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

This wide-ranging study demonstrates how meaning is produced in the process of creating, viewing and analysing theatre. Moving from the history and theory of drama and theatre semiotics to the practical application of an expanded semiotic approach, this accessible book includes contemporary case studies and cross-cultural analysis.

Researchers in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) have often pointed to grammar as a locus of ideology in discourse. This book illustrates the role that grammars as models of language (and image) can play in revealing ideological properties of texts and discourse in social and political contexts. The book takes the reader through three distinct grammatical frameworks - functional grammar, multimodal grammar and cognitive grammar. Using examples taken from a range of discourses relating to globalisation, including discourses of immigration, war, corporate practice and political protests, the...

I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This book proposes that Richards was a "protocognitivist."

West argues that Richards anticipated many of the discipline's core aims, methods and assumptions. The book argues that the roots of cognitive psychology lie in early 20th-century psychology, when there was a focus on cognitive processes such as memory and learning, attention, categorisation, perception and consciousness. It was this cognitive psychology that Richards drew...

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.

On the basis of a world-wide convenience sample of 116 languages, the distribution of zero-marking of spatial relations over the languages of the world is shown to largely escape any genetically, areally and/or typologically based constraints. The main goal of this book is to firmly establish the cross-linguistic occurrence of the zero-marking of spatial relations and to provide a framework for its study in terms of economy and predictability.

Diese Studie, hervorgegangen aus der Habilitationsschrift des Autors, entwickelt die erste sowohl einheitliche als auch formal explizite Theorie der freien Dative des Deutschen. Traditionelle Dativtypen, die abgedeckt werden, umfassen den possessiven Dativ, den dativus (in)commodi sowie den dativus iudicantis. Die zentrale Hypothese des Buches lautet: Jeder freie Dativ bindet den Possessor eines Koarguments desselben finiten Teilsatzes. Damit ist der freie Dativ der Exponent einer Reflexivierungsdiathese, die viel mit kanonischer Reflexivitat gemeinsam hat. Allerdings ist...

In this important book, Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned.

The significance of oppositional meaning is well-known, and has been discussed by scholars for millennia, from Philosophy to Politics. But the main emphasis has always been on the conventional opposite: the opposite recognised by lexical semantics.

Starting from socio-cultural viewpoints,...