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Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning How to Do Things With Words in a Study Abroad Contextby Anne BarronISBN 1588113426 (1-58811-342-6)
Hardcover, John Benjamins Pub Co
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Anthropological Linguistics: An Introductionby William A. FoleyISBN 0631151222 (0-631-15122-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Approaches to Discourseby Deborah SchiffrinISBN 0631166238 (0-631-16623-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Approaches to Discourse'Book summary:This is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. It compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, and variation theory.
The author not only considers each approach from several standpoints but she also illustrates them through extensive applications to a variety of concrete social and linguistic problems facing discourse analysts. [via]More editions of Approaches to Discourse:
At the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Verbal Underspecification and Concept Formation in Dynamic Syntaxby Lutz MartenISBN 0199250634 (0-19-925063-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Companion to Linguistic Anthropologyby Alessandro DurantiISBN 1405144300 (1-4051-4430-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Context and Content: Essays on Intentionality in Speech and Thoughtby Robert C. StalnakerISBN 0198237073 (0-19-823707-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Discourse Analysisby George Yule, Brown, Gillian & Yule, GeorgeISBN 0521284759 (0-521-28475-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourse Analysis'Book summary:Discourse analysis is a term that has come to have different interpretations for scholars working in different disciplines. For a sociolinguist, it is concerned mainly with the structure of social interaction manifested in conversation; for a psycholinguist, it is primarily concerned with the nature of comprehension of short written texts; for the computational linguist, it is concerned with producing operational models of text-understanding within highly limited contexts. In this textbook, the authors provide an extensive overview of the many and diverse approaches to the study of discourse, but base their own approach centrally on the discipline which, to varying degrees, is common to them all - linguistics. Using a methodology which has much in common with descriptive linguistics, they offer a lucid and wide-ranging account of how forms of language are used in communication. Their principal concern is to examine how any language produced by man, whether spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose in a context. The discussion is carefully illustrated throughout by a wide variety of discourse types (conversations recorded in different social situations, extracts from newspapers, notices, contemporary fiction, graffiti, etc.). The techniques of analysis are described and exemplified in sufficient detail for the student to be able to apply them to any language in context that he or she encounters. A familiarity with elementary linguistics is assumed, but the range of issues discussed in conjunction with the variety of exemplification presented will make this a valuable and stimulating textbook not only for students of linguistics, but for any reader who wishes to investigate the principles underlying the use of language in natural contexts to communicate and understand intended meaning. [via]
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Discourse Readerby Nikolas Coupland, Adam JaworskiISBN 0415346320 (0-415-34632-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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Discourse Semanticsby Pieter A. M. SeurenISBN 0631135944 (0-631-13594-4)
Hardcover, Blackwell Pub
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Doing Pragmaticsby Peter GrundyISBN 0340758929 (0-340-75892-9)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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English Syntax: From Word to Discourseby Lynn M. BerkISBN 0195123530 (0-19-512353-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Syntax: From Word to Discourse'Book summary:English Syntax: From Word to Discourse is a clear and highly accessible descriptive grammar of English with a strong semantic and discourse/functional focus. Designed for beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates in linguistics, it is also suitable for use in TESOL/ESL programs and in English departments. The text explains the basics of English syntax while providing students with a comprehensive view of the richness and complexity of the system. Each structure is discussed in terms of its syntactic features, its meaning, and its uses in discourse, and each discussion is extensively illustrated by examples from written texts of all kinds and by excerpts of spoken language. While the presentation has been influenced by a number of theories, the book presumes no theoretical background on the part of the student and the approach is relatively informal. Syntactic structures are graphically illustrated by means of nesting boxes rather than tree diagrams. Historical information illuminates some particularly problematic constructions, and the book is punctuated with intriguing facts about English syntax. All terminology is carefully explained and most terms are defined again in the extensive glossary. Berk anticipates areas where students are likely to have trouble, warns them of pitfalls, and shows them how to avoid common mistakes. English Syntax: From Word to Discourse provides a unique alternative to the formal, generative approach of other texts in the field. [via]
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Explorations in the Ethnography of Speakingby Richard Bauman, Joel SherzerISBN 0521379334 (0-521-37933-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking'Book summary:First published in 1974, this collection of classic case studies in the ethnography of speaking had a formative influence on the field. No other volume has so successfully provided a broad, cross-cultural survey of the use, role, and function of language and speech in everyday life. The essays deal with: traditional societies in Native North, Middle, and South America, Africa, and Oceania; English, French, and Yiddish speaking communities in Europe and North America; Afro-American communities in North America and the Caribbean. Now reissued, the collection includes a major new Introduction by the editors that traces the subsequent development of the ethnography of speaking and indicates directions for further research. [via]
