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Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Author : Jochen Rehbein
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027219251
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (192 download)

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Book Synopsis Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse by : Jochen Rehbein

Download or read book Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse written by Jochen Rehbein and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual perspectives the focus of investigation is on the grammatical architecture of a number of linguistic devices that interconnect units of text and discourse. The volume is organized along central concepts: A general section deals with connectivity in language change and language acquisition, subdivisions are devoted to pronouns, topics and subjects, the role of finiteness in text and discourse, coordination and subordination and particles, adverbials and constructions. The editors' preface introduces connectivity as an object of linguistic research.

Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027278598
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse by : John Haiman

Download or read book Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse written by John Haiman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.

Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations

Author : Kurt Braunmüller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027288828
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations by : Kurt Braunmüller

Download or read book Convergence and Divergence in Language Contact Situations written by Kurt Braunmüller and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the consequences of converging and diverging processes and their development in language contact situations. It provides insights into the various forms of language contact and the conditions under which bilingual speakers master their every-day life in bilingual communities. Its nine contributions cover both theoretical and typological aspects, such as the classification of languages, the role of language contact, linguistic complexity and spontaneous speech innovations, and convergence and divergence processes in translation, (morpho)syntax and phonology/phonetics. Taken together, these studies provide challenges for linguistic theories that generalize from situations of monolingualism suggesting instead that a sound linguistic theory cannot be a theory for just one single, isolated language but must be a theory for at least two languages. It must also account for the fact that some structures involved in contact situations are not kept apart but develop in such a way that the distance decreases between the languages involved.

Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse

Author : Willis J. Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845142
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse by : Willis J. Edmondson

Download or read book Expressions, Speech Acts and Discourse written by Willis J. Edmondson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a pedagogic interactional grammar of English for teachers, as well as learners and experts of pragmatics and applied linguistics.

Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape

Author : Mine Güven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266964
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape by : Mine Güven

Download or read book Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape written by Mine Güven and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Turkish Linguistic Landscape provides in-depth analyses of different aspects of Turkish in the domains of phonology, morphology and syntax, discourse and language acquisition relevant to recent theoretical discussions. While some of the papers in the volume offer new analyses to known linguistic puzzles, others raise new questions which have not been addressed in the literature before. This collection of original articles written by colleagues and students of Prof. Eser Erguvanlı-Taylan, honoring her contribution to the field of linguistics, features articles on vowel reduction, consonant clusters, negation, conditionals, voice morphology, evidentiality, acquisition of irregular morphology, complementation and subordination in varieties of Turkish. It will be of interest to a wide audience ranging from theoreticians to typologists and is expected to generate further research on Turkish, as well as to contribute to the cross-linguistic literature on the issues addressed in the volume.

The Grammar Network

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498817
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar Network written by Holger Diessel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective

Author : Alessandra Barotto
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027254885
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective by : Alessandra Barotto

Download or read book Discourse Phenomena in Typological Perspective written by Alessandra Barotto and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at investigating discourse phenomena (i.e., linguistic elements and constructions that help to manage the organization, flow, and outcome of communication) from a typological and cross-linguistic perspective. Although it is a well-established idea in functional-typological approaches that grammar is shaped by discourse use, systematic typological cross-linguistic investigations on discourse phenomena are relatively rare. This volume aims at bridging this gap, by integrating different linguistic subfields, such as discourse analysis, pragmatics, and typology. The contributions, both theoretically and empirically oriented, focus on a broad variety of discourse phenomena (ranging from discourse markers to discourse function of grammatical markers, to strategies that manage the discourse and information flow) while adopting a typological perspective and considering typologically distant languages.

Grammar Connection 3

Author : Karen Carlisi
Publisher : Grammar Connection
ISBN 13 : 9781413008401
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Grammar Connection 3 written by Karen Carlisi and published by Grammar Connection. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse-based grammar presentation through readings and conversations offers natural language instruction and prepares learners for academic success.

Grammar Connection 2

Author : Richard Firsten
Publisher : Grammar Connection
ISBN 13 : 9781413008357
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Grammar Connection 2 written by Richard Firsten and published by Grammar Connection. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse-based grammar presentation through readings and conversations offers natural language instruction and prepares learners for academic success.

The Grammar of Discourse

Author : Robert Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461580188
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Discourse written by Robert Longacre and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While this volume is based on an earlier work, An Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976), the overall orientation of the present volume is distinctive enough to make it a new work. The former volume was essentially a half-way house to discourse. While including a chapter on discourse struc ture, it was not as a whole explicitly oriented towards con siderations of context. The present volume, however, strives to achieve a more consistently contextual approach to lan guage. A great deal of research and theorizing concerning discourse grammar or textlinguistics has characterized the past decade of linguistic studies. This recent work has, of course, influenced the present volume. In addition, my personal research in several areas has led to increased insistence on the indispensability of discourse studies. Crucial here was my direction of field workshops involving personnel of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, first in relation to languages of Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador (1974- 1975), and later in relation to languages of Mexico (1978). Of further relevance have been my own studies of narrative structure in Biblical Hebrew. Last but not least, is the stimulus and feedback which I have received from my graduate students (whose research is embodied in several theses and dissertations), especially Keith Beavon, Shin Ja Joo Huang, Larry Jones, Mildred Larson, Linda Lloyd, and Mike Walrod.

