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Book SynopsisThis book studies how Hungarian verbs can occur with implicit subject and direct object arguments in a complex approach. On the basis of the critical evaluations of the previous literature on implicit arguments, analyses of a wide spectrum of data from various direct sources, and theoretical explanations, all of which were supported by systematic metatheoretical considerations, it concludes that in Hungarian, verbs do not vary as to whether they can be used with implicit arguments or not, but they vary as to the manner in which they can occur with such arguments. In other words, they vary in terms of the lexical and grammatical constraints which are placed on them, and in what contexts they can be used with lexically unrealised arguments. Although the cognitive principle of relevance guides the licensing and interpretation processes of implicit arguments, the variety of their occurrences does not rest solely on the presumption of relevance but on the different lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic properties of Hungarian and its use, as well as on their various interactions. So, it is only by operating together that a grammar and an adequate pragmatic theory can account for the occurrences and identification mechanisms of implicit arguments.Table of ContentsAbbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Explanations of the Occurrence of Verbs with Implicit Arguments 3. Occurrences of Implicit Arguments in Hungarian 4. First (A) Manner: The Role of the Lexical-Semantic Representation of Verbs 5. Second (B) and Third (C) Manners: Grammatical Constraints and the Role of the Immediate Utterance Context and the Extended Context 6. Summary and Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThe 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning students. The book offers brief essays on more than 60 intriguing questions such as "What's the difference between a language and a dialect?" Can animals understand us?" "What causes foreign accents?" and "How is language used on social media?" These are conveniently organized into 12 topical areas that include What is Linguistics, Language and Thought, Language and Society, and Language and Technology, among others. Each essay is written by a leading authority in the specialization who offers succinct, insightful answers to questions that most of us have wondered about, with follow-up references to more in-depth reading on each question. The third edition adds new topics now at the forefront of linguistics and updates others, serving as an unrivaled introduction to the mysteries and intrigue of language. The third edition of this book was produced under the sponsorship of the Linguistic Society of America.

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Book SynopsisOur knowledge and understanding of organizations is both enabled and constrained by an invisible relationship of power that is embedded in the ways in which we act and speak. This book offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the vast field of organizational discourse analysis, the approach that studies organization as a linguistic phenomenon, and offers an original approach to investigate the relationship between materiality and discourse. Three original images of discourse are employed: discourse as a map, discourse as organizing and discourse as a mask. These metaphors are used as cognitive tools to highlight different implications and perspectives on discourse. The book critically compares and contrasts various linguistic-focused approaches to the study of organizations, and proposes the use of linguistic phenomena in connection with other methodologies. One section even offers an exemplification of the proposed approach to discourse analysis, presenting a map of discursive terrain, which plays a central role in the reproduction of local organizational and management discourses. This rich and approachable introduction is targeted at graduate and doctoral students, as well as non-specialist academics who want to familiarize themselves with the organizational discourse debate.Trade Review'Finally there is a book that explores the depths and contours of organizational discourse in a way that is simultaneously sophisticated and accessible. Marco Berti's achievement is to have canvassed a multitude of theoretical and methodological ways that discourse is deployed in the study of organizations, and to have distilled that into a comprehensive framework of metaphors. The result is a novel and valuable approach to organizational discourse analysis that synthesizes the field without sacrificing any of its complexity.' --Carl Rhodes, University of Technology Sydney, Australia'Research on organizational discourse has indeed become one of the most fruitful and interesting areas in the field of organization and management studies, and has not only improved our understanding of how