Re Assessing Modalising Expressions

Download Re Assessing Modalising Expressions full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Re Assessing Modalising Expressions ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions

Author : Pascal Hohaus
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027260524
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions by : Pascal Hohaus

Download or read book Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions written by Pascal Hohaus and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically. Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.

A Systemic Functional Study of Modality in Modern Chinese

Author : Shu Yang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811680205
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Systemic Functional Study of Modality in Modern Chinese by : Shu Yang

Download or read book A Systemic Functional Study of Modality in Modern Chinese written by Shu Yang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic and relatively comprehensive account of the system of MODALITY in Modern Chinese and the functions that realizations of modality serve in the clause and clause complex. Grounded in SFL, the research begins by introducing the system of types of modality in Modern Chinese, investigating the subtypes of modality and their realizations. The study then explores the systems of Orientations that characterize the realization of modalization and modulation in Chinese. After establishing the complete system of modality in Modern Chinese, the research finally examines the functions that realizations of modality serve in the textual structure of the clause and in the clause complex. The study finds that the system of MODALITY is an important interpersonal clause system at the lexicogrammatical stratum of Chinese. There are two distinct types of modality in Chinese: modalization and modulation. Modalization concerns the assessment of probability of the proposition; modulation is concerned with the assessment of the proposal in terms of obligation, inclination, and ability. The systems of ORIENTATIONS make a basic distinction between subjective and objective modality, and between the explicit and implicit realizations. The research also reveals that in the thematic structure of the clause, realizations of modality can serve as the interpersonal Theme in the clause, in the information structure of the clause, realizations of modality can function as the unmarked information focus of the clause or introduce the marked information focus, and in the clause complex, realizations of modality can encode modal meanings and simultaneously construct clauses into a clause complex.

Models of Modals

Author : Ilse Depraetere
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311073415X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Models of Modals by : Ilse Depraetere

Download or read book Models of Modals written by Ilse Depraetere and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to). They therefore constitute excellent test ground to apply and compare different methodologies that can lay bare the factors that drive the speaker’s choice of modal verb. This book is not merely concerned with a purely grammatical description of the use of modal verbs, but aims at advancing our understanding of lexical and grammatical units in general and of linguistic methodologies to explore these. It thus involves a genuine effort to compare, assess and combine a variety of approaches. It complements the leading descriptive qualitative work on modal verbs by testing a diverse range of quantitative methods, while not ignoring qualitative issues pertaining to the semantics-pragmatics interface. Starting from a critical assessment of what constitutes the meaning of modal verbs, different types of empirical studies (usage-based, data-driven and experimental), drawing considerably on the same data sets, shows how method triangulation can contribute to an enhanced understanding. Due attention is also given to individual variation as well as the degree to which modals can predict L2 proficiency level.

Evidential Marking in European Languages

Author : Björn Wiemer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110726114
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Evidential Marking in European Languages by : Björn Wiemer

Download or read book Evidential Marking in European Languages written by Björn Wiemer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are evidential functions distinguished by means other than grammatical paradigms, i.e. by function words and other lexical units? And how inventories of such means can be compared across languages (against an account also of grammatical means used to mark information source)? This book presents an attempt at supplying a comparative survey of such inventories by giving detailed “evidential profiles” for a large part of European languages: Continental Germanic, English, French, Basque, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Modern Greek, and Ibero-Romance languages, such as Catalán, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. Each language is treated in a separate chapter, and their profiles are based on a largely unified set of concepts based on function and/or etymological provenance. The profiles are preceded by a chapter which clarifies the theoretical premises and methodological background for the format followed in the profiles. The concluding chapter presents a synthesis of findings from these profiles, including areal biases and the formulation of methodological problems that call for further research.

Different Slants on Grammaticalization

Author : Sylvie Hancil
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027252815
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Different Slants on Grammaticalization by : Sylvie Hancil

Download or read book Different Slants on Grammaticalization written by Sylvie Hancil and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on grammaticalization focuses on new theoretical and methodological challenges underpinning language change. It provides new approaches and insights deepening our understanding of the cognitive, pragmatic, and socio-cultural mechanisms that trigger the formation and the change of grammars. In this volume, grammaticalization is dealt with diachronically, synchronically and as a by-product of dialogic interaction. Another key feature of this book is language diversity; as it includes studies on language families ranging from Niger-Congo, Koreanic, Japonic, Sino-Tibetan to Germanic and Romance. The novel aspects of grammaticalization addressed are new slants on the fundamental debate about grammaticalization as expansion vs reduction; the grammatical formation of ideophones; the semantic domain of fear as a source and a trigger of grammatical change, and many other aspects of semantic and morphosyntactic development.

The Constructicon

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009327836
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Constructicon by : Holger Diessel

Download or read book The Constructicon written by Holger Diessel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of construction grammar, developed by Berkeley linguists in the 1990s, the constructicon is an inheritance network of taxonomically related grammatical patterns. However, recent research in usage-based linguistics has expanded the classical inheritance model into a multidimensional network approach in which constructions are interrelated by multiple types of associations. The multidimensional network approach challenges longstanding assumptions of linguistic research and calls for a reorganization of the constructivist approach. This Element describes how the conception of the constructicon has changed in recent years and elaborates on some central claims of the multidimensional network approach.

