Toposaurus: A Humorous Treasury of Toponyms : An Entertaining Assortment of Familiar Words and Phrases Derived from Place Names
By John D. Jacobson
* Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
* Number Of Pages:256
* Publication Date:1990-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0471527726
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780471527725
Product Description:
This study presents the origins of more than 300 common words and phrases, each including or pertaining to names of places. "Toposaurus" is filled with amusing histories on a wide variety of toponyms, each meticulously researched and guaranteed to enlighten and amuse the reader.
Where Does Binding Theory Apply? (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
By David Lebeaux
* Publisher:The MIT Press
* Number Of Pages:128
* Publication Date:2009-04-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0262512718
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780262512718
Product Description:
This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the conditions of binding theory apply and in doing so considers the nature of phrase structure (in particular how case and theta roles apply) and the nature of the lexical/functional split.
David Lebeaux begins with a revised formulation of binding theory. He reexamines Chomsky's conjecture that all conditions apply at the interfaces, in particular LF (or Logical Form), and argues instead that all negative conditions, in particular Condition C, apply continuously throughout the derivation.
Lebeaux draws a distinction between positive and negative conditions, which have different privileges of occurrence according to the architecture of the grammar. Negative conditions, he finds, apply homogeneously throughout the derivation; positive conditions apply solely at LF. A hole in Condition C then forces a reconsideration of the whole architecture of the grammar. He finds that case and theta representations are split apart and are only fused at later points in the derivation, after movement has applied. Lebeaux's exploration of the relationship between case and theta theory reveals a relationship of greater subtlety and importance than is generally assumed. His arguments should interest syntacticians and those curious about the foundations of grammar.
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Beyond Morphology: Interface Conditions on Word Formation (Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
By Peter Ackema, Ad Neeleman
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:318
* Publication Date:2004-12-23
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199267286
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199267286
Product Description:
This book provides a compelling argument for a radically modular view of the human language faculty. It does so on the basis of the most comprehensive study to date of how word formation is constrained by different components of the grammar. Peter Ackema and Ad Neeleman argue that complex words are generated by a dedicated rule system which interacts with the syntax on the one hand and the phonology on the other. Their detailed analysis of these interactions explains numerous observations, many of them new.
The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning And Temporal Cognition (Human Cognitive Processing)
By Vyvyan Evans
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:286
* Publication Date:2006-03-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:902722367X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223678
Product Description:
One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base, constitutes a phenomenologically real experience. Drawing on findings in psychology, neuroscience, and utilising the perspective of cognitive linguistics, this work argues that our experience of time may ultimately derive from perceptual processes, which in turn enable us to perceive events. As such, temporal experience is a pre-requisite for abilities such as event perception and comparison, rather than an abstraction based on such phenomena. The book represents an examination of the nature of temporal cognition with two foci: i) an investigation into (pre-conceptual) temporal experience, and ii) an analysis of temporal structure at the conceptual level (which derives from temporal experience).
Translation and Cultural Change: Studies in History, Norms and Image-projection (Benjamins Translation Library)
By Eva Hung
* Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages: 204
* Publication Date: 2005-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9027216673
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789027216670
* Binding: Hardcover
Gender in Translation: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Transmission (Translation Studies (Routledge))
By Sherry Simon
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:208
* Publication Date:1996-10-08
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415115353
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415115353
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
Gender in Translation is the first full-length study of the feminist issues surrounding translation studies. In this unprecedented and thought-provoking work, Sherry Simon argues that feminist theory challenges the traditional view of authority in translation, allowing translators to be literary activists and to create new lines of transmission. With close examinations of the history of feminist theories of language and translation studies; linguistic issues, including a critical examination of the work of Luce Irigaray; women translators from the Renaissance to the twentieth century; feminist translations of the Bible, Gender in Translation is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in translation theory and practice. Preface and Acknowledgements, I. Introduction: Taking Gendered Positions in Translation Theory, II. Creating New Lines of Transmission, III. Missed Connections: Transporting French Feminism to Anglo-American, IV. Corrective Measures: The Bible in Feminist Frame, V. Conclusion: Revising the Borders of Culture and Translation, Notes, Bibliography, Index.
Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective: Theoretical and methodological issues. (Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication)
By Wolfgang Herrlitz, Sigmund Ongstad, Piet-Hein van de Ven
* Publisher:Rodopi
* Number Of Pages:284
* Publication Date:2007-09-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9042022787
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789042022782
Product Description:
Pioneering in the comparison of standard language teaching in Europe, the International Mother tongue Education Network (IMEN) in the last twenty-five years stimulated experts from more than fifteen European countries to participate in a range of research projects in this field of qualitative educational analyses. The volume "Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective - Theoretical and methodological issues" documents theoretical principals and methodological developments that during the last decades shaped IMEN research and may enlarge the fundaments of comparative qualitative research in language education in a seminal way. The topics of this volume include * IMEN's aims, points of departure, history and methodology. * research on the professional practical knowledge of MTE-teachers. * innovation, key incident analysis and international triangulation * positioning in theory and practice Also included: the IMEN bibliography 1984-2004 which supplies a complete picture of IMEN research activities from the beginning.
Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition (Studies in Bilingualism)
By Christine Dimroth, Marianne Starren
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:355
* Publication Date:2003-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588114120
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588114129
Product Description:
The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of varieties, from early learner language to native speaker production and from gesture to Creole prototypes. The central theme is the interplay between principles of information structure and linguistic structure on the functioning and development of the learner's system. The papers examine language-internal explanatory factors and in particular the communicative and structural forces that push and shape the acquisition process, and its outcome. On the theoretical level, the approach adopted appeals both to formal and communicative constraints on a learner's language in use. Two empirical domains provide a "resting ground" for the respective weight of grammatical versus functional determinants in the acquisition process: the expression of finiteness and scope relations at the utterance level and; the expression of anaphoric relations at the discourse.
Constraints in Discourse (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Anton Benz, Peter Kühnlein
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:292
* Publication Date:2008-04-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027254168
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027254160
Product Description:
It is a commonplace to say that the meaning of text is more than the conjunction of the meaning of its constituents. But, what are the rules governing its interpretation, and what are the constraints that define well-formed discourse? Answers to these questions can be given from various perspectives. In this edited volume, leading scientists in the field investigate these questions from structural, cognitive, and computational perspectives. The last decades have seen the development of numerous formal frameworks in which the structure of discourse can be analysed, the most important of them being the Linguistic Discourse Model, Rhetorical Structure Theory and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory.This volume contains an introduction to these frameworks and the fundamental topics in research about discourse constraints. Thus, it should be accessible to specialists in the field as well as advanced graduate students and researchers from neighbouring areas. The volume is of interest to discourse linguists, psycholinguists, cognitive scientists, and computational linguists.
Controversies and Subjectivity
By Pierluigi Barrotta, Marcelo Dascal
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:365
* Publication Date:2005-07
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027218811
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027218810
Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics (Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics)
By Yuji Kawaguchi, Toshihiro Takagaki, Nobuo Tomimori, Yoichiro Tsuruga
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:439
* Publication Date:2007-05-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027233187
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027233189
Locality in Minimalist Syntax (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs)
By Thomas S. Stroik
* Publisher:The MIT Press
* Number Of Pages:168
* Publication Date:2009-04-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0262012928
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780262012928
Product Description:
In this highly original reanalysis of minimalist syntax, Thomas Stroik considers the optimal design properties for human language. Taking as his starting point Chomsky's minimalist assumption that the syntactic component of a language generates representations for sentences that are interpreted at perceptual and conceptual interfaces, Stroik investigates how these representations can be generated most parsimoniously. Countering the prevailing analyses of minimalist syntax, he argues that the computational properties of human language consist only of strictly local Merge operations that lack both look-back and look-forward properties. All grammatical operations reduce to a single sort of locally defined feature-checking operation, and all grammatical properties are the cumulative effects of local grammatical operations.
As Stroik demonstrates, reducing syntactic operations to local operations with a single property—merging lexical material into syntactic derivations—not only radically increases the computational efficiency of the syntactic component, but it also optimally simplifies the design of the computational system. Locality in Minimalist Syntax explains a range of syntactic phenomena that have long resisted previous generative theories, including that-trace effects, superiority effects, and the interpretations available for multiple-wh constructions. It also introduces the Survive Principle, an important new concept for syntactic analysis, and provides something considered impossible in minimalist syntax: a locality account of displacement phenomena.
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Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric
By Susan Miller
* Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2007-11-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0809327880
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780809327881
Product Description:
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric challenges the accepted idea of a singular rhetorical tradition poorly maintained from the Athenian Golden Age until the present. Author Susan Miller argues that oratorical rhetoric is but one among many codes that guide the production of texts and proposes that emotion and trust are central to the motives and effects of rhetoric.
