Text Context Pretext

Author : H. G. Widdowson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470758274

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Text, Context, Pretext by H. G. Widdowson Pdf

Written by a leading researcher in the field, this fascinating examination of the relations between grammar, text, and discourse is designed to provoke critical discussion on key issues in discourse analysis which are not always clearly identified and examined. Written by a leading researcher in the field Continues the enquiry into discourse analysis that Zellig Harris initiated 50 years ago, which raised a number of problematic issues that have remained unresolved ever since Introduces the notion of pretext as an additional factor in the general interpretative process Focuses attention specifically on the work of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in light of the issues discussed

Author : Kevin Avruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317262053

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Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution by Kevin Avruch Pdf

Written by a distinguished scholar, this book explores themes of culture, identity, and power as they relate to conceptions of practice in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Among the topics covered are ethnic and identity conflicts; culture, relativism and human rights; post-conflict trauma and reconciliation; and modeling varieties of conflict resolution practice. Context and Pretext in Conflict Resolution is the winner of the 2014 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize.

Author : Henry Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194374459

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Defining Issues in English Language Teaching by Henry Widdowson Pdf

This text goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a foreign language. It looks at different attitudes to English teaching, and critically examines proposals for course content.

Author : Shahab Ahmed
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400873586

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What Is Islam? by Shahab Ahmed Pdf

What is Islam? How do we grasp a human and historical phenomenon characterized by such variety and contradiction? What is "Islamic" about Islamic philosophy or Islamic art? Should we speak of Islam or of islams? Should we distinguish the Islamic (the religious) from the Islamicate (the cultural)? Or should we abandon "Islamic" altogether as an analytical term? In What Is Islam?, Shahab Ahmed presents a bold new conceptualization of Islam that challenges dominant understandings grounded in the categories of "religion" and "culture" or those that privilege law and scripture. He argues that these modes of thinking obstruct us from understanding Islam, distorting it, diminishing it, and rendering it incoherent. What Is Islam? formulates a new conceptual language for analyzing Islam. It presents a new paradigm of how Muslims have historically understood divine revelation—one that enables us to understand how and why Muslims through history have embraced values such as exploration, ambiguity, aestheticization, polyvalence, and relativism, as well as practices such as figural art, music, and even wine drinking as Islamic. It also puts forward a new understanding of the historical constitution of Islamic law and its relationship to philosophical ethics and political theory. A book that is certain to provoke debate and significantly alter our understanding of Islam, What Is Islam? reveals how Muslims have historically conceived of and lived with Islam as norms and truths that are at once contradictory yet coherent.

Author : Robert E. Scholes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300037265

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Textual Power by Robert E. Scholes Pdf

"Robert Scholes has written an enviable book on the uses and abuses of literary theory in the teaching of literature. One of [his] most forceful points...is that 'literary theory' is not something a teacher may either 'use' or not use, for teaching itself is an unavoidably theoretical activity."--Gerald Graff, Novel "Scholes' emphasis in Textual Power is indicated by the book's subtitle. After a provocative analysis of disciplinary values and departmental tendencies...[he] proposes that 'we must stop "teaching literature" and start studying texts'...His book is essential for college libraries."--R.C. Gebhardt, Choice "There is no issue more current, more relevant to the present scene, than the problem of pedagogy and its relation to contemporary theory. Textual Power is an important, provocative, and above all useful contribution to this discussion."--Gregory L. Ulmer Robert Scholes, author of Structuralism in Literature and Semiotics and Interpretation among other books, is Alumni-Alumnae University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.

Author : Maureen Quilligan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724480

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The Language of Allegory by Maureen Quilligan Pdf

This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan formulates a vocabulary for talking about the distinctive generic elements they share. The texts she considers range from the twelfth-century De planctu naturae to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and include such works as Le Roman de la Rose, Langland's Piers Plowman, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Melville's Confidence Man, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Whether or not readers agree with this book, they will enjoy and profit from it.

