Elastic Language: How and Why We Stretch our Words, Grace Q. Zhang

Автор: Ogilvie
Название: Words of the World
ISBN: 1107605695 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107605695
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Most people think of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as a distinctly British product. The linguist and lexicographer, Sarah Ogilvie, combines her insider knowledge and experience with impeccable research to show rather that the OED is an international product in both its content and its making.

Автор: Brice Heath
Название: Words at Work and Play
ISBN: 052160303X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521603034
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Eminent anthropologist Shirley Brice Heath tracks the lives of 300 black and white working-class families as they reshaped their lives in new locations, occupations and interpersonal alignments over a period of thirty years. This outstanding study is a must-read for anyone interested in family life, language development and social change.

Автор: Susan Strauss, Parastou Feiz
Название: Discourse Analysis: Putting Our Worlds into Words
ISBN: 0415522188 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415522182
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from multiple disciplines, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, all of which shed light on meaning and the interactional construction of meaning through language use. Students without prior experience in discourse analysis will appreciate and understand the micro-macro relationship of language use in everyday contexts, in professional and academic settings, in languages other than English, and in a wide variety of media outlets.

Each chapter is supported by examples of spoken and written discourse from various types of data sources, including conversations, commercials, university lectures, textbooks, print ads, and blogs, and concludes with hands-on opportunities for readers to actually do discourse analysis on their own. Students can also utilize the book's comprehensive companion website, with flash cards for key terms, quizzes, and additional data samples, for in-class activities and self-study.

With its accessible multi-disciplinary approach and comprehensive data samples from a variety of sources, Discourse Analysis is the ideal core text for the discourse analysis course in applied linguistics, English, education, and communication programs.

Автор: Zhang
Название: Elastic Language
ISBN: 1107028442 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107028449
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets. Using fascinating natural language data to support a new theory of elasticity, Elastic Language reveals the art of purposive and powerful language stretching. An invaluable text for students and researchers working in pragmatics, applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and communication.

Автор: Crispin Thurlow
Название: The Business of Words: Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers
ISBN: 1138485241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138485242
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Business of Words examines the practices of `high-end` language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource for researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Language, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Communication and Media Studies, and Anthropology.

Автор: Christopher Ball
Название: Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil`s Xingu Indigenous Park
ISBN: 0826358535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826358530
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Like human groups everywhere, Wauja people construct their identity in relation to others. This book tells the story of the Wauja group from the Xingu Indigenous Park in central Brazil and its relation to powerful new interlocutors. Tracing Wauja interactions with others, Ball depicts expanding scales of social action from the village to the wider field of the park and finally abroad.

Автор: Julian Walker
Название: Words and the First World War: Language, Memory, Vocabulary
ISBN: 1350001937 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350001930
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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"The experiences could be understood only as being of such extremity that they stood beyond written words; it was not a failure of language, but a view that, for the individual, language, particularly written words, and the enormity of the experience were not matched."

First World War expert Julian Walker looks at how the conflict shaped English and its relationship with other languages. He considers language in relation to mediation and authenticity, as well as the limitations and potential of different kinds of verbal communication. Walker also examines:

- How language changed, and why changed language was used in communications
- Language used at the Front and how the 'language of the war' was commercially exploited on the Home Front
- The relationship between language, soldiers and class
- The idea of the 'indescribability' of the war and the linguistic codes used to convey the experience

'Languages of the front' became linguistic souvenirs of the war, abandoned by soldiers but taken up by academics, memoir writers and commentators, leaving an indelible mark on the words we use even today.

Автор: Coeckelbergh, Mark
Название: Using words and things
ISBN: 1138694169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138694163
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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This book offers a systematic framework for thinking about the relationship between language and technology and an argument for interweaving thinking about technology with thinking about language. The main claim of philosophy of technology-that technologies are not mere tools and artefacts not mere things, but crucially and significantly shape what we perceive, do, and are-is re-thought in a way that accounts for the role of language in human technological experiences and practices. Engaging with work by Wittgenstein, Heidegger, McLuhan, Searle, Ihde, Latour, Ricoeur, and many others, the author critically responds to, and constructs a synthesis of, three "extreme," idealtype, untenable positions: (1) only humans speak and neither language nor technologies speak, (2) only language speaks and neither humans nor technologies speak, and (3) only technology speaks and neither humans nor language speak. The construction of this synthesis goes hand in hand with a narrative about subjects and objects that become entangled and constitute one another. Using Words and Things thus draws in central discussions from other subdisciplines in philosophy, such as philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics, to offer an original theory of the relationship between language and (philosophy of) technology centered on use, performance, and narrative, and taking a transcendental turn.

Автор: Braga, Paolo
Название: Words in action
ISBN: 3034316623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034316620
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Words in Action dedicates to the subject of film dialogue a comprehensive exploration. The book analyzes a wide series of examples, perfectly chosen in contemporary American mainstream cinema – from Gladiator to The Devil Wears Prada, from Schindler’s List to A Beautiful Mind, from Collateral to The Dark Knight – and, in some cases, also in prime time TV drama – ER, The West Wing, House M.D., John Adams.
In a screenplay, the secrets of well written dialogue are hidden in the construction of the scene, where every word should stem from the theme of the story. At the light of this basic assumption, the book explores how Hollywood screenwriters create verbal duels assigning characters different frames of values and making the hero win by «reframing» what is at stake in the scene. The author elaborates on how Oscar winner authors such as Paul Haggis, Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian create subtext. Finally, the book highlights the screenwriting techniques to cover exposition, an issue which gives the author also the opportunity to concentrate on the differences between dialogues in movies and in TV drama.

Автор: Keith Foulcher, Mikihiro Moriyama, Manneke Budiman
Название: Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post New-Order Indonesia
ISBN: 9971696339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789971696337
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: While contributors to this volume discuss Indonesian-language expression at the national level, a particular focus on the collection is on regional, local and minority languages, where problems associated with decentralization find their counterpart in the role that language plays in the workings of regional and national identity politics.

Автор: Adams
Название: Complex Words in English
ISBN: 1138156566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138156562
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Complex Words in English presents a comprehensive account of present-day word formation in English. Starting with a discussion of some basic issues, including the definition of 'word', motivation, lexicalization, productivity, the relevance of historical information and the usefulness of dictionaries and other data-bases, the book then moves on to describe in detail a variety of prefixing, suffixing and compounding patterns - all illustrated with copious up-to-date examples. Other topics that are explored in-depth include diminutives, backformation and other effects of reanalysis, Latin and Greek based formations and sound symbolism. Many examples are given in context: recent writing and the records of OED on CD ROM are drawn on to demonstrate the relationship between spontaneous coinages and familiar items. The comprehensive coverage allows an instructive overview and comparison of patterns and of the many and diverse factors relevant to the notion of productivity. Throughout, the discussions are placed in the context of other recent and less recent work in the area and the book also contains a useful extensive bibliography.

Автор: Crispin Thurlow
Название: The Business of Words: Wordsmiths, Linguists, and Other Language Workers
ISBN: 1138485268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138485266
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Business of Words examines the practices of `high-end` language workers or wordsmiths. An essential resource for researchers, advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Language, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Communication and Media Studies, and Anthropology.