Demonstratives

Author : Holger Diessel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229427

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Demonstratives by Holger Diessel Pdf

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.

Author : Yián Wu
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9027253692

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Spatial Demonstratives in English and Chinese by Yián Wu Pdf

As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension. The corpora place the English and Chinese demonstratives in comparable discourse contexts and processes, providing an ecological environment for the observation of how their behavior fits into the respective structural and discourse systems of the two languages. The study also illuminates important issues such as the subjectivity of language, language as a representational system and a vehicle of communication, the interface between form and function, and the role of context in discourse comprehension.

Author : John Cleaves
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601568496

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Demonstratives by John Cleaves Pdf

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then just imagine what an animated exhibit will tell jurors about your case. According to legal technologist John Cleaves, that is what PowerPoint does: it helps you design dramatic courtroom demonstratives that not only illustrate your point but creates memorable images and animations that will stay in the minds of jurors in the deliberation room and beyond. If slideshows of bulleted lists are all you ever do with PowerPoint, then you’re missing out on what puts the power in PowerPoint. In the second edition of Demonstratives: Making Effective Graphics for Trial, you will learn, step by step, how to: Develop a consistent theme (or “brand”) throughout your demonstratives so they have their own “look and feel” that jurors can readily identify as your side of the case Create a variety of timelines that tell and “sell” your client’s story in the order it happened Make your important quotes, callouts, and “tear outs” look like they were created by a professional graphic artist Transform your data into graphs and charts that explain or analyze information in a clear way Insert photographs, videos, and animated GIFs into your slideshow to demonstrate who, what, where, and even how Add motion to the objects you create to bring to life traffic patterns, patent figures, equipment machination, and much more Design three-dimensional physical models, still lifes, and text that highlight volume, size, and spatial relationships among objects The book closes with everything you need to know to share your demonstratives in the courtroom: from the Federal Rules of Evidence you must consider to a checklist of audio-visual equipment to bring and tasks to complete once you are finally in the courtroom. Check out this video for a sample of what you’ll learn. With Demonstratives at your side, your exhibits will never be the same again.

Author : Marco Coniglio,Andrew Murphy,Eva Schlachter,Tonjes Veenstra
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110560299

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Atypical Demonstratives by Marco Coniglio,Andrew Murphy,Eva Schlachter,Tonjes Veenstra Pdf

Atypical demonstratives have not received adequate attention in the literature so far, or have even been completely neglected. By providing fresh insights and discussing new facets, this volume contributes to the better understanding of this group of words, starting from specific empirical phenomena, and advances our knowledge of the various properties of demonstratives, their syntactic multi-functionality, semantic feature specifications and pragmatic functions. In addition, some of the papers discuss different grammaticalization processes involving demonstratives, in particular how and from which lexical and morphosyntactic categories they originate cross-linguistically, and which semantic or pragmatic mechanisms play which role in their emergence. As such, the different contributions guide the readers on an adventurous journey into the realm of different exotic species of demonstratives, whose peculiar properties offer new exiting insights into the complex nature of demonstrative expressions themselves.

Author : Stephen C. Levinson,Sarah Cutfield,Michael J. Dunn,N. J. Enfield,Sérgio Meira
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108424288

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Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective by Stephen C. Levinson,Sarah Cutfield,Michael J. Dunn,N. J. Enfield,Sérgio Meira Pdf

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

Author : Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667826

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Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space by Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Dupraz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004216990

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Sabellian Demonstratives by Emmanuel Dupraz Pdf

Past research on the Sabellian languages has been devoted mainly to the phonetic and morphological features of these languages as elements for the reconstruction of the prehistoric stages of Latin. The present book aims at analysing the semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic features of a subset of grammatical terms, the demonstratives. It contains a thorough description of their synchronic behaviour, which permits both a comparison to the Latin data with new hypotheses on the epigraphic genres in Republican Italy and a reconstruction of the Italic origins of these terms based on typological principles. Neither the grammar of Sabellian nor the pragmatic scope of the Sabellian inscriptions should be considered a priori identical to their Latin comparanda.

Author : Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts ,Yvonne Treis
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102860

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Demonstratives in discourse by Åshild Næss,Anna Margetts ,Yvonne Treis Pdf

This volume explores the use of demonstratives in the structuring and management of discourse, and their role as engagement expressions, from a crosslinguistic perspective. It seeks to establish which types of discourse-related functions are commonly encoded by demonstratives, beyond the well-established reference-tracking and deictic uses, and also investigates which members of demonstrative paradigms typically take on certain functions. Moreover, it looks at the roles of non-deictic demonstratives, that is, members of the paradigm which are dedicated e.g. to contrastive, recognitional, or anaphoric functions and do not express deictic distinctions. Several of the studies also focus on manner demonstratives, which have been little studied from a crosslinguistic perspective. The volume thus broadens the scope of investigation of demonstratives to look at how their core functions interact with a wider range of discourse functions in a number of different languages. The volume covers languages from a range of geographical locations and language families, including Cushitic and Mande languages in Africa, Oceanic and Papuan languages in the Pacific region, Algonquian and Guaykuruan in the Americas, and Germanic, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages in the Eurasian region. It also includes two papers taking a broader typological approach to specific discourse functions of demonstratives.

