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Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Michael Bamberg,
Anna De Fina and
Deborah Schiffrin
The different traditions that have inspired the contributors to this volume can be divided along three different orientations one that is rooted predominantly in sociolinguistics a second that is ethnomethodologically informed and a third that came in the wake of narrative interview research. All three share a commitment to view self and identity not as essential properties of the person but as constituted in discursive practices and particularly in narrative. Moreover since self and identity are held to be phenomena that are contextually and continually generated they are defined and viewed in the plural as selves and identities. In the attempt of moving closer toward a process-oriented approach to the formation of selves and identities this volume sets the stage for future discussions of the role of narrative and discourse in this generation process and for how a close analysis of these processes can advance an understanding of the world around us and within this world of identities and selves.
Mental States : Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Andrea C. Schalley and
Drew Khlentzos
The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give into the organization and structure of the mind and specific mental states. Topics and linguistic phenomena discussed include narratives and story telling language development figurative language linguistic categorization linguistic relativity and the linguistic coding of mental states such as perceptions and beliefs. With contributions at the forefront of current debate this book will appeal to anyone with an interest in language and the cognitive structures that support it.
Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing IV : Selected papers from RANLP 2005
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Nicolas Nicolov,
Kalina Bontcheva,
Galia Angelova and
Ruslan Mitkov
This volume brings together selected and revised papers from the international conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing” held in Borovets Bulgaria in September 2005. The best papers have been selected for this volume with the aim to reflect the most promising and significant trends in natural language processing. The volume covers a wide variety of topics in Natural Language Processing including information extraction indexing latent semantic analysis dependency parsing anaphora and referring expressions spam analysis document classification rhetorical relations textual entailment question answering ontologies word sense disambiguation machine translation treebanks and corpora.
Mental States : Volume 1: Evolution, function, nature
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Andrea C. Schalley and
Drew Khlentzos
Collecting the work of linguists psychologists neuroscientists archaeologists artificial intelligence researchers and philosophers this volume presents a richly varied picture of the nature and function of mental states. Starting from questions about the cognitive capacities of the early hominin homo floresiensis the essays proceed to the role mental representations play in guiding the behaviour of simple organisms and robots thence to the question of which features of its environment the human brain represents and the extent to which complex cognitive skills such as language acquisition and comprehension are impaired when the brain lacks certain important neural structures. Other papers explore topics ranging from nativism to the presumed constancy of categorization across signed and spoken languages from the formal representation of metaphor actions and vague language to philosophical questions about conceptual schemes and colours. Anyone interested in mental states will find much to reward them in this fine volume.
Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics : Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume XIX: Urbana, Illinois, April 2005
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Elabbas Benmamoun
This volume offers a selection from the papers presented at the 2005 Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The papers cover a variety of topics in Arabic Linguistics ranging from the lexicon phonology syntax and computational linguistics.
Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice : Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Henrik Gottlieb and
Jens Erik Mogensen
This book is about dictionaries and dictionary making. In six thematic sections it presents nineteen contributions covering a wide field within lexicography: Online Lexicography Dictionary Structure Phraseology in Dictionaries LSP Lexicography Dictionaries and the User plus Etymology History and Culture in Lexicography. Some chapters focus on theoretical aspects others report on dictionary work in the making and still others compare and analyze existing dictionaries. Common to all authors however is the concern for the dictionary user. Trivial as it may seem the fact that dictionaries are meant to fulfill the needs of specific user groups has only recently achieved widespread recognition in the lexicographical literature. This volume shows the many ramifications of this functional approach to lexicography by presenting twenty-two authors representing the state of the art in eleven countries: Canada Denmark Germany Great Britain Iceland Israel Latvia The Netherlands Poland South Africa and Spain.
Metapragmatics in Use
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Wolfram Bublitz and
Axel Hübler
This collection of papers fills a gap in current research on both metapragmatics and pragmatics in that it combines data-based pragmatic analysis with metapragmatic theory and focuses on the ways in which metadiscourse is actually used. The 12 contributions investigate speech acts and verbal (as well as non-verbal) expressions which highlight (meta-)linguistic aspects of ongoing discourse and thus provoke a deviation from the latter’s original direction and purpose. All case studies discuss ways and means which interactants employ to resolve diverging pragmatic expectations in communication. The papers analyze authentic examples from English and other languages (and cultures) including Thai Chinese and Japanese and center around three principal domains of communication: ordinary everyday interaction interaction in educational contexts and in specialized discourse. The introductory chapter locates the various contributions within a systematically broader theoretical framework. The wide scope of the collection its empirical orientation and the reader-friendly form of presentation should appeal to anyone interested in pragmatics whether scholar or student.
