ilość książek w kategorii: 1188
How to Do Corpus Pragmatics on Pragmatically Annotated Data: Speech acts and beyond
ISBN: 9789027200471 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corpora enriched with pragmatics-relevant annotations. It first explores the general use of spoken corpora for pragmatics research, as well as issues revolving around their representation and annotation, and then goes on to describe the resources required for such an annotation process. Based on data from three different corpora, ranging from highly constrained, task-oriented, ones (SPAADIA Trainline & Trains 93) to unconstrained dialogues...
This book introduces a methodology and research tool (DART) that make it possible to carry out advanced corpus pragmatics research using dialogue corp...
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563,21 zł |
Discourse and Identity Formation: Parliamentary debates in Bahrain
ISBN: 9789027206640 / Angielski / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary discourse contributes towards identity formation within Bahraini society. Within the framework of critical discourse studies, the book traces the ideological struggle over power in the linguistic content of legislative discourse through a range of discursive strategies and devices. The authors contend that the discursive choices across the political spectrum in the legislative debates reflected strong sectarian characteristics which contained in...
The book explores eleven debates held at the Bahraini Council of Representatives (or the Parliament) over 2007-2010 to comprehend how parliamentary di...
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597,14 zł |
Advances in Swearing Research: New languages and new contexts
ISBN: 9789027256874 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, intimacy, solidarity, and jocularity should be an obvious target of in-depth scholarship. Rigorous, scholarly investigation of the practice of swearing acknowledges its social and cultural significance, and allows us to discover and better understand the historical, psychological, sociological, and linguistic aspects (among others) of swearwords and swearword usage. The present volume brings together a range of themes and issues central to the...
Any behavior that arouses, as swearing does, controversy, disagreement, disdain, shock, and indignation as often as it imbues passion, sincerity, inti...
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542,85 zł |
Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web: Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications
ISBN: 9783319907185 / Angielski / Twarda / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.
This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and develop...
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192,74 zł |
The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters
ISBN: 9789027200006 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differences and, most importantly, the similarities in the production of interactional humor in face-to-face and various technology-mediated forms of communication, including scripted and non-scripted situations. The chapters analyze humor-related issues in such genres as spontaneous conversations, broadcast dialogues, storytelling, media blogs, bilingual conversations, stand-up comedy, TV documentaries, drama series, family sitcoms, Facebook posts, and...
This book deals with the construction of diverse forms of humor in everyday oral, written, and mediatized interactions. It sheds light on the differen...
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563,21 zł |
Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture
ISBN: 9789027200365 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters address a variety of traditional and emerging topics by adopting diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks and presenting a range of perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture. They demonstrate a wide scope of pragmatics research informed by, as well as informing, usage-based grammar,...
Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, in...
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542,85 zł |
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter
ISBN: 9789027200532 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech's research, implies that the two notions are intrinsically related. In this thought-provoking volume, the various contributors (linguists, stylisticians, discourse analysts and literary scholars), while not necessarily agreeing on every aspect of this theoretical premise, discuss and develop the idea. In turn, they consider the workings of these two discursive practices in various corpora (face-to-face or digitally-mediated interactions, novels,...
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech's ...
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542,85 zł |
Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament
ISBN: 9789027206633 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how politicians contest and challenge racism against a minority group that does not constitute a traditional `race'. Using critical discourse analysis, this book firstly deconstructs the racist, xenophobic and discriminatory arguments against Muslims. Secondly, it highlights the anti-racist counter-discourse to these arguments. Since blatantly racist statements are less common nowadays, the book focuses on manifestations of `culturalist racism'. It...
Anti-racist Discourse on Muslims in the Australian Parliament examines anti-racist discourse in contemporary Australian politics, in particular, how p...
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542,85 zł |
Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor
ISBN: 9781352003963 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,44 zł |
Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives
ISBN: 9789027256843 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume...
This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wou...
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542,85 zł |
Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions
ISBN: 9783319926629 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important contribution to digital discourse studies will have interdisciplinary appeal across the fields of linguistics, socio-linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, gender studies, multimodality, media and communication studies.
This important contribution to digital discourse studies will have interdisciplinary appeal across the fields of linguistics, socio-linguistics, pragm...
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616,85 zł |
Journalistic Stance in Chinese and Australian Hard News
ISBN: 9789811307904 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Further, using the appraisal framework, it identifies stance markers in news texts and examines the social-institutional and (inter)personal aspects of journalistic stance on the basis of insights gained from participant observation in news institutions in order to understand news-production processes.
Further, using the appraisal framework, it identifies stance markers in news texts and examines the social-institutional and (inter)personal aspects o...
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192,74 zł |
European Identity and the Representation of Islam in the Mainstream Press: Argumentation and Media Discourse
ISBN: 9783319933139 / Angielski / Twarda / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book combines media studies and linguistics with theories of national and supranational identity to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European identity/ies and news discourses.
This book combines media studies and linguistics with theories of national and supranational identity to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the st...
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346,96 zł |
Linguistic Ethnography of a Multilingual Call Center: London Calling
ISBN: 9783319933221 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of "the life of a calling script" from production by corporate management and clients to recontextualization by middle management and finally to application by agents in phone interactions.
This book presents an innovative institutional transpositional ethnography that examines the textual trajectory of "the life of a calling script" from...
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308,41 zł |
Tag Questions in Conversation: A typology of their interactional and stance meanings
ISBN: 9789027200433 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and the semi-variable tag innit, such as Nice, innit. The aim is to provide a corpus-based, comprehensive semantic-pragmatic typology of British English tag questions. Compared to existing descriptions, the proposed typology is novel in three ways. Firstly, whereas almost all existing typologies are single-layered classifications, the functions of tag questions are categorized into two parallel dimensions of interpersonal meaning: the speech function...
This monograph deals with variable tag questions. These are utterances with a variable interrogative tag, like It's peculiar writing, isn't it, and th...
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563,21 zł |
Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages
ISBN: 9789027200877 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for instance, (S)DRT, Centering Theory, Accessibility Theory, QUD, Generalized Conversational Implicatures, Super Monsters and Gesture Semantics and new empirical approaches in the framework of experimental semantics and pragmatics or corpus linguistic discourse analysis. The contributions to this...
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to ...
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563,21 zł |
Words of Crisis as Words of Power: The jeremiad in American presidential speeches
ISBN: 9789027200501 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.S. American presidential speechmaking. Rhetorical leadership constitutes an inherent feature of the modern presidency. Particularly during times of critical events, the president is expected to react and address the nation. However, the power of the office also allows him or her to direct attention to particular topics and thus rhetorically create or exploit the notion of crisis. This monograph examines the verbal responses of George W. Bush and Barack Obama to pressing issues during their terms in office. Assuming an interdisciplinary...
The volume explores crisis rhetoric in contemporary U.S. American presidential speechmaking. Rhetorical leadership constitutes an inherent feature of ...
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597,14 zł |
Representations of Poverty and Place: Using Geographical Text Analysis to Understand Discourse
ISBN: 9783319935027 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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327,68 zł |
Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges
ISBN: 9783319936222 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume.
This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume.
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462,63 zł |