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Author : Carol Winifred Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Conditionals (Logic)
ISBN : MSU:31293031694619
Author : Teresa Fanego,Evelyn Gandón-Chapela,Paula Rodríguez-Puente
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443862523
This volume offers a representative selection of the papers presented at the Third ELC International Postgraduate Conference on Language and Cognition (ELC3), held in Santiago de Compostela, 21–22 September 2012. The book is structured into four parts. Part I comprises syntactic studies on the auxiliary verb get in Indian English, the grammar of verbs capable of occurring with or without an object in Contemporary English, and isolated if-clauses. Part II includes two papers dealing with word formation patterns and with crosslinguistic influences on motion expression in English and Spanish. The studies in Part III discuss topics related to second language acquisition, such as the difficulties encountered by Spanish speakers in learning English pronunciation, verbal morphology production by Japanese learners of English, and the effects of elicitation on students’ production of English past tense forms. The papers in Part IV revolve around discourse analysis and psycholinguistics, addressing topics such as automatic sentiment detection, perspectival construal patterns in language and cognition, and the effect of emotional valence on disambiguation processes.
Author : Angeliki Athanasiadou,René Dirven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236470
The volume brings together a selection of papers from a symposium on Conditionality held in the University of Duisburg on 25-26 March 1994. Ten years after the Stanford symposium, the Proceedings of which were edited by Traugott et al. (1986), the area of conditionality is revisited in a synthesis of issues and aspects with insights drawn from the wider framework of general processes of conceptualisation. One major question is therefore what conceptual categories fall under conditionality or how far the notion of conditionality can be extended. The volume represents the up-to-date research on most aspects of conditionality some of which include the relationship between conditionality, hypotheticality and counterfactuality, polarity, historical perspectives, concessives, the acquisition of conditionals.
Author : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Margret Selting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107032804
"Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and turn taking, repair, action formation and ascription, sequence and topic organization, the book examines the way linguistic units of varying size - sentences, clauses, phrases, clause combinations, particles - are mobilized for the implementation of specific actions in talk-in-interaction. A final chapter discusses the implications of an interactional perspective for our understanding of language as well as its variation, diversity, and universality. Supplementary online chapters explore additional topics such as the linguistic organization of preference, stance, footing, and storytelling, as well as the use of prosody and phonetics, and further practices with language"--
Author : Chi-Hé Elder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030137991
This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’. It presents theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence from English and other languages in support of the thesis that an adequate study of conditionals has to go beyond an analysis of specific sentence forms or lexical items. The resulting perspective on conditionals is one in which conditionality is located at a higher level than that of the sentence; namely, at the level of thought. The author argues that it is only through adopting such a perspective, and with it, a commitment to context-dependent semantics, that we can successfully represent conditional utterances as they are used and understood by ordinary language users. It will be of interest to students and scholars working on the semantics of conditionals in the fields of linguistics (especially semantics and pragmatics) and philosophy of language.
Author : Tsuyoshi Ono,Sandra A. Thompson
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027261519
The ‘NP’ is one of the least controversial grammatical units that linguists work with. The NP is often assumed to be universal, and appears to be robust cross-linguistically (compared to ‘VP’ or even ‘clause’) in that it can be manipulated in argument positions in constructed examples. Furthermore, for any given language, its internal structure (order and type of modifiers) tends to be relatively fixed. Surprisingly, however, the empirical basis for ‘NP’ has never been established. The chapters in this volume examine the NP in everyday interactions from diverse languages, including little-studied languages as well as better-researched ones, in a variety of interactional settings. Together, these chapters show that cross-linguistically, the category NP is not as robust as has been assumed: in the context of temporally unfolding human interaction, its structural status is constantly negotiated in terms of participants’ evolving social agendas.
Author : Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027226297
This monograph provides a micro-analytic description of instances of requests in everyday German conversation. Using the framework of CA, the study systematically analyzes the grammatical and syntactical structure of the request-turn and its response and of the conversational exchanges before and within the request base sequence, and the placement of the request sequence within the larger social interaction. Through an empirical analysis of individual cases of request sequences in German, the monograph describes in detail: (a) how speakers employ grammar and syntax as resources to construct turns at talk and accomplish the social action of request; (b) how speakers use grammatical and syntactical forms of the language to coordinate the production of the social action of requests; (c) how speakers use grammar and syntax as interactional resources to manage affiliative and remedial work (i.e., face work) when performing delicate social actions such as requests; and (d) how the context of the request activity impacts the grammatical and syntactical constructions of speakers' utterances. Additionally, the monograph demonstrates that both the grammatical construction of turns and their placement within the talk are oriented to the sequential context of the interaction.
