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Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection

Author : Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110406849

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Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection by Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions – it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker’s character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in everyday communication and opens up the possibility to analyze literary texts from a linguistic perspective. The first two volumes of the series The Dynamics of Wordplay therefore aim at bringing together contributions from linguistics and literary studies, focusing on theoretical issues such as basic techniques of wordplay, and its relationship to genres and discourse traditions. These issues are complemented by a series of case studies on the use of wordplay in individual authors and specific historical contexts. The contributions offer a fresh look on the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay in different communicative settings.

Wordplay and Metalinguistic/metadiscursive Reflection

Author : Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 3110578719

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Wordplay and Metalinguistic/metadiscursive Reflection by Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

This volume is the first of two bringing together selected contributions from linguistics and literary studies focusing on the variegated manifestations of wordplay in different communicative settings. By investigating basic techniques and ludic traditions, the volumes offer a fresh look on the metalinguistic/metadiscursive dimension of wordplay as well as on its various kinds of interplays.

Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection

Author : Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110406719

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Wordplay and Metalinguistic / Metadiscursive Reflection by Angelika Zirker,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

Wordplay can be seen as a genuine interface phenomenon. It can be found both in everyday communication and in literary texts, and it can fulfil a range of functions – it may be entertaining and comical, it may be used to conceal taboo, and it may influence the way in which the speaker’s character is perceived. Moreover, wordplay also reflects on language and communication: it reveals surprising alternative readings, and emphasizes the phonetic similarity of linguistic signs that also points towards relations on the level of content. Wordplay unravels characteristics of literary language in everyday communication and opens up the possibility to analyze literary texts from a linguistic perspective. The first two volumes of the series The Dynamics of Wordplay therefore aim at bringing together contributions from linguistics and literary studies, focusing on theoretical issues such as basic techniques of wordplay, and its relationship to genres and discourse traditions. These issues are complemented by a series of case studies on the use of wordplay in individual authors and specific historical contexts. The contributions offer a fresh look on the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay in different communicative settings.

Crossing Languages to Play with Words

Author : Sebastian Knospe,Alexander Onysko,Maik Goth
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110463477

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Crossing Languages to Play with Words by Sebastian Knospe,Alexander Onysko,Maik Goth Pdf

Wordplay involving several linguistic codes is an important modality of ludic language. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, discussing examples from different epochs, genres, and communicative situations. The contributions illustrate the multi-dimensionality, linguistic make-up, and the special interactive potential of wordplay across linguistic and cultural boundaries, including the challenging practice of translation.

Expanding the Lexicon

Author : Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110498165

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Expanding the Lexicon by Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research

Author : Esme Winter-Froemel,Verena Thaler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110630879

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Cultures and Traditions of Wordplay and Wordplay Research by Esme Winter-Froemel,Verena Thaler Pdf

The book series is dedicated to the study of the multifaceted dynamics of wordplay as an interface phenomenon. The contributions aim to bring together approaches from various disciplines and present case studies on different communicative settings, inluding everyday language and literary communication, and thus offer fresh perspectives on wordplay in the context of linguistic innovation, language contact, and speaker-hearer-interaction. La collection vise à analyser la diversité de la dynamique du jeu de mots en tant que phénomène d’interface. Les contributions réunissent les approches de différentes disciplines et présentent des études de cas de situations de communication variées, incluant tant le langage quotidien que la communication littéraire. Ainsi, elles offrent de nouvelles perspectives sur le jeu de mots dans le contexte de l’innovation linguistique, du contact linguistique, et de l’interaction locuteur-interlocuteur. Editorial Board: Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University Commerce, USA), Dirk Delabastita (Université de Namur, Belgium), Dirk Geeraerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), Raymond W. Gibbs (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA), Alain Rabatel (Université de Lyon 1 /ICAR, UMR 5191, CNRS, Université Lumière-Lyon 2, ENS-Lyon, France), Monika Schmitz-Emans (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany), Deirdre Wilson (University College London, UK)

Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives

Author : Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Marcin Trojszczak
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031387784

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Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives by Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk,Marcin Trojszczak Pdf

This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts. The contributions included in this book are the outcome of the conference Contacts and Contrasts that was held in Konin, Poland, in 2021 (C&C2021). The contributions featured in the first part of the part of the book focus on various issues in the field of applied linguistics, in particular language education, second and foreign language learning as well as translator training. The second part of this edited collection features chapters devoted to a range of issues at the intersection of semantics, historical and contact linguistics, as well as literature.

The Grammar of Hate

Author : Natalia Knoblock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108834131

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The Grammar of Hate by Natalia Knoblock Pdf

Bringing together research from a global team of scholars, this innovative volume explores the morphosyntactic features of verbal aggression, an aspect of hate speech that has been hitherto overlooked. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of hate speech and verbal aggression.

Lexicography of Coronavirus-related Neologisms

Author : Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus,Ilan Kernerman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110798319

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Lexicography of Coronavirus-related Neologisms by Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus,Ilan Kernerman Pdf

This volume brings together contributions by international experts reflecting on Covid19-related neologisms and their lexicographic processing and representation. The papers analyze new words, new meanings of existing words, and new multiword units, where they come from, how they are transmitted (or differ) across languages, and how their use and meaning are reflected in dictionaries of all sorts. Recent trends in as many as ten languages are considered, including general and specialized language, monolingual as well as bilingual and printed as well as online dictionaries.

