Indexicality

Author : Peter Juul Nielsen,María Sol Sansiñena
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110791556

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Indexicality by Peter Juul Nielsen,María Sol Sansiñena Pdf

The book offers the first full-scale focused treatment of linguistic indexicality as a tool for analysis and explanation of the organization of linguistic structures. The book demonstrates the application of the concept of indexicality in the description of a broad range of linguistic phenomena, from the internal workings of morphology via relations within syntactic constructions to lexical and grammatical elements designed to hook on to features outside the clause in the interactional context. The book presents studies of the role of indexicality in synchrony and diachrony with descriptive cases from a number of languages from diverse language families. Part I focuses on the general nature of linguistic indexicality in the larger perspective of the semiotics of language, including examinations of domain-straddling indexical functions. Part II focuses on the role of indexicality in diachrony and the way it enters into the mechanisms of change, including examinations of semiotic shifts from indexical to symbolic function and vice versa. The book is relevant for researchers and students in historical and synchronic linguistics from a variety of linguistic frameworks with an interest in the role of semiotics in linguistic analysis.

Author : Gregory Bochner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108428453

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Naming and Indexicality by Gregory Bochner Pdf

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive and critical overview of theories of linguistic reference and meaning in the 20th century.

Author : Charles W. Kreidler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415203457

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Phonology by Charles W. Kreidler Pdf

Phonology: Critical Concepts, the first such anthology to appear in thirty years and the largest ever published, brings together over a hundred previously published book chapters and articles from professional journals. These have been chosen for their importance in the exploration of theoretical questions, with some preference for essays that are not easily accessible.Divided into sections, each part is preceded by a brief introduction which aims to point out the problems addressed by the various articles and show their relations to one another.-

Author : Audun Øfsti,Peter Ulrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Indexicals (Semantics)
ISBN : UOM:39015055805082

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Indexicality and Idealism by Audun Øfsti,Peter Ulrich Pdf

Author : Philip Rosen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816636389

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Change Mummified by Philip Rosen Pdf

Exploring the modern category of history in relation to film theory, film textuality, and film history, Change Mummified makes a persuasive argument for the centrality of historicity to film as well as the special importance of film in historical culture. What do we make of the concern for recovering the past that is consistently manifested in so many influential modes of cinema, from Hollywood to documentary and postcolonial film? How is film related to the many modern practices that define themselves as configuring pastness in the present, such as architectural preservation, theme parks, and, above all, professional historical research? What is the relation of history in film to other media such as television and digital imaging? How does emphasizing the connection between film and modern historicity affect the theorization and historicization of film and modern media culture? Pursuing the full implications of film as cultural production, Philip Rosen reconceptualizes modern historicity as a combination of characteristic epistemological structures on the one hand, and the social imperative to regulate or manage time on the other. Emphasizing a fundamental constellation of pursuit of the real, indexical signification and the need to control time, he interrogates a spectrum of film theory and film texts. His argument refocuses the category of temporality for film and cultural theory while rethinking the importance of historicity. An original and sustained meditation on the historiographic status of cinematic signs, Change Mummified is both an intervention in film and media studies and an argument for the continuing necessity of modern historical thinking in its contradictions.

Author : R. M. Sainsbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521483476

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Paradoxes by R. M. Sainsbury Pdf

This revised and expanded edition provides a valuable and accessible introduction to paradoxes.

Author : Cara Penry Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429671166

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Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English by Cara Penry Williams Pdf

Folklinguistics and Social Meaning in Australian English presents an original study of Australian English and, via this, insights into Australian society. Utilising folklinguistic accounts, it uncovers everyday understandings of contemporary Australian English through variations across linguistic systems (sounds, words, discourse and grammar). Focusing on one variation at time, it explores young speakers’ language use and their evaluations of the same forms. The analysis of talk about talk uncovers ethnic, regional and social Others in social types and prevailing ideologies around Australian English essential for understanding Australian identity-making processes, as well as providing insights and methods relevant beyond this context. These discussions demonstrate that while the linguistic variations may occur in other varieties of English, they are understood through local conceptualisations, and often as uniquely Australian. This book harnesses the value and richness of discourse in explorations of the sociocultural life of language. The findings show that analysis attending to language ideologies and identities can help discover the micro–macro links needed in understanding social meanings. The volume explores a wide range of language features but also provides a deep contemplation of Australian English.

