Elastic Language In Persuasion And Comforting

Author : Grace Zhang,Vahid Parvaresh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030284602

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Elastic Language in Persuasion and Comforting by Grace Zhang,Vahid Parvaresh Pdf

This innovative book examines the discourse of reality television, and the elasticity of language in the popular talent show The Voice from a cross-cultural perspective. Analysing how and why elastic language is used in persuasion and comforting, a comparison between Chinese and English is made, and the authors highlight the special role that elastic language plays in effective interactions and strategic communication. Through the lens of the language variance of two of the world’s most commonly spoken languages, the insights and resources provided by this book are expected to advance knowledge in the fields of contrastive pragmatics and cross-cultural communication, and inform strategies in bridging different cultures. This study highlights the need to give the elastic use of language the attention it deserves, and reveals how language is non-discrete and strategically stretchable. This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students engaged in elastic/vague language studies, cross-cultural pragmatics, media linguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and communication studies.

Author : Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110701104

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Type Noun Constructions in Slavic, Germanic and Romance Languages by Wiltrud Mihatsch,Inga Hennecke,Anna Kisiel,Alena Kolyaseva,Kristin Davidse,Lieselotte Brems Pdf

This volume is the first dedicated to the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of constructions with nouns like ‘type’ and ‘sort’. It focuses on type noun constructions in Romance, Germanic and Slavic languages, integrating the different descriptive traditions that had been developed for each language family. As a result, a greater variety of type noun constructions is revealed than in the hitherto more fragmented literature. But attention is also drawn to the cross-linguistic similarity of the new pragmatic meanings, such as ad hoc and approximative categorization, hedging, focus and filler uses, and the new grammatical functions in NPs (e.g. phoric uses), clauses (e.g. adverbial uses) and complex sentences (e.g. quotatives). The volume offers survey chapters of type noun constructions in each language family as well as contributions focusing on specific aspects in one or two languages, such as their grammar, semantics and pragmatics, diachronic development, discursive and sociolinguistic variety. These complementary methodologies elucidate the unique cross-linguistic field of type noun constructions both descriptively and theoretically. Hence, this volume can also serve as a model for similar surveys in other functional domains.

Author : Grace Qiao Zhang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 1316414213

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Elastic Language by Grace Qiao Zhang Pdf

"Elastic language carries non-specific and stretchable meaning, as in 'He loves her, kind of'. It is used like a slingshot, targeting various strategic goals. Consolidating current research and charting new directions, this book develops a refreshing theory of elasticity, empirically attested by natural language data from tension-prone encounters between Australian Customs officers and passengers. The theory proposes three principles (fluidity, stretchability and strategy) and offers a systematic look at how elastic language, as a sliding scale, works to balance strengthening and weakening speech tones, to firm and soften a speaker's stance, and to reveal and evade the truth. The comparative analysis of forms, functions, and context confirms that elastic language is fluid, stretchable, and strategic. It serves both cooperative and competitive functions, and social and speech factors impact on its use. This book will appeal to students and researchers working in pragmatics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and communication"--

Author : Grace Q. Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107028449

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Elastic Language by Grace Q. Zhang Pdf

Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets. This book reveals the art of purposive and powerful language stretching.

Author : John Longmiur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600093380

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Walker and Webster combined in a dictionary of the English language by John Longmiur Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Hindi language
ISBN : WISC:89070951827

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A dictionary of the Hindu language by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Longmuir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:$B210301

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Walker and Webster Combined in a Dictionary of the English Language by John Longmuir Pdf

Author : Bróna Murphy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223128

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Corpus and Sociolinguistics by Bróna Murphy Pdf

Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English. The book explores both the distribution and use of a number of high frequency pragmatic features of spoken discourse that appear as key items in the corpus. Part 1 of the book provides an introduction, a theoretical overview of age as a sociolinguistic variable and a description on how to compile a small spoken corpus for sociolinguistic research. Part 2 consists of five chapters which investigate and explore key features such as hedges, vague category markers, intensifiers, boosters and high-frequent items of taboo language in relation to the variables, age and gender. The book is of interest to undergraduates or postgraduates taking formal courses in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics or discourse analysis. It is also of interest to students and researchers interested in using corpus linguistics in sociolinguistic research.

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062032522

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The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker Pdf

"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

Author : Michel Pecheux
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349068111

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Language, Semantics and Ideology by Michel Pecheux Pdf

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2132 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11503847

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International Dictionary of the English language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Noah Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English language
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00098885

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Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1949-09
Category : Women's periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015019947038

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The Ladies' Home Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean-Claude Beacco,Mike Fleming,Francis Goullier,Eike Thürmann,Helmut Vollmer,Joseph Sheils
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789287183675

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The language dimension in all subjects by Jean-Claude Beacco,Mike Fleming,Francis Goullier,Eike Thürmann,Helmut Vollmer,Joseph Sheils Pdf

Mastering the language of schooling is essential for learners to develop the skills necessary for school success and for critical thinking. It is fundamental for participation in democratic societies, and for social inclusion and cohesion. This handbook is a policy and working document which promotes convergence and coherence between the linguistic dimensions of various school subjects. It proposes measures to make explicit – in curricula, pedagogic material and teacher training – the specific linguistic norms and competences which learners must master in each school subject. It also presents the learning modalities that should allow all learners, and in particular the most vulnerable among them, to benefit from diversified language-learning situations in order to develop their cognitive and linguistic capacities.

Author : Jan Blommaert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675838

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State Ideology and Language in Tanzania by Jan Blommaert Pdf

This book is a thoroughly revised version of the 1999 edition, which was welcomed at the time as a classic. It now extends the period of coverage to 2012 and includes an entirely new chapter on current developments, making this updated edition an essentia