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Author : Jens S. Allwood
Publisher : Coronet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Foregrounding Background written by Jens S. Allwood and published by Coronet Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Z. Radman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230368069
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Knowing without Thinking written by Z. Radman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume devoted explicitly to the subtle and multidimensional phenomenon of background knowing that has to be recognized as an important element of the triad mind-body-world. The essays are inspired by seminal works on the topic by Searle and Dreyfus, but also make significant contribution in bringing the discussion beyond the classical confines.
Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803978454
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (784 download)
Download or read book Discourse as Structure and Process written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? The book stresses that both discourse and its mental processing have a social basis and can only be fully understood in relation to social interaction.
Author : Russell S. Tomlin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027286272
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Coherence and Grounding in Discourse written by Russell S. Tomlin and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to expand our understanding of the relation holding between discourse relations, cognitive units, and linguistic coding. The twenty contributions in this collection explore one or more of the following themes: How point of view, or the salience of information in discourse, affects the organizational coherence of text and discourse; the concept of cognitive and linguistic event and how events are reflected in text and discourse organization; the nature of linguistic coding of events and other kinds of significant information; and the cognitive bases or cognitive correlates of the linguistic organization of discourse.
Author : J. Renkema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027232212
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Discourse Studies written by J. Renkema and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Discourse Studies follows on Jan Renkema s successful "Discourse Studies: An Introductory Textbook" (1993), published in four languages. This new book deals with even more key concepts in discourse studies and approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Australian traditions. It provides a scientific toolkit for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature.Introduction to Discourse Studies is the result of more than twenty-five years of experience gained in doing research and teaching students, professionals and academics at various universities. The book is organized in fifteen comprehensive chapters, each subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. It includes 400 references, from the most-cited contemporary publications to influential classic works; 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts in the field; more than 100 thought-provoking questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for teacher-supported self-education; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for teachers to focus on specific topics of their own preference in their lectures.Jan Renkema is a member of the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of "Discourse, of Course" (2009) and author of "The Texture of Discourse" (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of "Introduction to Discourse Studies" was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Author : David Bruce Matthews
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Foregrounding and Backgrounding in Old East Slavic written by David Bruce Matthews and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Professor Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849207038
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Discourse as Structure and Process written by Professor Teun A. van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-02-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk?
Author : Jean-Marc Heimerdinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567057941
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Topic, Focus and Foreground in Ancient Hebrew Narratives written by Jean-Marc Heimerdinger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study breaks new ground in describing how various linguistic and pragmatic mechanisms affect both the form of the narrative clause and the arrangement of the grammatical elements. The various possible forms that a narrative clause can take are classified in terms of their 'topic-comment' and 'focus-presupposition', and it is argued that the way in which these are articulated dictates the word order in the clause. The outcome of the study demonstrates that the traditional binary distinction between foreground and background, based purely on verb forms, is inadequate. A new model is offered showing how foregrounding is achieved by exploiting cognitive structures or by using specific evaluative devices.
Author : Richard F. H. Polt
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300085242
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (852 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics written by Richard F. H. Polt and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics, first published in 1953, is a highly significant work by a towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy. The volume is known for its incisive analysis of the Western understanding of Being, its original interpretations of Greek philosophy and poetry, and its vehement political statements. This new companion to the Introduction to Metaphysics presents an overview of Heidegger's text and a variety of perspectives on its interpretation from more than a dozen highly respected contributors. In the editors' introduction to the book, Richard Polt and Gregory Fried alert readers to the important themes and problems of Introduction to Metaphysics. The contributors then offer original essays on three broad topics: the question of Being, Heidegger and the Greeks, and politics and ethics. Both for readers who are approaching Heidegger for the first time and for those who are studying Heidegger on an advanced level, this Companion offers a clear guide to one of the philosopher's most difficult yet most influential writings.
Author : Richard Shusterman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536648
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Thinking through the Body written by Richard Shusterman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics. Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, sexuality and the arts. Integrating Western philosophy, cognitive science and somatic methodologies with classical Asian theories of body, mind and action, these essays probe the nature of somatic existence and the role of body consciousness in knowledge, memory and behavior. Deploying somaesthetic perspectives to analyze key aesthetic concepts (such as style and the sublime), he offers detailed studies of embodiment in drama, dance, architecture and photography. The volume also includes somaesthetic exercises for the classroom and explores the ars erotica as an art of living.
Author : Paul Simpson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415281041
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Stylistics written by Paul Simpson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive introduction to literary stylistics offering an accessible overview of stylistic, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings - all in the same volume.
Author : Zuzana Toth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110626497
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Tense and Aspect in Italian Interlanguage written by Zuzana Toth and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expression of time is fundamental in communication and languages have developed a variety of means to encode temporal relations. When learning a new language, learners are often faced with the challenging task of discovering a new system of temporal relations. The present study investigates the development of tense and aspect marking in the interlanguage of L3 Italian learners enrolled in university language courses. It examines how the tense-aspect system develops in the interlanguage and how the acquisition process is shaped by factors such as the lexical aspectual value of the predicates and discourse grounding. The data indicate that both lexical aspect and discourse grounding influence the distribution of verbal morphology in the interlanguage. Semantically congruent pairings of lexical aspect, verbal morphology and discourse grounding are used more frequently and appropriately than less prototypical combinations. The acquisition process is also influenced by the learner’s L1, which was mostly German in the context of the present study. The study can be used as a guide for curricular decisions in language teaching, and for projecting further research on the development of tense-aspect marking in multilingual learners.
