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Cet ouvrage se consacre à l'étude des noms d'humains, une catégorie de noms encore relativement peu étudiée. À première vue, ces noms concrets généralement comptables ne présentent pas d'originalité marquante. Il suffit cependant d'observer la quantité des noms d'humains existants, et la variété de leurs procédés de dérivation morphologique, pour entrevoir le statut particulier qu'ils revêtent, tant quant à leur degré de différentiation sémantique qu'à leurs niveaux de généralisation bien plus spécifiques que chez les autres noms concrets. Outre cet aspect plutôt quantitatif, les noms d'humains présentent aussi des particularités qualitatives - notamment en termes d'agentivité. Les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume permettent de mettre en évidence ces spécificités : les traits modaux - généralement associés au domaine verbal, mais très clairement liés à l'intentionnalité des agents - des noms d'humains ; la richesse de leurs procédés de dérivation - selon le degré d'agentivité - ; ou encore les sous-classes sémantiques que l'on peut définir parmi eux à partir de divers aspects (inter-) actionnels.

Onomastics. --- Names, Personal. --- Anthroponomy --- Baby names --- Christian names --- Family names --- Forenames --- Names of families --- Names of persons --- Personal names --- Surnames --- Names --- Onomastics --- Onomatology --- Language and languages --- Onomasiology --- Names, Personal --- Etymology --- Agentivity. --- Derivational Morphology. --- Nominal Modality. --- Person Nouns. --- Semantics.

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Lexicology. Semantics --- French language

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Hedge (Linguistics). --- Spanish language --- Intensification. --- Discourse analysis. --- Hedge (Linguistics) --- Hedging (Linguistics) --- Castilian language --- Intensification --- Discourse analysis --- Pragmatics --- Linguistics --- Romance languages --- Pragmatiek --- Spaanse taalkunde

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Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges.

Hedge (Linguistics) --- Euphemism --- Pragmatics --- Euphemism. --- Pragmatics. --- Pragmalinguistics --- Hedging (Linguistics) --- General semantics --- Language and languages --- Logic, Symbolic and mathematical --- Semantics (Philosophy) --- Figures of speech --- Semantics --- Linguistics --- Philosophy --- E-books --- Hedge (Linguistics) - Congresses --- Euphemism - Congresses --- Pragmatics - Congresses

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Spanish language --- Variation --- Standardization --- Dialects --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Spanish language - Variation - Congresses --- Spanish language - Standardization - Congresses --- Spanish language - Dialects - Congresses