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- Theoretical linguistics [83] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-theor
- Pragmatics [64] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-prag
- Syntax [61] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-syntax
- Discourse studies [53] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-disc
- Semantics [50] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-seman
- Cognition and language [45] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogn
- Sociolinguistics and Dialectology [25] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-socio
- Morphology [24] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-morph
- Generative linguistics [23] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gener
- Bilingualism [22] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-bil
- Cognitive linguistics [19] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogpsy
- Communication Studies [18] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/comm-cgen
- English linguistics [18] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-eng
- Historical linguistics [17] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hl
- Language acquisition [17] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-la
- Philosophy [16] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-gen
- Germanic linguistics [15] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-germ
- Applied linguistics [14] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-appl
- Consciousness research [12] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/cons-gen
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- Translation studies [12] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/tran-transl
- Theoretical literature & literary studies [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-theor
- Cognitive psychology [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-cogpsy
- History of linguistics [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hol
- Corpus linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-corp
- Language teaching [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-educ
- Romance linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-rom
- Language policy [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-lapo
- Psycholinguistics [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-psylin
- Functional linguistics [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-funct
- Romance literature & literary studies [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-rom
- Contact Linguistics [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cont
- Anthropological Linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-anthr
- Computational & corpus linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-comput
- Gesture Studies [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gest
- Japanese linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-japanese
- Natural language processing [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-nlp
- Medieval philosophy [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-med
- Neuropsychology [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-neuro
- Lexicography [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-lex
- Creole studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-creo
- Evolution of language [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-evo
- Other Indo-European languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othie
- Semiotics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sem
- English literature & literary studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-engl
- Semiotics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-sem
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- General studies in art & art history [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/art-gen
- Interaction Studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/is-gis
- Comparative linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-comp
- Language documentation [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-landoc
- Sino-Tibetan languages [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sitib
- Comparative literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-comp
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- Dictionaries [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/art-dict
- Afro-Asiatic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-afas
- Altaic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-alta
- Austronesian languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ausnes
- Basque linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-basque
- Celtic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-celt
- Forensic linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-for
- Linguistics of isolated languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-isol
- Language disorders & speech pathology [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ladis
- Slavic linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-slav
- Languages of South America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-soam
- Writing and literacy [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-writ
- German literature & literary studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-germli
- Medieval literature & literary studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-med
- Other literatures [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-othlit
- Miscellaneous [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-gen
- Industrial & organizational studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-indroc
- Classical philosophy [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-class
- Semiotics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-sem
- Industrial & organizational studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-indroc
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Machine Translation
Author(s): John Lehrberger and Laurent BourbeauPublication Date January 1988More LessThe use of the computer in translating natural languages ranges from that of a translator's aid for word processing and dictionary lookup to that of a full-fledged translator on its own. However the obstacles to translating by means of the computer are primarily linguistic. To overcome them it is necessary to resolve the ambiguities that pervade a natural language when words and sentences are viewed in isolation. The problem then is to formalize, in the computer, these aspects of natural language understanding. The authors show how, from a linguistic point of view, one may form some idea of what goes on inside a system's black box, given only the input (original text) and the raw output (translated text before post-editing). Many examples of English/French translation are used to illustrate the principles involved.
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The Macregol Gospels or The Rushworth Gospels
Editor(s): Kenichi TamotoPublication Date May 2013More LessThis work is composed of two parts. The first or introductory part, contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D.2.19, that is to say, the MacRegol Gospels or the Rushworth Gospels, edited by Kenichi Tamoto, and which forms the second and main part of this book. The provenience of the MS, the Latin text, the use of the MS, and the Old English gloss are discussed in detail in the introductory part. The chief aim that the author set himself is firstly to survey preceding printed versions of the MS, such as Stevenson & Waring (1856-65) and W.W. Skeat (1871-87), and secondly to publish the complete edition of the MS with the whole Latin text interlineally glossed in Old English. This work will stimulate further research into the MS, in particular the comparative study of Old English glosses, such as those of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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Made-in-Canada Humour
Author(s): Beverly J. RasporichPublication Date October 2015More LessMade-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.
