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Author: Gian Marco Farese Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579280 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 307
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This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the interactional meanings expressed by different forms of address in these two languages, which are compared adopting the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The forms analyzed include greetings, titles and opening and closing salutations used in letters and e-mails in the two languages. Noticeably, the book presents the first complete categorization of Italian titles used as forms of address ever made on the basis of precise semantic criteria. The analysis also investigates the different cultural values and assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by different address practices in intercultural interactions. Every chapter presents numerous examples taken from language corpora, contemporary English and Italian literature and personal e-mails and letters. The book encourages a new, innovative approach to the analysis of forms of address: it proposes a new analytical method for the analysis of forms of address which can be applied to the study of other languages systematically. In addition, the book emphasizes the role of culture in address practices and takes meaning as the basis for understanding the differences in use across languages and the difficulties in translating forms of address of different languages. Combining semantics, ethnopragmatics, intercultural communication and translation theory, this book is aimed at a very broad readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, second-language learners and students of cross-cultural communication, but virtually anyone interested in Italian and English linguistics as well as in cultural semantics. The approach taken is interdisciplinary and brings together various fields in the social sciences: linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies and sociology.
Author: Gian Marco Farese Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498579280 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 307
Book Description
This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from the perspective of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture in discourse. The objects of the analysis are the interactional meanings expressed by different forms of address in these two languages, which are compared adopting the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage. The forms analyzed include greetings, titles and opening and closing salutations used in letters and e-mails in the two languages. Noticeably, the book presents the first complete categorization of Italian titles used as forms of address ever made on the basis of precise semantic criteria. The analysis also investigates the different cultural values and assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by different address practices in intercultural interactions. Every chapter presents numerous examples taken from language corpora, contemporary English and Italian literature and personal e-mails and letters. The book encourages a new, innovative approach to the analysis of forms of address: it proposes a new analytical method for the analysis of forms of address which can be applied to the study of other languages systematically. In addition, the book emphasizes the role of culture in address practices and takes meaning as the basis for understanding the differences in use across languages and the difficulties in translating forms of address of different languages. Combining semantics, ethnopragmatics, intercultural communication and translation theory, this book is aimed at a very broad readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, second-language learners and students of cross-cultural communication, but virtually anyone interested in Italian and English linguistics as well as in cultural semantics. The approach taken is interdisciplinary and brings together various fields in the social sciences: linguistics, anthropology, cross-cultural studies and sociology.
Author: Bert Peeters Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9813299754 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 226
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This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. It focuses on meaning and culture, with sections on "Words as Carriers of Cultural Meaning" and "Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context". Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
Author: Kerry Mullan Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9813299835 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 255
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This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.
Author: Cliff Goddard Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110911116 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 289
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The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.
Author: Gian Marco Farese Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This study analyses forms of address from both a semantic and cultural point of view with a twofold aim: (i) to show that forms of address express a proper meaning which can be clearly pinpointed with a suitable methodology; (ii) to highlight the differences in address practices of different linguacultures and their implications for cross-cultural communication. The approach taken is that of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture. Combining semantics and cultural studies, cultural semantics is closely related to various sub-branches of linguistics, most importantly cross-cultural communication, intercultural pragmatics and translation theory. Researchers in cultural semantics adopt the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage created by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard and developed in collaboration with numerous academics from around the world. Over decades of cross-linguistic research, NSM has proved itself an optimal methodology to investigate the meanings of words in cross-linguistic perspective, in particular emotion words, cultural keywords and more recently musical terms. The analysis of forms of address is a new application of NSM, and in this case, too, the methodology has proved itself the ideal tool for this purpose. To the best of my knowledge, never before in address research has a scholar done an extended study of the meanings of address expressions and the set of cultural values which guide address practices in a linguacultural world. In line with NSM researchers, the premise to this study is that to pinpoint the meaning of various address expressions and capture the cultural assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, it is necessary to produce definitions which are comparable. This permits to highlight the differences between the two linguacultures clearly and to provide language learners and culture outsiders with optimal tools which they can use for cross-cultural training. Although the present study is not written in the form of textbook, being based on NSM it is of considerable pedagogical use. This study is aimed at a very wide readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, but anyone interested in issues in intercultural communication. In Chapter 1 of the thesis, I review the main studies on address with particular attention to those which are most pertinent to my analysis. In Chapter 2, I introduce the methodology of semantic analysis which I adopted and present my body data. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the "greetings" Hi and Ciao. In chapters 5 and 6 I analyse nouns used to address people in English and Italian. Chapters 7 to 10 are dedicated to the analysis of the meaning of opening and closing salutations in letters and e-mails and finally, Chapters 11 to 13 focus on cultural scripts and the implications of differences in address practices for intercultural interactions.
Author: Michael G. Clyne Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 0521870623 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 197
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Exploring practices in the family, school, the workplace, this book investigates the varied ways people choose to address one another.
Author: Nicole Baumgarten Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company ISBN: 9027249695 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 440
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This book is a collection of studies about forms of address in the world’s languages, with a focus on contrast and difference. The individual chapters highlight inter- and intralinguistic variation in the expression of address and its sociol-cultural functions across media, registers, geographical contexts and time – in more than 15 languages. The volume showcases the variety of approaches that exists in current address research, including the breadth of contrastive methodologies harnessing surveys and questionnaires, focus group discussions, corpus linguistics, discourse and conversation analysis to offer complementary perspectives on culture-specific address practice. This volume is for students and researchers of address and social interaction in a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including various sub-disciplines of linguistics (such as contrastive, variational and intercultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and morphology) and intercultural communication, as well as experts in individual languages and qualitative sociologists.
Author: James R. Hurford Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521289498 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 308
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Introduces the major elements of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Sections of explanation and examples are followed by practice exercises with answers and comment provided.
Author: Gian Marco Farese Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793603170 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 275
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Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage methodology, Gian Marco Farese presents a comprehensive analysis of the most important Italian cultural keywords and cultural scripts that foreign learners and cultural outsiders need to know to become linguistically and culturally proficient in Italian. Farese focuses on the words and speech practices that are used most frequently in Italian discourse and that are uniquely Italian: both untranslatable into other languages and reflective of salient aspects of Italian culture and society. Italian Discourse: A Cultural Semantic Analysis sheds light on ways in which the Italian language is related to Italians’ character, values, and way of thinking, and it does so in contrastive perspective with English. Each chapter focuses on a cultural keyword, tracing the term through novels, plays, poems, and songs. Italian Discourse will be an important resource for anyone interested in Italian studies and Italian linguistics, as well as in semantics, cultural studies, linguistic anthropology, cognitive linguistics, intercultural communication, and translation.
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