Author : Kjersti Fløttum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443810241
This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium “Academic Voices in Contrast”, organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 2006. The symposium, focusing on recent research within the field of academic discourse, was initiated and organised by the KIAP project (Cultural Identity in Academic Prose; see www.uib.no/kiap/). In this project, a special focus has been put on the study of the voice(s) of the academic author, in the doubly contrastive perspective of language and discipline. A narrow selection of distinguished scholars were invited to participate at the symposium. They were asked to address issues related to “traditional” linguistic versus contextual approaches or to interlingual and interdisciplinary similarities and differences in academic discourse. By the papers of the following, the symposium and the present book constitute a clear advancement of the research on academic discourse: M. A. A. Ariza, L. Berge, M. Bondi, S. V. Bonn, S. Carter-Thomas, T. Dahl, K. Fløttum, A. M. Gjesdal, F. Grossmann, K. Hyland, T. Kinn, L. Lundquist, A. Mauranen, M. Pabón, E. Rowley-Jolivet, F. Salager-Meyer, P. Shaw, J. M. Swales, J.L. Tønnesson, E. T. Vold, F. Wirth.
Author : Jay David Atlas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195350944
This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts. Here, Atlas develops the contrast between verbal ambiguity and verbal generality, works out a detailed theory of conversational inference using the work of Paul Grice on Implicature as a starting point, and gives an account of their interface as an example of the relationship between Chomsky's Internalist Semantics and Language Performance. Atlas then discusses consequences of his theory of the Interface for the distinction between metaphorical and literal language, for Grice's account of meaning, for the Analytic/Synthetic distinction, for Meaning Holism, and for Formal Semantics of Natural Language. This book makes an important contribution to the philosophy of language and will appeal to philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists.
Author : Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219043
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.
Author : Andrea Lackner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501507755
Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied studies on sign languages and Deaf communities. The SLDC series is concerned with the study of sign languages in a comprehensive way, covering various theoretical, experimental, and applied dimensions of sign language research and their relationship to Deaf communities around the world. The series provides a multidisciplinary.
Author : Simona Pekarek Doehler,Leelo Keevallik,Xiaoting Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889760015
Author : María José López-Couso,Belén Méndez-Naya,Paloma Núñez-Pertejo,Ignacio M. Palacios-Martínez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004321342
Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora comprises fourteen contributions covering key issues in English corpus linguistics, including corpus compilation and annotation, original perspectives from specialized corpora, and insightful discussions of various grammatical and pragmatic features.
Author : Gunther Kaltenböck,Evelien Keizer,Arne Lohmann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266552
This volume brings together a number of articles on the form and function of extra-clausal constituents, a group of linguistic elements which have puzzled linguists by defying analysis in terms of ordinary sentence grammar. Given their high frequency and communicative importance, these elements can, however, no longer be dismissed as a marginal linguistic phenomenon. In recent years this awareness has resulted not only in more systematic treatments of extra-clausal constituents, but has also highlighted the need to account for them in grammatical theory. Based on (mainly English) corpus data, the volume investigates the discourse-pragmatic, semantic, syntactic and phonological features of a range of extra-clausal constituents, including discourse markers, free adjuncts, left dislocands, insubordinate clauses and various kinds of adverbials. The individual chapters adopt a number of different perspectives, investigating the diachronic development of extra-clausal constituents, their multi-functionality and their use in bilingual settings, also addressing the question of how they can be incorporated into existing models of grammar.
Author : Sylvie Donna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521585576
Teach Business English provides a comprehensive introduction to Business English for teachers who are new to the field, and inspiration and guidance for those already involved in this area of teaching.This book deals with a range of issues from needs analysis and course planning to assessment and evaluation. It also suggests solutions to common teaching problems. The emphasis throughout is practical and a large part of the book focuses on classroom procedures. There are activities for all the major skill areas and most can be used with minimal preparation. Notes on key areas are included, as well as sample correspondence, test items, worksheets and forms. The quick-reference index allows for easy access to the guidelines and classroom procedures.