Semantics, discourse analysis, etc

Constructing identities at work

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Through language we show who we are and where we belong. In the workplace context this includes the way we construct ourselves as the team leader, meeting chair, a good colleague, the judge, a teacher orresearcher. Constructing Identities at Work presents cutting edge research o…

Legitimisation in political discourse: a cross-disciplinary perspective on the modern US…

by Cap, Piotr

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How did the G.W. Bush administration manage to persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq in March 2003? How was this intervention, and the global campaign named as âwar-on-terror, âü#x009D; legitimised linguistically? This book shows that the best legitimisation.

Corpus stylistics in principles and practice: a stylistic exploration of John Fowles' the Magus

by Ho, Yufang

fromAdvances in stylistics

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In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach. The Magus was first published in 1966 and was revised and republishe…

Dimensions of the word

by Drozdz, Grzegorz, Lyda, Andrzej

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This volume inscribes itself in the long-standing debate on the status of the ""word"". Considering its multi-faceted nature, the authors formulate multiple questions about it and, though no answer to these questions might be exhaustive, each of them brings the reader closer to …

Contemporary critical discourse studies

fromContemporary Studies in Linguistics

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"CDS is a multifarious field constantly developing different methodological frameworks for analysing dynamically evolving aspects of language in a broad range of socio-political and institutional contexts. This volume is a cutting edge, interdisciplinary account of these theoret…

Opposition in discourse: the construction of oppositional meaning

by Jeffries, Lesley

fromBloomsbury classics in linguistics

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"Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned. The signific…

Linguistic expressions and semantic processing: a practical approach

by Butler, Alastair

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This book introduces formal semantics techniques for a natural language processing audience. Methods discussed involve: (i) the denotational techniques used in model-theoretic semantics, which make it possible to determine whether a linguistic expression is true or false with re…

The pragmatics of revision: George Moore's acts of rewriting

by Chapman, Siobhan

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"It is rare to find academic writing that is as engaging as Siobhan Chapman's new book. This is the clearest account of Gricean and neo-Gricean implicature that I have read and has as much to say to experts in these areas as it does to beginners. This is a major contribution to …

Structures mères: semantics, mathematics, and cognitive science

fromStudies in applied philosophy, epistemology and rational et…

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This book reports on cutting-edge concepts related to Bourbakis notion of structures mères. It merges perspectives from logic, philosophy, linguistics and cognitive science, suggesting how they can be combined with Bourbakis mathematical structuralism in order to solve foundatio…

Constructions of migrant integration in British public discourse: becoming British

by Bennett, Sam T.

fromBloomsbury advances in critical discourse studies

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"This is a study into how the public discourse on migrant integration in the UK changed from 2000-2010. The book shows that the discursive construction of integration in the British public sphere shifted from one of cultural pluralism to one of neo-assimilation, informed by a wi…

Quantifiers, quantifiers, and quantifiers: themes in logic, metaphysics, and language

fromSynthese library

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This volume covers a wide range of topics that fall under the 'philosophy of quantifiers', a philosophy that spans across multiple areas such as logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and even the history of philosophy. It discusses the import of quantifier variance in the model theo…

Discourse, structure and linguistic choice: the theory and applications of molecular sememics

by Caldwell, T. Price

fromStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy

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This volume presents eight nearly completed papers and a draft monograph on topics in linguistics and philosophy of language by T. Price Caldwell. In his early career, he wrote short fiction and poetry, and taught English literature. The relevance for these subjects of certain a…

Rohit Parikh on logic, language and society

fromOutstanding contributions to logic

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This book discusses major milestones in Rohit Jivanlal Parikh's scholarly work. Highlighting the transition in Parikh's interest from formal languages to natural languages, and how he approached Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, it traces the academic trajectory of a brilli…

Formal models in the study of language: applications in interdisciplinary contexts

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This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions, by seaso…

Grammatical voice in Japanese: a typological perspective

by Toyota, Junichi

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This monograph investigates how Japanese employs different structures found in the grammatical voice, both synchronically and diachronically. The Japanese voice system, especially the passive voice, has provided much interesting data for typological compa.

Intersemiotic Translation: Literary and Linguistic Multimodality

by Pârlog, Aba-Carina

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This book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference. Drawing on theories from translation studies, semiotics, philosophy and stylistics, the autho…