Discourse Meaning

Author : Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110686784

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The volume aims to bring together original, unpublished papers on discourse structure and meaning from different frameworks or theoretical perspectives to address research questions revolving around issues instigated by Turkish. Another goal is to offer methodologically different solutions for the research gaps identified in individual chapters. The contributions are based on empirical generalizations and make use of, for example, computerized corpora as the data, examples compiled from naturally occurring discourse, or data gathered in experimental conditions. Hence, the book has a firm theoretical standing and it is empirically well-grounded. The collection is expected to be of direct interest to the community of scholars and researchers in discourse structure and semantics as well as corpus linguistics. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and all interested readers, offering them a fresh view on various discourse-related phenomena from the perspective of Turkish.

Author : Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110686654

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Discourse Meaning by Deniz Zeyrek,Umut Özge Pdf

The volume aims to bring together original, unpublished papers on discourse structure and meaning from different frameworks or theoretical perspectives to address research questions revolving around issues instigated by Turkish. Another goal is to offer methodologically different solutions for the research gaps identified in individual chapters. The contributions are based on empirical generalizations and make use of, for example, computerized corpora as the data, examples compiled from naturally occurring discourse, or data gathered in experimental conditions. Hence, the book has a firm theoretical standing and it is empirically well-grounded. The collection is expected to be of direct interest to the community of scholars and researchers in discourse structure and semantics as well as corpus linguistics. It will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students and all interested readers, offering them a fresh view on various discourse-related phenomena from the perspective of Turkish.

Author : Alan Partington,Alison Duguid,Charlotte Taylor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027272126

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Patterns and Meanings in Discourse by Alan Partington,Alison Duguid,Charlotte Taylor Pdf

This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Each chapter begins with an outline of an area, followed by case studies which attempt both to shed light on particular themes in this area and to demonstrate the methodologies which might be fruitfully employed to investigate them. The chapters conclude with suggestions on activities which the readers may wish to undertake themselves. An Appendix contains a list of currently available resources for corpus research which were used or mentioned in the book.

Author : Wolfgang Teubert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139487467

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Meaning, Discourse and Society by Wolfgang Teubert Pdf

Meaning, Discourse and Society investigates the construction of reality within discourse. When people talk about things such as language, the mind, globalisation or weeds, they are less discussing the outside world than objects they have created collaboratively by talking about them. Wolfgang Teubert shows that meaning cannot be found in mental concepts or neural activity, as implied by the cognitive sciences. He argues instead that meaning is negotiated and knowledge is created by symbolic interaction, thus taking language as a social, rather than a mental, phenomenon. Discourses, Teubert contends, can be viewed as collective minds, enabling the members of discourse communities to make sense of themselves and of the world around them. By taking an active stance in constructing the reality they share, people thus can take part in moulding the world in accordance with their perceived needs.

Author : Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443820400

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Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse by Yves Talla Sando Ouafeu Pdf

This study is a phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English, a postcolonial variety of English. Its focus is on the usage of specific tones, paratone and the intonational marking of the information status in discourse. Two main descriptive frameworks are used, namely the Discourse Intonation and the Auto-Segmental Metrical frameworks. Findings of the study are based on the auditory and acoustic analyses of natural conversation as well as read speech and, with relation to the sociolinguistic variables of education and gender, the linguistic variable speaking style. These findings demonstrate for example that, unlike speakers of other postcolonial Englishes (cf. Nigerian English), Cameroon English speakers make new information more prominent (or louder) than given information in the discourse structure. Furthermore, it is shown that Cameroon English speakers make extensive use of the falling pitch movement in speech, which leads the author to conclude that the falling tone does a lot of work in Cameroon English. Lastly, the findings also reveal that sociolinguistic theories postulated in native English communities do not necessarily apply in postcolonial English settings given that native English and postcolonial Englishes have being developing along different lines.

Author : Barbara H. Partee,Petr Sgall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274236

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Discourse and Meaning by Barbara H. Partee,Petr Sgall Pdf

A collection of papers in honor of Eva Hajičová, who represents the continuation of the Prague School tradition in the methodological context of formal and computational linguistics. Her broadly acknowledged contribution to syntax, topic-focus studies, discourse analysis and natural language processing is reflected in the papers by 30 authors, divided in five sections (Discourse, Meaning, Focus, Translation, Structure).

