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This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective. The contributors include philosophers, theoretical linguists, socio-pragmaticians, and cognitive scientists. The book is divided into four sections...

Are you learning English? If so, that's great! We would like to help you on your journey to learn English.Reading in English is perhaps the best way to build up your vocabulary. With our book English Short Stories for Beginners, you can practice reading...

At the foundation of Sleight of Mouth is the realization that words can create worlds. Language is a pivotal part of how we humans create our maps and models of reality, for better or for worse. Changing the words we use can shift the...

In opposition to the classical set theory of natural language, Novák's highly original monograph offers a theory based on alternative and fuzzy sets. This new approach is firmly grounded in semantics and pragmatics, and...

Louis A. Arena University of Delaware Newark, DE This monograph contains select, revised, and invited papers which deal with the topic, Language Proficiency: Defining, Teaching, and Testing. This topic was the theme of the...

Foreword Notes on Contributors Tables and Figures Communicating Hospital Work; R.Iedema Institutional and Professional Orders of Ethics in the Discourse Practices of Research Recruitment in Oncology; E.Barton The Communicative Functions of the Hospital...

Many of the vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. For example, bottleneck, hard-headed and getting a foot in the door all involve figurative extensions of parts of the body. To understand...

The ability to use vague language ("bags of time", "doing stuff", "sort of thing", "and all that") is an aspect of communicative competence of considerable social importance. This volume explores the function of vague language in context. It spans genre...

Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: GLOBAL COHERENCE AND GENRE Global Coherence and Global Discourse Relations Topic-based Approaches to Global Coherence Global Coherence and Grounding In Discourse PART 2: EXPECTATIONS OF RELEVANCE AND GENRE...

Number is a major research domain in semantics, syntax and morphology. However, no current theory of number is applicable to all three fields. In this work, the author argues that a unified theory is not only possible, but necessary for the study of...

In-depth investigation of Hebrew verb morphology in light of cutting edge theories of morphology and lexical semantics An original theory about the semantic content of roots An account of how roots function in word-formation...

This book offers both a retrospective view on how theories of aspectuality have developed over the past 30 years, and presents current, new directions of aspectuality research. The articles in this book take a wide...

The Routledge Handbook of Rhetoric and Power represents the first comprehensive disciplinary investigation into the relationship between rhetoric and power as it is expressed in different aspects of society.

El Poder de Persuadir con tus PalabrasLa Guía Definitiva para Convertirte en un Maestro de la Comunicación PersuasivaDescubre las Claves del Éxito para Desatar tu Potencial Comunicacional. ¿Quieres aprender a hablar en...

Cognitive linguistics offers tools to discuss philosophical problems of being and becoming (identity) as necessary or contingent. Major positions on these questions can be explained based on human counterfactual thought. Conceptualisations of innovation...

All human activity takes place in space and time in one way or another, which is consequently reflected in our language. We not only talk about space and time but also cannot but ground our linguistic activity in space and time. Furthermore, space and...

The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker's and Lakoff's Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and...

Literature happens in the mind. Literary texts are the product of an intentional mind addressing another mind, and language is the instrument in this cognitive mediation. This work emerges in the confluence of three different research areas: literary...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germanistisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Romantische und neusachliche Narrative in TV-Serien. Zur Aktualität literarhistorischer...

Rhetorik ist seit ihren Anfängen dem Vorwurf der Manipulation ausgesetzt, gegen den schon in der Antike eine ‚Rhetorik im Dienst der Vernunft' aufgeboten worden ist. Die Untersuchung ist der Transformation dieses Konzepts in Aufklärung und Romantik...

Marking the 50th anniversary of one among this philosopher's most distinguished pieces, Blumenberg's Rhetoric proffers a decidedly diversified interaction with the essai polyvalently entitled 'Anthropological Approach to the Topicality (or Currency,...

Bei Reden vor einem größeren Publikum werden Beschallungsanlagen ("Mikrofon und Lautsprecher") heutzutage mit großer Selbstverständlichkeit eingesetzt. Welchen Einfluss diese seit rund 100 Jahren verfügbaren technischen Geräte, deren Erfindung eine Zäsur...

