in connection to modality, focusing on theoretical/formal perspectives by eminent pioneers in the field and on recently discovered phenomena in Korean evidential markers by native scholars in particular. Evidentiality became a hot topic in semantics and pragmatics, trying to see what kind of evidential justification is provided by evidentials to support or be related to the ‘at-issue’ prejacent propositions. This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of such evidentiality in discourse contexts in a broad range of languages such as American Indian, Korean and Japanese, Turkish and African languages over the world. In addition, an introduction to the concept of evidentiality and theoretical perspectives and recent issues is also provided.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction: Perspectives and Issues  Chungmin Lee and William McClure Part 1 Theoretical and Typological Perspectives on Evidentiality 1 Evidentiality and Information Source  Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald 2 A Possible Worlds Semantics for Cuzco Quechua Evidentials  Martina T. Faller 3 A Matter of Taste  Ezra Keshet 4 Evidence Type, Evidence Location, Evidence Strength  Lisa Matthewson 5 Testimony, Trust, and Evidentials  Elin McCready 6 A Hamblin Semantics for Evidentials and Evidential Questions  Sarah E. Murray Part 2 Issues on Evidentiality from Korean 7 Korean Evidentials and Epistemic Modals  Kyung-Sook Chung 8 Evidential Markers as Interactional Resources in Korean Conversation  Mary Shin Kim 9 The Nature of Evidentiality and Epistemic Modals: The Causal Event Structure  Iksoo Kwon 10 Evidentials: Nature, Interactions and Shiftability  Chungmin Lee 11 The Korean Pre-final Ending -te: A Historical Investigation  Ji-Young Lee 12 A Modal Account of ‘First Person’ Constraints on Evidential Sentences  Jungmee Lee 13 What Kind of (Doxastic) Alternatives Does the Korean Evidential -te Introduce (If It Does)?  Dongsik Lim 14 Evidential and/or Mirative Components of Some Verb Endings and Periphrastic Constructions in Korean  Jinho Park 15 Evidentiality in Korean  Jaemog Song Part 3 Evidentiality and Modality in Other Languages 16 Processing Evidentiality in Bilingualism and Aphasia: An Overview of Some Recent Studies on Turkish  Seçkin Arslan 17 Evidentials in African Languages  Robert Botne 18 Breaking the Illusion of Modality: Reclassifying Japanese darou  Marisa Nagano and William McClure 19 Epistemic Modality in Southeastern Tepehuan  Thomas Willett 20 Modal Particles yo/ne in Japanese  Kei Yoshimoto Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the backlash against Critical Race Theory, the Capitol insurrection, Trumpism, Twitter, and neo-Nazis have in common? This book delves deep into conservative social media and far-right extremist platforms to understand the revival and proliferation of far-right authoritarian populist discourses after Trump’s ascent to power. After the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the role social media have played in normalizing and promoting far-right populist authoritarianism, there is a renewed interest to study digital discursive aggression. Inspired by Critical Theory, Panayota Gounari masterfully uses Critical Discourse Studies to analyze social media data and articulate a discursive, pedagogical and historical project.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism 1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism  1 Introduction  2 A New Fascism?  3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism  4 Conclusion 2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework  1 Introduction  2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?  3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse  4 (Social) Media  5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization  6 Conclusion 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness  1 Introduction  2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)  3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill  4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally  5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration  6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions  7 Conclusion 4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project  1 Introduction  2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political  3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?  4 Moving Forward 5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness  1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’  2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History  3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization  4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021 Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021 Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally Index

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Book SynopsisWhat does the backlash against Critical Race Theory, the Capitol insurrection, Trumpism, Twitter, and neo-Nazis have in common? This book delves deep into conservative social media and far-right extremist platforms to understand the revival and proliferation of far-right authoritarian populist discourses after Trump’s ascent to power. After the January 6th Capitol insurrection and the role social media have played in normalizing and promoting far-right populist authoritarianism, there is a renewed interest to study digital discursive aggression. Inspired by Critical Theory, Panayota Gounari masterfully uses Critical Discourse Studies to analyze social media data and articulate a discursive, pedagogical and historical project.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction  1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism 1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism  1 Introduction  2 A New Fascism?  3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism  4 Conclusion 2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework  1 Introduction  2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?  3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse  4 (Social) Media  5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization  6 Conclusion 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness  1 Introduction  2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)  3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill  4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally  5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration  6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions  7 Conclusion 4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project  1 Introduction  2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political  3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?  4 Moving Forward 5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness  1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’  2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History  3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization  4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021 Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021 Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally Index

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Book SynopsisIn this monograph, Caroline Laske traces the advent of consideration in English contract law, by analysing the doctrinal development, in parallel with the corresponding terminological evolution and semantic shifts between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is an innovative, interdisciplinary study, showcasing the value of taking a diachronic corpus linguistics-based approach to the study of legal change and legal development, and the semantic shifts in the corresponding terminology. The seminal application in the legal field of these analytical methodologies borrowed from pragmatic linguistics goes beyond the content approach that legal research usually practices and it has allowed for claims of semantic change to be objectified. This ground-breaking work is pitched at scholars of legal history, law & language, and linguistics.

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Book SynopsisInteractions of Degree and Quantification is a collection of chapters edited by Peter Hallman that deal with superlative, equative and differential constructions cross-linguistically, interactions of the comparative with both individual quantifiers and event structure, the use of the individual quantifier ‘some’ as a numeral, and the question of whether the very notion of ‘degree’ is reducible to a relation between individuals. These issues all represent semantic parallels and interactions between individual quantifiers (every, some, etc.) and degree quantifiers (more, most, numerals, etc.) in the expression of quantity and measurement. The contributions presented here advance the analytical depth and cross-linguistic breadth of the state of the art in semantics and its interface with syntax in human language.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  Peter Hallman 2 Indeterminate Numerals and Their Alternatives  Curt Anderson 3 The Semantics of the Superlative Quantifier -Est  Barbara Tomaszewicz-Özakın 4 Quantification, Degrees and Beyond in Navajo  Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten and Elizabeth Coppock 5 Separate but Equal: A Typology of Equative Constructions  Jessica Rett 6 Compounded Scales  Alan Bale 7 From Possible Individuals to Scalar Segments  Roger Schwarzschild 8 Measuring Cardinalities: Evidence from Differential Comparatives in French  Vincent Homer and Rajesh Bhatt 9 Quantifying Events and Activities  Haley Farkas and Alexis Wellwood 10 Split Semantics for Non-monotonic Quantifiers in Than-Clauses  Linmin Zhang 11 Nominal Quantifiers in Than Clauses and Degree Questions  Nicholas Fleisher Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume edited by Tabea Ihsane focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” in its indefinite interpretation and of potentially corresponding bare nouns. It further deals with diachronic issues, such as grammaticalization and evolution in the use of “partitive articles”. The outcome is a snapshot of current research into “partitive articles” and the way they relate to bare nouns, in a cross-linguistic perspective and on new data: the research covers noteworthy data (fieldwork data and corpora) from Standard languages - like French and Italian, but also German - to dialectal and regional varieties, including endangered ones like Francoprovençal.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Glosses and Abbreviations 1 Introduction  Tabea Ihsane 2 The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties  Thomas Strobel and Elvira Glaser 3 Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns  Hagay Schurr 4 Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish  David Paul Gerards and Elisabeth Stark 5 Predicates of Personal Taste and Pancake Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French  Fabienne Martin, Janayna Carvalho and Artemis Alexiadou 6 Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages  Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 7 Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a Plural “Partitive Article” in French  Tabea Ihsane 8 A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance  Giuliana Giusti 9 “Partitive Articles” in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal—Old Questions and New Data  Elisabeth Stark and David Paul Gerards Index