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Forms of Talkby Erving GoffmanISBN 081221112X (0-8122-1112-X)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Gender and Politenessby Sara MillsISBN 0521009197 (0-521-00919-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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How to Do Things With Wordsby J.L. AustinISBN 0674411528 (0-674-41152-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Information Structure and Sentence Form: Topic, Focus, and the Mental Representations of Discourse Referentsby Knud LambrechtISBN 0521587042 (0-521-58704-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Introduction to Discourse Studiesby Jan RenkemaISBN 1588115305 (1-58811-530-5)
Softcover, John Benjamins Pub Co
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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speechby Edward SapirISBN 1406820571 (1-4068-2057-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language. an Introduction to the Study of Speech'Book summary:How do culture and language correspond? How does language work, and how do languages vary? An expert linguist and anthropologist addresses these and related issues in a highly readable examination of language within the contexts of thought, historical process, race, culture, and art. Topics include a discussion of "drift," or the processes of language change.[via]More editions of Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech:
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Languageby SapirISBN 0246110740 (0-246-11074-0)
Softcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Language and Genderby Penelope Eckert, Sally McConnell-GinetISBN 0521654262 (0-521-65426-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Language and Social Context: Selected Readingsby Pier Paolo GiglioliISBN 0140133038 (0-14-013303-8)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Language and Social Context:Selected Readings: Selected Readingsby Pier Paolo GiglioliISBN 0140802444 (0-14-080244-4)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Language and Spaceby Lynn Nadel, Paul Bloom, Mary A. Peterson, Merrill F. GarrettISBN 0262024039 (0-262-02403-9)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Language and Spaceby Paul BloomISBN 0262522667 (0-262-52266-7)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Language and Woman's Placeby Robin T. LakoffISBN 0061320935 (0-06-132093-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentariesby Mary Bucholtz, Robin Tolmach LakoffISBN 0195167570 (0-19-516757-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries'Book summary:The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years, scholars of language and gender have been debating and developing Lakoff's initial observations.
Arguing that language is fundamental to gender inequality, Lakoff pointed to two areas in which inequalities can be found: Language used about women, such as the asymmetries between seemingly parallel terms like master and mistress, and language used by women, which places women in a double bind between being appropriately feminine and being fully human. Lakoff's central argument that "women's language" expresses powerlessness triggered a controversy that continues to this day.
The revised and expanded edition presents the full text of the original first edition, along with an introduction and annotations by Lakoff in which she reflects on the text a quarter century later and expands on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises. The volume also brings together commentaries from twenty-six leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, within linguistics, anthropology, modern languages, education, information sciences, and other disciplines. The commentaries discuss the book's contribution to feminist research on language and explore its ongoing relevance for scholarship in the field.
This new edition of Language and Woman's Place not only makes available once again the pioneering text of feminist linguistics; just as important, it places the text in the context of contemporary feminist and gender theory for a new generation of readers. [via]More editions of Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries:
Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesisby John A. LucyISBN 0521387973 (0-521-38797-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguisticsby Ohio State University Department of Linguistics, Wai Yi Peggy WongISBN 0814251285 (0-8142-5128-5)
Softcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics'Book summary:aperback: 541 pages Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 9 edition (April 14, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0814251285 ISBN-13: 978-0814251287 Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews) Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #576,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) [via]
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Language Ideologies: Practice and Theoryby Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity, Kathryn Ann WoolardISBN 0195105621 (0-19-510562-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory'Book summary:"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental nottions of person and community.
The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Contributors focus on how such defining activity organizes language use as well as institutions such as religious ritual, gender relations, the nation-state, schooling, and law. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuse on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II, "Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the functioning of particular institutions of power such as schooling, the law, or mass media. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability, contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural studies, communications, and folklore scholars. [via]More editions of Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory:
Language Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorfby John B. CarrollISBN 0262730065 (0-262-73006-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Language, Culture, and Society: A Book of Readingsby Blount, Ben G., CompISBN 0881338508 (0-88133-850-8)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguisticsby Barbara JohnstoneISBN 0195101855 (0-19-510185-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics'Book summary:Linguists usually discuss language or dialects in terms of groups of speakers. Believing that patterns can be seen more clearly in the group than the individual, researchers often present group scores with no indication of the variation within the group. Even though linguists acknowledge that no two individuals speak alike, few study individual variation and voice.
