Evidentials and Relevance (Pragmatics & Beyond New)
By Elly Ifantidou
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2001-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027251053
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027251053
This work examines evidentials and relevance. It covers topics such as: evidentials - their nature and functions; speech-act therapy; Grice on communication; relevance theory; sentence adverbials; parentheticals; and evidential particles.
History of Linguistics 2002: Selected Papers from the Ninth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, 27-30 August 2002, Sao Paulo ... in the History of the Language Sciences)
By Eduardo Guimaraes, Diana Luz Pessoa De Barros
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:242
* Publication Date:2007-07-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027246017
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027246011
This volume brings together a selection of revised papers, originally presented at ICHoLS IX (Sao Paulo/Compinas). The papers in the first section deal with studies ranging from the Latin model in post-Renaissance grammars to new scientific propositions at the turn of the 19th century; the second part carries articles devoted to a variety of topics in 19th and 20th century linguistics; and in the third section are united the papers based on plenary presentations, ranging from ancient Greek reflections upon language to developments in Brazilian linguistics beginning with the implantation of structuralist work by Joaquim Mattosa Camara (1904-1970) in the 1960s. In the concluding contribution, a survey of advances in the history of the language sciences is offered.
The Phonological Enterprise (Oxford Linguistics)
By Mark Hale, Charles Reiss
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:336
* Publication Date:2008-05-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199533962
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199533961
Product Description:
This book scrutinizes recent work in phonological theory from the perspective of Chomskyan generative linguistics and argues that progress in the field depends on taking seriously the idea that phonology is best studied as a mental computational system derived from an innate base, phonological Universal Grammar. Two simple problems of phonological analysis provide a frame for a variety of topics throughout the book. The competence-performance distinction and markedness theory are both addressed in some detail, especially with reference to phonological acquisition. Several aspects of Optimality Theory, including the use of Output-Output Correspondence, functionalist argumentation and dependence on typological justification are critiqued. The authors draw on their expertise in historical linguistics to argue that diachronic evidence is often mis-used to bolster phonological arguments, and they present a vision of the proper use of such evidence. Issues of general interest for cognitive scientists, such as whether categories are discrete and whether mental computation is probabilistic are also addressed. The book ends with concrete proposals to guide future phonological research.
The breadth and depth of the discussion, ranging from details of current analyses to the philosophical underpinnings of linguistic science, is presented in a direct style with as little recourse to technical language as possible.
Syntactic Gradience: The Nature of Grammatical Indeterminacy (Oxford Linguistics)
By Bas Aarts
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:288
* Publication Date:2007-08-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199219265
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199219261
Product Description:
This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated. Professor Aarts addresses the tension between linguistic concepts and the continuous phenomena they describe by testing and categorizing grammatical vagueness and indeterminacy. He considers to what extent gradience is a grammatical phenomenon or a by-product of imperfect linguistic description, and makes a series of linked proposals for its theoretical formalization.
Bas Aarts draws on, and reviews, work in psychology, philosophy and language from Aristotle to Chomsky., and writes clearly on a fascinating and important aspect of language and cognition. His book will appeal to scholars and graduate students of language and syntactic theory in departments of (English) linguistics, philosophy and cognitive science.
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader (The Politics of Language Series)
By Lucy Burke, Tony Crowley & Alan Girvin (ed)
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:520
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415186803
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415186803
Product Description:
This reader features the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century.
The themed sections include:
1. Structure and Agency in Language - Theorising the Sign; Language in History; Language and Subjectivity; Language and Gender; Language and Sexuality
2. Unity and Diversity in Language - Order and Difference; Language Communities; Englishes; Language and Creativity
3. Languages, Cultures, Communities - Languages/Cultures; Language and Colonialism; Language, Class and Education.
Essays by: Chinua Achebe, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Basil Bernstein, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Pierre Bourdieu, Edward K. Braithwaite, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Helene Cixous, Brian Cox, Benedetto Croce, David Dabydeen, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Antonio Gramsci, Luce Irigaray, Roman Jacobson, Braj B. Kachru, Julia Kristeva, William Labov, Jacques Lacan, H. L. Mencken, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and many more...
Summary: A perfect introduction and exploration of Cultural Theory
Rating: 5
This book has numerous articles which furnish vast amount of information on cultural theory. If you want to learn more about cultural theory, Vygotsky, Bruner, Malinowski, etc., this book has all and more.