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Book SynopsisA text usually provides more information than a random sequence of clauses: It combines sentence-level information to larger units which are glued together by coherence relations that may induce a hierarchical discourse structure. Since linguists have begun to investigate texts as more complex units of linguistic communication, it has been controversially discussed what the appropriate level of analysis of discourse structure ought to be and what the criteria to identify (minimal) discourse units are. Linguistic structure–and more precisely, the extraction and integration of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information–is shown to be at the center of text processing and discourse comprehension. However, its role in the establishment of basic building blocks for a coherent discourse is still a subject of debate. This collection addresses these issues using various methodological approaches. It presents current results in theoretical, diachronic, experimental as well as computational research on structuring information in discourse.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Structuring Information in Discourse: Topics and Methods  Israel de la Fuente, Anke Holler and Katja Suckow 2 Coherence and the Interpretation of Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns in German  Yvonne Portele and Markus Bader 3 Cleft Focus and Antecedent Accessibility: The Emergence of the Anti-focus Effect  Clare Patterson and Claudia Felser 4 Topics and Subjects in German Newspaper Editorials: A Corpus Study  Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede 5 Inferable and Partitive Indefinites in Topic Position  Klaus von Heusinger and Umut Özge 6 Projection to the Speaker: Non-restrictive Relatives Meet Coherence Relations  Katja Jasinskaja and Claudia Poschmann 7 Central Adverbial Clauses and the Derivation of Subject-Initial V2  Liliane Haegeman 8 Discourse Conditions on Relative Clauses: A Crosslinguistic and Diachronic Study on the Interaction between Mood, Verb Position and Information Structure  Marco Coniglio and Roland Hinterhölzl 9 What’s in an Act? Towards a Functional Discourse Grammar of Platonic Dialogue and a Linguistic Commentary on Plato’s Protagoras  Cassandra Freiberg

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Book SynopsisIn Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian rhetoric and dialectic, and integrates these in a formal dialogue semantic account using TTR, a type theory with records. Argumentation analysis and formal approaches to reasoning often focus the logical validity of arguments on inferences made in discourse from a god’s-eye perspective. In contrast, Breitholtz’s account emphasises the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context. This provides an analysis of interactions where interlocutors have access to different topoi and therefore make different inferences.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures 1 Micro-Rhetoric in Dialogic Interaction  1.1 Interaction Based Linguistics  1.2 Micro-rhetorical Linguistics  1.3 The Aristotelian Enthymeme  1.4 Topoi—the Warrants of Enthymemes  1.5 Linking Enthymeme and Topos  1.6 Aim and Outline of This Book 2 Enthymematic Reasoning and Pragmatics  2.1 Introduction  2.2 Presupposition  2.3 Conversational Implicature  2.4 Relevance Theory  2.5 Anti-inferentialism  2.6 Discourse Coherence  2.7 Summary 3 Enthymemes in Dialogue  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Using ttr to Analyse Interaction  3.3 Analysing a Simple Dialogue  3.4 Introducing Enthymematic Reasoning on the dgb  3.5 Summary 4 Analysing Enthymematic Dialogue  4.1 Enthymeme Elicited by Why?  4.2 Coordinating on Topoi  4.3 Summary 5 Participating in Enthymematic Dialogue  5.1 Enthymemes and Cognitive Load  5.2 Enthymemes and Dialogue Context  5.3 Conversational Games  5.4 The Suggestion Game  5.5 Analysing a Suggestion Dialogue  5.6 Summary 6 Rhetorical Reasoning in Dialogue  6.1 A Rhetorical Perspective on Non-monotonicity  6.2 Drawing on Topoi in Conversation  6.3 Acquiring Topoi in Interaction  6.4 Summary 7 Conclusions and Future Work  7.1 Conclusions  7.2 Future Work  7.3 Summary Appendix 1: Update Rules Appendix 2: Definitions References Index

