Dramatized Discourse

Author : Jing-Schmidt Zhuo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027215650

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Dramatized Discourse by Jing-Schmidt Zhuo Pdf

Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse dramaticity, a concept that includes high conceptual salience and subjectivity. The ba-construction and its "syntactic variations" are never interchangeable because contrast in their meanings determines difference in their functions. Quantitative analyses based on authentic data validate the postulation of discourse dramaticity. By taking discourse pragmatics seriously, the dramaticity hypothesis enables a unitary explanation that transcends sentence grammar. The diachronic treatment reveals the syntactic change of the ba-construction as an adaptive process of pragmatization, which raises the issue of linguistic evolution as a result of socio-cultural development. This book will be of particular value to readers interested in the interaction between grammar and pragmatics and to teachers confronting the controversy of the ba-construction in foreign language pedagogy.

Author : Péter B. Furkó
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030377632

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Discourse Markers and Beyond by Péter B. Furkó Pdf

This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.

Author : Alan R. Thomas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853590223

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Methods in Dialectology by Alan R. Thomas Pdf

This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.

Author : Charles D. Presberg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271045962

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Adventures in Paradox by Charles D. Presberg Pdf

Author : Jonathan Culpeper,Mick Short,Peter Verdonk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134774302

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Exploring the Language of Drama by Jonathan Culpeper,Mick Short,Peter Verdonk Pdf

Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters: open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse focus on the notion of speech as action there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment

Author : Samuel Hildebrandt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004351745

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Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature by Samuel Hildebrandt Pdf

This monograph presents a hermeneutic for studying the literary phenomenon of one speaker quoting another speaker in the Book of Jeremiah and other prophetic texts.

Author : Vimala Herman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134668403

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Dramatic Discourse by Vimala Herman Pdf

This wide ranging and comprehensive study uses the major frameworks of modern discourse studies to analyse dramatic dialogue.

Author : Jim A. Kuypers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739136171

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Rhetorical Criticism by Jim A. Kuypers Pdf

Covering a broad range of rhetorical perspectives, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to rhetorical criticism. Featuring nineteen chapters written by nationally recognized scholars, the volume offers the most comprehensive introduction to rhetorical criticism available.

Author : Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350042865

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Telecinematic Stylistics by Christian Hoffmann,Monika Kirner-Ludwig Pdf

Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line. This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic showcase. It presents current developments from the field from two complementary perspectives, looking stylistically at the discourse in film and the discourse of and around film. This latter phrase comes to mean the approaches which try to account for the pragmatic effects induced by cinematography. This might be the camera work or the lighting, or the mise en scène or montage. The volume takes a multimodal approach, looking at word, movement and gesture, in keeping with modern stylistics. The volume shows how pragmatic themes and methods are adapted and applied to films, including speech acts, (im)politeness, implicature and context. In this way, it provides systematic insights into how meanings are displayed, enhanced, suppressed and negotiated in both film and televisual arts.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441151896

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Criticism and Truth by Roland Barthes Pdf

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.

Author : Peter K. W. Tan
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9971691825

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A Stylistics of Drama by Peter K. W. Tan Pdf

"This study looks at how stylistic methods apply to drama texts, and focuses its attention on Stoppard's Traversties, which, by its parodic nature, compels an investigation of literary parody as an intertextual mode." "The author first seeks to place stylistics within a historical and procedural framework and considers ideological and procedural impasses that have bedevilled stylistic analyses. Detailed analyses of passages from Travesties in the light of what has been discussed then follows."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Randall Craig
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791444260

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Promising Language by Randall Craig Pdf

Argues that Victorian legal, linguistic, and cultural attitudes toward promises--especially promises to marry--had a formative effect on novels of the period.

Author : David N. Beauregard
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874130027

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Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays by David N. Beauregard Pdf

Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.

Author : Warwick Danks
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027215734

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The Arabic Verb by Warwick Danks Pdf

The Arabic verbal system is, for most grammarians, the keystone of the language. Notable for the regularity of its patterns, it presents the linguist with an unparalleled opportunity to explore the Saussurean notion of the indivisible sign: form and meaning. Whilst Arabic forms are well-documented, the elucidation of the corresponding meanings has proved more challenging. Beginning with an examination of the verbal morphology of Modern Standard Arabic, including an evaluation of the significance of the consonantal root, this volume then concentrates on establishing the function of the vowel-lengthening verbal patterns (III and VI). It explores issues of mutuality and reciprocity, valency and transitivity, ultimately focusing on atelic lexical aspect as the unified meaning of these patterns. This study is rich in data and relies extensively upon contemporary examples (with transliteration and translation) to illustrate its arguments, adopting an empirical structuralist approach which is aimed both at general linguists and at specialist Arabists.

Author : Geirr Wiggen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Norwegian language
ISBN : UCAL:$B401826

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Spontaneous Dramatization in Semi-formal Conversation by Geirr Wiggen Pdf