communication works, but also helps to ''see'' how discourses shape reality. The book introduces three ''images'' of discourse with the purpose of both illustrating and enabling the emergence of new knowledge and meaning: organizational discourse as a map, as organizing and as a mask. Moreover it provides a concrete exemplification of an application of organizational discourse analysis: the global institution of business education. The heuristic potential of the approach is employed to critically describe a complex inter-organizational field of practices relevant to how we ''do'' society through discourses.' --Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Aim and Structure of the Book 1. Language and Organization 2. The Discourse of Organizational Discourse 3. The Power of Metaphors 4. Discourse as a Map 5. Discourse as Organizing 6. Discourse as Mask: Silence, Emptiness and Ambiguity in Discourse 7. Organizational Discourse Analysis in Practice: The Case of Business Education Discourse 8. References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book studies formal semantics in modern type theories (MTTsemantics). Compared with simple type theory, MTTs have much richer type structures and provide powerful means for adequate semantic constructions. This offers a serious alternative to the traditional settheoretical foundation for linguistic semantics and opens up a new avenue for developing formal semantics that is both model-theoretic and proof-theoretic, which was not available before the development of MTTsemantics. This book provides a reader-friendly and precise description of MTTs and offers a comprehensive introduction to MTT-semantics. It develops several case studies, such as adjectival modification and copredication, to exemplify the attractiveness of using MTTs for the study of linguistic meaning. It also examines existing proof assistant technology based on MTT-semantics for the verification of semantic constructions and reasoning in natural language. Several advanced topics are also briefly studied, including dependent event types, an application of dependent typing to event semantics.Table of ContentsPreface ix Chapter 1. Type Theories and Semantic Studies 1 1.1. Historical development of type theories 2 1.2. Foundational semantic languages 4 1.3. Montague’s model-theoretic semantics 6 1.3.1. Simple type theory: a formal description 6 1.3.2. Montague semantics: examples and intensionality 9 1.4. MTT-semantics: formal semantics in modern type theories 10 1.4.1. A glance at MTT-semantics 10 1.4.2. MTTs as foundational semantic languages: historical notes 13 1.4.3. Merits of MTT-semantics 17 Chapter 2. Modern Type Theories 23 2.1. Judgments and contextual mechanisms 24 2.2. Type constructors 28 2.2.1. Π-Types of dependent functions 28 2.2.2. Σ-types of dependent pairs 30 2.2.3. Disjoint union types, unit types and finite types 32 2.3. Universes 33 2.3.1. Prop and logical propositions 33 2.3.2. Universes in linguistic semantics 35 2.3.3. Tarski-style and Russell-style universes 37 2.4. Subtyping 38 2.5. Formal presentation of type theories with signatures 43 Chapter 3. Formal Semantics in Modern Type Theories 47 3.1. Basic linguistic categories 48 3.2. Several unique features of MTT-semantics 51 3.2.1. Common nouns as types 51 3.2.2. Subtyping in MTT-semantics 54 3.2.3. Judgmental interpretations and their propositional forms 60 3.3. Adjectival modification: a case study 65 3.3.1. Intersective adjectives 67 3.3.2. Subsective adjectives 69 3.3.3. Privative adjectives 71 3.3.4. Non-committal adjectives 72 Chapter 4. Advanced Modification 75 4.1. The data 75 4.2. Gradable adjectives 80 4.3. Gradable nouns 84 4.3.1. Gradable nouns as Σ-types 85 4.4. Multidimensional adjectives 86 4.4.1. Multidimensional adjectives: going more fine-grained 87 4.5. Adverbial modification 90 4.5.1. Veridicality 91 4.5.2. Event adverbs: manner, agent-oriented and speech-act adverbs 91 4.5.3. Domain, evaluative adverbs 95 4.5.4. Intensional adverbs 96 4.6. Final remarks on modification: vagueness 98 Chapter 5. Copredication and Individuation 99 5.1. Copredication and individuation: an introduction 100 5.2. Dot-types for copredication: a brief introduction 104 5.3. Identity criteria: individuation and CNs as setoids 108 5.3.1. Inheritance of identity criteria: usual cases of individuation 110 5.3.2. Generic semantics of numerical quantifiers 112 5.3.3. Copredication with quantification 113 5.3.4. Verbs plus adjectives: more on copredication with quantification 117 5.4. Concluding remarks and related work 119 Chapter 6. Reasoning and Verifying NL Semantics in Coq 127 6.1. Proof assistant technology based on MTTs 128 6.1.1. Mathematical proofs 128 6.1.2. Software verification 128 6.2. A linguist friendly introduction to Coq 129 6.2.1. Basics of Coq: types, sorts, functions 130 6.2.2. The proof engine of Coq 132 6.2.3. Useful proof tactics in Coq 135 6.2.4. Inductive types and record types 139 6.3. MTT-semantics in Coq 142 6.3.1. Adjectival and adverbial modification 143 6.3.2. Copredication and individuation in Coq 146 6.3.3. Related work 149 Chapter 7. Advanced Topics 151 7.1. Propositional forms of judgmental interpretations: formal treatment 151 7.2. Dependent event types 157 7.3. Dependent categorial grammars 163 Appendices 173 Appendix 1. Simple Type Theory C 175 Appendix 2. Type Constructors 177 Appendix 3. Prop and Logical Operators in Impredicative MTTs 181 Appendix 4. And for Coordination 183 Appendix 5. Formal System LFΔ 187 Appendix 6. Rules for Dot-Types 191 Appendix 7. Coq Codes 193 References 209 Index 225