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Book SynopsisA Conversational Analysis of Acholi elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and narrations. Despite common claims of universality regarding the structuring of human languages by previous authors, the study shows that some Acholi strategies differ from other languages. The verbal and non-verbal practices displayed give an in-depth insight into speakers’ cognitive participation during interaction. On the basis of in-situ research in Uganda, including the collection of rich audio- and video-material, this volume provides an innovative approach to language documentation and description and constitutes a thorough conversation analytic study of an African language.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Maps, Tables, and Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 About the Genesis of This Book and the Study It Comprises  1.2 Historical, Political and Linguistic Background: Northern Uganda and Acholi in Numbers, Graphics and Quotes  1.3 Acholi Preliminaries: Written and Spoken Language “Standards”  1.4 On Methodology, Ethics and Conventions 2 Framing Interaction  2.1 Action and Reaction  2.2 Framing and Context 3 Conversational Micro- and Macro-management  3.1 Starting from Scratch: Turns and Adjacency Pairs  3.2 Order and Action Before, After, and Within: Sequences  3.3 Dealing With Conversational Trouble: Repair and Overlaps  3.4 Saying It Again: Repetitions 4 Socio-pragmatics  4.1 About Politeness, Criticism, and Evaluation  4.2 Creating the Difference with Tiny Words: Pragmatic Markers  4.3 Depiction of Action: Ideophones  4.4 Ritual Interaction 5 Non-verbal Contributions to Conversation  5.1 Doing Things without Words: Depictive, Deictic and Emblematic Gestures  5.2 Non-verbal Action in Conversation: A Note on Paralinguistic Features  5.3 A Multimodal Approach: Structure and Action through Gesture, Gaze, and Body 6 A Multidimensional Conceptualization of Conversation Analysis in Acholi  6.1 Universal and Language-Specific Features  6.2 A Multidimensional Approach Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Experiential Verbs in Homeric Greek:.A Constructional Approach Silvia Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of construction variation with two-place verbs belonging to different sub-domains of experience (including bodily sensation, perception, cognition, emotion and volitionality) in the Homeric language. Traditionally, variation is ascribed to the independent meaning of cases that mark the second argument, and explanations have focused on properties of the latter. By taking a constructional approach, the author shows that construction variation also brings about differences in the conceptualization of the subject/experiencer by pointing to different degrees of control and awareness. Variation is then shown to reflect the embodied construal of experience along with the social dimension of emotions.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1.1 The Construal of Situations  1.2 A Construction-Based View of Homeric Greek  1.3 Embodiment and Domains of Experience  1.4 Homeric Greek  1.5 Outline of the Book 2 Experiential Situations  2.1 Experiential Situation Types  2.2 Semantic Roles of Participants in Experiential Situations  2.3 The Encoding of Experiential Situations Cross-linguistically  2.4 Discussion 3 Argument Structure Constructions in Homeric Greek  3.1 Properties of Constructions  3.2 Constructions and Construction Variation with Two-Place Verbs  3.3 Complementation in Homeric Greek  3.4 Discussion 4 The Ancient Greek Verb  4.1 Aspect and Tense  4.2 Voice  4.3 Discussion 5 At the Edges of the Experiential Domain: Bodily Sensations and Volition  5.1 Bodily Sensations  5.2 Volitionality and Need  5.3 Discussion 6 Perception  6.1 Visual Perception  6.2 Aural Perception  6.3 Other Types of Sensory Perception  6.4 From Perception to Evidentiality  6.5 Discussion 7 Cognition  7.1 Think  7.2 Know / Learn  7.3 Remember / Forget  7.4 Discussion 8 Emotions  8.1 Verbs of Emotion with the NomDat Construction  8.2 Verbs of Emotion with the NomGen Construction  8.3 Verbs of Emotion with the NomAcc Construction  8.4 Alternating Constructions  8.5 Dative Experiencer Constructions  8.6 Discussion 9 Causative Verbs  9.1 The (Anti)causative Alternation  9.2 Animate Verbs  9.3 Inanimate Verbs  9.4 Discussion 10 Concluding Remarks  10.1 The Meaning of Construction Variation with Experiential Verbs  10.2 Embodiment and Social Setting  10.3 The Encoding of Experiential Situations in Homeric Greek  10.4 Constructions’ Productivity  10.5 Verbal Voice  10.6 Outlook References Index

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Book SynopsisHow to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School offers a comprehensive introduction to the techniques used by the early Frankfurt School to study and combat authoritarianism and authoritarian populism. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the writings of the early Frankfurt School, at the same time as authoritarian populist movements are resurging in Europe and the Americas. This volume shows why and how Frankfurt School methodologies can and should be used to address the rise of authoritarianism today. Critical theory scholars are assembled from a variety of disciplines to discuss Frankfurt School approaches to dialectical philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, human subjects research, discourse analysis and media studies. Contributors include: Robert J. Antonio, Stefanie Baumann, Christopher Craig Brittain, Dustin J. Byrd, Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira, Panayota Gounari, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Imaculada Kangussu, Douglas Kellner, Dan Krier, Lauren Langman, Claudia Leeb, Gregory Joseph Menillo, Jeremiah Morelock, Felipe Ziotti Narita, Michael R. Ott, Charles Reitz, Avery Schatz, Rudolf J. Siebert, William M. Sipling, David Norman Smith, Daniel Sullivan, and AK Thompson.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Frankfurt School Methodologies  Jeremiah Morelock and Daniel Sullivan PART 1 Dialectics 1 When History Fails Us: Immanent Critique of Capitalism to the New Right and Beyond   Robert J. Antonio 2 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and Brazil   Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita 3 Capital Fetishism and the Authoritarian Personality: Critical Theory in the Weimar Years   David Norman Smith 4 Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation   Rudolf J. Siebert, Michael R. Ott, and Dustin J. Byrd PART 2 Psychoanalysis 5 The Dialectic of Unreason: Authoritarianism and the Irrational   Lauren Langman and Avery Schatz 6 Adorno and Freud Meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far- Right from a Psychoanalytic Critical Theory Perspective   Claudia Leeb 7 Marcuse and the Symbolic Roles of the Father: Someone to Watch over Me   Imaculada Kangussu 8 “Variation within a Single Paradigm”: The Latent Authoritarian Dynamics of the Culture Industry   Gregory Joseph Menillo 9 What Would Jesus Do? Christianity as Wish Image and Historical Bloc   AK Thompson PART 3 Human Subjects 10 Mobilization of Bias Today: The Renewed Use of Established Techniques; A Reconsideration of Two Studies on Prejudice from the Institute for Social Research   Peter-Erwin Jansen 11 From ‘False’ to ‘Reified’ Consciousness: Tracing the isr’s Critical Research on Authoritarianism   Daniel Sullivan 12 Franz Neumann’s Behemoth and Trumpism: Comprehending the Beast of Bad Government   Dan Krier 13 Donald Trump and the Stigmata of Democracy: Adorno and the Consolidation of a Religious Racket   Christopher Craig Brittain PART 4 Media Discourse 14 Siegfried Kracauer and the Interpretation of Films   Jeremiah Morelock 15 How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Adorno and Horkheimer   Stefanie Baumann 16 One-dimensional Social Media: The Discourse of Authoritarianism and the Authoritarianism of Discourse   Panayota Gounari 17 Applying and Extrapolating Prophets of Deceit: Heuristics of ‘Agitator’ Identification through Löwenthal and Guterman’s Analysis   William M. Sipling 18 Dialectical Images and Contemporary Times: Thinking Critically about Authoritarian Populism   Mariana Caldas Pinto Ferreira  Afterword   Douglas Kellner Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Martin Hilpert lays out how Construction Grammar can be applied to the study of language change. In a series of ten lectures on Diachronic Construction Grammar, the book presents the theoretical foundations, open questions, and methodological approaches that inform the constructional analysis of diachronic processes in language. The lectures address issues such as constructional networks, competition between constructions, shifts in collocational preferences, and differentiation and attraction in constructional change. The book features analyses that utilize modern corpus-linguistic methodologies and that draw on current theoretical discussions in usage-based linguistics. It is relevant for researchers and students in cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and historical linguistics.

