Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Pragmatics

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given...

This book focuses on a particular type of formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs). Since the meaning of these pragmatic units is shaped by the interplay of linguistic and extralinguistic factors they can be best accounted for in a theoretical framework which represents a knowledge-for-use conception. A unique feature of the book is that it examines the development and use of a particular type of formulae from new perspectives. The comparison of a monolingual and multilingual approach, and the application of the graded salience hypothesis to SBUs within a...

In dieser Einfuhrung werden im ersten Teil die wesentlichen Aspekte der analytischen Handlungstheorie, Fragen der Bestimmung des Handlungsbegriffs sowie der Beschreibung von Handlungen vorgestellt und diskutiert. Der zweite Teil konzentriert sich auf die grundlegenden Annahmen der Sprechakttheorien von Austin und Searle sowie auf die Analysen des Kommunikationsbegriffs von Grice, die auf die linguistische Pragmatik einen groen Einfluss ausgeubt hat.

Irish English, while having been the focus of investigations on a variety of linguistic levels, reveals a dearth of research on the pragmatic level. In the present volume, this imbalance is addressed by providing much-needed empirical data on language use in Ireland in the private, official and public spheres and also by examining the use of Irish English as a reflection of socio-cultural norms of interaction. The contributions cover a wide range of pragmatic phenomena and draw on a number of frameworks of analysis. Despite the wide scope of topics and methodologies, a relatively coherent...

Diese Einfuhrung informiert umfassend uber alle Angebote der Stilistik des Deutschen. Das Buch beginnt mit typischen Funktionen und'Bedeutungen' von Stil und geht auf die gestalthaft wahrgenommene allgemeine Stilstruktur ein; ebenso werden die vielfaltigen textinternen und textexternen Relationen, in denen Stilstrukturen relevant sind, dargelegt. Den Kern des Buches bilden 1. die Darstellung stilbildender Verfahren und verschieden komplexer stilistischer Handlungsmuster, 2. die ausfuhrliche Beschreibung der Relevanz globaler Textmerkmale fur Stil und 3. die exemplarische Darlegung der...

Schon seit ihrer Grundung in den 1970er-Jahren ist die Reihe Germanistische Linguistik (RGL) exponiertes Forum des Faches, dessen Namen sie im Titel fuhrt. Hinsichtlich der thematischen Breite (Sprachebenen, Varietaten, Kommunikationsformen, Epochen), der Forschungsperspektiven (Theorie und Empirie, Grundlagenforschung und Anwendung, Inter- und Transdisziplinaritat) und des methodologischen Spektrums ist die Reihe offen angelegt. Das Aufgreifen neuer Trends hat in ihr ebenso Platz wie das Fortfuhren von Bewahrtem. Die Publikationsformen reichen von Monographien und Sammelbanden...

Over the last two decades, focus has become a prominent topic in major fields in linguistic research (syntax, semantics, phonology). Focus Strategies inAfrican Languages contributes to the ongoing discussion of focus by investigating focus-related phenomena in a range of African languages, most of which have been under-represented in the theoretical literature on focus.

The articles in the volume look at focus strategies in Niger-Congo and Afro-Asiatic languages from several theoretical and methodological perspectives, ranging from detailed generative analysis to careful...

Cognitive Linguistics is becoming increasingly oriented towards the social dimension. This book describes this development and discusses some central issues for the emerging socio-cognitive synthesis. Mapping out the territory from individual embodied meaning to discourse struggles, it suggests principles for an analysis of the relation between conceptual and social processes.

"Metaphor studies" has over the past 30 years become a discipline in its own right, mainly because of the cognitive linguistic claim that metaphors characterize thought, not just language. But most metaphor scholars hitherto focus exclusively on its purely verbal expressions. Since both persuasive and narrative discourses in contemporary society increasingly draw on modalities other than language alone, sustained research into a broader range of manifestations of metaphor is imperative.

This volume is the first book-length study to investigate multimodal occurrences of metaphor, and...

In view of the considerable number of recent publications devoted to various applications of Cognitive Linguistics, the book focusses on fields that have not been extensively dealt with within the CL framework. The book gathers presentations that deal with fields of application as defined in the introduction to the first volume in the ACL series (Kristiansen et al 2006).

The articles in the first section ("From loop to cycle") are defining papers written by eminent scholars whose position within the field of CL has been firmly established. They touch upon issues of continuing...