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Book SynopsisCritical Policy Discourse Analysis bridges the literature on critical discourse analysis (CDA) and critical policy analysis to provide a practical guide on how to combine these major approaches to critical social science. The volume gives a clear introduction to concepts and analytical procedures for critical policy discourse analysis. Utilising ten international case studies, the authors explain and critically reflect upon the methods and theories that they have used to successfully integrate CDA with critical policy studies across a diverse range of policy issues.Case studies are used to explore issues in economics, health, education, crisis management, the environment, language and energy policy. Analysing these through discursive methodological approaches in the traditions of CDA, social semiotics and discourse theory, this book connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of critical policy studies. This is an essential read for researchers wishing to practically combine methods of CDA with critical policy studies. It provides key insights for politics scholars looking to gain a more in-depth understanding of the impact and analysis of discourse.Contributors include: T. Bartlett, D. Caterina, M. Farrelly, S. Horrod, N. Montesano Montessori, J. Mulderrig, J.F. Palma Carvajal, M. Poutanen, M. Rieder, K. Savski, H. Theine 'An exciting, important and, above all, extremely useful collection of essays, offering excellent and practical guidance on how to conduct critical policy discourse analysis. Timely and highly recommended.' - Colin Hay, Sciences Po, France'Uncovering dominance and addressing learned helplessness is part of any effort to enact change, especially when faced with wicked problems. However, change agents are not always equipped to deal with that adequately. This volume presents methodology and examples of how to do so by connecting theory and practice, insiders and outsiders, and micro events and macro processes. It points to powerful ideas and subtle craft and will inspire not only scholars but also practitioners seeking to better understand and address the complexities involved.' - Hans Vermaak, Sioo, Twynstra and NSOB, the Netherlands'This fascinating and varied collection admirably achieves its aim of demonstrating the value of integrating critical discourse analysis with critical policy studies. In so doing, the Critical Policy Discourse Analysis enriches our understanding of policy discourse and sharpens our methodological means of doing so. Operating through a fascinating set of case studies that range from a study of Nokia through to Slovenian language policy, and looking at the production of ideas like ''competition'' and ''fiscal discipline'', the volume emphasises the meaning-making practices involved in the production and interpretation of policy. This is done through a detailed textual analysis of policy combined with innovative conceptual and methodological arguments. Maintaining a critical edge, the approaches gathered here all move from a normative study of discourse to an explanatory critique concerned with the role of social power and power relations.' - Jonathan Joseph, University of Bristol, UK'Finally, a very timely and useful volume which addresses scholars and graduate students in the Social Sciences, and - importantly - also policy makers as well as practitioners. The chapters illustrate how systematic interdisciplinary, in-depth textual analysis of policy documents, on the one hand, and of debates about policies, on the other, allow for an understanding and explanation of the complexity of policy processes and procedures in innovative ways.' - Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UKTrade Review'This is a significant contribution to the fields of critical discourse and critical policy studies. With a diverse selection of relevant contemporary policy issues, as well as explicit discussions of the methodological tools deployed and their connection to critical social theories, the book as a whole offers a valuable snapshot of the potential of integrated approaches, showing how they can enhance structurally-oriented policy critiques by grounding them in the specifics of discursive practices.' --Susana Martínez Guillem, University of New