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This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as 'operative' in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated legislation; wills, the marriage ceremony and statutes as reversible performatives; and the distinction between the deictic function of this and the anaphoric function of that in legal documents. The final chapter is concerned with another text type, case reports, and addresses the questio
Stilistics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- 802.0-56 --- 802.0-56 Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Engels: syntaxis; semantiek --- Recht. Taal. --- Actes de paroles. --- Droit. Langage. --- Taalhandelingen. --- Law --- Semantics (Law) --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Language, Legal --- Legal language --- Legal style --- Style, Legal --- Bill drafting --- Language. --- Philosophy --- Droit --- Semantique --- Langage
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The aim of the book is to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. The evidence seems to point, although inconclusively, to historical and sociolinguistic factors, some of which pertain to India as a whole, while others are unique to the Konkani-speaking regions.
English language --- Language and culture --- Konkani language --- Test of English as a Foreign Language. --- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) --- Concani language --- Komkani language --- Koṅkṇi language --- Indo-Aryan languages, Modern --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Germanic languages --- Study and teaching --- Konkani speakers. --- Examinations
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The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pairs to the interpretation of silence. A model is presented which attempts to explain the observer's cognitive competence, and its limits, in being able to interpret the silent answer. A basic distinction is also made between intentional silence (the refusal to answer) and non-intentional silence (the
Silence (Philosophy) --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy --- Silence (Philosophie) --- Pragmatics --- Philosophy of language --- Silence
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The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to their context, too. Following an introduction which puts this new approach into a thematical and historical perspective, the volume presents fifteen studies in the following areas: The semantics of space dynamics (mainly on French prepositions); Language acquisition (aphasia and code-switching); Artificial intelligence (mainly of English prepositions); Specific languages: Hebrew (from a number of perspectives - syntax, semiotics, and sociolinguistic impact on morphology), Maltese, the Melanesian English-based Creole Bislama, and Biblical translations into Judeo-Greek.
801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Pragmatics. --- Prepositions. --- Syntax. --- Pragmatiek --- Pragmatique --- Semantics --- Semantiek --- Sémantique --- Sémasiologie --- Semantics. --- Prépositions --- Syntaxe --- Sémantique --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Syntax --- Prepositions --- Philosophy --- Auxiliaries --- Prepositional phrases --- Grammar [Comparative and general ] --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general --- Postpositions --- Prepositions --- Prepositions. --- Postpositions. --- Auxiliaries --- Prepositional phrases --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- Linguistics --- Philology
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This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.
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This volume provides extensive critical information about current discussions in the study of speech actions. Its central reference point is classic speech act theory, but attention is also paid to nonstandard developments and other approaches that study speech as action. The first part of the volume deals with main concepts, methodological issues and phenomena common to different kinds of speech action. The second part deals with specific kinds of speech actions, including types of illocutionary acts and some discourse and conversational phenomena. Reduced series price (print) available! › For orders, please contact degruyter@de.rhenus.com.
Pragmatics. --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Illocutionary acts (Linguistics) --- Speech act theory (Linguistics) --- Speech events (Linguistics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Speech --- Pragmalinguistics --- General semantics --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, Linguistics.
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