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Author : Görel Sandström
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Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book When-clauses and the Temporal Interpretation of Narrative Discourse written by Görel Sandström and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : EunHee Lee
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004422124
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Narratives written by EunHee Lee and published by Brill. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the logical aspect of narratives. The book provides Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) formalization (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) of naturally occurring narrative data from corpus and literary works.
Author : Carlota S. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139435418
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Modes of Discourse written by Carlota S. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studying discourse, the problem for the linguist is to find a fruitful level of analysis. Carlota Smith offers a new approach with this study of discourse passages, units of several sentences or more. She introduces the key idea of the 'Discourse Mode', identifying five modes: Narrative, Description, Report, Information, Argument. These are realized at the level of the passage, and cut across genre lines. Smith shows that the modes, intuitively recognizable as distinct, have linguistic correlates that differentiate them. She analyzes the properties that distinguish each mode, focusing on grammatical rather than lexical information. The book also examines linguistically based features that appear in passages of all five modes: topic and focus, variation in syntactic structure, and subjectivity, or point of view. Operating at the interface of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students in linguistics, stylistics and rhetoric.
Author : Michel Buijs
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047406974
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Clause Combining in Ancient Greek Narrative Discourse written by Michel Buijs and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes the usage of subclauses and participial clauses in Xenophon’s Hellenica and Anabasis, with additional examples from other texts, using a text grammar-oriented approach, which can map more factors underlying the distribution of these clauses, and offers a more satisfactory explanation of a larger number of instances than is possible using the traditional sentence-level approach. The discourse-analytic description of the different clause types focuses on how relations are coded by means of subordinating conjunctions, the differences in form and function as discourse boundary markers between preposed, sentence-initially placed subclauses and participles, and the differences between clause types with respect to the information flow in on-going discourse. The discussion of many examples from the work of Xenophon makes this book interesting for both linguists and classical philologists.
Author : Klaus von Heusinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110255073
Total Pages : 1079 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Semantics. Volume 2 written by Klaus von Heusinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 1079 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "SEMANTICS (VON HEUSINGER ET AL.) BD. 33.2 HSK E-BOOK".
Author : Hans Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004487220
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning written by Hans Kamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers addresses context-dependence and methods for dealing with it. The book also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. It represents an inquiry into the activities on the semantics side of the pragmatics boundary.
Author : Myriam Bras
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 0585474397
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Semantic and Pragmatic Issues in Discourse and Dialogue written by Myriam Bras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic Predicate Logic (DPL).
Author : Hans Kamp
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004252886
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Meaning and the Dynamics of Interpretation written by Hans Kamp and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of research papers written by Hans Kamp presents the core of his scientific research on natural language semantics and its relation to logic, philosophy and linguistics. Arranged in six sections, the topics range from philosophical reflection on the foundational issues in the ancient Sorites Paradox with a formal account of its solution, to a detailed account of presuppositions in dynamic semantics.
Author : Barbara Hemforth
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319056751
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages written by Barbara Hemforth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating theoretically well-founded contrastive descriptions with thorough empirical investigations. Authors answer questions on the topic of how we ‘encode’ complex thoughts into linguistic signals and how we interpret such signals in appropriate ways. Chapters combine on- and off-line empirical methods varying from large-scale corpus analyses over acceptability judgements, sentence completion studies and reading time experiments. The authors shed new light on the central questions related to our everyday use of language, especially the problem of how we construe meaning in and through language in general as well as through the means provided by particular languages.
Author : Peter Bosch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521583053
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Focus written by Peter Bosch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers examines the theoretical, psychological and descriptive approaches to focus.
Author : Janice Carruthers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351195530
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Oral Narration in Modern French written by Janice Carruthers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Storytelling is a universal human activity and oral narration - particularly modern 'conversational' narration such as anecdotes or personal stories - has long been fertile ground for linguists working on tense usage across a variety of languages. This book introduces 'performed' oral storytelling into the debate, using data from traditional and contemporary storytellers in French to explore the narrative tenses attested, the discourse-pragmatic effects of tense switching, the structures deployed at points of temporal sequence, as well as broader questions concerning the nature of oral discourse."
Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351819399
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis written by Chris Shei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.