Author : Norbert Wiley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226898156

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The Semiotic Self by Norbert Wiley Pdf

Ultimately, in finding a way to decenter the self without eliminating it, Wiley supplies a much-needed closure to classical pragmatism and gives new direction to neo-pragmatism.

Author : Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110317732

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Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages by Konstanze Jungbluth,Federica Da Milano Pdf

Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures. The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties. This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included. The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.

Author : Robert Keith Sawyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780805821192

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Pretend Play as Improvisation by Robert Keith Sawyer Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199686742

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The Inessential Indexical by Herman Cappelen,Josh Dever Pdf

In this book the authors argue that there are no such things as essential indexicality, irreducibly de se attitudes, or self-locating attitudes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Context by Anonim Pdf

Author : Amy Rose Deal
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262539210

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A Theory of Indexical Shift by Amy Rose Deal Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift that develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages. The phenomenon of indexical shift—whereby indexicals embedded in speech or attitude reports draw their meaning from an attitude event rather than the utterance context—has been reported in languages spanning five continents and at least ten language families. In this book, Amy Rose Deal offers a comprehensive overview of the semantics and syntax of indexical shift and develops a constrained typology of the phenomenon across languages—a picture of variation that is both rich enough to capture the known facts and restrictive enough to make predictions about currently unknown data points. Deal draws on studies of indexical shift in a broad range of languages, focusing especially on Nez Perce, Zazaki, Korean, and Uyghur. Using new data from fieldwork, Deal presents an in-depth case study of indexical shift in the Nez Perce language, and uses this evidence to propose a novel theoretical approach based on the meaning and grammar of shifty operators. She explores several dimensions of variation related to indexical shift across and within languages, showing how the cross-linguistic patterns can be explained (and constrained) within the shifty operator view. Finally, she contrasts indexical shift with surface-similar phenomena, clarifying the controls needed to test the constrained typology on new data sets.

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781119881056

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The Social Life of Words by Laura Wright Pdf

A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores the rise and fall of the social properties of words, charting ways in which they take on new social connotations. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up sociolinguistic theory with social history and biography to discover which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when. Social factors such as class, age, race, region, gender, occupation, religion and criminality are discussed in British and American English. From familiar words such as popcorn, porridge, café, to less common words like burgoo, califont, etna, and phrases like kiss me quick, monkey parade, slap-bang shop, The Social Life of Words demonstrates some of the many ways a new word or phrase can develop social affiliations. Detailed yet accessible chapters cover key areas of historical sociolinguistics, including concepts such as social networks, communities of practice, indexicality and enregisterment, prototypes and stereotypes, polysemy, onomasiology, language regard, lexical appropriation, and more. The first book to take a focused look at lexis as a topic for sociolinguistic analysis, The Social Life of Words: Introduces sociolinguistic theories and shows how they can be applied to the lexicon Demonstrates how readers can apply sociolinguistic theory to their own analyses of words in English and other languages Provides an engaging and amusing new look at many familiar words, inviting students to explore the sociolinguistic properties of words over time for themselves Part of Wiley Blackwell’s acclaimed Language in Society series, The Social Life of Words is essential reading for upper-level undergraduate students, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and linguists working in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, English lexicology, and the history and development of modern English.

Author : Joan O'Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000710779

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Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change by Joan O'Sullivan Pdf

Corpus Linguistics and the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Change demonstrates how particular styles and varieties of language are chosen and represented in the media, to reveal changing language ideologies and sociolinguistic change. Drawing on a corpus of ads broadcast on an Irish radio station between 1977 and 2017, this book shows how corpus linguistic tools can be creatively employed, in conjunction with frameworks and concepts such as audience and referee design and indexicality, and examines how accents and dialects (vernacular and prestige) are exploited in the ads across the decades. In addition, this book: illustrates the key principles of corpus design for sociolinguistics studies and offers a framework for future diachronic corpus studies of advertising on social media; provides a model for analysing corpus data at both inter-varietal and intra-varietal levels in terms of both accent and dialectal features and explores the efficacy of using particular corpus linguistic tools; identifies key factors which can be used by researchers as evidence for sociolinguistic change and links these factors to relevant theories and frameworks; demonstrates how corpus tools can be used to compare advertising discourse with naturally occurring discourse, with particular reference to markers of (pseudo) intimate discourse. Building on the growing body of research relating to variation and change in Irish English, this book is key reading for researchers and advanced students undertaking research within the areas of sociolinguistics and corpus linguistics.