Without Utterance

Author : Alice Corr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780198856597

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The Grammar of the Utterance by Alice Corr Pdf

"This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do with utterance-oriented elements such as vocatives, interjections, and particles; and to what they do with illocutionary complementisers, items attested cross-linguistically which look like, but do not behave like, subordinators. Taking the behaviour of conversation-oriented units of language as a window into the indexical nature of language, it argues that these items provide insight into how language-as-grammar builds the universe of discourse. By identifying the underlying unity in how different Ibero-Romance languages, alongside their Romance cousins and Latin ancestors, use grammar to refer-i.e. to connect our inner world to the one outside-, the book's empirical arguments are underpinned by the philosophical position that the architecture of grammar is also the architecture of thought. The book thus brings together the recent flurry of work seeking to incorporate aspects of the context of the utterance into the syntax, a line of enquiry broadly founded on empirical considerations, with the pursuit of explanatory adequacy via a so-called 'un-Cartesian' grammar of reference. In so doing, it formalises the intuition that language users do things not with words, but with grammar. The book brings new insight to the comparative morphosyntax of (Ibero-)Romance, particularly in its diatopic, diastrastic, and diamesic dimensions, and showcases the utility of careful descriptive work on this language family in advancing our empirical and conceptual understanding of the organisation of grammar"--

Author : K. Mulligan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400935211

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Speech Act and Sachverhalt by K. Mulligan Pdf

Phenomenology as practised by Adolf Reinach ( 1883-191 7) in his all too brief philosophical career exemplifies all the virtues of Husserl's Logical Investigations. It is sober, concerned to be clear and deals with specific problems. It is therefore understandable that, in a philosophical climate in which Husserl's masterpiece has come to be regarded as a mere stepping stone on the way to his later Phenomeno logy, or even to the writings of a Heidegger, Reinach's contributions to exact philo sophy have been all but totally forgotten. The topics on which Reinach wrote most illuminatingly, speech acts (which he called 'social acts') and states of affairs (Sachverhalte ), as well as his realism about the external world, have come to be regarded as the preserve of other traditions of exact philosophy. Like my fellow contributors, I hope that the present volume will go some way towards correcting this unfortunate historical accident. Reinach's account of judgements and states of affairs, an account that precedes those of Russell and Wittgenstein, his 1913 treatment of speech acts, his reinter pretation of Hume and aspects of his legal philosophy are the main philosophical topics dealt with in what follows. But his analysis of deliberation as well as his work on movement and Zeno's paradoxes get only a passing mention.

Author : Wolfgang Klein,Clive Perdue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027282880

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Utterance Structure by Wolfgang Klein,Clive Perdue Pdf

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from the very beginning to relatively advanced stages. Chapter 1 and 2 provide the framework for the study and here the guiding hypotheses are sketched on the basis of a pilot analysis. The empirical part of the study is contained in Chapters 3-6, in which data are given for the acquisition of, respectively, English (by Punjabi and Italian learners), German (Italian and Turkish learners), Dutch (Turkish and Moroccon learners) and French (Moroccon and Spanish learners), thus allowing for crosslinguistic comparisons in various ways. For each data-set the learner's linguistic repertoire is established, and then the utterance patterns recurrent in his/her production and the constraints these patterns are subject to. In Chapter 7 the general and theoretical implications are discussed.

Author : K.K. Luke
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283320

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Utterance Particles in Cantonese Conversation by K.K. Luke Pdf

Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them; namely, LA (la55), LO (lo55), and WO (wo44). Adopting a set of theoretical assumptions and analytical methods in the tradition of Conversation Analysis within an ethnomethodological framework, an attempt is made to approach these objects by examining them in the context of interactional details in naturally occurring conversations. This book presents original accounts of, and fresh insights into these utterance particles in Cantonese. But it also raises theoretical and methodological questions of more general interest. These include, among other things, the status of data and evidence in the analysis of language, and the possibility of a socially constituted linguistics.

Author : Ruth Codier Resch
Publisher : Lorian Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0983742278

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Without Utterance by Ruth Codier Resch Pdf

The catastrophe of losing language is told by a lover of observation willing to dig deep into essential memories of self. The author tells the tender, sometimes horrifying present lived without language, visions of an uncertain future, and unexpected creativity from the chaos. To speak at all was to locate the fewest words to express anything. Returning to language and writing the author uses spare sensory language in vivid touching ways to evoke her experiences for the reader. Non-verbal languages are surprising and transformative parts of her journey through art, music, body practices, and mysticism These Tales are for anyone who loves a journey, stories that incite the imagination, to experience the unthinkable. These are Tales for those have calamitous chaotic events and illnesses in their lives who yearn to see affirmation that life is, in fact, possible, with possibilities not dreamed, despite circumstances.