The Language of Literature: Linguistic Approaches to Classical Texts (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology)
By Rutger J. Allan, Michel Buijs
* Publisher:Brill Academic Publishers
* Number Of Pages:251
* Publication Date:2007-09-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004156542
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004156548
Product Description:
This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary aspects of classical texts.
Compliments and Compliment Responses: Grammatical Structure and Sequential Organization (Studies in Bilingualism)
By Andrea Golato
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:344
* Publication Date:2004-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027226253
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027226259
This book analyzes compliments and compliment responses in naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in German. Using Conversation Analytic methodology, it views complimenting and responding to compliments as social actions which are co-produced and negotiated among interactants. This study is the first to analyze the entire complimenting sequence within the larger interactional context, thereby demonstrating the interconnectedness of sequence organization, turn-design, and (varying) function(s) of a turn. In this regard, the present study makes a novel contribution to the study of talk-in-interaction beyond German. The book adds to existing work on interaction and grammar by closely analyzing the functions of linguistic resources used to design compliment turns and compliment responses. Here, the study extends previous Conversation Analytic work on person reference by including an analysis of inanimate object reference. Lastly, the book discusses the use and function of various particles and demonstrates how speaker alignments and misalignments are accomplished through various grammatical forms.
Gender Across Languages: The Linguistic Representation of Women and Men (Impact: Studies in Language and Society)
By Marlis Hellinger, Hadumod Bubmann, Hadumod Bussmann
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:344
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110826
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110824
Product Description:
This is the first of a three-volume comprehensive reference work on "Gender Across Languages", which provides systematic descriptions of various categories of gender (grammatical, lexical, referential, social) in 30 languages of diverse genetic, typological and socio-cultural backgrounds. Among the issues discussed for each language are the following: what are the structural properties of the language that have an impact on the relations between language and gender? What are the consequences for areas such as agreement, pronominalization and word-formation? How is specification of and abstraction from (referential) gender achieved in language. Is empirical evidence available for the assumption that masculine/male expressions are interpreted as generics? Can tendencies of variations and change be observed, and have alternatives been proposed for a more equal linguistic treatment of women and men? This volume provides the basis for explicitly comparative analysis of gender across languages.
Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs
By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnik Golinkoff
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:608
* Publication Date:2006-04-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195170008
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195170009
Product Description:
Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they determine the sentence's argument structure. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume enters the relatively uncharted waters of early verb learning, focusing on the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these foundations intersect with the burgeoning language system.
Connectives As Discourse Landmarks (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Agnes Celle, Ruth Huart
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:212
* Publication Date:2007-06-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027254044
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027254047
Phonology and Language Use (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
By Joan Bybee
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:260
* Publication Date:2001-07-23
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521583748
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521583749
Product Description:
Referencing new developments in cognitive and functional linguistics, phonetics, and connectionist modeling, this book investigates various ways in which a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology. Rather than assuming phonological representations in terms of phonemes, Joan Bybee adopts an exemplar model, in which specific tokens of use are stored and categorized phonetically with reference to variables in the context. This model allows an account of phonetically gradual sound change that produces lexical variation, and provides an explanatory account of the fact that many reductive sound changes affect high frequency items first.
Summary: Finally!
Rating: 4
After decades of theories built upon painfully abstract argumentation, here is an approach to language that fits how we actually use it--and with how we learn, master, and play with much of what we do in life (vision, music, work, sports, etc.). Chomskian structuralist linguistics treats language as if it were some mysterious coding machine, completely unlike other cognitive, purpose-driven human activities. In go concepts and noises; deep inside the black machine, its gears and rules and constraints turn and whir; then out come the utterances of English or Asmat or Vietnamese (depends on which "machine" we have). And once we get our machines, we're stuck with them--they don't evolve. Each machine/language has its own set of rules, and only elite linguists understand them.
Like cognitive linguistics, Bybee's usage-based approach treats our use of language as very much like our uses of other skills. As with other skills, fluency comes through frequent practice. Many other parts of the UB approach also seem obvious or "common sense," and Bybee excels at making their explanatory force clear. This approach is still new, and still developing, but it looks like it has a LOT of potential for future research--not just in phonology, but also in morphology, syntax, and in grammaticalization (and other studies of diachronic language change).
