Territory Of Information

Author : Akio Kamio
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250618
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territory of Information written by Akio Kamio and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher animals including humans, then isn't it possible to observe its manifestations in aspects of human language? Territory of Information starts from this fundamental question and attempts to demonstrate the key function of the concept of territory in the informational structure and syntax of natural language. It offers an analysis of English, Japanese, and Chinese in terms of territory and shows its fundamental importance in the interface of information and syntax in these languages. Moreover, it argues that the concept of territory plays a major role in the evidentiality of a number of languages and in the linguistic structure of politeness. It also makes much reference to discourse and conversational analysis. Thus, this is a book which might interest readers concerned with pragmatics in general, the relationship between informational structure and syntax, evidentiality, politeness, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis.

Author : Akio Kamio
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027282633
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territory of Information written by Akio Kamio and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most higher animals are said to be territorial, as a huge amount of work in ethology has made it clear. Human beings are no exceptions. They tend to occupy a certain space around them where they claim their own presence and exclude others quite naturally. If territory is so prevalent among higher animals including humans, then isn't it possible to observe its manifestations in aspects of human language? Territory of Information starts from this fundamental question and attempts to demonstrate the key function of the concept of territory in the informational structure and syntax of natural language. It offers an analysis of English, Japanese, and Chinese in terms of territory and shows its fundamental importance in the interface of information and syntax in these languages. Moreover, it argues that the concept of territory plays a major role in the evidentiality of a number of languages and in the linguistic structure of politeness. It also makes much reference to discourse and conversational analysis. Thus, this is a book which might interest readers concerned with pragmatics in general, the relationship between informational structure and syntax, evidentiality, politeness, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis.

Author : Hilde De Weerdt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684175631
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information, Territory, and Networks written by Hilde De Weerdt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The occupation of the northern half of the Chinese territories in the 1120s brought about a transformation in political communication in the south that had lasting implications for imperial Chinese history. By the late eleventh century, the Song court no longer dominated the production of information about itself and its territories. Song literati gradually consolidated their position as producers, users, and discussants of court gazettes, official records, archival compilations, dynastic histories, military geographies, and maps. This development altered the relationship between court and literati in political communication for the remainder of the imperial period. Based on a close reading of reader responses to official records and derivatives and on a mapping of literati networks, the author further proposes that the twelfth-century geopolitical crisis resulted in a lasting literati preference for imperial restoration and unified rule.Hilde De Weerdt makes an important intervention in cultural and intellectual history by examining censorship and publicity together. In addition, she reorients the debate about the social transformation and local turn of imperial Chinese elites by treating the formation of localist strategies and empire-focused political identities as parallel rather than opposite trends."

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Information Regarding the Territory of Alaska written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew G. Hannah
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154770
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Territory in the Information Age written by Matthew G. Hannah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed account of the West German census controversies of the 1980s, this book offers a robust and geographical sense of what effective 'resistance' and 'empowerment' might mean in an age when the intensification of 'surveillance society' appears to render us ever more passive and incapable of controlling our own registration.

Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Information Regarding the Territory of Alaska written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diana Forker
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 902726001X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union written by Diana Forker and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Soviet Union (USSR) provides the ideal territory for studying language contact between one and the same dominant language (Russian) and a wide range of genealogically and typologically diverse languages with varying histories of language contact. This is the first book that bundles different case studies and systematically investigates the impact of Russian at all linguistic levels, from the lexicon to the domains of grammar to discourse, and with varying types of outcomes such as relatively rapid language shift, structural changes in a relatively stable contact situation, pidginization and super variability at the post-pidgin stage. The volume appeals to linguists studying language contact and contact-induced language change from a broad range of perspectives, who want to gain insight into how one of the largest languages in the world influences other smaller languages, but also experts of mostly minority languages in the sphere of the former Soviet Union.

Author : ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
ISBN 13 : 9783038600237
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Territory written by ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2008 and 2014, ETH Studio Basel, under the guidance of Roger Diener and Marcel Meili, has been investigating the process of urbanisation taking place outside cities. Territory - in the context of this investigation denotes both: the surroundings that a city subsumes into its own structure and the core city itself, which is the centre of this process of urbanisation, or "confiscation". Investigated were six regions on six continents: The Nile Valley with the dense corset of natural landscape surrounding a linear city; Rome-Adria, where territorial cells have formed within the territory, spawning an urban type of tremendous dynamism; Florida, presenting highly complex patterns of territorial organisation; Vietnam's Red River Delta, where recent reform exposed traditional settlement and cultivation of the delta to freer forces; Oman, where urbanisation of a territory essentially means reclaiming the desert with the immediate necessity to develop a system for water distribution; and Belo Horizonte, where natural conditions likewise play a major role in organising the territory as surface mining entails huge transformations of the natural terrain. The new book features two introductory essays on ETH Studio Basel's research approach and on terminology, concise illustrated reports on the six regions, and four concluding topical essays.

Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Information on the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Moore (Professor in Political Theory)
Publisher : Oxford Political Philosophy
ISBN 13 : 0190222247
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Theory of Territory written by Margaret Moore (Professor in Political Theory) and published by Oxford Political Philosophy. This book was released on 2015 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers a political self-determination theory of territory. Territorial disputes are at the centre of some of the most intractable controversies facing us today but it is also one of the most under-theorised concepts that we rely on. Most work in political philosophy, international relations, political science, and law take for granted the territorial imperative (that we need states, and states are necessarily territorial); yet, this book argues, territory itself requires a defence.