Narrative Research, once the domain of structuralist literary theory, has over the last 15 years developed into an international and interdisciplinary field.
This book, which can be seen as both a research monograph and a text book, challenges the approaches to human interaction based on supposedly universal "e;maxims of conversation"e; and "e;principles of politeness"e;, which fly in the face of reality as experienced by millions of people - refugees, immigrants, crosscultural families, and so on.
Trotz einer neuen Aufmerksamkeit im Zuge des ‚spatial turn‘ hat man sich in der Narratologie bisher nicht systematisch mit den basalen Fragen der Beschreibung von Raum in Erzähltexten beschäftigt.
The book pursues a usage-oriented strategy of language description by infusing it with the central concept of post-structural semiotics and literary theory - that of intertextual memory.
Pragmatics of society takes a socio-cultural perspective on pragmatics and gives a broad view of how social and cultural factors influence language use.
This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings.
The Handbook of Historical Pragmatics provides an authoritative and accessible overview of this versatile new field in pragmatics devoted to a diachronic study of language use and human interaction in context.
Open publication Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics.
Speakers tend to compose their utterances in such a way that the message they want to get across is hardly ever fully encoded by the meanings of the words and the grammar they use.
The volume presents recent results in the field of Information Structure based on research on Italian and Italian dialects, and on further studies on several typologically different languages.
The papers in this volume study linguistic structures in the context of their interactive functions and usages; they concentrate on grammatical constructions for the positioning of self and others.
This collection of nine original articles deals with the expression of possession at various levels of grammar, morphological, phrasal, and syntactic, and from a typologically diverse range of languages (including Germanic, Oceanic, Meso-American, and Australian Aboriginal).
This book demonstrates how the underlying principles of the English-based FrameNet project are successfully applied to the description and analysis of typologically diverse languages.
Menschen sind artikulierende Wesen: Unsere Lebensform ist davon bestimmt auszudrücken, was sich uns im Erleben und Verhalten als bedeutungsvoll aufdrängt.
Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular.
The book is the first corpus-based study giving a comprehensive overview of English items which have been used as adverbial connectors ('conjuncts', 'linking adverbials'), from Old English to Present-Day English.
Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der Forschung zur Konstituierung von Wissen in sprachlichen Formationen.
This book aims to provide a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English on the basis of the systematic study of deictic, syntactic and semantic properties of authentic examples drawn from literary as well as non-literary sources.
"e;Metaphor studies"e; has over the past 30 years become a discipline in its own right, mainly because of the cognitive linguistic claim that metaphors characterize thought, not just language.