BILINGUALISM PRIMARY SCHOOL CL
By Mills
* Publisher:Other
* Number Of Pages:176
* Publication Date:1993-06-14
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415088607
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415088602
Product Description:
Over the past few years bilingualism has come to be seen not as a hindrance, but as an asset which, properly nurtured, will benefit children's linguistic awareness, cultural sensitivity and cognitive functioning. "Bilingualism in the Primary School" gives primary teachers a window on the experience of the bilingual children in their care. It helps them to make the most of what the children and their parents have to offer, giving those children a good start in the National Curriculum. The book covers three main areas: first, the ways in which bilingual children in school can learn English and at the same time have their first languages incorporated naturally into the curriculum; second, various approaches to the assessment of oral language (including children's mother tongue) and finally the bilingual experience of children, teachers and parents within the wider community. Many of the contributors to the book are themselves bilingual and are thus able to understand the children's experience from within, but they are also particularly careful to show monolingual teachers how to make use of children's mother tongue experience.
Functional Structure in Nominals: Nominalization and Ergativity (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Artemis Alexiadou
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:231
* Publication Date:2001-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110559
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110558
The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
By Alice G. B. Ter Meulen, Werner Abraham
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:230
* Publication Date:2004-11-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115682
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115683
Chapter 1
The composition of meaning*
Alice terMeulen and Werner Abraham
University of Groningen / University of Vienna
Linguistic competence is a cognitive ability unique to human beings, characterized
either as knowledge that certain sentences are grammatical or certain
phrases havemore than onemeaning,or as knowledge how to express thoughts
into sentences or to communicate what happened in a story. The first characterization
is associated with the formalist, generativist school of linguistic
theory. The latter is advocated by functionalist, semantic or pragmatic theories
of our knowledge of language. In Newmeyer’s highly acclaimed book Language
Form and Language Function (1998) the author takes a clear, but no doubt
formalist-biased look at the contributions that formalists and functionalists
have made toward explanations of why linguistic descriptions and their underlying
theoretical assumptions are as they are. Both functionalists and formalists
camps agree how to distinguish language knowledge fromlanguage use, grammatical
from non-grammatical knowledge, and syntactic from non-syntactic
knowledge. This is less clear with respect to lexical versus encyclopedic knowledge
and the question whether syntactic distinctions are at the same time
meaningful in terms of semantic distinctions. In the formalists’ view knowledge
of language is autonomous in relation to non-grammatical knowledge,
and within grammatical knowledge it is possible to distinguish a syntactic,
computational component, autonomous from semantic and other modules of
grammar. The central formalist claim, in particular the Chomskyan generative
position, is that explanatory power of descriptions and syntactic representations
resides in the universal character of syntactic theory itself. In other words,
syntax is internally explained again by syntax, albeit of a higher order. External
explanations may be derived from functional properties of language in processes
of conceptualization and communication, among which the assumption
that there is a close, perhaps even compositional mapping between semantic
and syntactic constituent structure. In the modular design of the generative
theory (Universal Grammar; Chomsky 1993 and later), the mapping to semantics
is the only interface at this top level. The clausal, computational component
has always been taken to be mute to relations of ‘communicative dynamics’ –
i.e., the relation to text and discourse structures beyond the isolated clause.
The present collection of original articles develops the concept of interfaces
further. There are in principle two views: an interface may be the domain
or module where restrictions developed in one module are applied to another.
Representations are derived in terms foreign to the module where the representations
are located. In the terminology of Minimalism (Chomsky 1995; see also
Abraham, Epstein, Thráinsson, & Zwart (Eds.) 1995), such representations are
attained by derivation (Move and Merge), as opposed to those interface descriptions
that come about by direct identification in another module (i.e., through
Merge, or lexical insertion, in the terminology of Minimalism).
