Dramatized Discourse

Author : Jing-Schmidt Zhuo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027215659
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dramatized Discourse written by Jing-Schmidt Zhuo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is a symbolic system of meanings evoked by linguistic forms. The choice of forms in communication is non-arbitrary. Rather, speakers pick those forms whose meanings best convey their discourse intention. The meaning of the Mandarin ba-construction, argues Jing-Schmidt, is discourse dramaticity, a concept that includes high conceptual salience and subjectivity. The ba-construction and its "syntactic variations" are never interchangeable because contrast in their meanings determines difference in their functions. Quantitative analyses based on authentic data validate the postulation of discourse dramaticity. By taking discourse pragmatics seriously, the dramaticity hypothesis enables a unitary explanation that transcends sentence grammar. The diachronic treatment reveals the syntactic change of the ba-construction as an adaptive process of pragmatization, which raises the issue of linguistic evolution as a result of socio-cultural development. This book will be of particular value to readers interested in the interaction between grammar and pragmatics and to teachers confronting the controversy of the ba-construction in foreign language pedagogy.

Author : Samuel Hildebrandt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004351744
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature written by Samuel Hildebrandt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a hermeneutic for studying the literary phenomenon of one speaker quoting another speaker in the Book of Jeremiah and other prophetic texts.

Author : Chris Shei
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351819380
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis written by Chris Shei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered and understood. To date, there has been a lack of consolidation at the discourse level such that a reference framework for understanding the language in a top-down fashion is still underdeveloped. The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Discourse Analysis is the first to showcase the latest research in the field of Chinese discourse analysis to consolidate existing findings, put the language in both theoretical and socio-functional perspectives, offer guidance and insights for further research and inspire innovative ideas for exploring the Chinese language in the discourse domain. The book is aimed at both students and scholars researching in the areas of Chinese linguistics and discourse analysis.

Author : Alan R. Thomas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853590221
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods in Dialectology written by Alan R. Thomas and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1988 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.

Author : Péter B. Furkó
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030377636
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discourse Markers and Beyond written by Péter B. Furkó and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the use of discourse markers - lexical items where drawing a distinction between propositional and non-propositional, syntactically-semantically integrated and discourse-pragmatic uses is especially relevant. Using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, descriptive and critical (CDA) perspectives, and manual annotation and automatized analyses, the author argues that Discourse Markers (DMs) cannot be effectively studied in isolation, but must instead be contextualised with reference to other discourse-pragmatic devices and their language and genre backgrounds. This book will be of interest to students and academics working in the fields of DM research and critical discourse studies, and will also appeal to scholars working in areas such as genre studies, second language acquisition (SLA), literary analysis, contemporary cinematography, Tolkien scholarship, and Bible studies.

Author : Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774303
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Language of Drama written by Jonathan Culpeper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the Language of Drama introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors use techniques of language analysis, particularly from discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and pragmatics, to explore the language of plays. The contributors demonstrate the validity of analysing the text of a play, as opposed to focusing on performance. Divided into four broad, yet interconnecting groups, the chapters: open up some of the basic mechanisms of conversation and show how they are used in dramatic dialogue look at how discourse analysis and pragmatic theories can be used to help us understand characterization in dialogue consider some of the cognitive patterns underlying dramatic discourse focus on the notion of speech as action there is also a chapter on how to analyse an extract from a play and write up an assignment

Author : Christian Hoffmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350042862
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telecinematic Stylistics written by Christian Hoffmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, the study of discourse in film and television has become one of the most promising research avenues in stylistics and pragmatics due to the dazzling variety of source material and the huge pragmatic range within it. Meanwhile, with the advent of streaming and the box set, film and television themselves are becoming separated by an increasingly blurred line. This volume closes a long-standing gap in stylistics research, bringing together a book-level pragmastylistic showcase. It presents current developments from the field from two complementary perspectives, looking stylistically at the discourse in film and the discourse of and around film. This latter phrase comes to mean the approaches which try to account for the pragmatic effects induced by cinematography. This might be the camera work or the lighting, or the mise en scène or montage. The volume takes a multimodal approach, looking at word, movement and gesture, in keeping with modern stylistics. The volume shows how pragmatic themes and methods are adapted and applied to films, including speech acts, (im)politeness, implicature and context. In this way, it provides systematic insights into how meanings are displayed, enhanced, suppressed and negotiated in both film and televisual arts.

Author : Peter K. W. Tan
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971691820
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stylistics of Drama written by Peter K. W. Tan and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study looks at how stylistic methods apply to drama texts, and focuses its attention on Stoppard's Traversties, which, by its parodic nature, compels an investigation of literary parody as an intertextual mode." "The author first seeks to place stylistics within a historical and procedural framework and considers ideological and procedural impasses that have bedevilled stylistic analyses. Detailed analyses of passages from Travesties in the light of what has been discussed then follows."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jim A. Kuypers
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739136178
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Criticism written by Jim A. Kuypers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a broad range of rhetorical perspectives, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to rhetorical criticism. Featuring nineteen chapters written by nationally recognized scholars, the volume offers the most comprehensive introduction to rhetorical criticism available.

Author : Roland Barthes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441151893
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criticism and Truth written by Roland Barthes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include Mythologies and Camera Lucida. Criticism and Truth is a brilliant discussion of the language of literary criticism and a key work in the Barthes canon. It is a cultural, linguistic and intellectual challenge to those who believe in the clarity, flexibility and neutrality of language, couched in Barthes' own inimitable and provocative style.