Mexico, US'This volume testifies to the productive encounter between Critical Policy Studies and Discourse Analysis. Accessible, informative and exhaustive, it presents model examples of discourse research in the area of policy research.' --Johannes Angermuller, The Open University, UK'By bringing together, in a highly innovative and informative way, up-to-date theory, detailed methodological guidance and well-documented empirical examples, Critical Policy Discourse Analysis is now the go-to book for everyone interested in the contribution of critical discourse analysis to policy studies. The book captures the enormous theoretical and methodological progress CDA has made over the last decade. It convincingly demonstrates that CDA should be part of the standard repertoire of policy analysis and a core topic of every policy studies curriculum.' --Hendrik Wagenaar, King's College London, UK and The University of Canberra, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing critical policy discourse analysis 1 Jane Mulderrig, Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Michael Farrelly 2 Text oriented discourse analysis: an analysis of a struggle for hegemony in Mexico 23 Nicolina Montesano Montessori 3 Analysing orders of discourse of neoliberal rule: health ‘nudges’ and the rise of psychological governance 48 Jane Mulderrig 4 The recontextualisation of higher education policy in learning and teaching practices: the discursive construction of community 73 Sarah Horrod 5 Advocacy NGOs in Chilean education policy-making: spaces of resistance or agencies fostering neoliberalism? 97 Juan Francisco Palma Carvajal 6 Business logics: co-option of media discourse by pro-market arguments in the case of Nokia in Finland 122 Mikko Poutanen 7 Analysing the representation of social actors: the conceptualisation of objects of governance 147 Michael Farrelly 8 ‘The billionaires’ boot boys start screaming’ – a critical analysis of economic policy discourses in reaction to Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century 169 Hendrik Theine and Maria Rieder 9 Historical ethnography of policy discourse: examining the genesis of a language strategy in Slovenia 193 Kristof Savski 10 Historical materialist policy analysis meets critical discourse analysis of practical argumentation: making sense of hegemony struggles in Italy’s crisis management 216 Daniela Caterina 11 Scaling the incommensurate: discourses of sustainability in the Western Isles of Scotland 242 Tom Bartlett 12 Concluding remarks on critical policy discourse analysis 264 Michael Farrelly, Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Jane Mulderrig Index 271

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Book SynopsisThis timely book details the theoretical and practical elements of political rhetoric and their effects on the interactions between politicians and the public. Expert contributors explore the issues associated with political rhetoric from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, linguistics, social psychology and communication studies. Investigating critical emerging topics, such as invited behavior, political public relations, artificial intelligence and 'chatbots', this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field. Empirical data gathered from around the globe facilitates comparison of the different structures, practices and effects of political rhetoric employed across various cultural contexts. Chapters examine what makes a speech effective, politicians' use of moral appeals in political advertising, political attacks on social media, and gender and emotion in political discourse. The Rhetoric of Political Leadership will be a key resource for scholars and students of political science, communication studies and social psychology, particularly those focusing on cross-cultural perspectives. It will also appeal to those working in leadership and politics that are seeking an in-depth understanding of the importance and use of discourse in the political arena. Contributors include: M. Asano, C.S. Ben-Porat, I.J. de Sousa, O. Feldman, A. Gayoso, M. Hameleers, I. Joathan, C. Johnson, M.A. Krasner, S. Lehman-Wilzig, F.P.J. Marques, B. Mendelski, M.S. Teer, A. Walter, J. WangTrade Review‘The Rhetoric of Political Leadership provides insight into both the rational and emotional attributes of political discourse more broadly and political rhetoric and their effects more specifically. The book is well-written and provides fascinating insight into political language, discourse and rhetoric from across the globe. It would be of interest to postgraduate students, scholars/researchers in the fields of linguistics, communication and politics who wish to understand the myriad of rhetorical techniques and tools that politicians use to persuade the public and the implications and impact on the audience. The key strengths of the book can be summarised as its reference to political discourse from a diverse range of contexts and countries, its dedicated section on social media discourse as well chapters which drew on multimodal discourse analysis.’ -- Neda Salahshour, Journal of Language and Politics'This volume is a must-read collection for scholars working in and across the fields of political science, social psychology, media communication and discourse studies. It does not only offer cutting-edge perspectives on rational and emotional attributes of political rhetoric, but also on their effects across a wide variety of societies and venues.' -- Anita Fetzer, University of Augsburg, Germany‘Cutting-edge analyses reveal how politicians use public self-presentations to recruit the loyalists who empower them, whether by voting or by oppressing. Both linguistic and paralinguistic behaviors are examined across a broad variety of cultures and languages, in both traditional and new media, and under both democratic and dictatorial institutions. Innovative methodologies and novel techniques uncover general patterns as well as peculiarities specific to particular national settings. Together the authors push the study of political communication to new frontiers.’ -- Richard Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles, US‘Ofer Feldman offers a comprehensive study of contemporary political communication that centers in key countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, China, Japan and others. The focus on politicians’ evocative communication promotes a fresh look at how leaders resort to persuasive techniques that allow content and style to secure adherents. The book’s international focus adds great insights to those interested in world political communication and expands readers’ understanding of the rise of populism as a rhetorical objective.’ -- Amos Kiewe, Syracuse University, US‘This volume contributes usefully to our growing understanding of political language as a form of strategic communication. The global range of the examples is admirable, reminding us that, while media platforms are increasingly international, meaning is still culturally specific.’ -- Stephen Coleman, University of Leeds, UK‘This book brings together a fascinating collection of special essays that illuminate the multiple roles of language in framing political issues, and in persuading others to support the proposals and decisions of political leaders. Case studies from selected countries, some rarely examined, explore how top political leaders use rhetoric strategies to mobilize the electorate, lead government, and to affect policy discourse and interventions. Anyone interested in the complex relationships between political rhetoric, leadership, and governance will find this book essential reading.’ -- Ken Kinoshita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, JapanTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: persuasive speaking and evoking political behavior 1 Ofer Feldman PART I PERSUASIVE LEADERSHIP: EMOTION, STYLE, AND IDENTITY IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARENAS 2 Gender, emotion and political discourse: masculinity, femininity and populism 16 Carol Johnson 3 What makes a speech effective? Netanyahu’s and Obama’s SPECtrum of Rhetoric Intelligences (SPEC/RI) in United Nations speeches 2009–2012 34 Michelle Stein Teer 4 Xi Jinping’s governance philosophy and language style: analysis of the Chinese leader’s speeches 53 Jianxin Wang 5 The French state of emergency: marginalization of the Muslim minority as a consequence of state self-legitimation 69 Bruno Mendelski PART II EVOKING BEHAVIOR: THE RHETORIC OF PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION, TELEVISED INTERVIEW, AND ELECTION CAMPAIGN 6 Battling for America’s soul: Donald Trump, invited behavior, and the midterm elections of 2018 86 Michael Alan Krasner 7 Political Public Relations (PPR) techniques: emotional input and output 104 Albina Gayoso 8 The rhetoric of broadcast talk shows in Japan: the art of equivocation as a political skill 139 Ofer Feldman 9 Politicians’ use of moral appeals in British political advertising 1983–2017 156 Annemarie Walter 10 Facial expressions in election campaign posters: the effect of smiling on winning political seats during the 2017 Japanese lower house election 172 Masahiko Asano PART III SOCIAL MEDIA DISCOURSE: POPULISM, NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNS, AND THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 11 They are lying to us! The rhetoric of direct communication by populist politicians and its effects on the electorate: evidence from the Netherlands 196 Michael Hameleers 12 Emotion, reason, and political attacks on Facebook : the use of rhetorical appeals in the 2014 Brazilian presidential race 214 Ícaro Joathan and Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques 13 Political discourse through artificial intelligence: parliamentary practices and public perceptions of chatbot communication in social media 230 Chen Sabag Ben-Porat and Sam Lehman-Wilzig Index 246

