Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many "e;ways"e; of interviewing.
In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation.
This book explores socio-cultural meanings of 'self' in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships and collective identity.
Wine culture is a complex phenomenon of increasing importance in modern society, and it combines the joys of wine appreciation with the frustrations of trying to verbally communicate sensory impressions.
Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysis.
In recent years, the study of the conceptualization of time has seen a considerable growth, providing a basis for exploring the cognitive foundation of metaphor.
Whenever we think about the world - including its concrete and abstract entities - we typically see a series of so-called mental images in front of our eyes that aid us in everyday problem solving and navigating ourselves in the world.
Hegemony, Discourse, and Political Strategy revisits a question that has long fascinated socialists, progressives, democrats, Greens, and Marxists - how do left-wing forces win at politics?
Gli umani sono creature della narrazione: infinitamente narrano e si narrano, intrecciano dialoghi, accendono storie per illuminare le buie caverne del cuore e del mondo, recuperano e trasmutano ricordi.
The aim of the book is to encourage an in-depth discussion of problems of fundamental importance that are common to the two cultures, but that are traditionally seen from different perspectives.
This book addresses the problems and challenges of studying the discourse of "e;danger"e; cross-linguistically and cross-culturally, and proposes the cultural pragmatics of danger as a new field of inquiry.
Tanaka explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism.
En semántica 1: sentido y referencia, Bunge ofrece una semántica filosófica de la ciencia, axiomatizada, exacta y realista, distanciándose, por un lado, del análisis del lenguaje ordinario y, por otro, de diversos convencionalismos, pragmatismos y positivismos.
Los medios de comunicación social, sobre todo la radio, la televisión o Internet, se están convirtiendo en las herramientas de interacción humana por excelencia en este siglo XXI recién empezado.
La independencia política de las antiguas colonias de España y Portugal en Centro y Sudamérica no fue seguida por una emancipación de las comunidades indígenas.
The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally and semantically to varying degrees.
This volume delves into the discursive construction of three closely linked linguistic functions: evaluation, emotion, and persuasion in order to explore how they may intertwine.
This book provides a comprehensive description of the situational and linguistic characteristics of undergraduate student writing, considering both assignment type and discipline.
"Una nueva y actualizada visión de conjunto de una rama clave de la Lingüistica, con importantes conexiones con otras disciplinas como la Psicología, la Filosofía del lenguaje o el DerechoLa Pragmática es una rama de la Lingüística que se interesa por el modo en que el contexto influye en la interpretación del significado, entendiendo contexto como situación, ya que puede incluir cualquier aspecto extralingüístico: situación comunicativa, conocimiento compartido por los hablantes, relaciones interpersonales…, esto es, todos aquellos factores que condicionan el uso del lenguaje y a los que no se hace referencia en un estudio puramente formal.
L'objectiu fonamental del present treball és definir i descriure, la coordinació, un dels fenòmens que més freqüentment es manifesta en les llengües i un dels menys tractats pels gramàtics fins fa poc temps.
Building on Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) framework, Du examines the official translators' agency in reconstructing the image of China.
The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia analyses some of the region's most pressing human rights issues, while also giving attention to those actors and institutions that work towards improvement.
Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way.
Forallx is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy.
Ante la pregunta de si escribir libros se ha convertido en un anacronismo en la era de la comunicación digital y la cibercultura, la respuesta es, ciertamente, un no; sin embargo, aunque por una parte pueda observarse que el libro como objeto y concepto se mantiene vivo en la era digital, por otra, debe analizarse y estudiarse lo que esta presencia implica en términos de los nuevos modelos de escritura, lectura y pensamiento.
En este libro Irene Artigas Albarelli, anteponiendo a la visión de los primeros analistas del relato que buscaban encontrar la "estructura de todos los relatos", la noción de lo escribible, la cual "está emparentada con –lo literario–, lo que sólo podemos atisbar", nos lleva por un recorrido ecfrástico (de ecfrasis: ek [afuera] y phrasein [decir, declarar, pronunciar]) en el que demuestra de una manera práctica la profunda relación entre la poesía y la crítica literaria.