Talking about Motion : A crosslinguistic investigation of lexicalization patterns
Dec 2007
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Author(s):
Luna Filipović
This is a corpus-based study of lexicalization of motion events in Serbo-Croatian and English with contrasting examples from Spanish French Italian Mandarin Chinese and Albanian. Talmy’s typology (1985) provides the backdrop for the analysis and the focus is on intratypological differences that affect habitual presence or absence of information in motion expressions crosslinguistically as well as “pattern clashing” in translation. This fresh look at issues regarding linguistic typology lexical and construction meaning and spatio-temporal construals in language and experience results in a more finely grained classification of verbalized motion events. The study offers an eclectic overview of different theoretical approaches and insists on theoretically unbiased set of tools and principles that can be used in studies of any cognitive domain in any language. It provides an in-depth discussion of current issues in cognitive linguistics in particular and suggests systematic implementation of the research findings in applied and interdisciplinary studies of language.
Dialogue and Culture
Dec 2007
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Editor(s):
Marion Grein and
Edda Weigand
The volume deals with the relationship between language dialogue human nature and culture by focusing on an approach that considers culture to be a crucial component of dialogic interaction. Part I refers to the so-called ‘language instinct debate’ between nativists and empiricists and introduces a mediating position that regards language and dialogue as determined by both human nature and culture. This sets the framework for the contributions of Part II which propose varying theoretical positions on how to address the ways in which culture influences dialogue. Part III presents more empirically oriented studies which demonstrate the interaction of components in the ‘mixed game’ and focus in particular on specific action games politeness and selected verbal means of communication.
Argument Structure
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Eric J. Reuland,
Tanmoy Bhattacharya and
Giorgos Spathas
Recent developments in the generative tradition have created new interest in matters of argument structure and argument projection giving prominence to the discussion on the role of lexical entries. Particularly the more traditional lexicalist view that encodes argument structure information on lexical entries is now challenged by a syntactic view under which all properties of argument structure are taken up by syntactic structure. In the light of these new developments the contributions in this volume provide detailed empirical investigations of argument structure phenomena in a wide range of languages. The contributions vary in their response to the theoretical questions and address issues that range from the role of specific functional heads and the relation of argument projection with syntactic processes to the position of argument structure within a broader clausal architecture and the argument structure properties of less studied categories.
History of Linguistics 2005 : Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHOLS X), 1–5 September 2005, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Douglas A. Kibbee
As each period in the history of the language sciences has chosen to focus on different key questions the study of that history promises to open our eyes to the variety of interesting questions that can be asked and answered – taking off the blinders of contemporary preoccupations. September 1–5 2005 linguists from twenty-five countries gathered at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to share their passion for the history of their discipline. This volume is a distillation of many fine contributions from that conference shedding light on the many different approaches to the study of language.
Traditions of Controversy
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Marcelo Dascal and
Han-liang Chang
Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy along with its theorization constitutes – in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops – a tradition. Whether there are enough shared elements in these traditions to consider them as fundamentally universal or not is something that can only be determined on the basis of a rich sample of controversies and theorizations thereof belonging to different traditions. This is what this volume provides to the reader. By presenting side by side controversies from the East and from the West from the ancient past up to the present from different domains of scholarship and action the reader is in a position not only to admire the widespread nature role and richness of the phenomenon but also to begin to evaluate its variety as well as universality. While the editors have purposefully avoided comparative studies of traditions of controversy in order to focus on each tradition so to speak from its practitioners’ point of view some of the chapters take a bird’s eye view and exemplify how such studies can be systematically conducted. In a world that is globalizing itself at a fast pace the awareness of the multiplicity of traditions of controversy is fundamental for ensuring both that the integration of the various perspectives is harmonious and that each one of them is granted its place in a plural universe.
Anthropology of Color : Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Robert E. MacLaury,
Galina V. Paramei and
Don Dedrick
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology linguistics psychology semiotics and a variety of other fields by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color.
Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.
Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.
Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2005 : Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’, Utrecht, 8–10 December 2005
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Sergio Baauw,
Frank Drijkoningen and
Manuela Pinto
The conference series Going Romance is the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where ideas about language and linguistics and about Romance languages are put in an interactive perspective giving space to both universality and Romance-internal variation. The current volume features a selection of 18 articles (out of 28) that were presented during the 19th meeting at Utrecht University December 8-10 2005. Included in this volume are four papers that were presented by invited speakers: Belletti Delais-Roussarie & Rialland Notley & Van der Linden & Hulk and Ordóñez; these reflect both issues discussed in the general session as well as themes of the workshop on acquisition. A number of reknown Romance linguists (Saltarelli di Sciullo Zubizarreta) also contributed to the volume. In general contributions bear on a variety of topics in the field of morphology syntax semantics and pragmatics and include the perspective from acquisition.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Katja Liebal,
Cornelia Müller and
Simone Pika
Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics varying methods and approaches and even different species such as humans apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is to bring together the research in gestural communication in both nonhuman and human primates and to explore the potential of a comparative approach and its contribution to the question of an evolutionary scenario in which gestures play a significant role. The topics covered include the spontaneous natural gesture use in social groups of apes and monkeys but also during interactions with humans gestures of preverbal children and their interaction with language speech-accompanying gestures in humans as well as the use of sign-language in human and nonhuman great apes. It addresses researchers with a background in Psychology Primatology Linguistics and Anthropology but it might also function as an introduction and a documentation state of the art for a wider less specialised audience which is fascinated by the role gestures might have played in the evolution of human language.
