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Download or read book Demonstratives written by Holger Diessel and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.
Book Synopsis Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese by : Yián Wu
Download or read book Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese written by Yián Wu and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an ecological environment for the observation of how their behavior fits into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages. The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of context in discourse comprehension.
Download or read book Demonstratives written by John Cleaves and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then just imagine what an animated exhibit will tell jurors about your case. According to legal technologist John Cleaves, that is what PowerPoint does: it helps you design dramatic courtroom demonstratives that not only illustrate your point but creates memorable images and animations that will stay in the minds of jurors in the deliberation room and beyond. If slideshows of bulleted lists are all you ever do with PowerPoint, then you’re missing out on what puts the power in PowerPoint. In the second edition of Demonstratives: Making Effective Graphics for Trial, you will learn, step by step, how to: Develop a consistent theme (or “brand”) throughout your demonstratives so they have their own “look and feel” that jurors can readily identify as your side of the case Create a variety of timelines that tell and “sell” your client’s story in the order it happened Make your important quotes, callouts, and “tear outs” look like they were created by a professional graphic artist Transform your data into graphs and charts that explain or analyze information in a clear way Insert photographs, videos, and animated GIFs into your slideshow to demonstrate who, what, where, and even how Add motion to the objects you create to bring to life traffic patterns, patent figures, equipment machination, and much more Design three-dimensional physical models, still lifes, and text that highlight volume, size, and spatial relationships among objects The book closes with everything you need to know to share your demonstratives in the courtroom: from the Federal Rules of Evidence you must consider to a checklist of audio-visual equipment to bring and tasks to complete once you are finally in the courtroom. Check out this video for a sample of what you’ll learn. With Demonstratives at your side, your exhibits will never be the same again.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives and Grammaticalization by : Metin Balpınar
Download or read book Demonstratives and Grammaticalization written by Metin Balpınar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction.
Book Synopsis The German Demonstratives by : Lin Lin
Download or read book The German Demonstratives written by Lin Lin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are considered, as well as their locative and temporal uses. The author observes that in both languages the demonstratives can be used to refer to referents. However, she departs from the common assumption that proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places close to the speaker, while non-proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places far from the speaker. Having analyzed a representative sampling consisting of a German text and a Chinese text, the author argues that both German and Chinese proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of HIGH DEIXIS in a system of DEIXIS in the Columbia School of linguistics framework, whereas their non-proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of LOW DEIXIS. In addition, Chinese demonstratives can be used under more circumstances than German demonstratives due to the lack of articles in Chinese. The author also argues that Cognitive Linguistic analysis is more helpful for new language learners, whereas the Columbia School of linguistics may be better suited to advanced learners who wish to know more about the intrinsic differences between words with similar meanings and uses. This book aims to help German learners better understand the German reference system. Readers with a Chinese language background will definitely benefit more from the book, as well as Chinese learners with a German language background. For pure linguistic enthusiasts and multi-linguals, the book offers an extensive introduction to the Columbia School of linguistics, and can open a new horizon for learning a new language comparatively.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by : Stephen C. Levinson
Download or read book Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstratives play a crucial role in the acquisition and use of language. Bringing together a team of leading scholars this detailed study, a first of its kind, explores meaning and use across fifteen typologically and geographically unrelated languages to find out what cross-linguistic comparisons and generalizations can be made, and how this might challenge current theory in linguistics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. Using a shared experimental task, rounded out with studies of natural language use, specialists in each of the languages undertook extensive fieldwork for this comparative study of semantics and usage. An introduction summarizes the shared patterns and divergences in meaning and use that emerge.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space by : Holger Diessel
Download or read book Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space written by Holger Diessel and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Demonstratives in discourse by : Åshild Næss
Download or read book Demonstratives in discourse written by Åshild Næss and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.