Barbara Johnstone makes a case for the individual's importance and idiosyncrasies in language and linguistics. Using theoretical arguments and discourse analysis, along with linguistic examples from a variety of speakers and settings, Johnstone illustrates how speakers draw on linguistic models associated with class, ethnicity, gender, and region, among others, to construct an individual voice. In doing so Johnstone shows that certain important questions in sociolinguistics and pragmatics can only be answered with reference to individual speakers. Johnstone's study is important both for the understanding of speech as expressive of self, and for the study of variation and mechanisms of linguistic choice and change. [via]More editions of The Linguistic Individual: Self-Expression in Language and Linguistics:
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introductionby John LyonsISBN 0521438772 (0-521-43877-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction'Book summary:Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction is the successor to Sir John Lyons' important textbook Language, Meaning and Context (1981). While preserving the general structure of the earlier book, the author has substantially expanded its scope to introduce several topics that were not previously discussed, and to take account of new developments in linguistic semantics over the past decade. The resulting work is an invaluable guide to the subject, offering clarifications of its specialized terms and explaining its relationship to formal and philosophical and to contemporary semantics and pragmatics. With its clear and accessible style it will appeal to a wide student readership. Sir John Lyons is one of the most important and internationally renowned contributors to the study of linguistics. His many publications include his Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics (1968) and Semantics (1977). [via]
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The Logic Of Conventional Implicaturesby Christopher PottsISBN 0199273839 (0-19-927383-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Logics of Conversationby Nicholas Asher, Alex LascaridesISBN 0521650585 (0-521-65058-5)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Making Truth: Metaphor in Scienceby Theodore L. BrownISBN 0252028104 (0-252-02810-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Truth: Metaphor in Science'Book summary:In "Making Truth: Metaphor in Science", Theodore L. Brown argues that most laypeople, and many scientists, do not have a clear understanding of how metaphor relates to scientific thinking. With stunning clarity, and bridging the worlds of scientists and nonscientists, Brown demonstrates the presence and the power of metaphorical thought. To illustrate the roles of metaphor in science, Brown presents a series of studies of scientific systems. These range from the atom, historically one of the most important ideas in science, through models in chemistry and biology, including current "hot" topics such as protein folding, chaperone proteins, and global warming. The case studies in "Making Truth" illustrate the deeply metaphorical nature of scientific reasoning and communication. They provide the basis for far-reaching conclusions about science as an intellectual and social practice and about the nature of scientific truth. [via]
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Mind, Language and Realityby Hilary PutnamISBN 0521295513 (0-521-29551-3)
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Narratives in Action: A Strategy for Research and Analysisby Stanton WorthamISBN 0807740756 (0-8077-4075-6)
Softcover, Teachers College Pr
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Natural Histories of Discourseby Michael Silverstein, Greg UrbanISBN 0226757706 (0-226-75770-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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On the Pragmatics of Communicationby Jurgen HabermasISBN 0262581876 (0-262-58187-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Pragmatics of Communication'Book summary:edited by Maeve Cooke Jürgen Habermas's program in formal pragmatics fulfills two main functions. First, it serves as the theoretical underpinning for his theory of communicative action, a crucial element in his theory of society. Second, it contributes to ongoing philosophical discussion of problems concerning meaning, truth, rationality, and action. By the "pragmatic" dimensions of language, Habermas means those pertaining specifically to the employment of sentences in utterances. He makes clear that "formal" is to be understood in a tolerant sense to refer to the rational reconstruction of general intuitions or competences. Formal pragmatics, then, aims at a systematic reconstruction of the intuitive linguistic knowledge of competent subjects as it is used in everyday communicative practices. His program may thus be distinguished from empirical pragmatics--for example, sociolinguistics--which looks primarily at particular situations of use.This anthology brings together for the first time, in revised or new translation, ten essays that present the main concerns of Habermas's program in formal pragmatics. Its aim is to convey a sense of the overall purpose of his linguistic investigations while introducing the reader to their specific details, in particular to his theories of meaning, truth, rationality, and action.