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Main Clause Phenomena
Editor(s): Lobke Aelbrecht, Liliane Haegeman and Rachel NyePublication Date June 2012More LessMain Clause Phenomena: New Horizons takes the study of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) into the 21st century, without neglecting the origins of the topic. It brings together work by both established and up-and-coming scholars, who present analyses for a wide range of MCP, from a variety of languages, with a particular focus on particles and agreement markers, complementizers and verb second, and the licensing of MCP in different types of clauses. Besides enriching the empirical domain, this volume also engages with the theoretical question of how best to capture the distribution of MCP and, in particular, to what extent they are embeddable and why. The diverse patterns and analyses presented challenge the idea that MCP constitute a homogeneous class. Main Clause Phenomena: New Horizons is of interest not just to scholars specializing in the study of MCP, but to all linguists interested in the syntax and/or semantics of the clause.
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Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages
Editor(s): Willem Fase, Koen Jaspaert and Sjaak KroonPublication Date June 1992More LessThe papers in this volume describe a wide variety of language contact settings in which one or more languages are in a process of shift. In the first part of the book theoretical perspectives are presented, followed by linguistic, sociological and descriptive studies of languages and countries that have attracted the interest of researchers before, as well as less well known examples. Data are presented from: the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Israel, The Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Morocco, Finland, Malaysia, Germany, USA, Ireland, India, Tanzania and Australia.
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Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Editor(s): Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. SellPublication Date October 2015More LessDo the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures, this is the central dilemma to be faced in a world that is increasingly globalized. In this book, the possible banes and benefits of globalization are illuminated from many different viewpoints by scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Oceania. Among their more particular topics of discussion are: language spread, language hegemony, and language conservation; literary canons, literature and identity, and literary anthologies; and the bearing of the new communication technologies on languages and literatures alike. Throughout the book, however, the most frequently explored opposition is between languages or literatures perceived as “major” and others perceived as “minor”, two terms which are sometimes qualitative in connotation, sometimes quantitative, and sometimes both at once, depending on who is using them and with reference to what.
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Make Peace and Take Victory
Author(s): Patricia RonanPublication Date January 2012More LessThis corpus-based study examines the use of support verb constructions in Old English and Old Irish. It determines in how far these constructions can be seen as a means to offer semantic specification of existing verbal expressions. The study further investigates whether support verb constructions may be employed to create periphrastic verbal expressions to denote concepts for which no simple verb exists in the language at that stage. This latter situation may particularly arise as a consequence of contact with new cultural concepts. The approach of the study is both qualitative and quantitative. It compares the use of the Old English constructions to corresponding Old Irish structures as well as to other language varieties, especially Present Day English, which has a considerably more analytic morphological structure than either of the two medieval languages.
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Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing
Author(s): I.S.P. NationPublication Date September 2016More LessWord lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe the factors they need to consider when they create frequency-based word lists. These include the purpose for which the word list is to be used, the design of the corpus from which the list will be made, the unit of counting, and what should and should not be counted as words. The book draws on research to show the current state of knowledge of these factors and provides very practical guidelines for making word lists for language teaching and testing. The writer is well known for his work in the teaching and learning of vocabulary and in the creation of word lists and vocabulary size tests based on word lists.
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Making Minds
Editor(s): Petra Hauf and Friedrich FörsterlingPublication Date March 2007More LessSocial stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits, self-consciousness, abilities, and talents? This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of if, how, and how far the mind is socially fabricated: Philosophical contributions address conceptual tools for analyses of how person perceivers shape the psychological structures of the person perceived. Social psychologists consider some of the more local mechanisms of “mind making”, including self fulfilling prophecies, attributions, and self-verification. Moreover, they address the dramatic consequences of being ostracised. From a clinical perspective it is investigated how patients’ immediate social environment (e.g., the family) impacts on schizophrenic relapse. In addition, developmental psychologists report on investigations of the role of social factors, e.g., imitative learning, for the development of the social self. Finally an ethological perspective demonstrates the susceptibility of animals to social stimuli. These papers were previously published as Interaction Studies 6:1 and 6:3 (2005).
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The Making of a Mixed Language
Author(s): Maarten MousPublication Date December 2003More LessThe Mbugu (or Ma'á) language (Tanzania) is one of the few genuine mixed languages, reputedly combining Bantu grammar with Cushitic vocabulary. In fact the people speak two languages: one mixed and one closely related to the Bantu language Pare. This book is the first comprehensive description of these languages. It shows that these two languages share one grammar while their lexicon is parallel. In the distant past the people shifted from a Cushitic to a Bantu language and in the process rebuilt a language of their own that expresses their separate ethnic identity in a Bantu environment. This linguistic history is explained in the context of the intricate history of the people. The discussion of the processes that were involved in the formation of Ma'a/Mbugu is extremely relevant for both creole studies and for contact linguistics in general.