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Book SynopsisVerbs of mental states or activity constitute a subject of considerable interest to both Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Typology. They promise to open a window on the invisible workings of the mind, while at the same time displaying a wide variety of historical sources across languages. In this book Michael Fortescue presents an innovative approach to the semantics and diachronic source of cognitive verbs across a representative array of the world’s languages. The relationship among the cognitive verbs of individual languages is essentially one of metonymy, and the book investigates in detail the specific metonymic relationships involved, as revealed largely by the polysemous spread of word meanings. The data is projected against a circular ‘map’ of interrelated cognitive categories.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Thinking in General 3 Understanding 4 Knowing 5 Believing 6 Remembering 7 Thinking about 8 Judging (Considering) 9 Calculating 10 Deciding 11 Guessing 12 Intending 13 Imagining 14 Expecting 15 Wishing 16 Emotional Feelings 17 Surprise 18 Experiencing (Feeling) 19 Perceiving (Noticing) 20 Recognizing 21 Full Circle 22 What a Surprise! A Closer Look at a Cinderella Category 23 The Cross-Linguistic Expression of Categories of Emotion 24 Seeming: An Odd One Out? 25 Guess: How a Single Category Can Involve All Others 26 Conclusions Sources for Languages Cited Appendix 1: A Sentimental Circle Appendix 2: Raw Lexical Data References Index

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Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the first volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part I: Conceptual Semantics Part II: Basic IssuesTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Foreword: A Taxonomy of Cognitive Semantics  Leonard Talmy 2 Introducing Cognitive Semantics  Fuyin Thomas Li Part 1 Conceptual Semantics 3 The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach  Cliff Goddard, Anna Wierzbicka, and Zhengdao Ye 4 Frame Semantics  Esraʾ M. Abdelzaher 5 Conceptual Semantics  Ronald W. Langacker 6 Embodied Semantics  Daniel Casasanto 7 Simulation Semantics: How the Body Characterizes the Mind  Nian Liu Part 2 Basic Issues 8 A Usage-Based Analysis of the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface  Mira Ariel 9 Encyclopedic Knowledge and Linguistic Meaning  Patrick Duffley 10 Meaning and Intersubjectivity  Magdalena Rybarczyk and Michael Stevens Pérez 11 Cognitive Semantics: Conceptualization, Identity (Politics), and the Real World  Peter Harder Appendix: Volumes Overview

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Book SynopsisSemantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form שָׁלוֹם‎. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and completeness form the basic semantic structure of שׁלם. Previous studies on שׁלם employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction  1 A Survey of Previously Conducted Research  2 The Semitic Cognates of שׁלם  3 Research Question  4 Limitations of Our Research  5 Outline of the Book 1 Methodology  1 Theoretical Question: Homonymy and Polysemy  2 Methodological Discussion  3 Illustration of the Methodology by Way of Examples  4 Specificity of the Present Study Vis-à-Vis Contemporary Semantic Studies 2 The שׁלם D Stem  1 To Give Back: To Reach a Balance (between Two Parties)  2 To Retribute: To Reach Balance (Involving Three Parties)  3 Retribution as Balance  4 Cruces Interpretum 3 The שׁלם G Stem  1 To Be Complete and To Be Finished  2 To Make an Alliance, To Be an Ally  3 Two Homonymous Verbs or One Polysemous Verb? 4 The שׁלם H Stem  1 To Make (Something) Complete / Finished  2 To Enter an Alliance (with Someone)  3 Observation on the Prepositions  4 Conclusion 5 Synthesis of the Semasiological Investigation of שׁלם  1 The שׁלם D Stem  2 The שׁלם G Stem  3 The שׁלם H Stem  4 A Unified Polysemous שׁלם  5 Relations between Stem-Formations  6 Comparison with the Semitic Cognates 6 Wider Perspectives  1 Research Results  2 Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of שׁלם  3 Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root שׁלם Conclusion  1 Semantic and Methodological Notes  2 Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the interface between morphosyntax and semantics-pragmatics in the domain of referential and quantificational nominal expressions. We present case studies from Romance and Germanic languages, dealing with both synchronic and diachronic aspects. Our aim is to empirically test, on the basis of comparative data, the most recent theoretical developments in the analysis of reference and quantification and to identify focal points for future research.Table of ContentsPreface List of Tables Notes on Contributors Abbreviations 1 Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way Ahead  Chiara Gianollo, Klaus von Heusinger and Maria Napoli 2 Definite Plural Generics in English: Evidence from De-adjectival Nominalization  Artemis Alexiadou 3 Quantification and Classification in Romance Plural Indefinites: From Number to Seinsart?  Mario Squartini 4 Topics and the Interpretation of Referential Null Subjects  Manuel Leonetti 5 Specificity and Questions of Specification  Edgar Onea 6 Being Bare: A Survey of Quantifier Positions  Cecilia Poletto 7 Indefinites as Fossils: The Case of wh-based Free Choice  Maria Aloni 8 The Evaluative Meaning of the Indefinite qualunque in (Old) Italian  Olga Kellert 9 Bare and Indefinite Nominal Predicates in the History of German  Svetlana Petrova Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThe volume explores the body part ‘eye’ as a source domain in conceptualization and a vehicle of embodied cognition. It includes in-depth case studies of languages situated in different cultural contexts in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Oceania. It also provides insights into cross-linguistic comparison of conceptualization patterns and semantic extension of the term ‘eye’ on various target domains. The contributions in the volume present a range of cultural models associated with the visual organ which take into account socio-cultural factors and language usage practices. The book offers new material and novel analyses within the subject of polysemy of body part terms. It also adds to studies on metaphor, metonymy and cultural conceptualizations within a cognitive linguistic paradigm.