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Book When Voices Clash

Download or read book When Voices Clash written by Jacob L. Mey and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Book Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics

Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics written by J.L. Mey and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics, Second Edition (COPE) is an authoritative single-volume reference resource comprehensively describing the discipline of pragmatics, an important branch of natural language study dealing with the study of language in it's entire user-related theoretical and practical complexity. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As pragmatics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics, it will therefore be relevant not just for meaning specialists, but for most linguistic audiences. Edited by Jacob Mey, a leading pragmatics specialist, and authored by experts The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and interpreted in context of related disciplines Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics area Compact and affordable single volume reference format

Book When Voices Clash

Download or read book When Voices Clash written by Jacob Mey and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multivocality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine Meizel
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-02-03
  • ISBN : 019062146X
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Multivocality written by Katherine Meizel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multivocality frames vocality as a way to investigate the voice in music, as a concept encompassing all the implications with which voice is inscribed-the negotiation of sound and Self, individual and culture, medium and meaning, ontology and embodiment. Like identity, vocality is fluid and constructed continually; even the most iconic of singers do not simply exercise a static voice throughout a lifetime. As 21st century singers habitually perform across styles, genres, cultural contexts, histories, and identities, the author suggests that they are not only performing in multiple vocalities, but more critically, they are performing multivocality-creating and recreating identity through the process of singing with many voices. Multivocality constitutes an effort toward a fuller understanding of how the singing voice figures in the negotiation of identity. Author Katherine Meizel recovers the idea of multivocality from its previously abstract treatment, and re-embodies it in the lived experiences of singers who work on and across the fluid borders of identity. Highlighting singers in vocal motion, Multivocality focuses on their transitions and transgressions across genre and gender boundaries, cultural borders, the lines between body and technology, between religious contexts, between found voices and lost ones.

Book The Lover s Compass

Download or read book The Lover s Compass written by Jules Much and published by JulesM.. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lover's Compass: Navigating the Seas of Passion Do you long for a deeper connection? Are you ready to find love that lasts? The Lover's Compass is your guide to navigating the exciting and sometimes confusing world of romance. This insightful book explores the art of communication, emotional intelligence, and building fulfilling relationships. With practical advice and heartwarming stories, The Lover's Compass equips you with the tools to find lasting love. Embrace the journey of love. Start reading today!

Book Language in Life and a Life in Language

Download or read book Language in Life and a Life in Language written by Bruce Fraser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Jacob Mey is one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, avuncular members of the many linguistics communities in which he has worked. This collection includes invited papers that honours Professor Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Book Foundations of Pragmatics

Download or read book Foundations of Pragmatics written by Wolfram Bublitz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening the 9-volume-series Handbooks of Pragmatics, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of pragmatics. It covers the central theories as well as concepts and topics characteristic of mainstream pragmatics, i.e. the most widespread approach to the ways and means of using language in authentic social contexts. The articles provide both state of the art reviews and critical evaluations of research in pragmatics. Topics are thus not only considered within their scholarly context but are also critically evaluated from current perspectives.

Book Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning

Download or read book Viewpoint and the Fabric of Meaning written by Barbara Dancygier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Viewpoint in Language

Download or read book Viewpoint in Language written by Barbara Dancygier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics written by Michael Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics provides a comprehensive introduction and reference point to key areas in the field of stylistics. The four sections of the volume encompass a wide range of approaches from classical rhetoric to cognitive neuroscience and cover core issues that include: historical perspectives centring on rhetoric, formalism and functionalism the elements of stylistic analysis that include the linguistic levels of foregrounding, relevance theory, conversation analysis, narrative, metaphor, speech acts, speech and thought presentation and point of view current areas of ‘hot topic’ research, such as cognitive poetics, corpus stylistics and feminist/critical stylistics emerging and future trends including the stylistics of multimodality, creative writing, hypertext fiction and neuroscience Each of the thirty-two chapters provides: an introduction to the subject; an overview of the history of the topic; an analysis of the main current and critical issues; a section with recommendations for practice, and a discussion of possible future trajectory of the subject. This handbook includes chapters written by some of the leading stylistics scholars in the world today, including Jean Boase-Beier, Joe Bray, Michael Burke, Beatrix Busse, Ronald Carter, Billy Clark, Barbara Dancygier, Catherine Emmott, Charles Forceville, Margaret Freeman, Christiana Gregoriou, Geoff Hall, Patrick Colm Hogan, Lesley Jeffries, Marina Lambrou, Michaela Mahlberg, Rocio Montoro, Nina Nørgaard, Dan Shen, Michael Toolan and Sonia Zyngier. The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates and undergraduate students working in this area.

Book Point of View  Perspective  and Focalization

Download or read book Point of View Perspective and Focalization written by Peter Hühn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories do not actually exist in the world but are created and structured- modeled- through the process of mediation, i.e. through the means and techniques by which they are represented. This is an important field, not only for narratology but a

Book Quoting Speech in Early English

Download or read book Quoting Speech in Early English written by Colette Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of speech representation in English texts from 1350-1600 examines the problems of interpreting discourse in these early works.

Book Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature

Download or read book Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature written by Dermot Cavanagh and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the tools required for literary study provides all the skills, background and critical knowledge which students require to approach their study of literature with confidence.

Book Contemporary Stylistics

Download or read book Contemporary Stylistics written by Alison Gibbons and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Stylistics introduces the theoretical principles and practical frameworks of stylistics and cognitive poetics, supplying the practical skills to analyse your own responses to literary texts.

Book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics written by Keith Allan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings, and usage, and look at how it has been practically applied. The book is organized in six parts. The first looks at the origins of language, the invention of writing, the nature of gesture, and sign languages. Part II examines the history of the analysis and description of sound systems. Part III considers the history of linguistics in China, Korea, Japan, India, and the Middle East, as well as the history of the study of Semitic and Afro-Asiatic. Part IV examines the history of grammar and morphology in the west from the classical world to the present. Part V surveys the history of lexicography semantics, pragmatics, and text and discourse studies. Part VI looks at the history the application of linguistics in fields that include the language classification; social and cultural theory; psychology and the brain sciences; education and translation; computational science; and the development of linguistic corpora. The book ends with a history of the philosophy of linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics makes a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics. It will also be a valuable reference for scholars and students in linguists and related fields, including philosophy and cognitive science.

Book Cognition  Communication and Interaction

Download or read book Cognition Communication and Interaction written by Satinder P. Gill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theoretical and methodological research issues that underlie the design and use of interactive technology. The analysis directs attention to three human capacities: cognition, communication and interaction. The examination of these capacities is embedded in understanding concepts of communication and interaction and their application; conceptions of knowledge and cognition; and the role of aesthetics and ethics in design.

Book Hearing Voices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simon McCarthy-Jones
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2012-04-05
  • ISBN : 1107378206
  • Pages : 471 pages

Download or read book Hearing Voices written by Simon McCarthy-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication. Those hearing voices have been viewed as mystics, potential psychiatric patients or simply just people with unusual experiences, and have been beatified, esteemed or accepted, as well as drugged, burnt or gassed. This book travels from voice-hearing in the ancient world through to contemporary experience, examining how power, politics, gender, medicine and religion have shaped the meaning of hearing voices. Who hears voices today, what these voices are like and their potential impact are comprehensively examined. Cutting edge neuroscience is integrated with current psychological theories to consider what may cause voices and the future of research in voice-hearing is explored.