Book Synopsis Atypical Demonstratives by : Marco Coniglio
Download or read book Atypical Demonstratives written by Marco Coniglio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atypical demonstratives have not received adequate attention in the literature so far, or have even been completely neglected. By providing fresh insights and discussing new facets, this volume contributes to the better understanding of this group of words, starting from specific empirical phenomena, and advances our knowledge of the various properties of demonstratives, their syntactic multi-functionality, semantic feature specifications and pragmatic functions. In addition, some of the papers discuss different grammaticalization processes involving demonstratives, in particular how and from which lexical and morphosyntactic categories they originate cross-linguistically, and which semantic or pragmatic mechanisms play which role in their emergence. As such, the different contributions guide the readers on an adventurous journey into the realm of different exotic species of demonstratives, whose peculiar properties offer new exiting insights into the complex nature of demonstrative expressions themselves.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives in Interaction by : Ritva Laury
Download or read book Demonstratives in Interaction written by Ritva Laury and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years. The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of se and the two other Finnish demonstratives, tämä and tuo in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of se into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude by : Magdalena Rybarczyk
Download or read book Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude written by Magdalena Rybarczyk and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that the phenomenon of deixis be reexamined in the light of linguistic variation. The book illustrates a growing concern with the application of cognitive grammar to the study of situated language use and its social outcomes. What emerges is a new understanding of the role of deictic elements as tools for establishing intersubjective coordination and expressing attitudes. This book is for anyone actively seeking to understand how linguistic systems reflect human socio-cognitive abilities and in what ways reality is mediated through language.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries by : Dorian Roehrs
Download or read book Demonstratives and Definite Articles as Nominal Auxiliaries written by Dorian Roehrs and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the cartographic tradition, this monograph is concerned with the inner structure and derivation of noun phrases. It proposes that demonstratives and definite articles are similar to auxiliaries in the clause. Referencing mostly Germanic languages, the book argues that determiners are base generated below adjectives and subsequently move to the left periphery in a successive-cyclic fashion. Demonstrating that determiners are complex elements, it is proposed that languages vary with regard to when and what part of the determiner they move. This provides a novel account of the variation in the Scandinavian noun phrase. With various copies left behind by moving the determiner, the restrictive and non-restrictive readings of adjectives and relative clauses are suggested to follow from the interpretation of these different copies. The system is extended to the strong and weak adjective inflections in German. Proposing that determiners are auxiliaries in the nominal domain explains these apparently unrelated data in a uniform way.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives by : Daniel J. Bender
Download or read book Demonstratives written by Daniel J. Bender and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced litigators, trial consultants, and graphic designers, Demonstratives: Definitive Treatise on Visual Persuasion guides lawyers and consultants through the process of creating and using persuasive visuals, and includes over 300 color images as examples.
Book Synopsis Complex Demonstratives by : Jeffrey C. King
Download or read book Complex Demonstratives written by Jeffrey C. King and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to the orthodoxy, which shows that quantificational accounts are not only as effective as direct reference accounts but also handle a wider range of data.
Book Synopsis Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by : Stephen C. Levinson
Download or read book Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective written by Stephen C. Levinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.
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Book Synopsis Demonstrative Thought by : Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho
Download or read book Demonstrative Thought written by Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? Many philosophers have answered this question in terms of a sophisticated conception of space and time and the movement of objects therein. A more recent reaction against this view sought to explain this capacity solely in terms of perceptual mechanisms of object individuation. Neither explanation remains fully satisfactory. This book argues for a more desirable middle ground in terms of a pragmatist approach to demonstrative thought, where this capacity is explained through graded practical knowledge of objects. This view allows us to do justice to important insights put forward by both positions criticized in the book, while avoiding their potential shortcomings. It also paves the way to a more pragmatist approach to the theory of mental representation, where the notion of practical knowledge is allowed to play a central role in our cognitive life. Finally, it shows how practical knowledge may be firmly rooted in neurobiological processes and mechanisms that conform to what the empirical sciences tell us about the mind.
Book Synopsis Atypical Demonstratives by : Marco Coniglio
Download or read book Atypical Demonstratives written by Marco Coniglio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atypical demonstratives have not received adequate attention in the literature so far, or have even been completely neglected. By providing fresh insights and discussing new facets, this volume contributes to the better understanding of this group of words, starting from specific empirical phenomena, and advances our knowledge of the various properties of demonstratives, their syntactic multi-functionality, semantic feature specifications and pragmatic functions. In addition, some of the papers discuss different grammaticalization processes involving demonstratives, in particular how and from which lexical and morphosyntactic categories they originate cross-linguistically, and which semantic or pragmatic mechanisms play which role in their emergence. As such, the different contributions guide the readers on an adventurous journey into the realm of different exotic species of demonstratives, whose peculiar properties offer new exiting insights into the complex nature of demonstrative expressions themselves.