Author : Aneider Iza Erviti
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030716806

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Discourse Constructions in English by Aneider Iza Erviti Pdf

This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations in the construction of meaning. The research contained advances the field of cognitive classification and categorization of discourse constructions. The text is a great improvement in the discourse analysis literature, since it uniquely clarifies the subtleties of meaning between different discourse markers that are frequently treated as equivalent by lexicographers. It is unique in being the first contribution to the creation of a Constructicon at the discourse level and it fills an important gap within cognitively oriented constructionist accounts that have mostly restricted their analyses to argument-structure and illocutionary constructions. This yearbook appeals to students and researchers working within corpus linguistics.

Author : Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317665045

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Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts by Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang Pdf

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

Author : Sabine Tan,Marissa K. L. E
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000772371

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Discourses, Modes, Media and Meaning in an Era of Pandemic by Sabine Tan,Marissa K. L. E Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our everyday lives – from the political to the economic to the social. Using a multimodal discourse analysis approach, this dynamic collection examines various discourses, modes and media in circulation during the early stages of the pandemic, and how these have impacted our daily lives in terms of the various meanings they express. Examples include how national and international news organisations communicate important information about the virus and the crisis, the public’s reactions to such communications, the resultant (counter-)discourses as manifested in social media posts and memes, as well as the impact social distancing policies and mobility restrictions have had on people’s communication and interaction practices. The book offers a synoptic view of how the pandemic was communicated, represented and (re-)contextualised across different spheres, and ultimately hopes to help account for the significant changes we are continuing to witness in our everyday lives as the pandemic unfolds. This volume will appeal primarily to scholars in the field of (multimodal) discourse analysis. It will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students in other fields whose work focuses on the use of multimodal artefacts for communication and meaning making.

Author : Reiner Keller,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Wolf J Schünemann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351690614

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The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse by Reiner Keller,Anna-Katharina Hornidge,Wolf J Schünemann Pdf

The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse (SKAD) has reoriented research into social forms, structuration and processes of meaning construction and reality formation; doing so by linking social constructivist and pragmatist approaches with post-structuralist thinking in order to study discourses and create epistemological space for analysing processes of world-making in culturally diverse environments. SKAD is anchored in interpretive traditions of inquiry and allows for broadening – and possibly overcoming – of the epistemological biases and restrictions still common in theories and approaches of Western- and Northern-centric social sciences. An innovative volume, this book is exactly attentive to these empirically based, globally diverse further developments of approach, with a clear focus on the methodology and its implementation. Thus, The Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse presents itself as a research program and locates the approach within the context of interpretive social sciences, followed by eleven chapters on different cases from around the world that highlight certain theoretical questions and methodological challenges. Presenting outstanding applications of the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse across a wide variety of substantive projects and regional contexts, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers interested in fields such as Discourse Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies and Qualitative Methodology and Methods.

Author : Timothy Koschmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Cognition
ISBN : 0805898050

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Meaning Making by Timothy Koschmann Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Patrick Grant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349232970

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Spiritual Discourse and the Meaning of Persons by Patrick Grant Pdf

Arguing that there is a close relationship between aspects of the literature of Western spirituality and evolving ideas of the person, this book charts the interaction between literature and theology in producing certain historically-conditioned interpretations of what it means to be a person.

Author : Stefan Titscher,Michael Meyer,Ruth Wodak,Eva Vetter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446232842

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Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis by Stefan Titscher,Michael Meyer,Ruth Wodak,Eva Vetter Pdf

′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse Studies Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis. Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others′ methods and procedures.

Author : Paul Ricoeur
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0912646594

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Interpretation Theory by Paul Ricoeur Pdf

The four essays that make up this volume are based upon and expand the lectures Ricoeur delivered at Texas Christian University, 27-30 November 1973, as their Centennial Lectures. They may be read as separate essays, but they may also be read as step by step approximations of a solution to a single problem, that of understanding language at the level of such productions as poems, narratives and essays, whether literary or philosophical. In other words, the central problem at stake in these four essays is that of works; in particular, that of language as a work.

Author : Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101023787938

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A Discourse on the Necessity and the Means of Making Our National Literature Independent of that of Great Britain by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Pdf