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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Scene of Linguistic Action and Its Perspectivization by Speak, Talk, Say and Tell
Author: The Scene of Linguistic Action and its Perspectivization by SPEAK, TALK, SAY and TELL
Author: René DirvenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027280592
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The four papers presented in this volume are corpus-based investigations into the meaning of the verbs speak, talk, say and tell. More specifically they want to explore how the scene of linguistic action has been put into perspective by these four high-frequency verbs.
The scene of linguistic action and its perspectivization by speak, talk, say and tell
Author: Rene DirvenThe Scene of Linguistic Action and Perspectivization by Speak, Talk, Say and Tell
Author: Who Climbs the Grammar-Tree
Author: Rosemarie TracyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3111633829
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Cross-linguistic Correspondences
Author: Thomas EganPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027264724
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contrastive Linguistics is an expanding field, as witnessed by the publication in recent years of an increasing number of monographs, collected volumes and journal articles. The present volume, which comprises an introduction and ten chapters dealing with lexical contrasts between English and other languages, shows advances within the well-established lexical work in the field. Each of the chapters takes lexical items as its starting point and compares English with one or more languages. The languages represented are Spanish, Lithuanian, Swedish, German, Norwegian and Czech. Furthermore, they emphasise the link between lexis and grammar, not only within the same language, but also across languages. Finally, several studies represent one of the more recent developments of contrastive linguistics, namely a growing focus on genre and register comparisons. The book should appeal to both established scholars and advanced students with an interest in lexis, genre, corpus linguistics and/or contrastive linguistics.
Historical Linguistics 1987
Author: Henning AndersenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027278326
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The volume contains 37 papers originally presented at the 8th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Lille, France. The papers bring historical data to bear on issues in theoretical linguistics, both descriptive and diachronic or deal with specific questions in the history of individual languages. The theoretical issues range from phonology over morphology and syntax to the lexicon, as well as questions of historical dialectology, language contact, the theory of linguistic change, and problems of comparative reconstruction. The languages discussed are Finno-Ugric and Indo-European, most of the papers dealing with Germanic and Romance languages (especially English and French), but some being devoted to Greek, Celtic, Slavic, and Hittite.
The Representation of Speech Events in Chariton’s Callirhoe and the Acts of the Apostles
Author: Adrian T. SmithPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004274898
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
In The Representation of Speech Events in Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of the Apostles, Adrian T. Smith summarizes cross-linguistic research on how and why narrators vary the formulae that introduce direct speech. This research is applied to Chariton and to Acts. The findings demonstrate that narrators vary quotation formulae for numerous pragmatic purposes, including the tracking of conversational dynamics via a set of 'marked' and 'unmarked' quotation devices.
Applying Cognitive Linguistics
Author: Ana María Piquer-PírizPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263450
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In recent years, Cognitive Linguistics (CL) has established itself not only as a solid theoretical approach but also as an important source from which different applications to other fields have emerged. In this volume we identify some of the current, most relevant topics in applied CL-oriented studies – analyses of figurative language (both metaphor and metonymy) in use, constructions and typology –, and present high-quality research papers that illustrate best practices in the research foci identified and their application to different fields including intercultural communication, the psychology of emotions, second and first language acquisition, discourse analysis and translation studies. It is also shown how different methodologies –the use of linguistic corpora, psycholinguistic experiments or discourse analytic procedures– can shed some light on the basic premises of CL as well as providing insights into how CL can be applied in real world contexts. Finally, all the studies included in the volume are based on empirical data and there are some analyses of languages other than English (Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Danish, German and Polish), thus overcoming the contentions that CL-theoretically-based research is often based on linguistic intuition and focused only on the English language. We hope that the present volume will not only contribute to a better understanding of how CL can be applied but that it will also help to encourage, even further, more robust empirical research in this field. Originally published as a special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:1 (2016).
Papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Author: Jacek FisiakPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235287
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
This volume presents a selection of papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL), which was held in 1983, in Pozna?, Poland.