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This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism poetic prosody and voice quality in recited poetry. The authors examine how these sound-related phenomena contribute to the generation of emotive qualities and how these qualities are perceived by readers and listeners. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The book builds upon Reuven Tsur’s theoretical research and supplements it from an experimental angle. It also engages in methodological debates with prevalent scientific approaches. In particular it emphasises the importance of proper theory in empirical literary studies and the role of the personal traits of the reader in literary analysis.<br/>The intended readership of this book consists mainly of literary scholars but it might also appeal to researchers from disciplines such as linguistics psychology and brain science.

What is it like? – This is often the first question we ask about any object and it is typically answered with adjectives: old smooth pointed narrow etc. Characteristics of things around us is a fundamental aspect of how we conceptualize the physical world regardless of when or where we live – and regardless of our language. Despite this the vocabulary of physical qualities has received comparatively little attention in lexical typology: most research so far has focused on verbs and the actions they express.

This volume presents a lexico-typological study of several domains of physical qualities: ‘sharp’/‘blunt’ ‘wet’ ‘empty’/‘full’ ‘old’ as well as dimensions temperature and surface texture. It discusses several theoretical issues including intragenetic language sampling the possibility of signed vs. spoken language comparison at the lexicon level and the potential of applying computational models of distributional semantics to lexical typology.

The book will be of interest to linguists with a focus on typology general and lexical semantics to lexicographers and to language students and teachers.

This volume investigates the linguistic expression of directed caused accompanied motion events including verbal concepts like BRING and TAKE. Contributions explore how speakers conceptualise and describe these events across areally genetically and typologically diverse languages of the Americas Austronesia and Papua. The chapters investigate such events on the basis of spoken language corpora of endangered underdescribed languages and in this way the volume showcases the importance of documentary linguistics for linguistic typology. The semantic domain of directed caused accompanied motion shows considerable crosslinguistic variation in how meaning components are conflated within single lexemes or distributed across morphemes or clauses. The volume presents a typology of common patterns and constraints in the linguistic expression of these events. The study of crosslinguistic event encoding provided in this volume contributes to our understanding of the nature extent and limits of linguistic and cognitive diversity.

This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative consequences thus bringing together pragmatics and cognition. This type of study has allowed the authors to provide new definitions for all the figures while making their dependency relations fully explicit. For example hypallage antonomasia anthimeria and merism are studied as variants of metonymy and analogy paragon and allegory as variants of metaphor. An important feature of the book is its special emphasis on the combinations of figures of speech into conceptually more complex configurations. Finally the book accounts for the principles that regulate the felicity of figurative expressions. The result is a broad integrative framework for the analysis of figurative language grounded in the relationship between pragmatics and cognition.

This encyclopaedia of one of the major fields of language studies is a continuously updated source of state-of-the-art information for anyone interested in language use. The IPrA Handbook of Pragmatics provides easy access – for scholars with widely divergent backgrounds but with convergent interests in the use and functioning of language – to the different topics traditions and methods which together make up the field of pragmatics broadly conceived as the cognitive social and cultural study of language and communication i.e. the science of language use.

The Handbook of Pragmatics is a unique reference work for researchers which has been expanded and updated continuously with annual installments since 1995.

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This volume is the first monograph exploring the functions of visual cues in humor advocating for the development of a non-linguocentric theory of humor performance. It analyzes a corpus of dyadic face-to-face interactions in Spanish and English to study the relationship between humor smiling and gaze and shows how by focusing on these elements it is possible to shed light on the “unsaid” of conversations.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>In the book the humorous framing of an utterance is shown to be negotiated and co-constructed dialogically and multimodally through changes and patterns of smiling synchronicity smiling intensity and eye movements. The study also analyzes the multimodal features of failed humor and proposes a new categorization from a dialogic perspective.<br/>Because of its interdisciplinary approach which includes facial expression analysis and eye tracking this book is relevant to humor researchers as well as scholars in social and behavioral sciences interested in multimodality and embodied cognition.

This volume brings together 19 cutting edge studies written by some of the most prominent linguists working on Chinese formal syntax as a Festschrift volume dedicated to Yen-Hui Audrey Li. The contributions to the volume address a wide range of issues currently developing in the field of Chinese syntax grouped into five thematic sections on the structure of lexical and functional projections modal verb syntax syntax-semantics interactions the syntax and interpretation of particles and the acquisition of syntactic structures. With its rich descriptive content sourced from different varieties of Chinese and its theoretical orientation and analyses the book provides an important new resource both for researchers with a primary interest in Chinese and other linguists interested in discovering how properties of Chinese can inform the analysis of other languages.

This textbook is designed for advanced (graduate and postgraduate) students and will also be of interest to scholars. It blends a cognitive linguistic approach to language and language use with insights from contemporary pragmatics the ultimate aim being to advance a unified model of cognitive pragmatics. Basic themes in cognitive linguistics and pragmatics are covered ranging from figurative language and thought e.g. conceptual metaphor and metonymy the role of inferencing in the construction of meaning in particular indirect speech acts to the conceptual and functional motivation of morphosyntactic structure. Finally the book offers many suggestions and ideas for student papers as well as larger research projects that promise to reveal new insights into conceptual structure communicative function and their influence on the grammatical structure of language.

This book addresses the phenomenon of non-American rock and pop singers emulating an Americanized singing style for performance purposes. By taking a novel approach to this pop cultural trend and drawing attention to the audience British and American students’ perceptions of English rock and pop performances were elicited. Interviews guided by various music clips were conducted and analyzed through a detailed qualitative content analysis. The interviewees' responses provide important insights into social meanings attached to Americanized voices and local British accents in the respective genres and show how British and American attitudes toward these performance accents differ. These perceptions and attitudes are illustrated by developing associative fields which offer a fresh view on the notion of indexicalities.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>An engaging folk linguistic investigation of a relatable everyday pop culture phenomenon this book makes complex sociolinguistic phenomena easily approachable and qualitative research accessible. It is suitable for intermediate students onward and inspires further research projects in the field of language performances.

Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages but this is the first edited volume to emphasize this topic from a comparative perspective and in connection to Multiple Agreement Constructions more generally. The chapters include detailed analyses of Romance Germanic Slavic and other languages. These contributions show important cross-linguistic similarities in these constructions as well as their diversity providing insights into areas such as the morphology-syntax and syntax-semantics interfaces dialectal variation and language contact. This volume establishes Pseudo-Coordination as a descriptively important and theoretically challenging cross-linguistic phenomenon among Multiple Agreement Constructions and will be of interest to specialists in individual languages as well as typologists and theoreticians serving as a foundation to promote continued research.