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Overview of the Volume  Melike Baş and Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 1 Crosslinguistic Studies 1 General Patterns in Semantic Expressions of the ‘Eye’  Kelsie Pattillo 2 Investigating Entities “Placed” in the Eye in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective  Małgorzata Waśniewska Part 2 Case Studies from Europe 3 The Moral Eye: A Study of Hungarian szem  Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 4 A Corpus Study of the Semantic Extensions of the Eye in Turkish  Melike Baş 5 Polish oko ‘Eye’ and Its (Quasi) Diminutive oczko: Semantic Extensions and Usage Patterns  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk Part 3 Case Studies from Asia 6 Metaphorical Mappings of ‘Eye’ in Chinese  Xiugui Qin and Yongxian Luo 7 Aankhon-aankhon me (‘In between the Eyes’): A Cognitive-Linguistic View of the ‘Eye’ Metaphors in Hindi  Suneeta Mishra 8 A Glance at the Mongolian Eye  Jan Rogala 9 Preliminary Study on ‘Eye’ in the Tibetan Language (with Reference to Literature)  Agata Bareja-Starzyńska Part 4 Case Studies from Africa 10 What Do eyes Mean to a Pullo? Body, Cognition and Cultural Conceptualization  Ahmadu Shehu 11 ‘Jicho kwa jicho’—‘iso ngeso’: A Comparative Study of ‘Eye’ Expressions in Swahili and Zulu  Rosanna Tramutoli Part 5 Case Studies from America 12 ‘Eye’ in the Zamucoan Languages  Luca Ciucci 13 Semantic Extensions of ‘Eye’ in Deni (Arawá)  Mateus Cruz Maciel de Carvalho Part 6 Case Studies from Oceania 14 Visual Perception in Doromu-Koki  Robert L. Bradshaw 15 Metaphoric Meaning Extensions and Expressions of ‘Eye(s)’ in Bena Bena  Carola Emkow Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is the relationship between spatial and temporal representations in language and cognition? What is the role of culture in this relationship? I enter this discussion by offering a community-based, cross-generational study on the community of speakers of aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Arabic, members of a Negev Desert Bedouin tribe in Israel. The book presents the results of ten years of fieldwork, the linguistic and cognitive profiles of three generations, and first-hand narration of a century of history, from nomadism to sedentarism, between conservation, resilience, and change. Linguistic and cognitive representations change with lifestyle, culture, and relationships with nature and landscape. Language changes more rapidly than cognitive structures, and the relationship between spatial and temporal representations is complex and multifaceted.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Reading Conventions Introduction 1 Aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Space and Time and a Linguist in the Field  1 General Overview  2 Negev Arabic: Tribes and Linguistic Varieties  3 The aṣ-Ṣāniʿ  4 The aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Narration of the Arab–Israeli Conflict: Šēḫ Ḥāğğ Ibrāhīm’s Daughters Speak  5 Ten Years among the aṣ-Ṣāniʿ  6 The Language Choice  7 Culture and Language of Sedentary and Bedouin Communities in the Arab World  8 Invisible Boundaries: Cultural and Linguistic Conservatism in a Bedouin Community  9 Linguistic Anthropology in the Middle East  10 Endangered Languages in the Middle East  11 The Fieldwork Experience  12 A Woman among the Bedouin  13 A Linguist, Not an Anthropologist 2 Basics of Space and Time  1 Spatial Domains and Spatial Relations: Terminology and Fundamentals  2 The Frames of Reference Terminology Adopted in This Book  3 Frames of Reference in Spatial Semantic Typology  4 Space and Time in Language and Cognition  5 Space in Cross-Cultural Perspective  6 Does Space Exist Everywhere?  7 Temporal Frames of Reference  8 Aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Space and Time: State of the Art and Aim of this Work  9 State of the Art of Spatial and Temporal Studies in Afroasiatic and Semitic 3 Society, Culture, and Methodology  1 A Culture in Decline: Gender Groups and Age Groups  2 Stimulus Selection: A Work in Progress  3 Toward a Culture-Based Methodology  4 Representing Entities in Scale: Implications of Using Toy Objects  5 Culturally Related, Previously Acquired, and Recently Acquired Objects  6 Practical Tools to Elicit Semantic Information  7 Methodology  8 The Interview: ‘Where is X in Relation to Y?’  9 The Tick Test  10 Other Experiments 4 Aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Space and Time: A Linguistic and Cultural Overview  1 Ayyām al-ʿArab: Ayyām al-Bilād: Spaces and Times in the Old Days  2 The Tent  3 Humans and Animals in the Domain of Space  4 Right and Left  5 ‘In Front’ and ‘Behind’  6 From Space to Time  7 The Inherent Partitions of Animals  8 Human and Animal Body Parts and Landmarks: An Experimental Approach  9 The Nose, the Belly, and the Back of the Mountain  10 The Wadi as a Landmark in aṣ-Ṣāniʿ and Jbāli Linguistic Representations  11 Semantics of Astronomical Directions: Within Negev Landscapes and Beyond  12 Cardinal Directions across Grammatical Categories  13 Polyframing of Cardinal References  14 The Traditional aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Horizons  15 Middle and Young aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Generations Confronted with Desert Spaces  16 Day and Night  17 The Seasons and the Activities Associated with Them  18 Cardinal Directions, Seasons, and Weather: A Cross-Cultural Survey on Naturalistic Metaphors from Arabia  19 Modern Times 5 The Intrinsic Frame of Reference across the Generations  1 Preliminaries  2 The Intrinsic Frame among the aṣ-Ṣāniʿ Elders  3 MAA and YAA Intrinsic Frame  4 Intrinsic Frame of Reference and Cardinal Directions in TAA  5 Hybrid Strategies of the Intrinsic Frame of Reference in TAA 6 The Relative Frame of Reference across the Generations  1 TAA Relative Frame of Reference: The Front–Back Axis  2 The Lateral Axis of the ALIGNED FIELD  3 Differences between TAA and Hausa Aligned Fields  4 TAA Relative Prepositional Strategies  5 The Culture and Philosophy of the TAA Traditional Ontology of Space  6 MAA and YAA Relative Frame of Reference  7 MAA and YAA Treatment of Ground-Sheep  8 MAA and YAA Lateral Axis  9 MAA and YAA Motion  10 Concluding Remarks 7 The Geocentric Frame of Reference across the Generations  1 TAA Geocentric Frame of Reference on a Small Scale  2 TAA Cultural Salience of Figure/Ground Interactions  3 TAA Absolute Frame of Reference and Axial Constraints  4 TAA Strategies for Absolute Frames of Reference: Contrastive Distribution  5 Absolute Frame of Reference in Motion  6 MAA and YAA Absolute Frame of Reference  7 A Note on Referential Polysemy in Prepositions 8 TAA, MAA, and YAA Cognitive Referential Framing  1 Space in Universalism and Relativism: Language-to-Cognition Correlation  2 Typologies of Referential Styles  3 Methodology of Cognitive Enquiry  4 TAA, MAA, and YAA Responses  5 Discussion 9 Temporal Cognition across the Generations  1 From Space to Time in Language and Cognition  2 Spatial Frames of Reference  3 Historical and Cultural Background  4 Methodology  5 Results  6 Discussion of the Temporal Data 10 Conclusions: Language, Thought, Culture, and Reality References Index