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book explores think tanks from the perspective of critical policy studies, showcasing how knowledge, power and politics intersect with the ways in which think tanks intervene in public policy.Expert contributors offer multidisciplinary analyses of the history of policy advice and expertise and highlight recent examples of how think tanks navigate public debates, political arenas and the backstage of decision-making. They provide an overview of historical developments in the emergence and evolution of think tanks and consider how current think tanks produce policy narratives and exercise influence through the power of ideas. Focusing on institutional structures and social forces, chapters explain how national and transnational think tank landscapes are organized and how think tanks shape knowledge production infrastructure in different governance contexts. The book concludes that evaluating this infrastructure is crucial for ensuring that policy discourse serves collective interests and inclusive policy learning in diverse democratic polities.This book's evaluation of the impact of think tanks on expertise, democracy and social justice, while utilizing rigorous empirical research, will be useful for scholars and students of public policy, political theory and public administration and management. It will also be beneficial for think tankers and policy analysts.Trade Review'Think tanks are ubiquitous today. This volume is a stellar contribution by showing how these organizations have evolved and adjusted to the post factual world where experts and policy knowledge is constantly contested. Even so, many think tanks have been able to penetrate policy advisory structures in countries around the world. But the contributors go further to delve into their organizational strategies that go beyond seeking to inform policy to reveal the way in which they wield power in shaping policy discourses and paradigms.' -- Diane Stone, European University Institute, Italy and International Public Policy Association, France'Critical Perspectives on Think Tanks offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the global reach of think tanks. Its incisive studies are a must-read, not only for scholars focused on this subject, but for anyone interested in the shifting interface between public policy and scientific reason. -- '– Thomas Medvetz, University of California, San Diego, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 An introduction to critical studies of think tanks 1 Julien Landry PART I THINK TANKS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF POLICY EXPERTISE 2 How advocacy tanks wrote the latest chapter in the history of political intellectuals 21 Guillaume Lamy 3 From private advice to public policy? The evolution of consultancy think tanks 37 Matthias Kipping PART II BROKERING ACCESS, MARKETING KNOWLEDGE 4 Democracy, civil society and the strategies pursued by think tanks in Mexico 58 Alejandra Salas-Porras 5 In the backstage of influence and ‘policy marketing.’ Collusive transactions and action-oriented knowledge at Epode European Network 79 Thomas Alam 6 An uphill battle: think tanks, Donald Trump and the war of ideas 97 Donald E. Abelson PART III DISCOURSE, POWER, INFLUENCE 7 Interplays of economic and knowledge power. Neoliberal think tank networks and the return and universalization of entrepreneurship 117 Dieter Plehwe 8 Think tanks and the turnaround of the right in Brazil 137 Juliana Hauck and Ciro Resende 9 Think tanks as governance entrepreneurs: institutionalizing human rights in ASEAN 157 Erin Zimmerman PART IV SPHERES OF TRUTH AND SYSTEMS OF KNOWLEDGE 10 Politics by the same means? Think tanks, polarization and the road to post-truth in the United States and Canada 177 Julien Landry 11 Widening the gap: US think tanks and the manufactured chasm between scientific expertise and common sense on climate change 196 Alexander Ruser 12 Towards an epistemic evaluation of think tank ecosystems: the case of epistemic justice 215 Andréanne Veillette, François Claveau and Amandine Catala Index

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Book SynopsisSynthesising diverse research avenues for politics, discourse, and political discourse, this cutting-edge Handbook examines the formative traditions, current theoretical and methodological landscape, and genres and domains over which political discourse extends.Drawing on rich and dynamic models in critical cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, metaphor analysis, context, and multimodality studies, leading scholars provide tools to analyse a broad range of traditional and modern genres of political communication. Taking a historical dive into formative traditions in political discourse, including rhetoric and social and poststructuralist theories, this Handbook revises these classical