Author : Jacopo Saturno
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961102617

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Utterance structure in initial L2 acquisition by Jacopo Saturno Pdf

This work is devoted to morphosyntactic processing in the earliest stages of L2 Polish. The target structure taken into consideration is the morphosyntactic opposition between the nominative and accusative case, respectively corresponding to the subject and object function. This is the first book-length work devoted to the VILLA project, a large multi-national initiative within which 90 adult learners took part in a first-exposure, 14-hour Polish course under controlled input conditions. As participants had never been exposed to Polish or other Slavic languages, the experiment portrays the very first contact with a completely new target language; moreover, since the learners were evenly distributed among five L1 groups, L1 interference can also be investigated in depth. In addition to an in-depth analysis of the effect of input properties on morpho-syntactic processing, the book discusses sensitive methodological points such as the role of semantics in semi-spontaneous production as well as the impact of elicitation techniques.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415509688

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Performance and the Politics of Space by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Benjamin Wihstutz Pdf

This collection asks what's at stake when a theatrical space is created and when a performance takes place: under what circumstances the topology of theatre becomes political. It visits a politics of inclusion and exclusion, of distributions and placements, and of spatial appropriation and utopian concepts in theatre history and contemporary performance.

Author : Jon Barwise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Conditionals (Logic)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008373073

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The Situation in Logic: without special title by Jon Barwise Pdf

Author : I.M. Schlesinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317933526

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Production and Comprehension of Utterances (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) by I.M. Schlesinger Pdf

In this volume, the author reviews the results of research on language performance and proposes a model of production and comprehension. Although recent developments in linguistics are taken into account, consideration of other requirements of a performance model leads to the conclusion that the grammar the speaker has in mind differs from the grammar as currently conceived of by most linguists. The author is also critical of recent computer simulations of language performance on the basis that they fall short of describing what goes on in human production and comprehension. The author therefore proposes that the basic issues must be rethought and new theoretical foundations reformulated, in order to arrive at a viable theory of language functioning. In developing the framework of the model presented in this book, requirements of flexibility in the performance mechanisms, the probabilistic nature of comprehension processes, and the interleaving of linguistic rules with context and knowledge of the world are emphasized.

Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Keith Allan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110270679

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Salience and Defaults in Utterance Processing by Kasia M. Jaszczolt,Keith Allan Pdf

The book addresses controversies around the conscious vs automatic processing of contextual information and the distinction between literal and nonliteral meaning. It sheds new light on the relation of the literal/nonliteral distinction to the distinction between the automatic and conscious retrieval of information. The question of literal meaning is inherently interwoven with the question of lexical salience on one hand and default interpretations on the other. This volume addresses these interconnected issues, stressing their mutual interdependence. It contributes new, ground-breaking insights into the questions of literalness, semantics-pragmatics interface, automatic (default) retrieval and contextual pragmatic enrichment, modelling of discourse processing, lexical pragmatics, and other related issues.

Author : Stephen A. Smith
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780999728390

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Freedom of Expression by Stephen A. Smith Pdf

"The texts in this volume represent earlier contributions to the ongoing conversation about the meaning of "the freedom of speech, and of the press," collected and selected to help the reader situate and understand what has gone on before and to advance the contemporary argument in a more informed way."--Introduction, page v.

Author : Mandana Seyfeddinipur,Marianne Gullberg
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269270

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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance by Mandana Seyfeddinipur,Marianne Gullberg Pdf

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage in mutual gaze to establish intersubjectivity. This volume brings together studies by leading scholars from several fields on gaze and facial displays, on the relationship between gestures, sign, and language, on pointing and other conventionalized forms of manual expression, on gestures and language evolution, and on gestures in child development. The papers in this collection honor Adam Kendon whose pioneering work has laid the theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary studies of multimodality, gestures, and utterance visible action.

Author : Alvah Hovey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X001818613

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An American Commentary on the New Testament by Alvah Hovey Pdf

Author : Francis Lieber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Political ethics
ISBN : UCAL:$B555244

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Book I. Ethics in general; political ethics in particular by Francis Lieber Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Theology
ISBN : UOM:39015065137690

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The Church quarterly review by Anonim Pdf