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Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners
Author(s): Vincent X. WangPublication Date May 2011More LessRequests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. It will draw on recent literature, such as politeness theories and cognitive models for interlanguage pragmatics development, as well as placing special emphasis on situational context and formulaic language to provide a more fine-grained investigation. A range of request scenarios has been specifically designed for this project, from common service encounters to highly face-threatening situations such as borrowing money and asking a favour of police officer. Our findings on Chinese-style pragmatic behaviours and patterns of pragmatic development will be of value to cross-cultural pragmatics researchers, TESOL professionals, and university students with an interest in this area of study.
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Male Separatism
Author(s): Jessica AistonPublication Date February 2025More LessThis book offers a critical discourse analytical perspective on the phenomenon of men who voluntarily abstain from relationships with women. Based on a case study of the online Reddit community known as ‘Men Going Their Own Way’, the author engages in qualitative examination of the argumentative and discursive strategies used to justify and legitimise an antifeminist, male separatist ideology. Methodologically, the book draws on the discourse-historical approach to critical discourse studies and investigates how members of this online community represent themselves, relationships with women, and the broader gendered social order. It considers male separatism as part of the new antifeminist social media network known as the manosphere, as well as part of a broader legacy of backlash against feminism and women’s rights. Overall, the book contributes to the growing body of literature on the manosphere and should be of interest to scholars in discourse studies, feminist media studies, and digital communication.
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Management and Organization Paradoxes
Editor(s): Stewart R. CleggPublication Date June 2002More LessParadox — the simultaneous existence of two inconsistent states — has become orthodox. The orthodox is now the paradox. The orthodox world of ordering, controlling and organizing is increasingly opposed to a normalizing world of disordering, disrupting and disorganizing. And organization studies cannot avoid changing its conceptions of reality as that reality changes. In the future, organization studies will be the study of paradox, how to understand it, how to use it.
In this book of original contributions addressed to management and organization paradoxes the authors address the new state of the field in terms of representations — representing paradoxes — and materialisations — materialising paradoxes. The themes — although varied, ranging from dialectics to internal tensions; from collaborations to ethics and value conflicts; from resistant labourers and wharfies to cartoon characters such as The Simpsons; from the irrationalities of finance to the psychoanalytic rationalities of auditing, and from issues of governance in Asian and international business to the composition of the new knowledge work force in the business professions — cohere around core aspects of paradoxicality.
Overall, the contributions to Management and Organization Paradoxes are diverse and challenging. Each contribution takes a different angle on the central theme. All of the chapters illuminate diverse aspects of contemporary paradoxes in management and organization theory. The book provides, in each of its chapters, a challenge to the still overwhelmingly rationalist views of theory and practice that dominate the field and provides new directions for understanding organizations and management.The contributors are drawn from leading European, Australian and Latin American contributors.
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Managing Language
Author(s): Francesca Bargiela and Sandra J. HarrisPublication Date June 1997More LessThe book attempts to answer the question: what do managers in multinational companies really do during meetings? Following fieldwork in three corporations in Britain and Italy, the picture that emerges is one that challenges the widespread understanding of meetings as boring, routine events in the life of an organisation. As the recordings analysed in the book show, organisational meanings and relations come into existence through verbal interaction; these are challenged and manipulated in a constant process of sense-making in search of coherence which engages managers in their daily work life. The pragmatics of pronominalisation, metaphors and discourse markers, as well as thematic development, reveal the dynamics of sense-making in both English and Italian. The ‘native’ perspective adopted in Part One of the book is complemented , in Part Two, by a contrastive study of the structural and pragmatic properties of meetings in the corporate and cultural contexts of the British and Italian multinationals, respectively. Finally, the intercultural dimension of corporate communication is vividly portrayed in the experience of managers of an Anglo-Italian joint venture examined in the concluding chapter.
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Managing Plurilingual and Intercultural Practices in the Workplace
Editor(s): Georges Lüdi, Katharina Höchle Meier and Patchareerat YanaprasartPublication Date October 2016More LessThe contributions in this volume stem from different lines of research and represent both a continuation and an advancement of the European DYLAN project. The book addresses the meanings and implications of multilingualism and plurilingual repertoires as well as the ways in which cultural diversity is managed in companies and institutions in Switzerland. Characterised by official quadrilingualism, but also by new dimensions of multilingualism resulting from massive immigration, important workforce mobility and increasing globalisation, Switzerland offers an ideal laboratory for studying phenomena linked to multilingualism and cultural diversity.