The semantics-syntax interface had accounted all along for meanings at
the level of Logical Form (Chomsky 1981; Hornstein 1984, 1995). The syntaxpragmatic
interface, on the other hand, is the result of what one may call
the ‘pragmatic turn’ in the linguistic theory, where content is partitioned into
given and new information. In other words, the structural division of the
clause has been subjected to criteria of information, or discourse structure. Focus/
rheme and topic/theme have been assigned particular structural positions
in the clause (cf. Brody 1990; Rooth 1992 for English; Rizzi 1997 for Italian;
Abraham 1993, 1997 and Molnárfi 2002 for German). Both interfaces require
a structurally descriptive inventory whose specific shapes can be motivated on
theory-internal grounds only. As regards the syntax-pragmatic interface, one
alternative is to do without information-structural features (i.e., categories in
the structure of the clause such as ±foc und ±top, similar to ±wh, introduced
much earlier; see e.g. Meinunger 2000) and transfer the explanatory power to
the interface between grammar and cognitive processes. Such a step would
seem to converge closely with basic tenets of Minimalism (Chomsky 1993,
1995). It would, no doubt, be a natural view for optimality-theory (Grimshaw
1997), specifically if, following Pesetsky (1998), focused on the interface of
phonology, syntax, and discourse structure (Fanselow 2002). The papers by
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Towards a Critical Sociolinguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
By Rajendra Singh
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:342
* Publication Date:1996-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027236283
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027236289
关键字及词组
language death, Puerto Rican, Hindi, phonological, Marathi, basilectal, Gumperz, preterite, Hiberno-English, factor group, Latino, code-switching, interactional sociolinguistics, semi-speakers, syntactic, Quebec French, identity hypothesis, lenition, speech community, explanandum
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ISBN 9027236283, 9789027236289
Language Contact and Contact Languages (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism (Hsm))
By Peter Siemund, Noemi Kintana
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:370
* Publication Date:2008-07-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027219273
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027219275
Product Description:
This new volume on language contact and contact languages presents current research of distinguished scholars in the field as well as highly talented young scientists. It has two principal aims. Firstly, it ventures to analyze language contact from different perspectives, notably language typology, diachronic linguistics, language acquisition and translation studies. Secondly, it places special emphasis on the description, elaboration and explanation of universal constraints on language contact.The volume contains contributions by Bernard Comrie, Bernd Heine, Lars Johanson, Michael Noonan and Thomas Stolz on language contact and typology; Martin Elsig, Steffen Hoder/Ludger Zeevart, Conxita Lleo/Susana Cortes/Ariadna Benet and Lukas Pietsch on diachronic aspects of language contact; Margareta Almgren/Leire Beloki/Itziar Idiazabal/Ibon Manterola and Michaela Hilbert on language contact and language acquisition; and, Nicole Baumgarten/Demet Ozcetin and Erich Steiner on language contact and translation.
Rhetoric in Detail: Discourse analyses of rhetorical talk and text (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture)
By Barbara Johnstone, Christopher Eisenhart
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:341
* Publication Date:2008-10-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027206198
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027206190
chapter 1
Discourse analysis and rhetorical studies
Christopher Eisenhart and Barbara Johnstone
University ofMassachusetts, Dartmouth / Carnegie Mellon University
Overview
This book brings together twelve studies, all written by scholars who identify
themselves primarily as rhetoricians, that employ theory and/or method fromlinguistic
discourse analysis. The studies make use of a variety of discourse analytic
resources, including those of critical discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics,
narrative analysis, and computer-aided corpus analysis. They illustrate the
utility of discourse analysis in research in a variety of rhetorical sites, including
discourses of public memory and collective identity, rhetoric of science and technology,
vernacular argumentation,media discourse, and immigration studies. The
method these projects share begins in close attention to the linguistic details of
records of discourse, be they written texts or transcripts of talk. The authors take a
mostly qualitative, interpretive approach, but one that differs from the approaches
often taken in rhetorical studies in being data-driven rather than theory-driven.
Working upward from particular, situated instances of text and talk rather than
downwards from abstract models of discourse, they take systematic approaches
to exploring why particular utterances take the particular shapes they do. The
approach involves beginning with an attitude attuned to multiple sources of contextual
constraint, rather than beginning with theory and seeking evidence for it.
While the studies in these chapters deal with various rhetorical issues in a variety
of ways, they all share three methodological characteristics: They are empirical, in
the sense that they are based in observation rather than introspection alone; they
are ethnographic, in that they seek to understand the rhetorical workings of discourse
and context through the eyes and minds of those engaged in them; and
they are grounded, returning again and again to their data as they build theory to
account for it.