Romance Linguistics 2006 : Selected papers from the 36th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), New Brunswick, March-April 2006
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
José Camacho,
Nydia Flores-Ferrán,
Liliana Sánchez,
Viviane Déprez and
María José Cabrera
This volume presents selected papers from the 36th LSRL conference held at Rutgers University in 2006. It contains twenty-two articles of current approaches to the study of Romance linguistics. Well-known researchers present their findings in areas such as of syntax and semantics phonology psycholinguistics sociolinguistics. The volume contains scholarly research in areas such as parenthetical null topic construction expletives number and language change performative verbs in colonial court Spanish aspect shift palatilization in Romanian melodic contours in Majorcan Catalan variation in verb type and position and deviance in early child bilingualism among many others. It is a well-rounded selection of research topics that will enrich and widen our understanding of Romance languages.
Coreference, Modality, and Focus : Studies on the syntax–semantics interface
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Luis Eguren and
Olga Fernández-Soriano
This volume is a collection of selected papers originally presented at the XVIth Colloquium on Generative Grammar that was held at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. All the papers deal with current issues within the generative framework mostly paying attention to phenomena pertaining to the syntax-semantics interface. The major concerns are coreference relations modals and modality and focus/ellipsis. More specifically the contributions present research findings from different languages often adopting a comparative perspective and include studies on sub-extraction from subjects and objects; on obviation and Control structures; on specificity and Weak Crossover effects; and on reconstruction without movement as well as papers that address the scopal interactions between tense/aspect and modals; the syntactic and semantic properties of different types of left-periphery operators; and the role focus plays in elliptical constructions.
Play Frames and Social Identities : Contact encounters in a Greek primary school
Nov 2007
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Author(s):
Vally Lytra
This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an Athens primary school. It offers the reader a unique look into the ways in which children draw upon their rich interactional histories and share transform and recontextualize linguistic and other semiotic resources in circulation to construct play frames and explore adopt resist available as well as novel social roles and identities. Drawing on ethnographically informed approaches to discourse the book shows the ways in which verbal phenomena such as teasing joking language play music making and chanting can provide a productive locus for the study of the negotiation of social identities and roles at school. This book will be of interest to scholars researchers and students of sociolinguistics discourse analysis cultural studies and multicultural education. It will also be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.
Silence in Intercultural Communication : Perceptions and performance
Nov 2007
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Author(s):
Ikuko Nakane
How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives this book shows how silence is used perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication – linguistic cognitive and sociopsychological – and fundamental levels of social organization – individual situational and sociocultural - the book explores the intricate relationship between perceptions and performance of silence in interaction involving Japanese and Australian participants. Through a combination of macro- and micro- ethnographic analyses of university seminar interactions the stereotypes of the ‘silent East’ is reconsidered and the tension between local and sociocultural perspectives of intercultural communication is addressed. The book has relevance to researchers and students in intercultural pragmatics discourse analysis and applied linguistics.
Noun Phrases in Creole Languages : A multi-faceted approach
Nov 2007
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Editor(s):
Marlyse Baptista and
Jacqueline Guéron
This volume offers a thorough examination of the syntactic semantic pragmatic and discourse properties of noun phrases in a wide variety of creole (and non-creole) languages including Cape Verdean Creole Santome Papiamentu Guinea-Bissau Creole Mindanao Chabacano Réunionnais Creole Lesser Antillean Haitian Creole Mauritian Creole Seychellois Sranan Jamaican Creole Berbice Dutch Creole and African American English. Comparative studies also consider the determiner systems of Middle and Modern French European Portuguese Brazilian Portuguese Spanish Ewe Fon and Gun. This compilation of 16 chapters brings together descriptive theoretical diachronic and synchronic studies that focus on the structure and interpretation of bare nouns in creoles. The contributions demonstrate the variety and complex nature of determiner systems in creoles and their widespread use of bare nouns in comparison to their source languages. This volume is evidence of the relevance of creole languages to theories of language creation language change and linguistic theory in general.