On the one hand, a special focus is put on the best practices of diversity management and language regimes with particular attention paid to the interplay between official languages and English, and to ways of leveraging diversity awareness, fostering cultural inclusiveness and enhancing intercultural learning in vocational education and training.
On the other hand, the chapters examine at close range the way actors' plurilingual repertoires are developed and how their use is adapted to particular objectives and specific conditions. Being observed in several types of multilingual professional settings, the plurilingual strategies, including English as lingua franca, are particularly examined in terms of power relations and processes of inclusion or exclusion.
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Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century
Editor(s): Louis de Saussure and Peter J. SchulzPublication Date December 2005More LessThis book is a collection of 12 papers dealing with manipulation and ideology in the 20th century, mostly with reference to political speeches by the leaders of major totalitarian regimes, but also addressing propaganda within contemporary right-wing populism and western ideological rhetoric. This book aims at bringing together researchers in the field of ideology reproduction in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms of speaker-favourable belief inculcation through language use. The book covers a wide range of theoretical perspectives, from psychosocial approaches and discourse analysis to semantics and cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. The book’s central concern is to provide not only a reference work with up-to-date information on the analysis of manipulation in discourse but also a number of tools for the scholar, some of them being developed within theories originally not designed to address belief-change through language interpretation. Foreword by Frans van Eemeren.
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The Manipulative Disguise of Truth
Author(s): Viviana MasiaPublication Date May 2021More LessBecoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition, implicature, topicalization and vague expressions. A look at different contexts of language use highlights some of the most remarkable implications of using indirect speech and of how it affects the correct comprehension of a message. Within the remit of communication and pragmatics studies, this work marks an advancement in the direction of delving into the linguistic manifestations of manipulative discourse, its most common contexts of use and the educational paths that can be undertaken to master it in everyday interactions.
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Manners, Norms and Transgressions in the History of English
Editor(s): Andreas H. Jucker and Irma TaavitsainenPublication Date August 2020More LessThis volume traces the multifaceted concept of manners in the history of English from the late medieval through the early and late modern periods right up to the present day. It focuses in particular on transgressions of manners and norms of behaviour as an analytical tool to shed light on the discourse of polite conduct and styles of writing. The papers collected in this volume adopt both literary and linguistic perspectives. The fictional sources range from medieval romances and Shakespearean plays to eighteenth-century drama, Lewis Carroll’s Alice books and present-day television comedy drama. The non-fictional data includes conduct books, medical debates and petitions written by lower class women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The contributions focus in particular on the following questions: What are the social and political ideologies behind rules of etiquette and norms of interaction, and what can we learn from blunders and other transgressions?
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Manual of Specialised Lexicography
Editor(s): Henning Bergenholtz and Sven TarpPublication Date July 1995More LessFrom 1990–1994 the Danish Research Council for the Humanities granted a research project entitled “translation of LSP texts”, which was initially split up into five part-projects, one of which has been concerned with LSP lexicography.
The Manual of Specialised Lexicography is one of the results of the research undertaken by this project. The primary purpose of the Manual is to contribute towards an improved basis for practical specialised lexicography, which has so far had but a small share in the explosive development that has taken place in general-language lexicography since the early 1970s. One implication of this is that only to a limited extent has it been possible to build upon existing findings.
The Manual thus has the twofold aim of offering guidance and direction to authors of specialised dictionaries as well as contributing towards the further development of lexicographical theories.
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Manufacturing Dissent
Editor(s): Cornelia IliePublication Date January 2024More LessSpotlighting case studies of manipulation practices at the onset of the Covid-19 crisis in different countries and socio-political circumstances, the authors expose context-specific discourse and argumentation strategies of 'infodemics’ (misleading information and fake news), public policy mismanagement, deceptive online and offline communication tactics, and conspiracy narratives, which end up disrupting community social cohesion. In addition to targeting manipulation-driven dissent across discourse genres through corpus-based investigations, a major strength of this volume consists in debunking manipulation while foregrounding compelling acts of counter-manipulation.
The volume’s breadth of topics, depth of analytical insights and range of methodological frameworks provide unique perspectives by capturing crisis-related manipulations across a worldwide political and cultural spectrum (Austria, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States), with a focus on the scale and extent of multifaceted repercussions. Reaching beyond the boundaries of pragmatics and discourse analysis, this book should be a valuable resource for researchers and practitioners of rhetoric, argumentation, media studies, social and political sciences.
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