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Advice in discourse
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ISBN: 9789027256263 9789027273932 9027273936 9027256268 1280394390 9786613572318 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam Benjamins

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This multi-faceted collection of research papers on Advice in Discourse focuses on advisory practices in different contexts. Data is drawn from academic, educational and training settings, health-related practices, and computer-mediated communication. The languages involved are Cantonese, English, Finnish, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. The chapters treat professional and institutional practices, practices that contain peer interaction within an institutional framework, and non-institutional peer interaction, as well as solicited and non-solicited advice in written and spoken form. The work re


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Interdisciplinary perspectives on im/politeness
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ISBN: 9789027205322 9789027268525 9027268525 9027205329 Year: 2015 Volume: 14 Publisher: Amsterdam: John Benjamins,

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Being polite is an effective way to facilitate interpersonal communication. One of the key issues is how the human cognitive system perceives verbal politeness and deals with the cases in which politeness principles are violated. By using event-related potentials (ERPs), we aim to address the nature of real time processing of disrespectful reference in Mandarin utterance interpretation. The consistency between the social status of the communicating partners and the use of second-person pronoun was manipulated as a testing case. Participants read utterances in which the social status of the com

Perspective and perspectivization in discourse
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ISBN: 9027223610 1588112950 9786612161537 1282161539 9027296936 9789027223616 9789027296931 9781588112958 Year: 2002 Volume: 9 Publisher: Amsterdam: Benjamins,

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'Perspective' and 'viewpoint' are widely used in everyday talk as well as in the specialist languages of the social, cognitive, and literary sciences. Taken from the field of visual perception and representation, these concepts have acquired a general meaning and significance, as characteristics of human cognitive processing. Since, however, this field is shared by an increasing body of disciplines, perspective terms have also acquired specific and technical meanings. A striking example is the newly introduced use of 'perspectivation' in discourse analysis.This volume on 'perspective and perspectivation' - the first of its kind - will help to fill the gap between the common understanding of perspective and the specifics of its structure and dynamics as they have been elaborated in the human sciences, mainly in psychology and linguistics. The focus is on the structure of perspectivity in cognition and language, and the dynamics of setting and taking perspectives in social interaction and in the construction and understanding of texts. Both topics are presented here in an interdisciplinary way by a group of linguists and psychologists.

Framing and perspectivising in discourse
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ISBN: 9027253536 1588113655 128225541X 1423766512 9786612255410 9027296642 9781423766513 9789027253538 Year: 2003 Volume: 111 Publisher: Amsterdam: Benjamins,

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In discourse, verbal messages are framed: speakers offer cues on the basis of which hearers are able to anchor the verbal message to the context. Furthermore, speakers cannot contribute to the discourse without at the same time showing their view on the subject matter of the discourse: the content of a discourse is necessarily 'displayed' from a certain perspective. Both the framing and perspectivising of verbal messages are not static, but subject to possible changes during the development of the discourse. Both concepts function at the intersection of a psychological-cognitive and a social-functional approach to discourse. In this volume, eight contributions are brought together which offer theoretical tools for describing and explaining framing and perspectivising devices in the production and comprehension of discourse, and apply them to the analysis of several types of discourse such as political satire, letters-to-the-editor, everyday narrations and newspaper reports.


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Crime and corpus : the linguistic representation of crime in the press
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ISBN: 9027268762 9789027268761 9027234094 9789027234094 9789027234094 Year: 2015 Publisher: Amsterdam: John Benjamins,


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The interaction of focus, givenness, and prosody : a study of Italian clause structure
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ISBN: 0198737920 0191801453 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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An in-depth investigation of contrastive focalisation in Italian, showing that its syntactic expression systematically interacts with the syntactic expression of discourse-given phrases.


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Viewpoint and the fabric of meaning : form and use of viewpoint tools across languages and modalities
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ISBN: 3110365464 3110393077 9783110365467 9783110365474 3110365472 9783110393071 3110365472 3110369079 9783110369076 3110578573 9783110578577 Year: 2016 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

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This volume explores the cross-linguistic diversity, and possibly inconsistency, of the span of linguistic means that signal reported speech and thought. The integration of broad linguistic (viewpoint in conversation and narrative) and cognitive (theory of mind and understanding the inner life and thought of others) strategies for handling mixed points of view will be considered.


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Viewpoint in language : a multimodal perspective
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ISBN: 9781107017832 1107017831 9781139084727 9781107569300 9781139380225 1139380222 1139084720 9781139377362 1139377361 9781139375931 1139375938 1107230780 9781107230781 1280647655 9781280647659 9786613633705 6613633704 1139378791 9781139378796 1139371940 9781139371940 1107569303 113936622X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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"What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and in literary texts, as well as in landscape art ? Is this shared vocabulary marking real connections between the disparate phenomena ? This volume argues that human cognition is not only rooted in the human body, but also inherently 'viewpointed' as a result ; consequently, so are language and communication. Dancygier and Sweetser bring together researchers who do not typically meet on common ground : analysts of narrative and literary style, linguists examining the uses of grammatical forms in signed and spoken languages, and analysts of gesture accompanying speech. Using models developed within cognitive linguistics, the book uncovers surprising functional similarities across various communicative forms, arguing for specific cognitive underpinnings of such correlations. What emerges is a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint and a groundbreaking methodology for investigating communicative choices across various modalities and discourse contexts".

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