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Politenessby Richard J. WattsISBN 0521794064 (0-521-79406-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usageby Penelope BrownISBN 0521313554 (0-521-31355-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Pragmaticsby Stephen C. LevinsonISBN 0521294142 (0-521-29414-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pragmatics'Book summary:Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. Yet until now much of the work in this field has not been easily accessible to the student, and was often written at an intimidating level of technicality. In this textbook, however, Dr Levinson has provided a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is the relation between pragmatics and semantics, and Dr Levinson shows clearly how a pragmatic approach can resolve some of the problems semantics have been confronting and simplifying semantic analyses. The complexity of these issues is not disguised, but the exposition is always clear and supported by helpful exemplification. The detailed analyses of selected topics give the student a clear view of the empirical rigour demanded by the study of linguistic pragmatics, but Dr Levinson never loses sight of the rich diversity of the subject. An introduction and conclusion relate pragmatics to other fields in linguistics and other disciplines concerned with language usage - psychology, philosophy, anthropology and literature. Many students in these disciplines, as well as students of linguistics, will find this a valuable textbook. [via]
Pragmatics: A Readerby Steven DavisISBN 0195058984 (0-19-505898-4)
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Pragmatics and Natural Language Understandingby Georgia M. GreenISBN 0805803610 (0-8058-0361-0)
Softcover, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc
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Pragmatics of Chinese As Native and Target Languageby Gabriele KasperISBN 0824817338 (0-8248-1733-8)
Softcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semanticsby David I. BeaverISBN 1575861208 (1-57586-120-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Principles of Pragmaticsby Geoffrey N. LeechISBN 0582551102 (0-582-55110-2)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Readings in Semanticsby Arthur Jacobson, E. D. Klemke, Farhang ZabeehISBN 0252001966 (0-252-00196-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Readings in Semanticsby E. D. Klemke, Farhang Zabeeh, Arthur JacobsonISBN 0252004213 (0-252-00421-3)
Softcover, University of Illinois Press
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Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identitiesby Paul V. KroskrityISBN 0933452624 (0-933452-62-4)
Softcover, School for Advanced Research on the
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Relevance: Communication and Cognitionby Deirdre Wilson, Dan SperberISBN 0631198784 (0-631-19878-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Relevance: Communication and Cognitionby Dan Sperber, Deidre WilsonISBN 067475476X (0-674-75476-X)
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Rethinking Context: Language As an Interactive Phenomenonby Alessandro Duranti, Charles GoodwinISBN 0521422884 (0-521-42288-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Romance Linguistics : The Portuguese Contextby Donaldo P. Macedo, Dale A. KoikeISBN 0897892976 (0-89789-297-6)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Sociolinguistica Y Pragmatica Del Espanolby Carmen Silva-CorvalanISBN 087840872X (0-87840-872-X)
Softcover, Georgetown Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociolinguistica Y Pragmatica Del Espanol'Book summary:This book provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. Drawing on the research of foremost scholars in the field, Carmen Silva-Corvalán covers central concerns of variational sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language change, and language contact, with special reference to Spanish in the United States.
A thoroughly revised and expanded version of Silva-Corvalán's 1989 study, Sociolingüística: teoría y análisis, the book includes rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses, and it documents such ongoing issues as language change in monolingual and bilingual communities, the nature of phonetic and syntactic variation, and modes of data collection and analysis. New topics include pragmatics and discourse analysis, discourse markers, and sociolinguistics and education.
Written in Spanish, Sociolingüística y pragmática del español will be welcomed by students and sociolinguistic researchers, who will find in it the ideal overview of the social aspects of language as well as a wealth of empirical data on Spanish linguistics. Complete with exercises at the end of each chapter and a convenient subject index, the book is appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of Spanish throughout the world.
