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

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and processing. Engaging with a spectrum of multimodal storytelling, from 'low tech' examples encompassing face-to-face stories, comic books, printed literature, through to opera, film adaptation and...

This is a ground-breaking study in the historical semantics and pragmatics of English in the 16th and 17th centuries. It examines the meaning, use and cultural underpinnings of confident- and certain-sounding epistemic expressions, such as forsooth, by my troth and in faith, and first person epistemic phrases, such as I suppose, I ween and I think.

The work supports the hypothesis that the British Enlightenment and its attendant empiricism brought about a profound epistemic shift in the 'ways of thinking' and 'ways of speaking'...

In "Theory and Evidence in Semantics," editors Erhard W. Hinrichs and John Nerbonne present a series of state-of-the-art papers that investigate the interface of natural language semantics with other modules of grammar such as morphology, syntax, and pragmatics and pursue applications of semantic theory in computational linguistics. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, and strongly influenced by the seminal work of David R. Dowty in model-theoretical semantics, the papers provide novel accounts of highly complex sets of semantic phenomena, including anaphora, coordination,...

Das Standardwerk fur sprachkritische Textanalyse liegt nun in einer Neuauflage vor. Die Deutsche Satzsemantik verknupft auf verstandliche Weise Grammatik, Pragmatik, Satzanalyse und Textanalyse und erhellt so das oszillierende Wechselspiel von Ausdruck und Inhalt im jeweiligen Kontext. Anhand unterschiedlicher Beispieltexte, darunter die 10 Gebote, ein Grundgesetzartikel, ein akademisches Vorwort und verschiedene Zeitungsartikel, entwickelt der Autor eine Methode der praktischen Textanalyse mit dem Ziel eines "Zwischen-den-Zeilen-Lesens" und bietet zugleich einen erleichterten Zugang zu...

This work introduces the concept of the Voice of the Other and the intersubjective world it creates for humans. The unconscious processes of speech and language are deeply identified with the ego. In the movement from nature to civilization, the newborn is mastered by language and becomes part of the social world of his parents. The child's thought is now structured by parental language and speech as well as by memories stored in the unconscious. What is real for the individual is composed only of the images and words that define them. Even family and school relationships are structured in...

This book demonstrates how corpus-based research can advance the understanding of linguistic phenomena in a given language. By presenting a detailed analysis of collocations and idioms in a digital corpus of English and German, the contributors to this volume show how the use of collocations and idioms has changed over time, and suggests possible triggers for this change. The book not only examines what these collocations and idioms are, but also what their purpose is within languages. Idioms and Collocations is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the...