Author : Ritva Laury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027275813

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Demonstratives in Interaction by Ritva Laury Pdf

This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a database consisting of spoken narratives from three different periods spanning the last one hundred years. The author proposes that the development from demonstrative to article has its roots in the way that speakers ordinarily use demonstratives in conversation, and provides an analysis of the use of se and the two other Finnish demonstratives, tämä and tuo in a corpus of multi-party conversations, showing that speakers of Finnish use demonstratives to focus attention on important referents and to express and negotiate access to them in the interactive context of ongoing talk, and not primarily to talk about how near or far referents are. The development of se into a general marker of identifiability is shown to be connected with both the focusing function of demonstratives as well as its use for referents which the speaker considers accessible to the addressee.

Author : Metin Balpınar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780429655890

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Demonstratives and Grammaticalization by Metin Balpınar Pdf

Demonstratives and Grammaticalization offers an in-depth analysis of the demonstrative system in Turkish. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis dealing with both the synchronic variations in Turkish demonstratives and their grammatical changes. It sheds light on the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic properties of the demonstratives, systematically describes the various usages of these forms, and provides a unified explanation for the various accounts of their distribution. While the focus is on Turkish, this analysis contributes to our understanding of how a demonstrative system operates in a language with a three-way distinction.

Author : Magdalena Rybarczyk
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268822

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Demonstratives and Possessives with Attitude by Magdalena Rybarczyk Pdf

Linking grammatical analyses with ideas about a shareable reality, this book investigates some fascinating ways in which nominal reference is exploited to meet interpersonal and rhetorical goals. It focuses on the use of demonstrative and possessive determiners in Polish discourse and proposes that the phenomenon of deixis be reexamined in the light of linguistic variation. The book illustrates a growing concern with the application of cognitive grammar to the study of situated language use and its social outcomes. What emerges is a new understanding of the role of deictic elements as tools for establishing intersubjective coordination and expressing attitudes. This book is for anyone actively seeking to understand how linguistic systems reflect human socio-cognitive abilities and in what ways reality is mediated through language.

Author : Lin Lin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811385582

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The German Demonstratives by Lin Lin Pdf

This book explores, analyzes, and compares the use of German and Chinese demonstratives. Discourse and textual uses of the forms are considered, as well as their locative and temporal uses. The author observes that in both languages the demonstratives can be used to refer to referents. However, she departs from the common assumption that proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places close to the speaker, while non-proximal demonstratives refer to entities or places far from the speaker. Having analyzed a representative sampling consisting of a German text and a Chinese text, the author argues that both German and Chinese proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of HIGH DEIXIS in a system of DEIXIS in the Columbia School of linguistics framework, whereas their non-proximal demonstratives can signal the meaning of LOW DEIXIS. In addition, Chinese demonstratives can be used under more circumstances than German demonstratives due to the lack of articles in Chinese. The author also argues that Cognitive Linguistic analysis is more helpful for new language learners, whereas the Columbia School of linguistics may be better suited to advanced learners who wish to know more about the intrinsic differences between words with similar meanings and uses. This book aims to help German learners better understand the German reference system. Readers with a Chinese language background will definitely benefit more from the book, as well as Chinese learners with a German language background. For pure linguistic enthusiasts and multi-linguals, the book offers an extensive introduction to the Columbia School of linguistics, and can open a new horizon for learning a new language comparatively.

Author : Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110465808

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Demonstrative Thought by Felipe Nogueira de Carvalho Pdf

How can we explain our capacity to think about particulars in our external environment? Many philosophers have answered this question in terms of a sophisticated conception of space and time and the movement of objects therein. A more recent reaction against this view sought to explain this capacity solely in terms of perceptual mechanisms of object individuation. Neither explanation remains fully satisfactory. This book argues for a more desirable middle ground in terms of a pragmatist approach to demonstrative thought, where this capacity is explained through graded practical knowledge of objects. This view allows us to do justice to important insights put forward by both positions criticized in the book, while avoiding their potential shortcomings. It also paves the way to a more pragmatist approach to the theory of mental representation, where the notion of practical knowledge is allowed to play a central role in our cognitive life. Finally, it shows how practical knowledge may be firmly rooted in neurobiological processes and mechanisms that conform to what the empirical sciences tell us about the mind.

Author : Vojislav Bozickovic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015038414721

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Demonstrative Sense by Vojislav Bozickovic Pdf

Examines semantic features of perpetual demonstratives.

Author : Henry Marmaduke Hewitt,George Beach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English language
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019938468

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A Manual of Our Mother Tongue by Henry Marmaduke Hewitt,George Beach Pdf