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

Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up...

This new landmark series of thirteen self-contained handbooks provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the entire field of pragmatics. It is based on a wide conception of pragmatics as the study of intentional human interaction in social and cultural contexts. The series reflects, appraises and structures a field that is exceptionally vast, unusually heterogeneous and still rapidly expanding. In-depth articles by leading experts from around the world discuss the foundations, major theories and most recent developments of pragmatics including philosophical, sociocultural and...

Text-image combinations can authenticate events and establish a visual memory. Here this phenomenon is explored: A pragmatic theory of text-image relationships is developed and empirically tested on the example of print media reports about terrorism in the FRG during the 1970s. The analyses show how texts unambiguously illuminate the meaning of images and how photographs substantiate and intensify interpretations of spectacular events to an extent which cannot be attained through language alone. It thus becomes clear that terrorism is not only to be understood as a kind of violence, but...

This edited book addresses ways in which "bodies" conceived broadly get languaged, and ways in which ideas of "normalcy" and "normal" bodies are held in place and reproduced. The articles show how it is through this medium that people with ailments or "unusual" bodies get positioned and slotted in certain ways. Calling attention to a host of discourses biomedical, societal, poststructuralist the chapters pierce the general veil of silence that we have collectively drawn regarding how some of our most intimate body (dis)functions impact our everyday living and sense of "normalcy."

Schreiben ist ein zentrales Medium wissenschaftlicher Kommunikation. Die Fahigkeit, wissenschaftliche Texte zu verfassen, ist eine Kompetenz, die den Erfolg in Wissenschaft und Studium wesentlich mitbestimmt. Diese Fahigkeit bedarf systematischer Vermittlung - eine Aufgabe fur Schule und Universitat. Neueste Entwicklungen in der Linguistik erarbeiten Grundlagen fur eine solche Schreibdidaktik. Der Band bietet einen reprasentativen Uberblick uber die aktuelle Diskussion und den derzeitigen Kenntnisstand.

Kiam komencanto volas esprimi sin en Esperanto kaj ser as konvenan vorton por ideo, kiun li ne tuj trovas, facile trudi as al lia menso vortoj el lia gepatra lingvo au el alia de li konata lingvo, al kiuj li emus aldoni Esperantajn fina ojn kaj uzi ilin tiel. Tio kompreneble ne taugas por internacia au universala komunikado.

En tia situacio trovi as ne nur komencantoj, sed ankau homoj, kiuj enerale jam bone regas Esperanton, sed emas uzi fakvortojn - enerale el greka kaj latina, sed nuntempe ankau angla materialo - en tute ordinara komunika situacio.

Bedaurinde ankau vortaroj...

The book offers a completely new view of language and of languages such as Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Georgian, Danish and English by dividing them into three supertypes on the basis of a step-by-step examination of their relationship to perception and cognition, their representation of situations and their use in oral and written discourse. The dynamic processing of visual stimuli involves three stages: input (experience), intake (understanding) and outcome (a combination). The very choice among three modalities of existence gives a language a certain voice -- either the voice of...