Research on left periphery phenomena has increased in the last 20 years, resulting in consistent studies from a wide range of languages and a fruitful debate on the functional projections within the CP system.
In 'Walter Benjamin: Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen' erforscht der renommierte Autor die Rolle der Sprache in der menschlichen Existenz und Kultur.
This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts.
These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism.
Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention).
Translation and Pragmatics aims to provide a fundamental grounding of key phenomena, theories, and concepts in the field of pragmatics and of some of their manifestations both within and across languages and cultures.
Communication in Legal Advocacy integrates work in legal theory, communication theory, social science research, and strategic planning to provide a comprehensive anaysis of the communication processes in trials.
A landmark rhetorical theory of the formation and functioning of opinions in social media contexts Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality offers a rhetorical theory of opinions, especially as opinions operate within social media.
Dieses eBook: "Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Examining recent changes in the once stable genre of doctoral thesis and dissertation writing, this book explores how these changes impact on the nature of the doctoral thesis/dissertation itself.
Modal verbs in English communicate delicate shades of meaning, there being a large range of verbs both on the necessity side (must, have to, should, ought to, need, need to) and the possibility side (can, may, could, might, be able to).
Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection provides an innovative introduction to the use of the corpus linguistics methodology in the field of deception detection.
Este estudio lingüístico examina la frecuencia de uso del sujeto pronombre personal (SPP) en el español de Bogotá Colombia en niños monolingües entre los cinco y ocho años.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research.
In this book Marina Lambrou explores the dimension of narrative storytelling described as 'the disnarrated' - events that do not happen but which are referred to - across three genres of texts: personal narratives; news stories; and fiction (literary and film).
This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory.
As a complement to Pharies’s 2002 Diccionario etimológico de los sufijos españoles (Madrid: Gredos), this book completes the urgent task of providing historical and etymological information for the affixes of the Spanish language.
Have you ever wondered how the principles behind Shannon's groundbreaking Information Theory can be interwoven with the intricate fabric of linguistic communication?
In this edited volume, language weaponization - or the weaponization of language - is used to describe the process in which words, discourse, and language in any form can be used to inflict harm on others.
This book explores the pragmatics of specialized language with a focus on multiword terms, complex phrases characterized by sequences of nouns or adjectives whose meaning is clarified in the unspecified but implicit links between them, with implications for their use and translation.
Aristoteles' 'Über die Dichtkunst' ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das nicht nur als eine der bedeutendsten Abhandlungen über Literatur gilt, sondern auch bis heute als grundlegend für das Verständnis der Poetik betrachtet wird.
Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016) was the single most important figure in the emergence of the "e;new originalist"e; interpretation of the US Constitution, which sought to anchor the court's interpretation of the Constitution to the ordinary meaning of the words at the time of drafting.
Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity.
Auf der Grundlage eines Korpus (2773 Texte aus taz, FR, SZ, FAZ, Welt) wird die Diskussion um die Legitimität von Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr diskurslinguistisch untersucht.
Generalmente, recitamos las preposiciones sin convicción, con un rítmico y terco juego de vocales y de consonantes que se unen y se desunen monótonamente, y siempre nos olvidamos de alguna o resucitamos otras que descansan en paz hace mucho tiempo.