Author : Stephen Morey
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004963538

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The Tai Languages of Assam by Stephen Morey Pdf

The Tai Languages of Assam - a grammar and texts presents a comprehensive linguistic analysis of two endangered Tai languages of Assam, Aiton and Phake, together with information about Tai Khamyang, a highly endangered variety. This book presents chapters on phonology, syntax, lexicography and the writing system, as well as discussing earlier recorded data on the Tai languages in detail. Together with the book, there is a CD version of the linguistic analysis, linked to text files, sound files and photographs. Every language example is linked to a sound file, and to a document file containing a full transcription of the text from which that example has come. The comprehensive nature of this linking between the grammatical analysis and the primary data allows linguists, other scholars and members of the Tai community to check any of the claims made in the analysis. This innovative combination of book and CD therefore represents both a grammatical description in the best traditions of linguistics as well as a substantial documentation of the Tai languages. In the CD version, an electronic appendix presents a rich corpus of texts, from a wide range of styles and genres, together with documents presenting a transcription, translation and thoroughly annotated analysis for each of the texts presented.

Author : Teun A van Dijk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137072993

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Discourse and Power by Teun A van Dijk Pdf

Teun van Dijk is one of the founders of Critical Discourse Studies and this collection brings together some of his most important writing, framed by new introductory material. He examines the role of discourse in the reproduction of power and domination in society and the ways in which media and political elites control access to public discourse.

Author : H. G. Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015079344258

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Discourse Analysis by H. G. Widdowson Pdf

a concise but comprehensive survery Includes suggestions for further study and reading, and a glossary.

Author : Gilbert Michlin
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814338483

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Of No Interest to the Nation by Gilbert Michlin Pdf

English translation of Gilbert Michlin’s Holocaust memoir detailing his family’s life as Jewish immigrants in France and their eventual deportation to Auschwitz in 1944.

Author : Andrew Calabrese,Colin Sparks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461700357

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Toward a Political Economy of Culture by Andrew Calabrese,Colin Sparks Pdf

Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics in critical political economy studies are well represented here: market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, technological impacts on particular media sectors, information poverty, and media access. The book also features new topics for political economy study, including racism in audience research, the value and need for feminist approaches to political economy studies, and the relationship between the discourse of media finance and the behavior of markets.

Author : Richard Schultz
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441238887

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Out of Context by Richard Schultz Pdf

Although 92% of American households own at least one Bible, their use of the Bible varies significantly. Only 59% of Americans read the Bible at least occasionally, and an even smaller percentage go beyond merely reading the Bible and actually study it. It is no wonder that even those who say they read the Scriptures often don't understand them. Veteran Bible professor Richard L. Schultz believes the misinterpretation and misapplication of biblical texts amounts to a crisis of "interpretive malpractice." In Out of Context he seeks to explain how biblical interpretation goes wrong and how to get it right. He introduces readers to the important concepts of context, word meaning, genre, and the differences between the world of the Bible and our own. Readers who delve into the fascinating world of biblical interpretation found in this book will find their Scripture reading enhanced and be enlightened by Schultz's powerful and ultimately positive message.

Author : Vijay Bhatia,John Flowerdew,Rodney H. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134151318

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Advances in Discourse Studies by Vijay Bhatia,John Flowerdew,Rodney H. Jones Pdf

Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive and cultural psychology and cultural studies, as well as among established sub-fields within linguistics itself. Among the more recent developments are an increasing ‘critical’ turn in discourse analysis, a growing interest in historical, ethnographic and corpus-based approaches to discourse, more concern with the social contexts in which discourse occurs, the social actions that it is used to take and the identities that are constructed through it, as well as a revaluation of what counts as ‘discourse’ to include multi-modal texts and interaction. Advances in Discourse Studies brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field, investigating the historical and theoretical relationships between new advances in discourse studies and pointing towards new directions for the future of the discipline. Featuring discussion questions, classroom projects and recommended readings at the end of each section, as well as case studies illustrating each approach discussed, this is an invaluable resource for students of interdisciplinary discourse analysis.

Author : Joanna Gavins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748629909

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Text World Theory by Joanna Gavins Pdf

Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understanding mental representations. Text World Theory is explained using naturally occurring texts and real situations, including literary works, advertising discourse, the language of lonely hearts, horoscopes, route directions, cookery books and song lyrics. The book will therefore enable students, teachers and researchers to make practical use of the text-world framework in a wide range of linguistic and literary contexts.

Author : Allan Owens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1789383560

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Beyond Text by Allan Owens Pdf