The Texture of Discourse

Author : Jan Renkema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027232660
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Texture of Discourse written by Jan Renkema and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this monograph is to give impetus to research into one of the central questions in discourse studies: what makes a sequence of sentences or utterances a discourse? The theoretical framework for describing the possibilities of discourse continuation is delineated by two principles: the discursive and the dialogic principle. The chord of discourse is unfolded in a tripartite wire: Conjunction, Adjunction and Interjunction, each containing three aspects, leading to a Connectivity Model. This new three-by-three taxonomy of discourse relations incorporates findings from several theories and approaches that have evolved over the last three decades, including Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetorical Structure Theory. In comparing this model to other models, this book presents a state-of-the-art of discourse relation analysis combined with detailed accounts of many examples. This monograph furthermore proposes a new way of presenting discourse structures in connectivity graphs followed by eleven commandments for the segmentation and labeling of discourse, and three procedures for disambiguation if more labels are applicable. This study can provide a base for corpus linguistic analysis on discourse structures, computational approaches to discourse generation and cognitive experimental research of discourse competence."

Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse

Author : Christopher S. Butler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902729223X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse by : Christopher S. Butler

Download or read book Functional Perspectives on Grammar and Discourse written by Christopher S. Butler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a tribute to Angela Downing, consists of twenty papers taking a broadly functional perspective on language, with topics ranging from the general (grammar as an evolutionary product, text comprehension, integrative linguistics) to particular aspects of the grammars of languages (Bulgarian, English, Icelandic, Spanish, Swedish). The more specific papers are sequenced according to Halliday’s division into ideational, textual and interpersonal aspects of the grammar, and cover a wide range of areas, including aspect, argument structure, noun phrase/nominal group structure and nominalisations, pronominal clitics, theme in relation to writing skills, discourse structures and markers, the role of attention in conversation, the functions of topic, phatic communion, subjectification, formulaic language and modality. A recurrent theme in the volume is the use of corpus materials in order to base functional descriptions on authentic productions. Overall, the volume constitutes a panoramic but nevertheless detailed view of some important current trends in functional linguistics.

English Grammar

Author : Talmy Givón
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027220999
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book English Grammar written by Talmy Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach to language and grammar that motivates this book is unabashedly functional; grammar is not just a system of empty rules, it is a means to an end, an instrument for constructing concise coherent communication. In grammar as in music, good expression rides on good form. Figuratively and literally, grammar like musical form must make sense. But for the instrument to serve its purpose, it must first exist; the rules must be real, they can be explicitly described and taught. This book is intended for both students and teachers, at college level, for both native and nonnative speakers. With the guidance of a teacher this book will serve as a thorough introduction to the grammar of English. Volume II continues with syntactic and communicative complexity: embedded clauses verb complements, relative clauses; detransitive voice passive, anti-passive, impersonal and middle voice, reflexive and reciprocal constructions; focus and topic constructions; nondeclarative speech acts. It closes with interclausal connectivity: conjoined and subordinate clauses, the grammar of discourse coherence, clause chains and thematic paragraphs.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World

Author : Martin J Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135261040
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World written by Martin J Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities in the region concerned, all continents and their respective regions are covered. The book will serve as an important tool to help widen the perspective on sociolinguistics to readers of English. Divided into sections covering: The Americas, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Middle East, and Europe, the book provides readers with a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field of sociolinguistics in each area. It clearly explains the patterns and systematicity that underlie language variation in use, as well as the ways in which alternations between different language varieties mark personal style, social power and national identity. The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World is the ideal resource for all students on undergraduate sociolinguistics courses and researchers involved in the study of language, society and power. English Language and Linguistics / Sociolinguistics

Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use

Author : Roel M. Willems
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042011
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use written by Roel M. Willems and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this book argue that we should study the brain basis of language as used in our daily lives.

Cohesion in literary texts

Author : Waldemar Gutwinski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311135217X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Cohesion in literary texts written by Waldemar Gutwinski and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse

Author : John Haiman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027228930
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse by : John Haiman

Download or read book Clause Combining in Grammar and Discourse written by John Haiman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally the study of syntax is restricted to the study of what goes on within the boundaries of the prosodic sentence. Although the nature of clause combining within a prosodic sentence has always been a central concern of traditional syntax (in GG, e.g. it underlies important research on deletion and anaphora), work within a discourse analysis framework has hardly been done. Analyses like this are given in the present volume.