Originating in an analytical heuristic rather than in a pre-chosen theoretical
framework, these studies illustrate the potential of discourse-based,
observation-driven theory building for rhetorical studies and criticism. As the
focus of rhetoric widens from the planned to the spontaneous and from the public
to the private, rhetoricians acknowledge the need for new methods, and they
will find some illustrated here. Discourse analystsmay likewise discover some new
tools. The first theorists of discourse in the Greco-Roman intellectual tradition
were the philosophers and sophists who described and taught public speaking
to those citizens whose voices mattered in a newly democratic fifth-century BCE
Athens, and the authors whose work appears here represent the reinvigoration of
this tradition, particularly in North America, in the “new rhetoric” of the later
twentieth century. In new ways,many of these studies draw on the traditional analytical
tools of rhetoric – figures of speech, topoi, lines of argument; invention and
style; ethos, logos, and pathos – showing how they can inform and be informed
by discourse analysts’ attention to how lexicon and syntax can evoke styles, genres,
and prior texts and speakers, and thereby create social relations and experiential
worlds in talk and writing.
Methods and issues in North American rhetorical studies
Rhetoricians have always taken an inclusive approach to analytic method. In addition
to using the analytic vocabulary of classical rhetoric, practitioners have
borrowed and adapted methods fromother disciplines, taking intuition-based reasoning
from philosophy, for example, and explication de texte techniques and a
variety of critical-theoretical lenses from literary and sociological theory. These
tools were developed to answer questions about the carefully planned, often institutional
genres that were the primary object of rhetorical critique. The focus of
rhetoricians’ attention is widening, however, from public to private spheres, from
official to vernacular rhetoric, from oratory to written and multimedia discourse,
fromthe carefully crafted to spontaneous discourse emerging from fleeting everyday
rhetorical situations. Now we are asking not just about the rhetoric of politics,
but also about the rhetoric of history and the rhetoric of popular culture; not just
about the rhetoric of the public sphere but about rhetoric on the street, in the
hair salon, or online; not just about the rhetoricity of formal argument but also
about the rhetoricity of personal identity. To address these new concerns and sites,
we need to continue to supplement traditional modes of work with new techniques
for analyzing the language of text and talk and with ways of describing the
sociocultural and material contexts of discourse.
Since at least as long ago as the Wingspread conference in 1970, evaluations
of the health of rhetoric as a discipline have stressed the widening, deepening
object of rhetorical study and the need for appropriate methods and conceptual
frameworks for exploring this object. In the proceedings of that conference
(Bitzer & Black 1971), particularly in articles by Becker, Brockriede, and Henry
Johnstone discussing trends in the field, the momentum in rhetoric was observed
to be moving out from a speaker-audience dyadic, text-bounded model of study
toward studies of communication processes and interactions, situated and constituted
in rich, real-world settings. Rhetorical analysis and criticism were no longer
being applied only to historical works, but also to contemporary communication.
Rhetorical scholarship no longer focused only on institutionalized speech situations,
but was increasingly turning to experiments, to interactive and everyday
speech genres, and to other studies of meaning-making as situated activity.
As Brockriede (1971) observed, this trajectory would require the conceptual
and methodological flexibility needed to “let the transaction
itself suggest its own analytic categories,” while maintaining lively connections
with established theoretical inquiry so as not to become isolated and trivial. This
trajectory in the discipline, acknowledged again in more recent reflections (cf.
Benson 1993; Enos & McNabb 1996; Gross & Keith 1997; Cherwitz & Hikins
2000; Schiappa et al. 2002; Simons 2003), has demanded the development of conceptual
and methodological frameworks beyond, while not wholly independent
from, those already institutionalized, such as the Burkean and Neo-Aristotelian.
Where these traditional approaches to rhetorical criticism have been discussed as
heuristics for invention and interpretation as much as they are methods for systematic
analysis (Nothstine et al. 1994), some rhetoricians have turned to linguistic
discourse analysis for that sought-after conceptual and methodological flexibility.
Tracy (2001) describes the connections that have emerged between communication
studies and discourse analysis. Scholars in rhetoric and composition studies
have also issued calls for the inclusion of discourse analytic methods. MacDonald
has termed discourse studies “the interconnected fields of rhetoric and composition
and applied linguistics” (2002). Barton (2002) has suggested that composition
studies can benefit from discourse analytic approaches particularly in “connections
between texts and contexts, with a focus on the repeated use of linguistic
features ... and the associated conventions that establish their meaning and significance
in context” (285).
