Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 17 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by

Book
The discourse of indirectness
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9789027207777 9789027260567 9027207771 9027260567 Year: 2020 Publisher: Philadelphia

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

"Indirectness has been a key concept in pragmatic research for over four decades, however the notion as a technical term does not have an agreed-upon definition and remains vague and ambiguous. In this collection, indirectness is examined as a way of communicating meaning that is inferred from textual, contextual and intertextual meaning units. Emphasis is placed on the way in which indirectness serves the representation of diverse voices in the text, and this is examined through three main prisms: (1) the inferential view focuses on textual and contextual cues from which pragmatic indirect meanings might be inferred; (2) the dialogic-intertextual view focuses on dialogic and intertextual cues according to which different voices (social, ideological, literary etc.) are identified in the text; and (3) the functional view focuses on the pragmatic-rhetorical functions fulfilled by indirectness of both kinds"--

What is said : a theory of indirect speech reports
Author:
ISBN: 0792307925 9401074259 940092061X Year: 1990 Publisher: Dordrecht Kluwer


Book
The Representation of Speech Events in Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of the Apostles.
Author:
ISBN: 9004274898 9789004274891 9789004273207 9004273204 1306976979 Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden BRILL

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In The Representation of Speech Events in Chariton's Callirhoe and the Acts of the Apostles , Adrian T. Smith summarizes cross-linguistic research on how and why narrators vary the formulae that introduce direct speech. This research is applied to Chariton and to Acts. The findings demonstrate that narrators vary quotation formulae for numerous pragmatic purposes, including the tracking of conversational dynamics via a set of 'marked' and 'unmarked' quotation devices.

Evidentiality and epistemological stance
Author:
ISBN: 9027251061 1588110338 9786612162466 1282162462 9027298122 9789027298126 9781588110336 9789027251060 9781282162464 Year: 2001 Volume: 87 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book explores the discourse pragmatics of reportive evidentiality in Macedonian, Japanese and English through an empirical study of evidential strategies in narrative retelling. The patterns of evidential use (and non-use) found in these languages are attributed to contextual, cultural and grammatical factors that motivate the adoption of an 'epistemological stance' - a concept that owes much to recent trends in Cognitive Linguistics. The patterns of evidential strategies found in the three languages provide a fine illustration of the balancing act between speakers' expressions of their own subjectivity, their motivations to tell a coherent and exciting story, and their motivations to be faithful retellers of someone elses' story. These pressures are further complicated by the grammatical and pragmatic conventions that are particular to each language. Evidentiality and Epistemological Stance: narrative retelling will appeal to those interested in evidentiality, grammar and pragmatics, cross-linguistics discourse analysis, linguistic subjectivity and narrative.


Book
Verbal Plurality and Distributivity
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 1283857324 3110293501 9783110293500 9781283857321 9783110292107 3110292106 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berlin Boston

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.


Book
Expressing opinions in French and Australian English discourse
Author:
ISBN: 9789027256041 9789027287656 9027287651 1282897322 9781282897328 9027256047 9786612897320 6612897325 Year: 2010 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Pub. Co.

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Based on the analysis of conversations between French and Australian English speakers discussing various topics, including their experiences as non-native speakers in France or Australia, this book combines subjective personal testimonies with an objective linguistic analysis of the expression of opinion in discourse. It offers a new perspective on French and Australian English interactional style by examining the discourse markers I think, je pense, je crois and je trouve. It is shown that the prosody, intonation unit position, and the surrounding context of these markers are all fundamental to their function and meaning in interaction. In addition, this book offers the first detailed comparative semantic study of the three comparative French expressions in interaction.The book will appeal to all those interested in linguistics, French and Australian English interactional style, cross-cultural communication, and discourse analysis. Students and teachers of French will be interested in the semantic analysis of the French expressions, the authentic interactional data and the personal testimonies of the participants.

Reflexive language
Author:
ISBN: 0521351642 0511621035 9780521351645 9780511621031 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume examines the nature and significance of the reflexive aspect of natural language, its capacity to represent its own structure and use through reported speech and explicit statements about language-use (metapragmatics). It adopts a truly interdisciplinary approach. Part I contains papers outlining the volume's theoretical scope. Parts II and III contain anthropological case studies which show the formal devices behind reflexive usage in a variety of different languages and how they function in cultural life. Finally, Part IV shows the importance of understanding reflexive language in many other areas of the humanities and social sciences, including philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology and literary studies. Many of the contributors are senior scholars of international reputation: all are innovative researchers. Cumulatively their work here represents a critique of those researchers in the humanities and social sciences who fail to take language seriously both in the lives of those they study and in their own research practices.


Book
Verbal plurality and distributivity
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9783110292107 Year: 2012 Volume: 546 Publisher: Berlin Boston : De Gruyter,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume brings together novel analyses of verbal plurality and distributivity. The contributions draw on a wide range of new empirical data from languages as diverse as Arabic, Cusco Quechua, European Portuguese, Hausa, Karitiana, Modern Hebrew and Russian. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the central issues that underlie much recent research on the semantics of event plurality. The papers on verbal plurality explore the interaction between verbal plurality and plural arguments in Arabic and European Portuguese, the semantics of additive particles in Modern Hebrew, the semantics of a range of pluractional markers in Cusco Quechua and the morphological variability of pluractional markers cross-linguistically. The papers on distributivity examine the syntax and semantics of reduplicated numerals in Karitiana and adnominal distributive markers. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in syntax, formal semantics, and language typology.

Listing 1 - 10 of 17 << page
of 2
>>
Sort by