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Book SynopsisDigital discourse has become a widespread way of communicating worldwide, WhatsApp being one of the most popular Instant Messaging tools. This book offers a critical state-of-the-art review of WhatsApp linguistic studies. After evaluating a wide range of sources, seeking to identify relevant works, two major thematic domains were found. On the one hand, references addressing WhatsApp linguistic characteristics: status notifications, multimodal elements such as emojis or memes, language variation, among others. On the other, the volume offers an overview of references describing the use of WhatsApp to learn English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL). The author provides a broad critical review of previous works to date, which has enabled her to detect areas of research still unexplored.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Linguistic Characteristics of WhatsApp Communication  3 WhatsApp as a Language Learning Tool for EFL/ESL  4 Conclusion  Appendix 1. Studies on WhatsApp Linguistic Traits  Appendix 2. EFL/ESL Studies  References  Index

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Book SynopsisWhen I entered her shop, my friend turned to me and said: «Arà, che si dice?» (‘Hey there, how you doing?’). This was not a full-fledged sentence in Italian, as she had thrown a little Sicilian word in – arà. It was a greeting, of course, but also a way of expressing her surprise at seeing me there, and a way of prompting me to start our conversation. The fact she used Sicilian had a clear meaning too: the vernacular indicates a shared social identity. In a nutshell, this book analyses the cases of Sicilian arà and mentri to understand the complexity of discourse markers: what functions they perform, how they evolve historically, and what their social meaning is in a bilingual speech community.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 The Theoretical and Methodological Framework  1.1 Discourse Markers (DM s) as a Research Object  1.2 Methodology: Approach, Area, and Data of the Research 2 Synchronic Analysis  2.1 The Case of arà  2.2 The Case of mentri 3 Diachronic Analysis  3.1 The Evolution of DM s: General Issues  3.2 Reconstructing the Evolution of arà  3.3 Reconstructing the Evolution of mentri 4 Sociolinguistic Analysis  4.1 DM s and Language Contact in the Repertoire  4.2 DM s and Social Meaning in the Community Conclusion Appendix 1: List of Diachronic Sources Appendix 2: List of Transcription Symbols Appendix 3: Socio-demographic Information About the Speakers (cf. § 4.2.1) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe ‘face’ is the most identifiable feature of the human body, yet the way it is entrenched in language and cognition has not previously been explored cross-linguistically. This comparative volume continues the series on embodied cognition and conceptualization with a focus on the human ‘face’. Each contribution to this volume presents descriptions and analyses of how languages name the ‘face’ and utilize metonymy, metaphor, and polysemy to extend the ‘face’ to overlapping target domains. The contributions include primary and secondary data representing languages originating from around the world. The chapters represent multiple theoretical approaches to describing linguistic embodiment, including cultural, historical, descriptive, and cognitive frameworks. The findings from this diverse set of theoretical approaches and languages contribute to general research in cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, and onomastics.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Diagrams and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Kelsie Pattillo and Małgorzata Waśniewska 1 Cross-Linguistic ‘Face’ Expressions and Extensions  Kelsie Pattillo 2 Facts about ‘Face’ That We Ought to Face  Jan Henrik Holst 3 Face in Dene Languages  Conor Snoek 4 The Lexeme ‘Face’ in Languages of Northwestern Papua New Guinea: An Exploratory Study  José Antonio Jódar Sánchez 5 Synonyms of twarz ‘Face’ in Polish from a Cognitive-Linguistic Perspective  Małgorzata Waśniewska 6 The Concept of ‘Face’ in Nineteenth-Century Polish  Magdalena Derwojedowa and Magdalena Zawisławska 7 Constructions with lice (‘Face’) in Croatian: Lexico-Grammar and Cultural Models  Sanja Kiš Žuvela and Jelena Parizoska 8 Framing the Face: The Case of the Italian ‘faccia’  Maria Załęska and Giacomo Ferrari 9 The Embodiment of Emotions in Turkish Face Constructions  Melike Baş 10 Body Part Extensions with mặt ‘Face’ in Vietnamese  Annika Tjuka 11 The Cultural and Linguistic Conceptualizations of yeeso ‘Face’ in Fulfulde  Ahmadu Shehu 12 The Affordances of ‘Face’ in Dalabon, Gunwinyguan, Non-Paman-Nyungan, Australia  Maïa Ponsonnet Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the conceptualization of the ‘heart’ as it is represented in 19 languages, ranging from broadly studied to endangered ones. Being one of the most extensively utilised body part name for figurative usages, it lends itself to rich polysemy and a wide array of metaphorical and metonymical meanings. The present book offers a rich selection of papers which observe the lexeme ‘heart’ from diverse perspectives, employing primarily the frameworks of cognitive and cultural linguistics as well as formal methodologies of lexicology and morphology. The findings are unique and novel contributions to the research of body-part semantics, embodied cognition and metaphor analysis, and in general, the investigation of the interconnectedness of language, culture, cognition and perception about the human body.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations of languages Notes on Contributors Introduction: Cultural Conceptualizations of the Heart across Languages and Cultures  Judit Baranyiné Kóczy and Katalin Sipőcz Part 1 Cognitive Linguistic and Cultural Linguistic Approaches 1 Heart in the Kazakh Language  Saule Abdramanova 2 More Than Emotions: Cultural Conceptualizations of szív ‘Heart’ in Hungarian  Judit Baranyiné Kóczy 3 The Conceptualization of the Finnish sydän ‘Heart’  Bernadett Bíró and Anna Orava 4 Conceptual Metaphor Appearances in Near-synonymous Words: A Corpus-Based Examination on kalp and yürek ‘Heart’ in Turkish  Ayşe Eda Gündoğdu 5 Polish serce ‘Heart’: Usage Patterns and Cultural Conceptualizations  Iwona Kraska-Szlenk 6 The Role of Heart in the Conceptualization of Emotions in Udmurt  Rebeka Kubitsch 7 Culturally Embodied Conceptualizations of the Heart, with Special Reference to Tunisian Arabic  Zouheir Maalej 8 On the Linguistic Expressions of dil ‘Heart’ in Kurdish  Vahede Nosrati 9 Conceptualising the Heart in Yorùbá Cultural Contexts  Akin Odebunmi 10 The Sanctity of English ‘Heart’  Keslie Pattillo 11 My Heart Is Dancing with Joy: Cultural Conceptualisations of the Heart in Serbian  Diana Prodanović Stankić 12 The Conceptualizations and Semantic Extensions of Ɓernde ‘Heart’ in Fulfulde  Ahmadu Shehu 13 The Conceptualization of Mansi sim ‘Heart’  Katalin Sipőcz 14 The Heart in Buryat  Sándor Szeverényi and Bayarma Khabtagaeva Part 2 Lexicographic and Other Formal Approaches 15 Argentina, Eat Your Cows out! Lexical Substitution in English and Japanese Heart Idioms  Carey Benom 16 Heart in Ainu  José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 17 Psycho-Collocations with Ini ‘Heart’ in Teposcolula Mixtec  Lena Weissmann 18 Cor(Ação) Chained by Metonymy  Aleksandra Wilkos 19 The ‘Heart’ Is the Mind: the ‘Heart’-‘Mind’ Interaction in Chinese  Yi Tie and Yongxian Luo Index of Languages

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Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the second volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part III: Essential Concepts Part IV: Semantic Categories Part V: Methodology Part VI: Models and Schemas

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Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the third volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part VII: Space and Time Part VIII: Event Typology Part IX: Meaning Construction

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Book SynopsisCognitive semantics is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of meaning and mind. The Handbook of Cognitive Semantics is the first reference work in the field. Edited by Thomas Fuyin Li, with a detailed taxonomy of the field by Leonard Talmy, it provides an overview of the basic topics and recent developments. Since its origins, cognitive semantics has grown greatly in the range and depth of its research on conceptual structure in language. The Handbook shows that cognitive semantics has become a mature discipline that advances linguistic meaning to a central place in research on cognition. This is the fourth volume in a set of four. It contains the following parts: Part X: Force and Causation Part XI: Attention Part XII: The Targeting System of Language