Author : Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290318
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book 'Subordination' versus 'Coordination' in Sentence and Text written by Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected in this volume (including a comprehensive introduction) investigate semantic and discourse-related aspects of subordination and coordination, in particular the relationship between subordination/coordination at the sentence level and subordination/coordination – or hierarchical/non-hierarchical organization – at the discourse level. The contributions in part I are concerned with central theoretical questions; part II consists of corpus-based cross-linguistic studies of clause combining and discourse structure, involving at least two of the languages English, German, Dutch, French and Norwegian; part III contains papers addressing specific – predominantly semantic – topics relating to German, English or French; and the papers in part IV approach the topic of subordination, coordination and rhetorical relations from a diachronic (Old Indic and Early Germanic) perspective. The book aims to contribute to a better understanding of information packaging on the sentence and text level related, within a particular language as well as cross-linguistically.
Author : Adeline Patard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223831
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Approaches to Tense, Aspect, and Epistemic Modality written by Adeline Patard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses problems of semantics regarding the analysis of tense and aspect (TA) markers in a variety of languages, including Arabic, Croatian, English, French, German, Russian, Thai, and Turkish. Its main interest goes out to epistemic uses of such markers, whereby epistemic modality is understood as indicating a degree of compatibility between the modal world and the factual world (Declerck). All contributions, moreover, tackle these problems from a more or less cognitive point of view, with some of them insisting on the need to provide a unifying explanation for all usage types, temporal and non-temporal, and all of them accepting the premise that the semantics of TA categories essentially refers to subjective, rather than objective, concerns. The volume also represents one of the first attempts to gather accounts of TA marking (in various languages) that are explicitly set within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. Ultimately, this volume aims to contribute to establishing an awareness that modal meaning elements are directly relevant to the analysis of the grammar of time.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004334254
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were first presented at the symposium Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective held in Oslo in November/December 2000. The descriptions are functionally oriented, and their common focus is how information structure – in a broad sense – can be compared across languages. 'Information structure' has been approached in a variety of ways by the authors, so as to give a broad picture of this fundamental principle of text production, involving the way in which a speaker/writer chooses to present a message in terms of given/new information, focus, cohesion, and point of view. Central to much of the research is the problem of establishing criteria for isolating linguistic constraints on language use from cultural-linguistic conventions in text production. The linguistic comparison includes English, German and/or one of the Scandinavian languages, with sidelights to other languages. Most of the papers are text- or corpus-based, and the ongoing work on parallel corpora in Scandinavia is reflected in several contributions.
Author : Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136122206
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Free Adjuncts and Absolutes in English written by Bernd Kortmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free adjuncts and absolutes typically function as adverbial clauses which are not overtly specified for any particular adverbial relation. The book is a non-formal, corpus based study of their current use in English. Its particular focus is on a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of their semantic indeterminacy and the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors that help resolve it.
Author : John A. Cook
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575066815
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Time and the Biblical Hebrew Verb written by John A. Cook and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book John Cook interacts with the range of approaches to the perennial questions on the Biblical Hebrew verb in a fair-minded approach. Some of his answers may appear deceptively traditional, such as his perfective-imperfective identification of the qatal–yiqtol opposition. However, his approach is distinguished from the traditional approaches by its modern linguistic foundation. One distinguishing sign is his employment of the phrase “aspect prominent” to describe the Biblical Hebrew verbal system. As with almost any of the world’s verbal systems, this aspect-prominent system can express a wide range of aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings. In chap. 3, he argues that each of the forms can be semantically identified with a general meaning and that the expressions of specific aspectual, tensed, and modal meanings by each form are explicable with reference to its general meaning. After a decade of research and creative thinking, the author has come to frame his discussion not with the central question of “Tense or Aspect?” but with the question “What is the range of meaning for a given form, and what sort of contextual factors (syntagm, discourse, etc.) help us to understand this range in relation to a general meaning for the form?” In chap. 4 Cook addresses long-standing issues involving interaction between the semantics of verbal forms and their discourse pragmatic functions. He also proposes a theory of discourse modes for Biblical Hebrew. These discourse modes account for various temporal relationships that are found among successive clauses in Biblical Hebrew. Cook’s work addresses old questions with a fresh approach that is sure to provoke dialogue and new research.
