Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Books

A volume in Literacy, Language, and LearningSeries Editor Patricia Ruggiano Schmidt, Le Moyne CollegeOkay, wait a minute. Does that title mean students need to be inspired . . . or they can be inspiringwriters?How about both.Getting our students to write...

Livesey lays the works of Demosthenes, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul side-by-side and compares the rhetorical strategies—such as hyperbole, rebuke, and irony—that each used to win over their audiences. In doing so, she teases out the ambiguity...

The Semantic and Structural Analysis (SSA) commentaries are designed to assist Bible translators and Bible translation consultants. Due to the careful attention to meaning at all levels of the discourse, they should also be useful for Bible scholars,...

Prophetic RhetoricCase Studies in Text Analysis and TranslationSecond EditionErnst R. WendlandSIL International®Publications in Translation and Textlinguistics 7 Why were the Hebrew prophets so persuasive? Of course, they were spokesmen for God, but...

This book traces the genealogy of meaning structures utilising the language of category theory. It combines theoretical frameworks from Philosophy, Semiotics, Psychology, Sociology and Linguistics with experimental findings from Cognitive Psychology,...

Explores how Didion's nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.

First published in 1979, this book develops a grammatically orientated semantics (as opposed to a semantically orientated grammar) of mood and condition in English. It seeks to establish correspondences between areas of semantic organisation ('planes')...

Die Rhetorik und j�����dische Homiletik ist ein Buch von Ludwig Philippson, das erstmals 1890 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber die Kunst der Rhetorik und Homiletik im j�����dischen Kontext. Philippson untersucht die...

This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature. It establishes an incontrovertible connection between literary devices - figurative language, rhetoric, and so on - and pedagogy and...

Dieses Buch untersucht im Rahmen der Framing-Theorie, wie Nachrichtenmedien soziale Themen und Ereignisse konstruieren und dadurch bestimmte Wahrnehmungen vermitteln. Durch die Operationalisierung des medialen Framings als Interpretationsprozess durch...

This book explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media. Gangtaiqiang (Hong Kong-Taiwan accent), a socially recognizable form of mediatized Taiwanese...

This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology. The numerical scale model provides a unified framework to connect...

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive...

This book offers an accessible, practical and engaging guide that provides sample instructional activities supported by theoretical background information, with a focus on the nature of the instructional process in relation to several variables. It...

DO YOU EVER FEEL THAT FAMILIAR TIGHTNESS IN YOUR CHEST AS YOU STEP UP TO SPEAK, THE FEAR GRIPPING YOUR VOICE BEFORE A SINGLE WORD COMES OUT? Are you tired of being silenced by your nerves or walking away from the podium feeling like you weren't heard...

One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, viz., the question of what counts as properly `understanding' a referring act in communication. In this inquiry, the particular line pursued...

1. 1 OBJECTIVES The main objective of this joint work is to bring together some ideas that have played central roles in two disparate theoretical traditions in order to con­ tribute to a better understanding of the relationship...

R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire...

Semantic Indexicality shows how a simple syntax can be combined with a propositional language at the level of logical analysis. It is the adoption of such a base language which has not been attempted before, and it is this...

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book presents the view that the semantic contribution of tense is made in relation to structurally higher...

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of...

Preface.- 1. Negation in a cross-linguistic perspective.1.0 Introduction and overview.1.1 Negation in logic and language.1.2 Negation in typology and diachronic linguistics.1.3. Negative polarity.1.4 Negative concord: observations and issues.1.5 A...

Carlota S. Smith was a key figure in linguistic research and a pioneering woman in generative linguistics. This selection of papers focuses on the research into tense, aspect, and discourse that Smith completed while Professor of Linguistics at the...

by the question in its being an answer, if only in a circumstantial (i. e. inessential) manner. One indeed must question oneself in order to remember, says Plato, but the dialectic, which would be scientific, must be something...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Seminar für Allgemeine Rhetorik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar: Verhandlungsrhetorik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Narration am Beispiel des 40...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Stimme: Täglich gebrauchen wir sie und doch sind wir uns ihrer Entstehung und Wirkung kaum bewusst...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 1,1, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Philosophische Fakultät, Fachbereich Philosophie - Rhetorik - Medien), Veranstaltung: Allgemeine Rhetorik, Sprache:...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2000 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik (IKP)), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Rhetorik / Phonetik / Sprechwissenschaft, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Krieg im Vietnam zog sich über 30 Jahre hin und beschäftigte insgesamt vier Präsidenten. Die Präsidenten Eisenhower und Kennedy...

This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults. In chapters that are accessible to students and researchers as well as clinicians, this volume introduces...

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic...

This volume focuses on the role language plays at all levels of the argumentation process. It explores the effects that specific linguistic choices may have in the production and the reception of arguments and in doing so, it moves beyond the first,...

This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area. The first part of the book, entitled 'Theoretical Approaches to Philosophy of...

Introduction.- PART I: Semantics, Pragmatics and Meaning.- Chapter 1. Conceptual Correlates of Words.- Chapter 2. The Locus of Semantics and the Decoding-inferring Distinction.- Chapter 3. Revisiting Holism.- PART II: Conditionals.- Chapter 4. The...

This monograph presents the result of the authors' scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional...

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts. The editors take an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ways in which culture, identity and meaning-making are constructed and performed through a variety of...

This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this...

Conceptions of the law have long neglected a rhetorical perspective. Yet recent studies have revealed that since antiquity, rhetoric has helped shape legal theory and jurisprudence. Not only do rhetorical tropes define legal education, writing,...

This book includes contributions to research in the area of language use and gender-based violence (GBV). It demonstrates how the mechanisms of gendered power in news and social media texts operate linguistically in the study of GBV.

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics. SCA broadens the...

This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege´s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and...

This book is a pragma-stylistic study of Ian McEwan's fiction, providing a qualitative analysis of his selected novels using (im)politeness theory. (Im)politeness is investigated on two levels of analysis: the level of the plot and the story world...

In dieser Diskursgeschichte analysiert W. J. Dodd die "unruhigen Stimmen" von Gegnern, deren zeitgenössische Kritik am Nationalsozialismus sich aus Positionen des territorialen und inneren Exils auf die "Sprache des Nationalsozialismus" konzentrierte...