models of political communication against new empirical contexts to offer the most fruitful, objective, and universal methodologies to date. Examining propaganda, advertising, political speeches and election campaigns, this Handbook pays particular attention to newly arising genres and discourses which reflect the momentous changes in the public domain, fuelled by recent and developing events including the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia–Ukraine war.Drawing diverse insights from a wide array of disciplines, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of political theory, sociology, philosophy, linguistics, discourse analysis, and communication studies who are looking for innovative methodologies with which to analyse political discourse.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Political Discourse 1 Piotr Cap PART I FORMATIVE TRADITIONS 1 Language and politics, politics and language: democracy and demagoguery 6 Paul Chilton 2 Rhetoric as the art of persuasion in the Greek and Roman worlds 23 Sara Rubinelli 3 Niccolò Machiavelli: language, power and leadership 36 Anthony R. Brunello 4 From Marx to the Frankfurt School: discourse, ideology, and critical theory 50 Chad Kautzer 5 Poststructuralist theories: making space for a linguistic analysis of political discourse 66 Dirk Nabers 6 The French school of discourse analysis 79 Dominique Maingueneau 7 Laclau and Mouffe, Bourdieu, neo-liberalism, and the mass media 93 Jeremy F. Lane PART II METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS 8 Political discourse analysis and critical discourse studies: scope, relations, commitments 109 Patricia Dunmire 9 Language, space and politics 128 Bertie Kaal 10 Metaphorical framing in political discourse 145 Andreas Musolff 11 Context: theoretical analysis and its implications for political discourse analysis 164 Anita Fetzer 12 The analysis of discursive subjects 180 Johannes Angermuller 13 Narratives and storytelling processes in the analysis of political discourse 204 Anna De Fina 14 Propaganda theory and analysis 219 John Oddo 15 Multimodality toolkit for political discourse analysis: a focus on visual rhetoric 235 Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska and Agnieszka Kampka PART III DOMAINS AND GENRES 16 Political speeches: interactive and heteroglossic elements 251 Helmut Gruber 17 Parliamentary sessions: interlocking genres of law-making 266 Răzvan Săftoiu 18 Political advertising and election campaigns 288 Glenn W. Richardson Jr. 19 Media discourses of public participation 301 Jan Chovanec 20 Political discourse as institutional communication 317 Geert Jacobs, Thomas Jacobs and Sofie Verkest 21 Environment, climate and health at the crossroads: a critical analysis of public policy and political communication discourse in the EU 328 Cinzia Bevitori and Katherine E. Russo 22 Public policy discourse: anti-terrorism and migration 345 Maureen Duffy 23 Protocols of political forgiveness: forgetting and forgiving antisemitism in Greek right-wing politics 360 Salomi Boukala Index 374

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Book SynopsisDiscourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach.The book presents the key theoretical assumptions associated with a discursive approach and shows how to align them with the design of specific empirical studies. Cynthia Hardy also illustrates how data collection and analysis can be customized to suit the issues under investigation. By reviewing empirical settings that range from older workers to refugees, from businesses to voluntary organizations, from strategy making to inter-organizational collaboration, and from environmental regulation to chemical risk, the author shows the value and adaptability of this approach. Forward-thinking, the book concludes with a look towards the future challenges of the discursive approach, covering specific issues of resistance to and reflexivity in research on discourse.Demonstrating the importance of empirical work, data collection, and analysis, this book will be a useful guide on discursive approach for students of organization and management studies. It will also prove useful for researchers studying HIV/AIDS organizations, refugees, and environmental regulation, which are particularly focused on in the book.Trade Review‘How to Use a Discursive Approach to Study Organizations is a savvy and wonderfully practical book that demonstrates how researchers can generate rich understandings of contemporary organizational phenomena and societal challenges through discursive study. It combines accessible explanations of theory with first-hand insights and sage advice on how researchers might conduct empirical work and analysis with care and creativity. This is a book that the field has needed for a long time.’ -- Gavin Jack, Monash University, Australia'This book is a most welcome addition to the literature on organizational discourse. At once accessible and illuminating in its writing, it offers a practical and informative guide that will help to initiate newcomers into the field of organizational discourse and inspire old-timers. As one of the leading scholars of discourse in the field of organization studies, Cynthia Hardy has a fine-tuned sensitivity to the discursive construction of our organizational worlds. Her imaginative insights into organizational actors’ discursive moves and countermoves demonstrate the analytical potential of a discursive approach to study organizations.' -- Sierk Ybema, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands'At last we have a book that simultaneously explains and demonstrates the value of the discursive approach to the study of organizations. Cynthia Hardy has been a pioneer in organizational discourse analysis over the years and this book is a vivid demonstration of her talent as a prolific, insightful, and influential researcher. I can think of no better introduction to the main ideas and methods of the discursive approach in organizational research than this volume. In simple and attractive language, patiently and methodically, Cynthia Hardy shows the reader how to use the discursive approach. Insofar as language matters in organizational life, this book explains why and shows how to explore its effects systematically. Cynthia Hardy has offered a valuable toolkit to help us better understand and study how organizational phenomena are talked into existence through language. I am certain her book will further invigorate the discursive approach and this will be no small gain for the field.’ -- Haridimos Tsoukas, University of Cyprus, Cyprus and University of Warwick, UK‘Cynthia Hardy has written a superb text on organizational discourse studies. Using extensive empirical examples, she provides insightful discussions of discourse basics, levels of analysis, reflexivity, and materiality. Each chapter also contains vital methodological advice for the analyst. It is truly a must-read for both seasoned and novice scholars.’ -- Linda L. Putnam, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I BASICS 1. Theoretical underpinnings of a discursive approach 2. Understanding dominant discourses 3. Understanding discursive struggle 4. Understanding discursive change PART II LEVELS AND ISSUES 5. Using a discursive approach to study individual identities 6. Using a discursive approach to study organizational identities 7. Using a discursive approach to study organizational change 8. Using a discursive approach to study organizational fields PART III FUTURE CHALLENGES 9. The consumption of discourse 10. Resistance to discourse 11. Reflexivity in research on discourse 12. Materiality and discourse References Index

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Book SynopsisThis book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of different informal fallacies is central in the approach adopted by the authors, and they privilege the role of covert intentions as a frequent ingredient of manipulation. They also show how different speakers can use different subtypes of the same fallacy in a debate, and investigate the tension between the policy preferences and goals of politicians, and existing laws. The book has been written without jargon, all concepts and terminology from the field of linguistic pragmatics are clearly defined, and it is accessible to the interested layperson wishing to become familiar with manipulative techniques in political rhetoric.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Opposition to Amending the Constitution in a Congressional Debate in 1789.- Chapter 3: Edward Livingston’s Motion for Reconciliation with France in July 1798.- Chapter 4: Arguing for the Sedition Act in the Debate of July 5, 1798.- Chapter 5: Debating the Expulsion of Matthew Lyon in February 1799.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

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

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Book SynopsisFrom reviews: "Extremely readable... rare testimony of a period of the history of 20th century mathematics. Includes very interesting recollections on the author's participation in the formation of the Bourbaki Group, tells of his meetings and conversations with leading mathematicians, reflects his views on mathematics. The book describes an extraordinary career of an exceptional man and mathematicians. Strongly recommended to specialists as well as to the general public." --EMS Newsletter (1992)Table of ContentsI Growing Up.- II At the Ecole Normale.- III First Journeys, First Writings.- IV India.- V Strasbourg and Bourbaki.- VI The War and I: A Comic Opera in Six Acts.- Prelude.- Finnish Fugue.- Arctic Intermezzo.- Under Lock and Key.- Serving the Colors.- A Farewell to Arms.- VII The Americas; Epilogue.- Index of Names.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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