This groundbreaking volume makes a case for historical rhetoric as disbursed, formal and informal lessons in persuasion that are codified as crafts that mediate between what is known and unknown in particular rhetorical situations. Traditional, unified histories of rhetoric ignore the extensive historical interactions among discourses—including medicine, drama, lyric poetry, philosophy, oratory, and literary fiction—that have operated from antiquity across cultures that are historically and geographically joined.
Drawing not just on traditional rhetorical works, but also on texts from philosophy and literature, Miller expands the body of works to be considered in the study of rhetoric. As the first book-length study that calls into question the centrality of logos to rhetoric, Trust in Texts will change the way the history of rhetoric is viewed and taught and will be essential to scholars and students of communications, rhetoric, English, classics, and literary studies.
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Summary: Disturbing and rewarding
Rating: 5
Miller's book is much like her earlier *Rescuing the Subject*--dense, allusive, ambitious. It's not an easy read. At the same time, its exploration of discourses not often (if ever) included in narratives of rhetoric and composition provides a much-needed and long-overdue corrective to the field. Where does persuasion occur? How does one move others, or oneself be moved? Miller suggests that our sense of rhetoric has left us enamored of logic/brain and less interested in trust/connection/material-self. That's not to say there's no place for "logic" in her revisioning of rhetoric--it's more that she puts logic in context of other activities of the self, rather than making logic *the* context of all other activities. This book will disturb more traditional historians/theorists of rhetoric, even those who purport to challenge "the Western tradition." Why? Because it pulls the tablecloth right out from under their nice, familiar, self-satisfied place settings. A truly important book.
Summary: More Miller than rhetoric
Rating: 2
Susan Miller's contribution to the development of composition studies as a theoretical field of study is indisputable. But at some point she became more interested in being Susan Miller than in applying her considerable intelligence to her object of analysis. This book is ample evidence of that unfortunate turn. If you're a fan of Miller's recent work, by all means read this. If you want more, go elsewhere.
Summary: Rich, but not quite satisfying
Rating: 3
Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric
Susan Miller offers another highly literate and scholarly survey on the history of rhetoric, this time with a focus on the role of trust, emotions, and more in rhetoric's rich, multi-dimensional development. Unfortunately, this work will be most appreciated by a small audience that doesn't mind the, at times, painfully, minutiae-focused, narrative, occasional excessive verbiage, and mostly rare, but annoying, missteps, e.g. declaring "humiliation" to be a "sinful emotion." (Isn't the author a bit confused between a "sinful" act, and the natural, perhaps even healthy, response to that act?) Those of us more interested in finding some nuggets of significant, original insight might better spend their reading time elsewhere.
Contents: Introduction : rhetoric, emotion, and places of persuasion. Rhetorics, pedagogies, and methods. Topics : simultaneous and consecutive. The trouble with emotion, and rhetoric. Emotional educations. The trouble with rhetoric, and emotion -- Decentering rhetoric. Reviewing rhetoric. Everyone knows : antique characters. Everyone knew : rhetoric as its precedents -- Trusting texts. Trusting printing. Trusting rhetoric. "Sincerely, and prudently, yours" -- The mobility of trust. Literature, "literature," and rhetorical truths. Rhetorical rhetoric and literary truth. The communicative essence of language : pure British tongues. The turn to words. The ends of trust -- Conclusion : centering rhetoric--the psychology of anxious moments and solemn occasions.
Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences' Expectations
By John Schilb PhD
* Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2007-11-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0809327899
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780809327898
Product Description:
The first book to explore rhetorical refusals—instances in which speakers and writers deliberately flout the conventions of rhetoric and defy their audiences’ expectations— Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences’ Expectations challenges the reader to view these acts of academic rebellion as worthy of deeper analysis than they are commonly accorded, as rhetorical refusals can simultaneously reveal unspoken assumptions behind the very conventions they challenge, while also presenting new rhetorical strategies.
Through a series of case studies, John Schilb demonstrates the deeper meanings contained within rhetorical refusals: when dance critic Arlene Croce refused to see a production that she wrote about; when historian Deborah Lipstadt declined to debate Holocaust deniers; when President Bill Clinton denied a grand jury answers to their questions; and when Frederick Douglass refused to praise Abraham Lincoln unequivocally. Each of these unexpected strategies revealed issues of much greater importance than the subjects at hand. By carefully laying out an underlying framework with which to evaluate these acts, Schilb shows that they can variously point to the undue privilege of authority; the ownership of truth; the illusory divide between public and private lives; and the subjectivity of honor.