Author : Rob Pope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135696276
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Studying English (Pope) written by Rob Pope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Language degrees. Combining the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology, this is a freshly recast version of the highly acclaimed The English Studies Book. This third edition features: fresh sections on the essential skills and study strategies needed to complete a degree in English—from close reading, research and referencing to full guidelines and tips on essay-writing, participating in seminars, presentations and revision an authoritative guide to the life skills, further study options and career pathways open to graduates of the subject updated introductions to the major theoretical positions and approaches taken by scholars in the field, from earlier twentieth century practical criticism to the latest global and ecological perspectives extensive entries on key terms such as ‘author, ‘genre’, ‘narrative’ and ‘translation’ widely current in debates across language, literature and culture coverage of both local and global varieties of the English language in a range of media and discourses, including news, advertising, text messaging, rap, pop and street art an expansive anthology representing genres and discourses from early elegy and novel to contemporary performance, flash fiction, including writers as diverse as Aphra Behn, Emily Dickinson, J.M. Coetzee, Angela Carter, Russell Hoban, Adrienne Rich and Arundhati Roy a comprehensive, regularly updated companion website supplying further information and activities, sample analyses and a wealth of stimulating and reliable links to further online resources. Studying English Literature and Language is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference for anyone interested in the study of English language, literature and culture.
Author : Ian B. Turner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004699600
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The (In)Coherence of Divine Mercy written by Ian B. Turner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-10-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do texts of Scripture make sense or hold together as a unity? This question is especially germane to the Masoretic Text of Hosea, which is often seen as an unintegrated composition by some, or an artful literary whole by others. Such judgments often come without clear definitions and criteria for (in)coherence. This book brings descriptive clarity to this issue through a discourse analysis of cohesion and coherence in Hosea 12–14 based on Systemic Functional Linguistics. This study showcases the theme of divine mercy in Hosea 12–14 and gives readers tools for discourse-linguistic analysis of the Hebrew Bible.
Author : Suzanne Fleischman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292780903
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Tense and Narrativity written by Suzanne Fleischman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . Fleischman's book takes the study of medieval literature to new hermeneutic horizons. . . . Furthermore, through the use of sociolinguistics she connects the modern and medieval worlds in a way that will make the medieval world less alien to us, and thus her perspective gives us another means by which we can make medieval literature more relevant to our students. --Studies in the Age of Chaucer In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation for all narratological study, since it offers insight into how narratives are constructed in their most primary context: everyday speech. She uses a linguistic model designed for natural narrative to explicate the organizational structure of artificial narrative texts, primarily from the Middle Ages and the postmodern period, whose seemingly idiosyncratic use of tenses has long perplexed those who study them. Fleischman develops a functional theory of tense and aspect in narrative that accounts for the wide variety of functions--pragmatic as well as grammatical--that these two categories of grammar are called upon to perform in the linguistic economy of a narration.
Author : Nils B. Thelin
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902725012X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Verbal Aspect in Discourse written by Nils B. Thelin and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of growing insights into the universal temporal-semantic nature of aspectual distinctions, today's aspectology has broadened its attention from restrictedly event-defining functions of aspect on the sentence level towards its primary perspectival functions on the discourse/situation level. Hereby it attempts to relate these functions to each other in ways that stimulate consistently language processing on a more solid perceptual-conceptual and pragmatic basis. Reflecting in various ways this general tendency. The 13 papers collected in this volume are oriented to four fields of research: (1) Developmental properties of aspect and tense; (2) Ideo-pragmatic and conceptual-semantic correlates of aspect and the perspectival organisation of discourse; (3) Aspect, case and discourse; (4) and Aspect in literary discourse. The editor's Introduction gives a comprehensive survey of contemporary aspectology and its development towards a proper integration of discourse/situation conditions. Besides cross-linguistic considerations (including English), the languages analyzed specifically are Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, French and Finnish.
Author : Stefano Cotrozzi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567568385
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Expect the Unexpected written by Stefano Cotrozzi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph on biblical linguistics is a highly specialized, pragmatic investigation of the controversial question of "foregrounding"—the deviation from some norm or convention—in Old Testament narratives. The author presents and examines the two main sources of pragmatic foregrounding: events or states deviating from well-established schemata, structures of reader expectation that can be manipulated by the narrator to highlight specific "chunks" of discourse; and evaluative devices, which are used by the narrator to indicate to the reader the point of the story and direct its interpretation. Cotrozzi critiques the particular evaluative device known as the "historic present", a narrative strategy that employs the present tense to describe past event. He tests two main theories that support this device by using a cross-linguistic model of the historical present drawing upon a variety of languages. Cotrozzi ultimately refutes these theories with a thorough examination and detailed refutation. He concludes with a study of a particular Hebraic verb as a particular marker of represented perception, a technique whereby the character's perceptions are expressed directly from its point of view.