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Book SynopsisWhat does the Chinese term xin 信 mean? How does it relate to the concept of faith in a Western sense? How far does it still denote “being trustworthy” in its ancient Confucian sense? When did major shifts occur in its long history of semantics that allowed later Christian missionaries to use the term regularly as a translation for the concept of believing in gods or God? This volume offers a broad picture of the semantic history of this Chinese term, throwing light on its semantic multi-layeredness shaped by changing discursive contexts, interactions between various ideological milieus, and transcultural encounters.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors Introductory Part: Western, Chinese, and Global Genealogies of Faith and xin 1 Introduction  Christian Meyer and Philip Clart 2 An Overview: a Short Genealogy of Faith in the Western History of Philosophy and Theology and a Chinese Perspective  Jiang Manke Part 1: Setting the Stage: Traditional Uses in Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist Contexts 3 A Trustworthy Companion: xin 信 as Component Term in Early Chinese Texts  Joachim Gentz 4 A Linguistic Analysis of the Different Functions of xin and Their Historical Development from Late Archaic to Middle Chinese  Barbara Meisterernst 5 An Inquiry into Conceptions of xin 信 in Early Medieval Daoism  Friederike Assandri 6 The Concept of Faith in Chinese Buddhist Scriptures  Tam Wai Lun 7 Japanese Buddhist Concepts of Faith (shin 信): the Postmodern Narrative of the Conceptual Hegemony of Western Modernity Reconsidered  Christoph Kleine 8 Convinced by Amazement—Creating Buddhist xin 信 (Belief/Trust) in the Biographies of Thaumaturge Monks (T. 2064)  Esther-Maria Guggenmos 9 Xin in Morality Books: An Overview  Vincent Goossaert Part 2: Early Channels of Transfer: Monotheistic Uses of the Term xin from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Century 10 From Trust in the Buddha to the Belief in the One God—xin as a Buddhist, Manichaean and Christian Concept in Early Medieval China  Max Deeg 11 Xin 信 in the Early Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Community  Nicolas Standaert 12 Theology, Ethics and Textual Sensitivity: the Multiple Notions of xin 信 in Chinese-Islamic Texts  Dror Weil Part 3: From the Christian Milieu to the Entry into the General Lexicon of Modern Chinese: Late-Qing to Republican Uses and the Role of Japan 13 Negotiating between Chinese Religious Beliefs and Christian Faith: Timothy Richard’s (1845–1919) Understanding of “Faith”/xin 信 and Approach to Comparative Religion  Thomas Jansen 14 From Missionary Doctrine to Chinese Theology: Developing xin 信 in the Protestant Church and the Creeds of Zhao Zichen  Chloë Starr 15 Shin 信 as a Marker of Identity in Modern Japanese Buddhism  Hans Martin Krämer 16 The (New) Buddhist Semantics of xin 信 in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Arguments from China and Taiwan  Stefania Travagnin 17 Religious Concepts and Evolutionary Theory in the Early Thought of Liang Qichao: from “Religion” via “Faith” to the “View of Death and Life”  Thomas Fröhlich 18 From Universal Faith to Religious Experience: Usages of xin in Early Chinese Religious Studies (zongjiaoxue)  Christian Meyer 19 “Our Believing in the Three People’s Principles Requires a Religious Spirit”: xin (yang) and the Political Religion of the Guomindang, 1925–1949  Thoralf Klein 20 Belief in the Dao, or Knowledge of the Truth? Contested Interpretations of “Xin/Xinyang” in Yiguandao Discourses  Nikolas Broy Part 4: Contemporary Usages in Special and Everyday Language Discourses in Mainland China and Taiwan 21 Xin in the Discourse on Conversion among Tzuchians in Shanghai  Huang Weishan 22 The Role of “Confidence” in the Gender Discourse of Buddhist Nuns* in Contemporary Mainland China: Learning xinxin 信心 to Become a Masculine Hero  Johanna Lüdde 23 Giving Credit Where Its Due: Thanksgiving as Performance of Belief in Chinese Popular Religion  Adam Yuet Chau 24 What China Is Missing—Faith in Political Discourse  Gerda Wielander 25 Epilogue: Reflections and Theses on the Semantic History of xin and Faith  Christian Meyer

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Book SynopsisWhat is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and items with a cultural meaning. It provides criteria for identifying these items by using detailed examples from theory and application. Finally, the two types of cultural semantics are applied to the case of modern Chinese. The criteria proposed for determining the Chinese cultural semantics apply not only to this, but also to other languages. Therefore, this book offers an operational basis for further studies of cultural semantics in academia.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Overview 1 Introduction  1.1 Why This Topic?  1.2 Literature Review  1.3 Research Questions  1.4 Disciplinary Significance  1.5 Research Methodology  1.6 Summary of Chapters 2 The Relationship between Semantics and Culture in One Language  2.1 Culture and Its Classifications  2.2 The Relationship between Language and Culture  2.3 The Relationship between Lexicon and Culture  2.4 Conclusion 3 Determining Conceptual Gap Items in a Language Lexicon  3.1 Introduction  3.2 “Cultural Words” – Too Many Uncertain Meanings  3.3 The Phenomenon of Conceptual Gaps  3.4 Conclusion 4 Determining Items with Cultural Meaning in a Language Lexicon  4.1 Introduction  4.2 The Study  4.3 Criteria for Determining Items with Cultural Meaning  4.4 Conclusion 5 Cultural Semantics Analysis Methods  5.1 The Cultural Sememe Analysis Method  5.2 The Cultural Seme Analysis Method  5.3 The Process of Cultural Semantic Analysis  5.4 Conclusion 6 Application 1 – a List of Conceptual Gap Items  6.1 Theoretical Background  6.2 The Nature and Function of Conceptual Gap Item Lists  6.3 The Relationship between Generic Items and Conceptual Gap Items  6.4 The Relationship between Generic Item Lists and Conceptual Gap Item Lists  6.5 Manual Intervention and Inclusion Criteria Issues of Conceptual Gap Items  6.6 The Process of Word List Development  6.7 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items – Grammatical Classification  6.8 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items: Cultural System  6.9 Sample List of Conceptual Gap Items: Core Conceptual Gap Items  6.10 Conclusion 7 Application 2 – Interpretative Analysis of Cultural Semantics in CFL Dictionaries  7.1 Background  7.2 Current Problems of Chinese Cultural Semantics Interpretation in CFL Dictionaries  7.3 Suggestions for Improving Annotation of Cultural Semantics in CFL Dictionaries  7.4 Conclusion Conclusion Primary Sources References Index

