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Linguistic Polyphony

Author : Henning Nølke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004341536
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Linguistic Polyphony by : Henning Nølke

Download or read book Linguistic Polyphony written by Henning Nølke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic polyphony is an utterance act theory (la linguistique de l’énonciation) and is a French specialty. It deals with the numerous points of view that are likely to be communicated through an utterance. The book introduces utterance act theory and polyphony as such, but most especially focuses on the Scandinavian variant of polyphony, ScaPoLine. ScaPoLine is a formal linguistic theory whose main purpose is to specify the instructions conveyed through linguistic form for the creation of polyphonic meaning. The theoretical introduction is followed by polyphonic analyses of linguistic phenomena such as negation, mood, modality and connectors, and of textual phenomena such as represented discourse and irony. The book suggests how ScaPoLine could offer new insights within cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary studies.

Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Author : Eija Suomela-Salmi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027254370
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse by : Eija Suomela-Salmi

Download or read book Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse written by Eija Suomela-Salmi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this volume is to examine academic discourse (AD) from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives. The adjective "Cross-cultural" in the volume title is not just limited to national contexts but also includes a cross-disciplinary perspective. Twelve scientific fields are under scrutiny in the articles. One of the unique aspects of the volume is the inclusion of a variety of foreign languages (English (as a lingua franca), Spanish, French, Swedish, Russian, German, Italian, and Norwegian). Besides, in several articles dealing with oral AD, comparisons and parallels are also established with written AD. The research methodologies used in the studies are varied and they offer an overview of the diversity and richness of approaches to AD. All in all, it is hoped that the volume appeals not only to young researchers but also to confirmed scholars interested in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of AD. It will also be of interest to language teachers or teachers who are involved with e.g. international students and academic mobility.

Spaces of Polyphony

Author : Clara-Ubaldina Lorda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027210322
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Spaces of Polyphony by : Clara-Ubaldina Lorda

Download or read book Spaces of Polyphony written by Clara-Ubaldina Lorda and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaces of Polyphony covers a lot of ground. It echoes the voices of researchers and their informants from many different places and backgrounds. Among the variety of languages under study and methodological approaches there is also a common ground and narrative thread underpinning the polyphonic chorus of the contributors. From a shared starting point of discourse analysis and inspiration from Bakhtin, the various authors span from East to West, from Moscow to Texas, from Romania and Czech Republic to Mexico. They look into all ages, starting from early childhood, and many walks of life, ranging from casual chatting among relatives to parliamentary speeches and TV shows, including formal education, literary inner monologue and translation. Irony, humour and self-awareness are recurrent themes. The array of voices and dialogism studied in this book is such that it even includes the silent (silenced) voices of people forced to express their heritage by weaving their discourse.

The Pragmatics of Negation

Author : Malin Roitman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027264945
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Pragmatics of Negation by : Malin Roitman

Download or read book The Pragmatics of Negation written by Malin Roitman and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges – from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint – presuppositions on language internal relations as rational and logic. It therefore arouses interest through all fields within language sciences. From a pragmatic perspective, where negation is conceived a marked structure, using negation often produces meanings beyond the one of a reversed affirmation "it is not the case that X”. This book explores the various uses and pragmatic meanings of negation in authentic communication, in different text types and in different languages, predominately romance languages. The multilingual composition marries a macro-micro perspective where aspects of genre, sociocultural context, memory, rhetoric and argumentation interplay with the negative morpheme’s nature and embedded instructions. This broad approach makes this book a unique contribution to negation studies and to pragmatics in general. The book is important and enriching reading for scholars in all linguistic domains, but particularly for researchers in semantics, pragmatics, argumentation and, discourse analysis.

The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate

Author : Kjersti Flottum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315456915
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Book Synopsis The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate by : Kjersti Flottum

Download or read book The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate written by Kjersti Flottum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key linguistic themes, including linguistic polyphony, lexical choices, metaphors, narration, and framing, and uses examples from diverse forms of media, including scientific documents, policy reports, op-eds, and blogs, to shed light on how information and knowledge on climate change can be represented, disseminated, and interpreted and in turn, how they can inform further discussion and debate. Featuring contributions from a global team of researchers and drawing on a broad array of linguistic approaches, this collection offers an extensive overview of the role of language in the climate change debate for graduate students, researchers, and scholars in applied linguistics, environmental communication, discourse analysis, political science, climatology, and media studies.

