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Where prosody meets pragmatics
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ISSN: 1750368X ISBN: 9781849506311 1849506310 900425322X 9789004253223 Year: 2009 Volume: 8 Publisher: Bingley, England : Emerald,

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This volume demonstrates the synergies that can result from interdisciplinary collaboration. Responding to the growing interest in the interface between prosody and pragmatics, it presents a collection of papers which use different approaches and data to explore a wide range of interrelated issues in both fields. The volume contains a state-of-the-art introduction by the editors, and individual chapters organised in three sections. In the first section, chapters by Sasha Calhoun, Joe Blythe, Merle Horne and Phoenix Lam examine prosodic cues to referential and discourse/textual meaning. The second section is devoted to the role played by prosody in the negotiation of speaker change in conversational interaction, with papers by Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Jill House, Emina Kurtic/Guy J. Brown/Bill Wells and Beatrice Szczepek Reed. In the final section, chapters by Leendert Plug, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen and Anne-Catherine Simon/Liesbeth Degand focus on various aspects of interpersonal meaning and how they are conveyed. Languages discussed are English, Dutch, German, Swedish, French and Murriny Patha, and the frameworks used include Conversation Analysis, Gricean pragmatics, Interactional Linguistics, Intonational Phonology, Phonology for Conversation and Relevance Theory.


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Language in life and a life in language : Jacob Mey--a festschrift
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ISBN: 9781848551626 1848551622 1848553161 9781848553163 1322223475 900425319X 1848551630 9004253203 9789004253193 9789004253209 9781848551633 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bingley, England : Emerald,

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This is a collection of invited papers that honours Professor Jacob Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Professor Mey is, and has for a long time been, at once one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, now, avuncular members of the numerous linguistics communities in which he has worked. He has made, over a distinguished working life, significant contributions to all of the sub-disciplines of linguistics, from phonetics, through phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and especially pragmatics. He has sought to make connections between these sub-disciplines and broader areas of thought. These connections have resulted in ground breaking advances in, for example, Japanese sociolinguistics, pragmatics and artificial intelligence, Marxist linguistics, pragmatics and therapy, pragmatics and machine-processed information, gender and language, literary pragmatics and societal pragmatics. The collection ends with an in-depth discussion between Professor Mey and one of the editors in which Professor Mey speaks fully and frankly about his life in language and language in life.


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Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective
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ISBN: 9789027254290 902725429X 9786612104282 1282104284 9027290474 9789027290472 9781282104280 6612104287 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub.,

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Inhoudsopgave : -- Youngspeak in a multilingual perspective : introduction / Anna-Brita Stenström and Annette Myre Jørgensen -- Identity construction. On young women's prosodic construction of identity: evidence from Greek conversational narratives / Argiris Archakis and Dimitris Papazachariou -- Now he thinks he's listening to rock music: identity construction among German teenage girls / Janet Spreckels -- Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context / Vally Lytra and Taşkin Baraç -- Particular expressions. Lexical innovations in Madrid's teenage talk: some intensifiers / Juan A. Martínez López -- En plan used as a hedge in Spanish teenage language / Annette Myre Jørgensen -- Languages in contrast. A theoretical outline for comparative research on youth language: with an outline of diatopic-contrast research within the Hispanic world / Klaus Zimmermann -- Pragmatic markers in contrast: Spanish pues nada and English anyway / Anna-Brita Stenström -- Anglicisms in the informal speech of Norwegian and Chilean adolescents / Eli-Marie Drange -- Similarities and differences between slang in Kaunas and London teenagers' speech / Jolanta Legaudaite.


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Toddler and parent interaction : the organisation of gaze, pointing and vocalisation
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ISBN: 9789027254368 9027254362 9786612484995 9027288763 1282484990 9789027288769 9781282484993 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co.,


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Current trends in diachronic semantics and pragmatics
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ISBN: 9781849506779 1849506779 9789004253216 9004253211 9781849506786 1849506787 9789004253216 9004253211 1282457608 9786612457609 Year: 2009 Volume: 7 Publisher: Bingley : Emerald,

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The focus of this volume is on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. The papers gathered here offer both theoretical proposals of more general scope and in-depth studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. The analyses include data from English, several Romance languages, German, Scandinavian languages, and Oceanic languages. Detailed case-studies covering central semantic domains, such as concession, evidentiality, intensification, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality, allow the authors to test and refine current models of semantic change, by focusing, for instance, on the respective roles of speakers and hearers in the process and on the relationship between semantic and syntactic reanalysis. Key theoretical notions, such as presuppositions, paradigms, word order, and discourse status are revisited in a diachronic perspective to provide innovative accounts of causes and motivations for linguistic changes. A prominent theme is the evolution of procedural meanings of various kinds. Thus, several papers feature different types of pragmatic markers as their object of study, while others are concerned with items and constructions expressing modality, evidentiality, negation, and relational meanings.


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Contexts and constructions.
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ISSN: 1573594X ISBN: 9789027204318 9027204314 9789027288783 902728878X 1282485016 9781282485013 9786612485015 6612485019 Year: 2009 Volume: 9 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins


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Pragmatic competence
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ISBN: 1282345362 9786612345364 3110218550 9783110218558 9783110218541 3110218542 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin New York M. de Gruyter

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In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make inference of its development among L2 learners? In what ways do research findings inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language. The book has three sections. The first section offers a general overview and historical sketch of the study of Japanese pragmatics and its influence on Japanese pedagogy and curriculum. The overview chapter is followed by eight empirical findings, each dealing with phenomena that are significant in Japanese pragmatics. They target selected features of Japanese pragmatics and investigate the learners' use of them as an indicator of their pragmatic competence. The target pragmatic features are wide-ranging, among them honorifics, speech style, sentence final particles, speech acts of various types, and indirect expressions. Each study explicitly prompts the connection between pragmalinguistics (linguistic forms available to perform language functions) and sociopragmatics (norms that determine appropriate use of the forms) in Japanese. By documenting the understanding and use of them among learners of Japanese spanning multiple levels and time durations, this book offers insight about the nature and development of pragmatic competence, as well as implications for the learning and teaching of Japanese pragmatics. The last section presents a critical reflection on the eight empirical papers and prompts a discussion of the practice of Japanese pragmatics research.


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Understanding tropes : at the crossroads between pragmatics and cognition.
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ISBN: 9783631592625 Year: 2009 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang


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Key notions for pragmatics
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ISSN: 1877654X ISBN: 9789027207784 902720778X 9789027289438 9027289433 1282245287 9781282245280 9027289433 9786612245282 Year: 2009 Volume: 1 Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub. Company,


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Humorous Garden-Paths
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ISBN: 1282334557 9786612334559 1443812285 9781443812283 9781282334557 661233455X 9781443801409 1443801402 Year: 2009 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Pub.

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Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino's films, humorous dialogues from "Sex and the City", witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama's speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume. The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing field of language research, embracing methodological proposals, discourse analyses, comparative research, translation studies and teaching perspectives. Otherin each of the approaches, theoretical frameworks and postu...

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