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Book SynopsisOur sense of agency and ability to distinguish between intentional and accidental actions are fundamental for social interaction. They allow us to plan and perform joint actions and assign responsibility for our own actions and those of others. Research on the nature of agency and intentions has been very fruitful over the last few decades in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. However, trully new discoveries could be made only when we engage in interdisciplinary discussions. This volume is the result of such discussions.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Agency in the English Way-Construction’s Constraints  Caterina Cacioli  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 The Way-Construction  3 Attributing Agency  4 Corpus Research and Analysis  5 Conclusions On Some Epistemic Access Effects  Francesco Costantini  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Subjunctive Obviation  3 Obviation and de se Attitude Reports  4 Epistemic Access as Source of Obviation  5 Other Expected Outcomes  6 Alternative Analyses  7 Concluding Remarks Two Semantic Paths to Unintentional Causation  Ömer Demirok  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Background on Un-agentive Constructions  3 Syntactic Contrasts  4 Interpretational Contrasts  5 Summary of the Claims and Remaining Questions Letting Structure Speak with Authority: Constraining Agents’ Choices with French laisser  Marta Donazzan, Clémentine Raffy, Bridget Copley and Klaus von Heusinger  Abstract  Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Theoretical Background  3 Characterising Authority as a Constraint on Choice  4 When Syntax Matters: Structural Constraints on Authority Relations  5 Conclusions  Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisL'anaphore est à la mode : il suffit de considérer le nombre d'études qu'on publie les derniers temps sur le sujet pour s'en convaincre. Par rapport à ce flot de publications, les études réunies dans ce recueil ont pour particularité de s'intéresser au rapport qu'entretient l'anaphore non pas avec la cohérence, mais avec l'incohérence. La première série d'études s'intéresse au pronom il lorsque celui-ci est employé pour désigner des référents en transformation (les référents évolutifs) ou pour marquer l'hétérogénéité discursive et les changements d'univers de croyance associés, et pose le problème de la notion de focalisation. La deuxième série concerne l'emploi anaphorique des syntagmes nominaux définis, dont le statut anaphorique même est remis en question. Leur interprétation est en effet plutôt indirecte, puisqu'elle exige la récupération d'un cadre. L'accessibilité de celui-ci dépend de facteurs cognitifs et argumentatifs. Les syntagmes sans nom et les syntagmes nominaux démonstratifs posent des problèmes particuliers à cet égard. La dernière série d'analyses porte sur les mécanismes anaphoriques qui sous-tendent les indéfinis (pronoms et adjectifs) même, autre, et tel, qui ont chacun leur fonctionnement anaphorique propre et qui imposent chacun des contraintes spécifiques sur les inférences nécessaires pour récupérer le contexte qui permet de les interpréter. Ce qui pose la question de la définition même de l'anaphore. Faut-il élargir la notion et considérer comme anaphoriques des phénomènes comme le redoublement clitique en bulgare? Ou faut-il au contraire la restreindre et distinguer l'anaphore d'autres types de relations (en l'occurrence la relativisation ou les rapports corrélatifs)? En dernière analyse, une réponse à ses questions engage la notion de cohérence. This volume is a collection of studies on pronominal and nominal anaphoric expressions. The central question of the volume is how anaphoric expressions contribute to the creation of textual coherence or, even, incoherence. It covers a range of French expressions, from pronomina as such to adjectives such as tel and même as well as nominal expressions. Specific types of anaphora studied include associative and evolutive anaphora, as well as the more formal semantic representation of anaphora. The volume thus finally poses the more general problem of the definition of anaphora as such and its relation with coherence more in particular.Trade Review”…einen sehr guten Überblick über die aktuelle französischsprachige Forschung zum Problem der Anapher.” in: Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur CX/3, 2000Table of ContentsWalter DE MULDER, Liliane TASMOWSKI-DE RYCK et Carl VETTERS: Introduction: relations anaphoriques et (in)cohérence. Georges KLEIBER: Anaphore nominale et référents évolutifs ou Comment faire recette avec un pronom. Marie-José REICHLER BÉGUELIN: Anaphores pronominales en contexte d'hétérogénéité énonciative: effets d'(in)cohérence. Henning NØLKE: Anaphoricité et focalisation: Le cas du pronom personnel disjoint. Bertrand GAIFFE, Anne REBOUL et Laurent ROMARY: Les SN définis: anaphore, anaphore associative et cohérence. Catherine SCHNEDECKER: A quelles conditions l'anaphore associative peut-elle être transitive? Quelques suggestions. Lita LUNDQUIST et Robert J. JARVELLA: Anaphores et échelles. Comment les inférences scalaires contribuent à la désambiguïsation référentielle. Jean-Marie MARANDIN: Une autre perspective sur la dépendance contextuelle des GN sans nom du français. Denis APOTHÉLOZ, Catherine CHANET et Marleen VAN PETEGHEM: Défini et démonstratif dans les nominalisations. Mécanismes anaphoriques sous-jacents aux indéfinis autre et même. Maria MANOLIU-MANEA: La pragma-sémantique de l'identité. Martin RIEGEL: Tel adjectif anaphorique: variable de caractérisation et opérateur d'abstraction. André ROUSSEAU: L'anaphorique en indo-européen: Faits, réflexions et hypothèses. Zlatka GUENTCHÉVA: Le phénomène de redoublement clitique est-il expression d'anaphore? Francis CORBLIN: L'anaphore en subordiantion modale. Anne REBOUL: (In)cohérence et anaphore: mythes et réalité.

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Table of ContentsSommaire: Préface. Bibliographie des travaux de Ronald Landheer. Paul BOOGAARDS et Johan ROORYCK: Ambiguïté et compréhension du langage. Crit CREMERS: Why pluralities don’t mean a thing. Dirk DELABASTITA: Aspects of interlingual ambiguity: polyglot punning. Gaétane DOSTIE: L’ambiguïté, la synonymie et l’implicite en lexicographie. Quelques observations à partir du champ sémantique ‘évidence’. Sjef HOUPPERMANS: Les Feux de Saint-Antoine. Theo JANSSEN: The semantics of Dutch moeten ‘must, should, have to’ from a typological and a relevance-theoretical perspective. Catherine KERBRAT-ORECCHIONI: L’ambiguïté en langue et en discours. Tineke KINGMA-EIJGENDAAL: Isotopie et “amphibiguïté” dans deux textes de Francis Ponge. Roselyne KOREN: Quand informer, c’est dire le blanc et le noir: quelques effets pervers de l’oscillation binaire... Alexandra KRATSCHMER: Petite typologie sémantique de certains contextes ambigus chez Bossuet et Montesquieu. Willy MARTIN: Lexical ambiguity and connotation. François RASTIER: L’hypallage – ou l’ambiguïté maintenue. Anne REBOUL: Represented speech and thought and auctorial irony: ambiguity and metarepresentation in literature. Josette REY-DEBOVE: De on à je vers le nom propre: des pronoms personnels en français. Annette SABBAN: A propos de l’ambiguïsation dans le discours. Charlotte SCHAPIRA: Vertigineuse incertitude: l’ambiguïté dans Alcools de Guillaume Apollinaire. Paul J. SMITH: The Melancholic Elk. Animal symbolism and linguistic ambiguity in Albrecht Dürer’s The Fall of Man (1504) and Aegidius Sadeleer’s Theatrum Morum (1609). Teresa TOMASZKIEWICZ: Ambiguïté des messages visuels. Wiecher ZWANENBURG: Ambiguïté catégorielle et affixation en indonésien.

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