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

Although the concept of the performative has influenced literary theory in numerous ways, this book represents one of the first full-length studies of performative language in literary texts. Creating States examines the visionary poetry of John Milton and William Blake, using a critical approach based on principles of speech-act theory as articulated by J.L. Austin, John Searle, and Emile Benveniste. Angela Esterhammer proposes a new way of understanding the relationship between these two poets, while at the same time evaluating the role of speech-act philosophy in the reading of...

The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form
with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around...

Die Forschungsarbeit stellt die Geschichte der Textsorte des Familienbuchs (livre de raison, libro di famiglia etc.) im europaischen Raum seit dem 16. Jahrhundert bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, die den erst spater entstandenen Textsorten des Tagebuchs und der Autobiographie vorausgeht. Konkret werden drei katalanische Familienbucher vorgestellt, die reprasentativ fur den Typus, die Form und die Uberlieferungsbedingungen dieser Art von nahesprachlich gepragter Privatliteratur sind. Die Unterscheidung zwischen Sprechen bzw. Schreiben (universelle Ebene), Sprache (Ebene der...

This book addresses how core notions of information structure (topic, focus and contrast) are expressed in syntax.The authorspropose that the syntactic effects of information structure come about as a result of mapping rules that are flexible enough to allow topics and foci to be expressed in a variety of positions, but strict enough to capture certain cross-linguistic generalisations about their distribution. In particular, the papersargue that only contrastive topics and contrastive foci undergo movement and that this is because such movement has the function of marking the scope of...

During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to "smash the four olds" old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted "We want to see Chairman Mao," they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual metaphors, and political language convey time-honored meanings of which Chinese speakers themselves may not be consciously aware, and contributes to the ongoing debate over whether language...

Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' in a very genuine sense. What lessons may be learned from these developments for anthropology?

In Beyond Boundaries, ten anthropologists from different countries address the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic...

Die Unterscheidung zwischen Kern und Peripherie in Sprache und Grammatik wird in der Linguistik kontrovers diskutiert. Die Beitrage in diesem Sammelband befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen theoretischen Perspektiven mit der grammatiktheoretischen Relevanz dieser Unterscheidung als auch mit empirischen Phanomenen an Randbereichen der Grammatik, die besondere Herausforderungen an die Kern/Peripherie-Unterscheidung stellen.

This volume aims at analyzing the relationship between the dialogical accomplishment of spoken talk-in-interaction on the one hand and entrenched patterns of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge (constructions, frames, and communicative genres) on the other. The contributions analyze linguistic patterns in different languages such as English, French, German, and Swedish. Methodologically, they take up the usage-based position that structural and functional aspects of language use need to be studied empirically and "bottom-up": Since grammatical structure arises as the entrenched result...