According to Schilb, rhetorical refusals have the potential to help political discourse become more inventive. To demonstrate this potential, Schilb looks at some notable cases in which invitations have led to unexpected results: comedian Stephen Colbert’s brazen performance at the White House Press Association dinner; poet Sharon Olds’s refusal to attend the White House Book Fair, and activist Cindy Sheehan’s display of an anti-war message at the 2006 State of the Union Address.
Rhetorical Refusals explores rhetorical theories in accessible language without sacrificing complexity and nuance, revealing the unspoken implications of unexpected deviations from rhetorical norms for classic political concepts like free debate and national memory. With case studies taken from art, politics, literature, and history, this book will appeal to scholars and students of English, communication studies, and history.
Developmental Theory and Language Disorders (TILAR 4)
By Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:209
* Publication Date:2005-05
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027234744
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027234742
Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn (Studies in Language Companion Series)
By Gregory L. Ward, Betty J. Birner
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:350
* Publication Date:2006-11-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027230900
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027230904
Description
One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume in honor of Horn brings together the best of current work at the semantics/pragmatics boundary from a neo-Gricean perspective. Featuring the contributions of 22 leading researchers, it includes papers on implicature (Kent Bach), inference (Betty Birner), presupposition (Barbara Abbott), lexical semantics (Georgia Green, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Steve Kleinedler & Randall Eggert), negation (Pauline Jacobson, Frederick Newmeyer, Scott Schwenter), polarity (Donka Farkas, Anastasia Giannakidou, Michael Israel), implicit variables (Greg Carlson & Gianluca Storto), definiteness (Barbara Partee), reference (Ellen Prince, Andrew Kehler & Gregory Ward), and logic (Jerrold Sadock, Francis Jeffry Pelletier & Andrew Hartline). These original papers represent not only a fitting homage to Larry Horn, but also an important contribution to semantic and pragmatic theory.
Nominalizations (Theoretical Linguistics)
By Koptjevskaja-Ta
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:352
* Publication Date:1993-04-19
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415060206
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415060202
Product Description:
Nominalizations provides a thorough analysis of how nominalization types interact with other structural features. It focuses on action nominal constructions and, in particular, the comparison of their syntactic theories. Supported by rich empirical material and illustrated with examples from seventy languages, the book provides a detailed basis for constructing a typology of derived constructions and for presenting cross-linguistic comparisons.
Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning
By Michael Byram
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:736
* Publication Date:2001-01-16
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415120853
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415120852
Product Description:
This authoritative A-Z resource features over xxx entries on contemporary and historical language teaching throughout the world. Expert contributors from countries on six continents provide entries on topics including:
* acculturation * adult learners * American Standards for Foreign Language Learning * authenticity * bilingual education * cognitive code theory * content-based instruction * distance learning * Esperanto * gender and language learning * group work * intensive courses * natural approach * non-verbal communication * proficiency movement * questioning techniques * tandem learning * task-based teaching and testing * total physical response * and much more.
Grammar and Vocabulary: A Resource Book for Students (Routledge English Languageintroductions)
By Howard Jackson
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2002-05-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:041523171X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415231718
Product Description:
Widely published author Howard Jackson has written a student-friendly, comprehensive introduction to the grammar and vocabulary of contemporary English. Grammar and Vocabulary covers the core areas of grammar and vocabulary: words and sentences, word classes, word structure, slots and fillers, sentence patterns, clause and phrase, grammar rules and vocabularies Drawing on a vast range of real texts including articles from The Guardian to a poem by Betjemen, this introduction also provides classic readings by Halliday, Quirk, Ayto and Trudgill. This introduction uses real studies designed and conducted by students to facilitate understanding for all who wish to pursue these core aspects of language usage.
Semantics (Language Workbooks)
By Howard Gregory
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:104
* Publication Date:2000-01-24
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415216109
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415216104
Product Description:
This is an accessible and practical introduction to formal semantics--the study of linguistic meaning--for students new to the subject. Features:
* Shows how meanings are built up and interrelated
* Provides a progression of exercises with answers at the back of the book
* Backs up activities with short, clear explanations
* Includes a glossary of technical terms and an appendix on sets and functions.