The Future of Teacher Education

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004678549
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Future of Teacher Education by :

Download or read book The Future of Teacher Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-first century processes, such as globalization and digitization, pose various challenges for primary, secondary, and post-secondary teacher education at both the formal and informal education levels. These challenges are addressed by innovators in the field of teacher education, i.e. teacher educators, pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, scholars and policy-makers. This edited volume explores future trends in three different spheres of teacher education: 1) pedagogies (emotive, reflective, cognitive, and didactic practices), 2) technologies (digital competencies, artificial intelligence in teaching, and the transformative potential of digital tools in intercultural learning), and 3) societies (multilingualism, attitudes towards literacies, societal polarization, and teacher shortages). The suggested innovations aim to bridge the gap between theory and practice by drawing upon the critical evaluation of theoretical approaches as well as the discussion of best practice examples. The chapters are situated in various countries, such as Vietnam, Canada, Argentina, Spain, Germany, the USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, and, as a transnational cooperation, Palestine and the UK. The Future of Teacher Education: Innovations across Pedagogies, Technologies and Societies considers various models of teacher education (e.g. reflective model, competency-based model, etc.) and applies a multitude of different research methods (e.g. didactic analysis of teaching material, thematic analysis of reflections, etc.).

Multilingual Global Cities

Author : Peter Siemund
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429873913
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Multilingual Global Cities by : Peter Siemund

Download or read book Multilingual Global Cities written by Peter Siemund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.

Building Modality with Syntax

Author : Camille Denizot
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110778521
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Building Modality with Syntax by : Camille Denizot

Download or read book Building Modality with Syntax written by Camille Denizot and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the intensive research carried out in recent years, modality remains an intriguing and challenging issue in linguistics. This book investigates modality from a syntactic viewpoint and with a bottom-up approach. A strong focus of the book is the interaction between the different linguistic tools that build modality (moods, modal verbs, modal adverbs, etc.), taking both the role of syntactic structure and the compositionality of modal meanings into account. The volume comprises corpus-based studies devoted to several syntactic aspects of modality in Ancient Greek, within different theoretical frameworks. The chapters shed new light on different modal categories (e.g. epistemicity, possibility, counterfactuality, evidentiality, subjectivity) and show how these modal meanings arise from the combination of different linguistic devices in specific syntactic contexts (e.g. combinations of modal elements, types of main and dependent clauses, types of illocutionary acts, etc.). By approaching modality from a different perspective and providing an up-to-date discussion of several aspects of modality, the book makes a significant contribution to current debates.

40th Clinical Aphasiology Conference

Author : Beth Armstrong
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135901449
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis 40th Clinical Aphasiology Conference by : Beth Armstrong

Download or read book 40th Clinical Aphasiology Conference written by Beth Armstrong and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics

Author : Klaus P. Schneider
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110431130
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics by : Klaus P. Schneider

Download or read book Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics written by Klaus P. Schneider and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.

Colouring Meaning

Author : Gill Philip
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027287236
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Colouring Meaning by : Gill Philip

Download or read book Colouring Meaning written by Gill Philip and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.

Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics

Author : Werner Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108861083
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics by : Werner Abraham

Download or read book Modality in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics written by Werner Abraham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we say things like 'If only we knew what he was up to!' Clearly this is more than just a message, or a question to our addressee. We are expressing simultaneously that we don't know, and also that we wish to know. Several modes of encoding contribute to such modalities of expression: word order, subordinating subjunctions, sentences that are subordinated but nevertheless occur autonomously, and attitudinal discourse adverbs which, far beyond lexical adverbials of modality, allow the speaker and the listener to presuppose full agreement, partial agreement under presupposed conditions, or negotiation of common ground. This state of the art survey proposes a new model of modality, drawing on data from a variety of Germanic and Slavic languages to find out what is cross-linguistically universal about modality, and to argue that it is a constitutive part of human cognition.

The Language of Evaluation

Author : J. Martin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230511910
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Language of Evaluation by : J. Martin

Download or read book The Language of Evaluation written by J. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses from a range of registers, genres and fields.

Modality in Grammar and Discourse

Author : Joan L. Bybee
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027285721
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Modality in Grammar and Discourse by : Joan L. Bybee

Download or read book Modality in Grammar and Discourse written by Joan L. Bybee and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08-21 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; the grounding of modality in interactive discourse; the elusive category 'irrealis'; and the relationship of modal notions and categories to other categories of grammar.

Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 3

Author : Nikolaos Lavidas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110399318
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 3 by : Nikolaos Lavidas

Download or read book Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 3 written by Nikolaos Lavidas and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the three volumes of Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, the editors guide the reader through a well-selected compendium of works, presenting a fresh look at contemporary linguistics. Specialists will find chapters that contribute to their fields of interest, and the three-volume collection will provide useful reading for anyone interested in linguistics. The first volume explores theoretical issues dealing with phonetics-phonology and syntax-semantics-morphology. Volume two is organized into three main sections that examine interdisciplinary linguistics: discourse analysis, gender and lexicography; language acquisition, and language disorders. Finally, volume three focuses on applied linguistics - both language teaching/ learning and education.

How Different are We?

Author : Helen Fitzgerald
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853596193
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (961 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis How Different are We? by : Helen Fitzgerald

Download or read book How Different are We? written by Helen Fitzgerald and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2003 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies. A large number of interactions between well-educated immigrants from all continents and from more than a hundred countries, together with some including native speakers, are examined and participants' answers to questionnaires compared with their actual communicative behaviour. The author raises questions of interest to many groups: linguists, educators, business people and sociologists. Which values are most salient and enduring, and which cause clashes between cultural groups? To what extent do people retain the communication style identified with their first language and how do these different styles impact on others?