Category: Semantics

By Réka Benczes

ISBN-10: 9027223734

ISBN-13: 9789027223739

ISBN-10: 902729318X

ISBN-13: 9789027293183

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably considerable in language. but how do we make sure while utilizing an expression comparable to land fishing in order to talk about steel detecting, the referent might be instantly understood no matter if the hearer had no longer been formerly conversant in the compound? for this reason, this ebook units out to discover no matter if the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun mixtures will be systematically analysed inside of a theoretical framework, the place systematicity relates to regularities in either the cognitive processes and the products of those methods, that's, the compounds themselves. subsidized up by way of fresh psycholinguistic proof, the ebook convincingly demonstrates that such compounds should not semantically opaque because it has been previously claimed: they could in truth be analysed and accounted for inside of a cognitive linguistic framework, by way of the mixed program of metaphor, metonymy, mixing, profile determinacy and schema conception; and characterize the inventive and associative notice formation procedures that we often follow in daily language.

By Steven Gross

ISBN-10: 0198722192

ISBN-13: 9780198722199

A lot modern wondering language is lively through the concept that the middle functionality of language is to symbolize how the area is and that consequently the idea of illustration may still play a basic explanatory position in any clarification of language and language use. prime thinkers within the box discover a number of methods this concept will be challenged in addition to stumbling blocks to constructing numerous different types of anti-representationalism. specific cognizance is given to deflationary debts of fact, the position of language in expressing psychological states, and the normative and the ordinary as they relate to problems with illustration. The chapters additional a variety of basic debates in metaphysics--for instance, about the query of discovering a spot for ethical houses in a naturalistic world-view--and light up the relation of the hot neo-pragmatist revival to the expressivist move in analytic philosophy of language.

By Rodney H. Jones

ISBN-10: 0415839734

ISBN-13: 9780415839730

The Routledge instruction manual of Language and Creativity offers an advent to and survey of a variety of views at the courting among language and creativity. Defining this advanced and multifaceted box, this booklet introduces a conceptual framework by which a number of the definitions of language and creativity might be explored.

Divided into 4 elements, it covers:

• different facets of language and creativity, together with discussion, metaphor and humour
• literary creativity, together with narrative and poetry
• multimodal and multimedia creativity, in components comparable to song, graffiti and the internet
• creativity in language instructing and learning.

With over 30 chapters written by means of a gaggle of top teachers from all over the world, The Routledge guide of Language and Creativity will function an immense reference for college students and students within the fields of English language reports, utilized linguistics, schooling, and conversation studies.

By Bruce F. Kawin

How do writers and filmmakers use repetition? it really is priceless whilst accenting an idea, yet, during this unique and thought-provoking booklet, Bruce F. Kawin argues that it serves a extra very important functionality as a manipulator of our experience of time and of the undying. Brilliantly pitching the aesthetics of novelty opposed to these of repetition, Kawin exhibits that the connections and rhythm of repetition supply revelations approximately literature and movie, nature and reminiscence, and time and art.

By Paul Portner, Barbara H. Partee

ISBN-10: 0631215425

ISBN-13: 9780631215424

This can be a nice ebook while you're a part of a more youthful new release that didn't develop up professionally whereas those papers have been first being written/discussed. a couple of choices appear misplaced, or even aren't particularly as foundational as others, yet total it's a assortment worth having. learn from starting to finish you have got a simple deal with on a number of significant subject matters in semantics.

As a primer i like to recommend "Introduction to Montague Semantics" by way of Dowty, Wall, and Peters. so much papers inside "... the basic Readings" take with no consideration an figuring out of PTQ idea that's traditionally challenging to obtain simply dependent off Montegue's unique paper (which is integrated as bankruptcy 1 of "... the basic Readings").

