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Author : Linda K. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1977-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0933104103
Author : Linda Kay Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015002928086
Author : Anna Berge
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803216457
"In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington"
Author : Esam N. Khalil
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027251010
Grounding in English and Arabic News Discourse explores the discourse notion of grounding (viz. the foreground-background structure), and examines it in the various structures that occur in short news texts. A text-level approach to grounding and the differentiation between several core concepts relating to the various textual and non-textual structures, distinguish the book from other approaches in the field. A corpus-based analysis focuses on sentence-initial expressions and examines the grounding-signalling function of several markers in both English and Arabic. The analysis captures constraints on the occurrence of particular markers, and the extensive illustrative examples explain the strategies that writers employ to cope with problems of recasting grounding-values in news texts. The author also shows how the failure to signal appropriate grounding-values is likewise associated with the failure to deliver the appropriate type of text. Grounding is a relatively unexplored area of investigation in Arabic (text)linguistics, and the study identifies a series of previously unrecognized language features, highlighting the discourse pragmatic function that syntax serves. The book will be invaluable to researchers and students of discourse, pragmatics, contrastive rhetoric, and communication. It will also be of interest to all those involved in translation and intercultural studies.
Author : Shondel J. Nero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135621476
This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices--both theoretical and practical--on the complex politics, challenges, and strategies of educating students--in North America and worldwide--who are speakers of diverse or nonstandard varieties of English, creoles, and hybrid varieties of English, such as African American Vernacular English, Caribbean Creole English, Tex Mex, West African Pidgin English, and Indian English, among others. The number of such students is increasing as a result of the spread of English, internal and global migration, and increased educational access. Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education offers: *a sociohistorical perspective on language spread and variation; *analysis of related issues such as language attitudes, identities, and prescribed versus actual language use; and *practical suggestions for pedagogy. Pedagogical features: Key points at the beginning of each chapter help focus the reader and provide a framework for reading, writing, reflection, and discussion; chapter-end questions for discussion and reflective writing engage and challenge the ideas presented and encourage a range of approaches in dealing with language diversity. Collectively, the chapters in this volume invite educators, researchers, and students, across the fields of TESOL, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, English, literacy, and language education, to begin to consider and adopt context-specific policies and practices that will improve the language development and academic performance of linguistically diverse students.
Author : Peter Erdmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111637754
Author : Gerald Prince
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803236999
In literature the very act of narration often constitutes a theme: everyone is familiar with narration that interrupts the story, that provides an ironic gloss on the action, that exposes the narrator, that serves to deceive. In Narrative as Theme Gerald Prince offers the first book-length study of the theme of narrative and of the relationshipøbetween narrative and truth in fiction. In the first part, theoretical in nature, Prince considers the notion of theme as well as the theme of narrative itself, surveys the research that has come out of that notion, and isolates starting points for the investigation of narrative as theme. Of particular interest to narratologists will be his discussion of the "disnarrated," all those passages of a text that consider what did not or does not happen but oculd have. He shows how the disnarrated is an important guide to reading the theme of narrative. The second part focuses on seven French novels: Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cl_ves, Voltaire's Candide, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sartre's La Nausäe, Maupassant's Bel-Ami, Claude Simon's La Route des Flandres, and Patrick Modiano's Rue des Boutiques Obscures. Written in first and third person, absorbed or not in the act of narration, variously concerned with history, ethics, and psychology, these classical, modern, and postmodern works exemplify basic positions with regard to the truth or value of narrative. His Dictionary of Narratology, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1987, confirmed Gerald Prince as one of the world's leading narratologists.
Author : Maria-Elisabeth Conte,János Sánder Petöfi,Emel Sözer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286024
The 35 papers in this volume provide a comprehensive picture of crucial aspects of connectedness. The papers are divided into three main groups: the papers in the first group deal with particular questions of the text-constituting role of anaphora, deixis, coreference, modality, conjunctions and particles, theme, topic, ellipsis, etc., the second group of papers discusses the connectedness in texts/discourses of different types (narrative texts, stories, horoscopes, anecdotes, poems, comics, etc.), and, finally, the papers in the third group discuss general theoretical/methodological questions concerning connectedness.
Author : John Hinds,Senko K. Maynard,Shoichi Iwasaki
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228857
Within the field of Japanese linguistics, few areas have generated as much controversy as the morpheme wa; traditionally described as a marker of old or contrasted information, its function as a discourse marker has also been studied. This work aims to deepen the understanding of wa through careful examination of the particle at both sentence and discourse levels in old Japanese as well as present-day Japanese. Previous studies have concentrated on syntactic analyses of wa. The contributors to this volume challenge the old approach and uncover new properties of wa. The four topics discussed are: 'WA' in Narrative and Expository Discourse; 'WA' and other Syntactic Phenomena; Historical Perspectives on 'WA' and Pragmatic Perspectives on 'WA'.
Author : Max M. Louwerse,Willie van Peer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027297785
Themes play a central role in our everyday communication: we have to know what a text is about in order to understand it. Intended meaning cannot be understood without some knowledge of the underlying theme. This book helps to define the concept of ‘themes’ in texts and how they are structured in language use. Much of the literature on Thematics is scattered over different disciplines (literature, psychology, linguistics, cognitive science), which this detailed collection pulls together in one coherent overview. The result is a new landmark for the study and understanding of themes in their everyday manifestation.
Author : Marilyn A. Nippold,Cheryl M. Scott
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136951053
School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex topic through oral reports and essay examinations. Although many students are proficient with the expository genre, others struggle to meet these expectations. This book is designed to provide information on the use and understanding of expository discourse in school-age children, adolescents, and young adults. Recently, researchers from around the world have been investigating the development of this genre in typical students and in those with language disorders. Although many books have addressed the development of conversational and narrative discourse, by comparison, books devoted to the topic of expository discourse are sparse. This crossdisciplinary volume fills that gap in the literature and makes a unique contribution to the study of language development and disorders. It will be of interest to a range of professionals, including speech-language pathologists, teachers, linguists, and psychologists who are concerned with language development and disorders.
Author : Boyd H. Davis,Jeutonne Brewer,Jeutonne Patten Brewer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791434753
Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.
Author : Brigitte K. Halford
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canadianisms
ISBN : 382334577X
Author : Martin Nystrand
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004454118
Author : Robert E. Longacre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781489901620
In that The Anatomy of Speech Notions (1976) was the precursor to The Grammar of Discourse (1983), this revision embodies a third "edition" of some of the material that is found here. The original intent of the 1976 volume was to construct a hierarchical arrangement of notional categories, which find surface realization in the grammatical constructions of the various languages of the world. The idea was to marshal the categories that every analyst-regardless of theoretical bent-had to take account of as cognitive entities. The volume began with a couple of chapters on what was then popularly known as "case grammar," then expanded upward and downward to include other notional categories on other levels. Chapters on dis course, monologue, and dialogue were buried in the center of the volume. In the 1983 volume, the chapters on monologue and dialogue discourse were moved to the fore of the book and the chapters on case grammar were made less prominent; the volume was then renamed The Grammar of Discourse. The current revision features more clearly than its predecessors the intersection of discourse and pragmatic concerns with grammatical structures on various levels. It retains and expands much of the former material but includes new material reflecting current advances in such topics as salience clines for discourse, rhetorical relations, paragraph structures, transitivity, ergativity, agency hierarchy, and word order typologies.