Academic Voices

Author : Kjersti Fløttum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027253919
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Academic Voices by : Kjersti Fløttum

Download or read book Academic Voices written by Kjersti Fløttum and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties. It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing on the two factors of discipline and language at the same time. It is based on a large electronic corpus of 450 research articles from three disciplines (economics, linguistics and medicine) in three languages (English, French and Norwegian). The book investigates whether disciplines and languages may be said to represent different cultures with regard to person manifestation in the texts. What is being studied is thus cultural identities as tendencies in linguistic practices. For the majority of the features focused on (e.g. metatext and bibliographical references), the discipline factor turns out to contribute more strongly to the variation observed than the language factor. However, for some of the features (e.g. pronouns and negation), the language factor is also quite strong. Additional background information on the investigations reported in this book can be found at www.uib.no/kiap/.

Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics of Translation

Author : Elżbieta Tabakowska
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823340782
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics of Translation by : Elżbieta Tabakowska

Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics of Translation written by Elżbieta Tabakowska and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1993 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Speaking of Europe

Author : Kjersti Fløttum
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272034
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Speaking of Europe by : Kjersti Fløttum

Download or read book Speaking of Europe written by Kjersti Fløttum and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed the European Union struggling to keep Europe together in increasingly difficult economic and political circumstances. Communication within and about European institutions has become more challenging in this perplexing political environment, demonstrating the complex nature of EU political discourse. In order to highlight these complexities, the contributors to this volume present different theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of diverse facets of EU discourse, realized through a variety of linguistic and discursive phenomena. The approaches represent rhetorical theory, metaphor and conceptual theory, cognitive and corpus linguistics, lexical statistics, polyphony, logical semantics, pragmatic and philosophical perspectives. Through this multitude of perspectives the book complements existing approaches and suggests new approaches in the study of political discourse.

Metalinguistic Discourses

Author : Viviane Arigne
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144388314X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Metalinguistic Discourses written by Viviane Arigne and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was born from the desire to conduct an inquiry into the heterogeneity and variety of linguistic theories in order to assess their descriptive and explanatory power. The first part of the volume brings together contributions addressing formal and theoretical issues. It focuses on the specific questions of metalinguistic discourses, representations and formal symbols, and considers the case of representations pertaining to different metalinguistic levels and their possible translation from one level to another. The essays compiled in this section also examine how generative semantics paved the way for current trends in cognitive linguistics, and provide an analysis of the historical and epistemological context of the notion of metafunction found in Systemic Functional Grammar. The contributions gathered in the second part of the book evaluate the results of a certain number of linguistic studies, putting various theories to the test. They specifically discuss the notion of intersective gradience, analyse modality and the question of irony within two different theoretical frameworks, and deal with parenthetical verbs in the light of an utterer-centred approach. This book will appeal to all linguists with an interest in linguistic theories, to advanced students in linguistics, as well as to scholars in cognate fields such as epistemology, philosophy of language, psychology and neurosciences.

Repairs

Author : Patrick Brandt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614510792
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Repairs written by Patrick Brandt and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammatical structures connect systems of thought and articulation, the conditions of which hardly seem to fit each other. Repairs are productive mechanisms that solve translation problems between modules or levels by adapting derivations or representations to requirements that have to be met unconditionally. Compensating for derivational and interpretive defects, repairs determine core properties of natural language grammars and their interfaces.

Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse

Author : Kjersti Fløttum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381024X
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse by : Kjersti Fløttum

Download or read book Language and Discipline Perspectives on Academic Discourse written by Kjersti Fløttum and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium “Academic Voices in Contrast”, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. They were asked to address issues related to “traditional” linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research on academic discourse: M. A. A. Ariza, L. Berge, M. Bondi, S. V. Bonn, S. Carter-Thomas, T. Dahl, K. Fløttum, A. M. Gjesdal, F. Grossmann, K. Hyland, T. Kinn, L. Lundquist, A. Mauranen, M. Pabón, E. Rowley-Jolivet, F. Salager-Meyer, P. Shaw, J. M. Swales, J.L. Tønnesson, E. T. Vold, F. Wirth.

Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts

Author : Lisa Nahajec
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259917
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts written by Lisa Nahajec and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates something about what is. Bringing together a focus on text with cognitive and pragmatic approaches, a case is made for an application of linguistic negation as a tool of analysis. This tool is used to explore the ideological implications of projecting or reflecting readerly expectations. This book contributes to the growing field of Critical stylistics and aims to add to the range of stylistic insights which anchor the analysis of discourse to a consideration of the nuances of language choice.

Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis

Author : J. Angermuller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137442476
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis written by J. Angermuller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of structuralism: Lacan, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida and Sollers. It pays special attention to enunciative pragmatics as a poststructuralist approach which analyzes the discursive construction of subjectivity.

The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse

Author : Othman Khalid Al-Shboul
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031190165
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse by : Othman Khalid Al-Shboul

Download or read book The Politics of Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse written by Othman Khalid Al-Shboul and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA. The author enriches his linguistic analysis with cognitive aspects such as source-target domain mapping and metaphor opposition to explain how metaphor works in terms of framing this issue, drawing on a Critical Discourse Analysis-informed framework to demonstrate how politicians represent the climate crisis in their attempts to trigger social change. Using a data set of speeches given by US-based politicians, governors and mayors speaking in the context of the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, the book categorizes metaphors on different conceptions such as war, construction, unfairness, journey, and cleanliness to bridge the gap between ecolinguistics and critical metaphor analysis. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields including applied linguistics, political communication, ecolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics and psychology.

Subjectivity and Identity

Author : Peter V. Zima
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780938276
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity and Identity written by Peter V. Zima and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on subjectivity and the subject. Starting from a history of the concept of the subject from modernity to postmodernity - from Descartes and Kant to Adorno and Lyotard - Peter V. Zima distinguishes between individual, collective, mythical and other subjects. Most texts on subjectivity and the subject present the topic from the point of view of a single discipline: philosophy, sociology, psychology or theory of literature. In Subjectivity and Identity Zima links philosophical approaches to those of sociology, psychology and literary criticism. The link between philosophy and sociology is social philosophy (e.g. Althusser, Marcuse, Habermas), the link between philosophy and literary criticism is aesthetics (e.g. Adorno, Lyotard, Vattimo). Philosophy and psychology can be related thanks to the psychological implications of several philosophical concepts of subjectivity (Hobbes, Stirner, Sartre).

Formal Models in the Study of Language

Author : Joanna Blochowiak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319488325
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Formal Models in the Study of Language written by Joanna Blochowiak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions, by seasoned and budding linguists of all different linguistic backgrounds, reflect Jacques Moeschler’s diverse and visionary research over the years. The book contains three parts. The first part shows how different formal models can be applied to the analysis of such diverse problems as the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of tense, aspect and deictic expressions, syntax and pragmatics of quantifiers and semantics and pragmatics of connectives and negation. The second part presents the application of formal models to the treatment of cognitive issues related to the use of language, and in particular, demonstrating cognitive accounts of different types of human interactions, the context in utterance interpretation (salience, inferential comprehension processes), figurative uses of language (irony pretence), the role of syntax in Theory of Mind in autism and the analysis of the aesthetics of nature. Finally, the third part addresses computational and corpus-based approaches to natural language for investigating language variation, language universals and discourse related issues. This volume will be of great interest to syntacticians, pragmaticians, computer scientists, semanticians and psycholinguists.

Staging Democracy

Author : Emily Beausoleil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111032930
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Staging Democracy written by Emily Beausoleil and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staging Democracy responds to compelling calls in democratic theory for communication and coalition across social difference by asking how we realize these ideals in concrete terms. It shifts the focus from if and why marginalized difference should find entry into politics, to the practical question of how this is to be done. What explains those rare moments when marginalized voices break through in contemporary politics? And how might a closer look at the strategies and resources at play within such moments enhance how we understand and enact civic engagement? Political theory and practice have traditionally overlooked the performing arts as a site of civic politics, and yet marginalized communities continually turn to them to communicate, challenge, and catalyze change. This book brings vivid moments of creative practice from three continents together with performance studies and political scholarship to argue that artistic performance offers a potent form of democratic voice for claims from the margins. Across political contexts, democratic aims, and artistic genres, Staging Democracy shows how the very qualities that lead some to think of the arts as unclear, irrational, and irresponsible – and thus politically suspect – shape artistic performance’s distinct capacity to enact democratic engagement in conditions of deep difference and inequality.