By Gail Forey, Jane Lockwood

ISBN-10: 0826446078

ISBN-13: 9780826446077

The worldwide advancements in details know-how Enabled companies have reworked customer support encounters which have been until eventually lately face-to-face. the foremost company parts of healthcare, coverage, banking and media are more and more relocating their consumer strategies to name centres, net dependent interplay, and electronic mail. ITES is determined for explosive development over the subsequent decade, along being more and more outsourced to non-English talking locations. the necessity for solid English language conversation abilities is changing into ever extra acute. This publication appears to be like heavily at interactive communique in customer-facing prone, that includes the voices of either lecturers and people in undefined. It goals to combine the paintings of utilized linguists, academics, running shoes and companies. After an preliminary dialogue at the worth of analysis to utilized education, the foremost problems with ITES communications are addressed with both a tutorial research being via a coaching instance derived from it, or with an research of a place of work challenge by means of a research-based answer idea. This quantity may still entice a large readership in educational, company education and HR departments.

By Andrea Tyler

ISBN-10: 0521814308

ISBN-13: 9780521814300

Utilizing a cognitive linguistics viewpoint, this paintings offers the main complete, theoretical research of the semantics of English prepositions to be had. All English prepositions are initially coded as spatial family among actual entities. whereas keeping their unique which means, prepositions have additionally constructed a wealthy set of non-spatial meanings. Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans argue that every one the meanings are systematically comparable via a suite of cognitive rules, emphasizing the significance of human event with the realm because the starting place for lexical that means.

By Louis De Saussure, Visit Amazon's Jacques Moeschler Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Jacques Moeschler, , Genoveva Puskas

ISBN-10: 1435600657

ISBN-13: 9781435600652

ISBN-10: 9042022086

ISBN-13: 9789042022089

This booklet is a set of articles facing theoretical concerns within the examine of demanding, temper and point, in addition to with particular semantic and syntactic difficulties raised via linguistic expressions devoted to those domain names throughout numerous languages. via those papers, powerful adaptations are explored, but in addition crosslinguistic convergences are investigated. a variety of phenomena up to now frequently left apart in linguistics are defined and enlightened through various clinical standpoints, which they serve to demonstrate. The languages investigated during this quantity comprise Germanic languages (Dutch, English, German), Romance (French, Catalan, Italian), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Russian), Greek, and non-indoeuropean languages resembling Thai, Digo and Kikuyu. comparable issues similar to grammaticalization, presuppositions, questions in discussion, illocutionary acts and acquisition are by the way referred to as upon that allows you to shed mild from the surface onto stressful, temper (and modality) and element. This quantity is of significant curiosity for all students engaged in modern learn at the linguistic expression of annoying, temper and element. The papers accrued during this quantity are a decent number of those that have been provided on the sixth Chronos colloquium.

By María Azucena Penas Ibáñez

ISBN-10: 8484893529

ISBN-13: 9788484893523

En este libro se amplía el enfoque filológico, siempre tradicional en sus bases conceptuales, renovándolo con otras corrientes teóricas, como la
Semántica, los angeles Pragmática, l. a. Lingüística del Texto, los angeles Semiología, los angeles Retórica y l. a. Estilística. Partimos de que toda lengua, como sistema de signos, acoge pluralidad de usos. Estos usos son los hechos empíricos que han de permitir los angeles formalización del código normal que los engloba. El subcódigo estilístico, por sus enormes posibilidades y retos que plantea, resulta decisivo para acometer una investigación seria sobre los angeles naturaleza del lenguaje, centrada en dos pilares: el cambio semántico y l. a. competencia gramatical.

By Daniela Isac

ISBN-10: 0198733267

ISBN-13: 9780198733263

This e-book reports the houses of relevant clauses within the context of a idea of common Grammar. Daniela Isac argues that the specificity of primary clauses can't be the results of a special primary Force characteristic; in its place, the `type' of central clauses may be traced again to a plurality of finer grained positive factors, equivalent to Modality and phi-features, hosted via the Mod, Infl, and Speech occasion heads, between others.

The information are drawn from a variety of languages together with numerous Romance, Slavic, and Germanic languages, in addition to Finnish and Inuktitut. The research money owed for recurrent styles within the interplay of relevant temper with phenomena like negation, regulations on grammatical matters, and the potential for embedding crucial clauses. The procedure, which focuses solely on morphosyntactic instead of semantic beneficial properties, is in all probability transferable to the research of alternative clause forms, equivalent to exclamatives, interrogatives, and declaratives.