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Speech Actsby P.G. SearleISBN 052109626X (0-521-09626-X)
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Languageby John R. SearleISBN 0521071844 (0-521-07184-4)
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The Study of Languageby George YuleISBN 0521543207 (0-521-54320-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Study of Language'Book summary:This revised and updated edition incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade, including a new chapter on pragmatics, and an expansion of the chapter on semantics. There are additional sections on speech recognition systems, sign languages, women's and men's language, input in language learning, and several other topics. The Study Questions and Discussion Topics following each chapter have also been thoroughly revised, with the addition of more than 30 new tasks for students; and the Further Reading sections have been revised, updated and expanded. The new edition also has many more illustrations, examples, and quotes from a wide range of commentators, from Groucho Marx to Gary Larson. The presentation retains the clear and lively style which made the first edition a hugely popular introduction to the study of language. [via]
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T-Shirt Japanese Versus Necktie Japanese: Two Levels of Politenessby Hiroko FukudaISBN 4770018347 (4-7700-1834-7)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivityby Benjamin LeeISBN 0822320150 (0-8223-2015-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity'Book summary:In Talking Heads, Benjamin Lee situates himself at the convergence of multiple disciplines: philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, and literary theory. He offers a nuanced exploration of the central questions shared by these disciplines during the modern eraquestions regarding the relations between language, subjectivity, community, and the external world. Scholars in each discipline approach these questions from significantly different angles; in seeking to identify and define the intersection of these angles, Lee argues for the development of a new sense of subjectivity, a construct that has repercussions of immense importance beyond the humanities and into the area of politics.[via]
Talking Heads synthesizes the views and works of a breathtaking range of the most influential modern theorists of the humanities and social sciences, including Austin, Searle, Derrida, Jakobson, Bakhtin, Wittgenstein, Peirce, Frege, Kripke, Donnellan, Putnam, Saussure, and Whorf. After illuminating these many strands of thought, Lee moves beyond disciplinary biases and re-embeds within the context of the public sphere the questions of subjectivity and language raised by these theorists. In his examination of how subjectivity relates not just to grammatical patterns but also to the specific social institutions in which these patterns develop and are sustained, Lee discusses such topics as the concept of public opinion and the emergence of Western nation-states.More editions of Talking Heads: Language, Metalanguage, and the Semiotics of Subjectivity:
Toward a Speech Act Theory of Literary Discourseby Mary Louise PrattISBN 025337006X (0-253-37006-X)
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Understanding Pragmaticsby Jef VerschuerenISBN 0340646233 (0-340-64623-3)
Softcover, Hodder Education
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Understanding Utterances: An Introduction to Pragmaticsby Diane BlakemoreISBN 0631158677 (0-631-15867-7)
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Words and the Grammar of Contextby Paul KayISBN 1881526178 (1-881526-17-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words and the Grammar of Context'Book summary:Research in linguistic semantics may be roughly divided into two broad traditions. Students concerned with lexical fields and lexical domains ('lexical semanticists') have interested themselves in the paradigmatic relations of contrast that obtain among related lexical items and the substantive detail of how particular lexical items map to the nonlinguistic objects they stand for. 'Formal semanticists' (those who study the combinatorial properties of word meanings) have been mostly unconcerned with these issues, concentrating rather on how the meanings of individual words, whatever their internal structure may be and however they may be paradigmatically related to one another, combine into the meanings of phrases and sentences (and recently, to some extent, texts). [via]
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Finlandssvenska: Handledning Till Undvikande Av Provinsialismer I Tal Och Skriftby Hugo BergrothISBN 9515005523 (951-50-0552-3)
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Zur Theorie Der Sprechakte: (How to Do Things with Words)by J.L. AustinISBN 3150093961 (3-15-009396-1)
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Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabrasby J.L. AustinISBN 8475091415 (84-7509-141-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabras'Book summary:Este libro contiene ideas expuestas por John Langshaw Austin -una figurra clave en el mundo filosófico contemporáneo- en sus clases y en un ciclo de conferencias ofrecido en la Universidad de Harvard: las William James Lectures. Se trata, pues, de una recopilación de notas, cuidadosamente realizada por J.O. Urmson, en la que quedan expuestas las últimas e inconclusas reflexiones de Austin sobre temas candentes de filosofía del lenguaje. A ellos contribuyó de manera original con su análisis de las denominadas expresiones realizativas (performative utterances), la noción de fuerza ilocucionaria y, en general, con su teoría de los actos lingüísticos. Las ideas de Austin sobre la importancia del lenguaje ordinario, el carácter cooperativo de la investigación filosófica, y la necesidad de una ciencia del lenguaje liberada definitivamente del yugo de la filosofía hacen -entre otras cosas- que esta obra no sólo posea atracción especial para todos aquellos interesados en la reflexión filosófica sobre el lenguaje, sino también comunicación, la semántica, la lingüística e incluso la filosofía del derecho. [via]
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