Strategies of Ambiguity

Author : Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000987843

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Strategies of Ambiguity by Matthias Bauer,Angelika Zirker Pdf

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a listener strategically perceives ambiguity, which may happen both synchronically (e.g. in conversations) as well as diachronically (e.g. when strategically ambiguating biblical texts in order to make them applicable to moral lessons). Another example is the question whether ambiguity awareness increases the strategic use of ambiguity in prosody. Moreover, the authors not only enquire into effects of ambiguous meanings but also into the strategic use of ambiguity as such, for example, as a response to censorship or as a means of provoking irritation. This volume brings together several contributions from linguistics, literary studies, rhetoric, psychology and theology, and aims at providing a systematic approach to the strategic production and perception of ambiguity in a variety of texts and contexts. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Language of Conflict

Author : Natalia Knoblock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350098626

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Language of Conflict by Natalia Knoblock Pdf

Exploring the ways in which language and conflict are intertwined and interrelated, this volume examines the patterns of public discourse in Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of the Ukrainian Crisis in 2014. It investigates the trends in language aggression, evaluation, persuasion and other elements of conflict communication related to the situation. Through the analysis of the linguistic features of salient discourses and prevalent narratives constructed by different social groups, Language of Conflict reflects competing worldviews of various stakeholders in this conflict and presents multiple, often contradictory, visions of the circumstances. Contributors from Ukraine, Russia and beyond investigate discursive representations of the most important aspects of the crisis: its causes and goals, participants and the values and ideologies of the opposing factions. They focus on categorization, stance, framing, (de)legitimation, manipulation and coping strategies while analysing the ways in which the stress produced by social discord, economic hardship, and violence shapes public discourse. Primarily focusing on informal communication and material gathered from online sources, the collection provides insight into the ways people directly affected by the crisis think about and respond to it. The volume acknowledges the communicators' active role in constructing the (often incompatible) discursive images of the conflict and concentrates on the conscious and strategic use of linguistic resources in negative and aggressive communication.

Imperial Beast Fables

Author : Kaori Nagai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030514938

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Imperial Beast Fables by Kaori Nagai Pdf

This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.

Idioms and Ambiguity in Context

Author : Wiltrud Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110685459

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Idioms and Ambiguity in Context by Wiltrud Wagner Pdf

The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children’s literature. Looking at the connection between context and understanding of idiomatic expressions in either their phrasal or their compositional reading, the study investigates how ambiguity is activated, if, how, and when it is perceived on the different levels of communication, and how literary texts use this ambiguity in playful ways.

Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media

Author : Emilia Di Martino
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030968182

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Indexing ‘Chav’ on Social Media by Emilia Di Martino Pdf

The book sets out to examine the concept of 'chav', providing a review of its origins, its characterological figures, the process of enregisterment whereby it has come to be recognized in public discourse, and the traits associated with it in traditional media representations. The author then discusses the 'chav' label in light of recent re-appropriations in social network activity (particularly through the video-sharing app TikTok) and subsequent commentary in the public sphere. She traces the evolution of the term from its use during the first decade of the twenty-first century to make sense of class, status and cultural capital, to its resurgence and the ways in which it is still associated with appearance in gendered and classed ways. She then draws on recent developments in linguistic anthropology and embodied sociocultural linguistics to argue that social media users draw on communicative resources to perform identities that are both situated in specific contexts of discourse and dynamically changing, challenging the idea that geo-sociocultural varieties and mannerisms are the sole way of indexing membership of a community. This volume contends that equating 'chav' with 'underclass' in the most recent uses of the concept on social networks may not be the whole story, and the book will be of interest to sociocultural linguistics and identity researchers, as well as readers in anthropology, sociology, British studies, cultural studies, identity studies, digital humanities, and sociolinguistics.

Linguistics Meets Literature

Author : Matthias Bauer,Sigrid Beck,Saskia Brockmann,Susanne Riecker,Angelika Zirker,Nadine Bade
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110642810

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Linguistics Meets Literature by Matthias Bauer,Sigrid Beck,Saskia Brockmann,Susanne Riecker,Angelika Zirker,Nadine Bade Pdf

Until recently, collaborative efforts between formal linguistics and literary studies have been relatively sparse; this book is an attempt to bridge this gap and add to the hitherto small pool of studies that combine the two disciplines. Our study concentrates on Emily Dickinson’s poetry, since it displays a highly uncommon and therefore challenging use of language. We argue this to be part of her poetic strategy and consider Dickinson an intuitive linguist: her apparent non-compliance with linguistic rules is a productive exploration of linguistic expression to reveal the flexibility and potential of grammar, leading to complex processes of interpretation. Our study includes a number of in-depth analyses of individual poems, which combine formal linguistic methods and literary scholarship and focus on specific aspects such as ambiguity, reference, and presuppositions. One of our findings concerns the dynamic interpretation of lyrical texts in which the pragmatic step of establishing what a poem means for the reader is postponed to text level. We provide readers with a tool-box of methods for the formal linguistic analysis not just of Emily Dickinson’s poetry but of linguistically complex literary texts in general.