Fuzzy Boundaries In Discourse Studies

Author : Péter B. Furkó,Ildikó Vaskó,Csilla Ilona Dér,Dorte Madsen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030275730

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Fuzzy Boundaries in Discourse Studies by Péter B. Furkó,Ildikó Vaskó,Csilla Ilona Dér,Dorte Madsen Pdf

This book focuses on the multifarious aspects of ‘fuzzy boundaries’ in the field of discourse studies, a field that is marked by complex boundary work and a great degree of fuzziness regarding theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and the use of linguistic categories. Discourse studies is characterised by a variety of theoretical frameworks and disciplinary fields, research methodologies, and lexico-grammatical categories. The contributions in this book explore some of the nuances and implications of the fuzzy boundaries in these areas, resulting in a wide-reaching volume which will be of interest to students and scholars of discourse studies in fields including sociology, linguistics, international relations, philosophy, literary criticism and anthropology.

Author : Christopher Carignan,Georgia Zellou,Eleanor Chodroff,Joseph V. Casillas
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832521021

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Fuzzy boundaries: Ambiguity in speech production and comprehension by Christopher Carignan,Georgia Zellou,Eleanor Chodroff,Joseph V. Casillas Pdf

Author : Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031571725

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Studying Verbal Irony and Sarcasm by Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak Pdf

Author : Stéphanie Prévost,Bénédicte Deschamps
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350107069

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Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US by Stéphanie Prévost,Bénédicte Deschamps Pdf

Both Britain and the United States have had a long history of harbouring foreign political exiles, who often set up periodicals which significantly contributed to community-building and political debates. However, this varied and complex journalism has received little attention to date, particularly regarding the languages in which it was produced. This wide-ranging edited volume brings together for the first time interdisciplinary case studies of the exile foreign-language press (in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Flemish, Polish, among other languages) across Britain and the US, establishing a useful comparative framework to explore how periodicals tackled key political, linguistic and literary issues from the 19th century to the present day. Building on the existing literature on the exile foreign-language press in the United States and developing the study of this phenomenon in the British context, Immigration and Exile Foreign-Language Press in the UK and in the US offers fresh perspectives into how these marginalised periodicals influenced the political, economic and social contexts that brought them into existence. This is a major contribution to the burgeoning field of transnational periodicals and will be of interest to anyone studying the history of the Anglo-American press, the history of immigration and cultural history.

Author : Judit Gervain,Gergely Csibra,Kristóf Kovács
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030661755

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A Life in Cognition by Judit Gervain,Gergely Csibra,Kristóf Kovács Pdf

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science. The book illustrates and documents how cognitive science offers a unifying framework for the interaction of fields of study focusing on the human mind from linguistics and philosophy to psychology and the history of science. A selection of renowned contributors provides authoritative historical, theoretical and empirical perspectives on more than six decades of research with a special focus on the progress of cognitive science in Central Europe. Readers encounter a bird’s eye view of geographical and linguistic diversity brought about by the cognitive revolution, as it is reflected in the writings of leading authors, many of whom are former students and collaborators of Csaba Pléh, a key figure of the cognitive turn in Central Europe, to whom this book is dedicated. The book appeals to students and researchers looking for the ways various approaches to the mind and the brain intersect.

Author : Fiona Rossette-Crake
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031189845

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Digital Oratory as Discursive Practice by Fiona Rossette-Crake Pdf

This book offers an appraisal of oratory, old and new, relating former discourse practice to a specific sub-set of contemporary, digital practices. The author explores the interface between language and society, providing an interdisciplinary study at the crossroads of discourse, linguistics, communication and rhetoric. The comparisons she draws are particularly pertinent in light of the steep rise in presentations given during video-conferences, webinars, and other online events during the COVID-19 pandemic, an event which accelerated previous moves towards digital communication and which is likely to have a long-term impact on communication styles. This book will be of interest to academics and students in fields including discourse analysis, applied linguistics, communication studies, digital studies and business studies.

Author : Marta Fernández-Villanueva,Konstanze Jungbluth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110458817

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Beyond Language Boundaries by Marta Fernández-Villanueva,Konstanze Jungbluth Pdf

The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers. Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greetings and farewells. The contributions secondly focus on verbal features of language use in multilingual contexts related to self-representation and co-construction of identity through code-switching, deixis or argumentative reasoning in different communicative events based on multilingual data of languages including Croatian, English, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese and Polish. The findings call for a reviewed conception of grammar description with implications also for the conceptualization of deixis, for L2/foreign language acquisition and language teaching policies.

Author : Shi- xu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003849124

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The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies by Shi- xu Pdf

In response to the cultural challenges in society and scholarship, this handbook presents the conceptions, assumptions, principles, methods, topics and issues in the studies of cultural forms of human communication—cultural discourses—by experts from around the world. A culturalist programme in communication studies (CS), cultural discourse studies (CDS), as represented in this handbook, is a new current of thought in human and social science and a form of academic activism, but above all, it is a fresh paradigm of research committed to enhancing cultural harmony and prosperity on the one hand and facilitating intellectual plurality and innovation on the other hand. This handbook is the first of its kind; it is concerned with the identities of, and interactions between, the world’s diverse cultural communities through locally-grounded and globally-minded, culturally conscious and critical approaches to their communicative practice. Contributors apply such insights, precepts and techniques, not merely to discover and describe past and present communication, but also to design and guide future communication. This handbook is ideal for scholars and students interested in cultural aspects and issues of communication/discourse, as well as researchers of other fields looking to apply cultural discourse methods to their own projects.