Aristoteles definiert die Rhetorik "als das Vermögen, bei jedem Gegenstand das möglicherweise Glaubhafte zu sehen". Die Erkenntnis des jeweiligen πιθανόν, des "Glaubhaften", des "Überzeugenden", ist dabei allein dem Menschen möglich als dem einzigen...

This volume provides a broad overview of rhetoric phenomena in advertising, taking into account historical aspects of advertising and the systematic dimensions of rhetoric, various advertising genres and diverse concepts of 'rhetoric'. It focuses on...

Electracy and Transmedia StudiesSeries Editors: Jan Rune Holmevik and Cynthia HaynesAddressed to digital humanists, Reimagining the Humanities updates our methods for engaging with ideology and technology, drawing on a broad range of practices informed...

THE WAC JOURNAL is a national peer-reviewed journal on writing across the curriculum. Published by Clemson University, Parlor Press, and the WAC Clearinghouse, THE WAC JOURNAL is an annual collection of articles by educators about their WAC ideas and WAC...

The book contains essays in honor of Victor Raskin. The contributions are all directly related to some of the major areas of work in which Raskin's scholarship has spanned for decades. The obvious connecting idea is the encyclopedic script-based...

""A Commentary on the Psalms V2"" by George Phillips is a book that is primarily intended for use by Hebrew students and clergymen. The book was first published in 1872 and contains detailed explanations of the various Psalms found in the Old Testament...

How do we construct an image of the characters we read about? Drawing together theories from linguistics, social cognition and literary stylistics, this is the first book-length study to focus on the role of language and characterisation in the dialogue...

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and belief, and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is...

An Introduction to Lexical Semantics provides a comprehensive theoretical overview of lexical semantics, analysing the major lexical categories in English: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions. The book illustrates step-by-step how to use...

This volume demonstrates the role of contrastive rhetoric in ESL courses, and offers suggestions for using CR toward cultural understanding of rhetorical decisions. For scholars and educators in composition, rhetoric, education, ESL, and related areas.

The authors of this book, both experienced teachers, examine the controversy surrounding two popular methods for teaching writing -- the "process" approach and its offspring, Writing Across the Curriculum. Both have recently been called into question for...

Traditions of Writing Research reflects the different styles of work offered at the Writing Research Across Borders conference. Organized by Charles Bazerman, one of the pre-eminent scholars in writing studies, the conference facilitated an...

Examines the problem of social change in a modern, mediated democracy. Argues that civility is not simply a virtue but a functional set of tools that must be adapted to specific situations.

This is a study of a collection of oral compositions of the Rotenese of eastern Indonesia. Recited in semantic parallelism, these compositions require a strict pairing of all words to produce correspondingly ordered verses. These narrative verses create...

Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and...

This book is about the author as guided and supported by his caring mother and as conjoined with his caressing wife. We are all products of our nature, nurture and culture, and we are environed by context and its participants. The locale of our praxis is...

Gegenstand dieses Lehrwerks ist die Einführung in die wissenschaftliche Betrachtung der sprachlichen Bedeutung italienischer Wortschatzeinheiten. Dabei soll in erster Linie den Studierenden das begriffliche Instrumentarium nahe gebracht sowie ein...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist in der Forschung viel über den "Tod" oder das "Weiterleben" der Rhetorik im 18. Jahrhundert gestritten worden, ohne daß es zu einem Konsens gekommen wäre. Der Autor versucht die Frage durch einen theoretischen Neuansatz,...

Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zur politoliguistischen Erforschung der Sprache der extremen Linken in Deutschland und Russland zwischen 1914 und 1919. In theoretischer Hinsicht orientiert sich die Studie an Kategorien und Methoden der Politolinguistik,...

Die Frage nach den Ursachen für das Phänomen der Phraseologisierung, also der Verschmelzung freier Wortgruppen zu festen, reproduzierbaren Wortschatzeinheiten, ist bisher noch wenig erforscht. Auch die sich dabei ergebende Differenz zwischen...