One way of describing the contribution this volume makes is in terms of a set
of general issues that are both current and fertile for rhetorical theory-building:
context, agency, and the relationship between style and argument. In the following
discussion, we sketch trajectories within these issues toward grounded analyses
of discourse, demonstrating how rhetoricians have and can further benefit from
discourse analytic approaches....................................
The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics. In Honour of Christian J. Kay (Costerus NS 163)
By Graham D. Caie; Carole Hough; Iren茅 Wotherspoon (Eds.)
* Publisher:Editions Rodopi BV
* Number Of Pages:242
* Publication Date:2006-12-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9042021217
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789042021211
Product Description:
List of Contents: Introduction C. P. BIGGAM: Old English colour lexemes used of textiles in Anglo-Saxon England Julie COLEMAN: Slang terms for money: a historical thesaurus Fiona DOUGLAS and John CORBETT: 'Huv a wee seat, hen': evaluative terms in Scots Philip DURKIN: Lexical splits and mergers: some difficult cases for the OED Andreas FISCHER: Of 'f忙deran' and 'eamas': avuncularity in Old English Roger LASS and Margaret LAING: $ho:fian{*}/vK2: a LAEME-based lexical study Caroline MACAFEE: The rhyme potential of Scots Terttu NEVALAINEN and Heli TISSARI: Of politeness and people Michiko OGURA: ME 'douten' and 'dreden' Jane ROBERTS: What did Anglo-Saxon seals seal when? Jeremy J. SMITH: Notes on the medical vocabulary of John Keats Jane STUART-SMITH and Claire TIMMINS: 'Tell her to shut her moof': the role of the lexicon in 'TH-fronting' in Glaswegian Louise SYLVESTER: Forces of change: are social and moral attitudes legible in this 'Historical Thesaurus' classification? Irma TAAVITSAINEN: Key word in context: semantic and pragmatic meaning of 'humour' James MCGONIGAL: Lexicographical Lyrics Notes on the Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria
Method in Unit Delimitation (Pericope) (Pericope)
By Marjo C. A. Korpel, Josef M. Oesch, Stanley E. Porter
* Publisher:Brill
* Number Of Pages:231
* Publication Date:2007-12-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9004165673
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789004165670
Synopsis
In this volume selected papers from several Pericope meetings have been combined into a thematic volume, dealing with the method of unit delimitation. The exciting find of a significantly deviating tradition of paragraphing in a hitherto unnoticed Tibero-Palestinian manuscript containing the complete Prophets and Writings is discussed. The text divisions in the Leviticus and Joshua Codices from the Schoyen collection and a fifth-century lectionary are other primary sources studied. The influence of unit delimitation on the reading and use of Greek manuscripts is described. The hierarchy and meaning of the Masoretic accents and other means of demarcating verses are investigated. The chapter division of Bishop Stephan Langton that became the standard in almost all bibles is retraced. A renowned expert evaluates the work of the Pericope group up till now. The volume closes with a proposal for a new polyglot Bible, containing data with regard to unit delimitation from four traditions: Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Latin.
Table of Contents
PrefaceM.C.A. KorpelJ.M. OeschS.E. Porter vii
Paragraphing in a Tibero-Palestinian Manuscript of the Prophets and WritingsJ.C. de MoorM.C.A. Korpel 1
The Leviticus and Joshua Codex from the Schoyen Collection: A Closer Look at the Text DivisionsK. De Troyer 35
The Influence of Unit Delimitation on Reading and Use of Greek ManuscriptsS.E. Porter 44
The Accents: Hierarchy and MeaningE.J. Revell 61
Graphic Devices Used by the Editors of Ancient and Mediaeval Manuscripts to Mark Verse-Lines in Classical Hebrew PoetryS. Tatu 92
Reflections upon the Chapter Divisions of Stephan LangtonJ. van Banning S.J. 141
Unit Delimitation in the Old Testament: An AppraisalW.G.E. Watson 162
Diverging Traditions: Jeremiah 27-29 (m, S, D) / 34-36 (G): A Proposal for a New Text Edition 185
Abbreviations 216
Index of Authors 217
Index of Biblical Texts 221
Language And Meaning: The Structural Creation of Reality (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics)
By Christopher Beedham
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:225
* Publication Date:2005-11-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027215642
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027215642