Author : Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110375022

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Pragmatics of Discourse by Klaus P. Schneider,Anne Barron Pdf

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a communicative aim or purpose. The present volume provides systematic orientation in the vast field of studying discourse from a pragmatic perspective. It first gives an overview of a range of approaches developed for the analysis of discourse, including, among others, conversation analysis, systemic-functional analysis, genre analysis, critical discourse analysis, corpus-driven approaches and multimodal analysis. The focus is furthermore on functional units in discourse, such as discourse markers, moves, speech act sequences, discourse phases and silence. The final section of the volume examines discourse types and domains, providing a taxonomy of discourse types and focusing on a range of discourse domains, e.g. classroom discourse, medical discourse, legal discourse, electronic discourse. Each article surveys the current state of the art of the respective topic area while also presenting new research findings.

Author : Maria Cristina Lo Baido
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110799859

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Forms and Functions of Meta-Discourse by Maria Cristina Lo Baido Pdf

This book constitutes the first systematic analysis of meta-discourse in the spoken domain, addressing the question of how, why, and when speakers switch from discourse to meta-discourse by means of comment clauses (e.g., ‘I think’). The case of Present-day Italian is considered, exploring the internal properties of comment clauses (e.g., morphosyntax and semantics of the verb), their relations with the surrounding discourse (e.g., position of comment clause), and their prosodic profiles. This study shows that speakers recur to meta-discourse to convey a non-random set of functions, having mainly to do with the online process of reference construction (e.g., approximation and reformulation) and with the degree of speaker’s commitment (e.g., epistemicity and emphasis). Comment clauses are also used as attention-getting or topic-resuming devices, though less frequently. One of the most interesting results of this study is the identification of a close relation between meta-discourse and stance-taking in spoken domain, with speakers recurring to comment clauses to convey their attitude. Finally, meta-discourse turns out to be highly influenced, if not constrained, by universal properties of the spoken domain (i.e., non-linearity).

Author : María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263568

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The Construction of Discourse as Verbal Interaction by María de los Ángeles Gómez González,J. Lachlan Mackenzie Pdf

This edited volume showcases new work on discourse analysis by big names in the field and promising early-career researchers. Arising from the latest in the series of IWoDA workshops in Santiago de Compostela, it provides novel insights into both the explicit and the implicit characteristics of discourse as used in verbal interaction. Discourse markers, as their name indicates, are among the explicit signals of coherence, while discourse relations may be either explicit or implicit. Similarly, the discourse used for purposes of evaluation, stance-taking and interpersonal engagement is either overt or covert, as is also true of the expression of emotions and empathy. This, in general terms, is the challenging terrain into which the contributors to this volume have ventured. The book combines theoretical issues with a practical orientation, comparing languages, analysing different registers, studying the openings of Skype conversations, and much more besides; it will prove highly relevant for postgraduate and advanced practitioners of discourse analysis, interaction studies, semantics and pragmatics.

Author : Pilar Alonso
Publisher : Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 8478007903

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Aspects of discourse analysis by Pilar Alonso Pdf

Author : Chiara Fedriani,Andrea Sansó
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265494

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Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles by Chiara Fedriani,Andrea Sansó Pdf

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collected in this volume also discuss different factors at play in processes of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization, which include contact-induced change and pragmatic borrowing, socio-interactional functional pressures and sociopragmatic indexicalities, constraints of cognitive processing, together with regularities in semantic change. Putting the traditional issues concerning the status, delimitation and categorization of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles somewhat off the stage, the eighteen articles collected in this volume deal instead with general questions concerning the development and use of such procedural elements, explored from different approaches, both formal and functional, and from a variety of perspectives – including corpus-based, sociolinguistic, and contrastive perspectives – and offering language-specific synchronic and diachronic studies.

Author : Anny King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 1902031717

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Fuzzy Boundaries? by Anny King Pdf

This text explores current changes in modern langauges in higher education regarding shifting concepts of knowledge and culture in academia and in society at large. It presents a map of the current state of modern languages in a period largely characterized by the erosion of disciplinary boundaries across the humanities. Contributors (including Christopher Brumfit, Ronald Barnett, Michael Kelly, Susan Bassnett) analyze the relationship between traditional and emerging components of modern languages, ranging from language learning and area studies to relatively new fields such as cultural studies and cross-cultural communication. The book should be of interest to all those involved in shaping modern languages for the 21st century, whether as teachers, learners or researchers.

Author : Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444305999

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The Handbook of Pidgin and Creole Studies by Silvia Kouwenberg,John Victor Singler Pdf

Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing on the questions that animate creole studies Brings together newly-commissioned entries by an international contributor team Accessibly structured into four sections covering: the character of pidgins and creoles; the relation of pidgins/creoles to other language phenomena and other languages; issues in pidgin/creole genesis; and the role of pidgins/creoles in society Provides a valuable resource for students, scholars and researchers working across a number linguistic disciplines, including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the anthropology of language