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Der Band vereinigt 14 österreichische Beiträge (12 Papers, 2 Poster) zum Internationalen Slawistikkongress 2018 in Belgrad. Acht linguistischen Beiträge betreffen klassische und innovative Bereiche der Sprachwissenschaft von Syntax und Lexikografie über Gender und Codeswitching bis Fachsprache und Internet, ein Beitrag behandelt Texte der Slavia Orthodoxa. Die behandelten Sprachen sind Polnisch, Serbisch, Russisch, und Ukrainisch. Vier literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge beschäftigen sich mit postjugoslawischen Literaturen (bosnischer, kroatischer und serbischer) und deren Thematisierung von medial vermitteltem Gedächtnis und Erinnerung; ein weiterer Beitrag behandelt die russisch-orthodoxen Hymnographie des 16. Jahrhunderts. Mehrere Beiträge haben kulturwissenschaftliche Anteile.

This is a collection of research papers on competition in English affixation. It combines methodological chapters with descriptive chapters and incorporates both contributions by renowned international authors and also by younger researchers. The book presents diachronic and synchronic research both onomasiological and semasiological. The first three chapters review the literature and provide the theoretical framework for the experimental description of the remaining chapters.

The present volume is a token of gratitude for our colleague, Janina Aniela Ozga, a senior lecturer at the Institute of English Philology of the Jagiellonian University. The book is a collection of papers on a wide spectrum of topics, ranging from Hamlet to Zoolander, which reflect diverse academic interests of the authors: literary theory, linguistics, translation studies, philosophy of language, history and language teaching. The common thread running through all the papers is the desire of the authors - all of them humanists involved in academic pursuits - to place in a theoretical perspective of their discipline and shed new light on an interesting research problem in literature, art, language use or language teaching that they have identified.

This book covers several related topics anchored in the idea of how meaning is created. The central focus in the book is, however, on how language awareness may help us communicate smoothly and solve social problems. The book takes up language misconceptions and their social significance, and promotes the view that regarding meaning (and language in general) as open and flexible, rather than closed and rigid, may lead to critical thinking, innovation, and creativity. The book covers topics such as words and things, words and emotions, fake news and hate speech, and it has been written in the form of short informal dialogues to engage readers and make linguistic concepts accessible.

What is Linguistics? How do languages work? Why is this important?Answering these questions and more, Linguistics: An Introduction covers all the key topics that you will need in your study of language and linguistics. Over 17 chapters, William McGregor outlines the core ideas and approaches in the field, tracing their development and discussing the most recent trends. Using examples from a wide range of languages and contexts from around the world, this book assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics and contains a host of pedagogic features, including key terms, discussion questions, and exercises, to fully support your learning. Fully revised and updated, this third edition now includes:- A new chapter on corpus linguistics- New topics, including theories of syntax, text typology and the evolution of languages- New'Research Methods'sections at the end of each chapter- Updated examples drawn from a variety of global perspectives and contexts, ranging from North America to East AsiaWith a comprehensive companion website featuring additional questions, reading materials, and videos, alongside an online instructor guide, which includes lecture slides, suggested course outlines and structures, and an answer key, this is your essential introduction to the study of linguistics.

This book systematically outlines the development of ancient Chinese. Consisting of 20 chapters, the self-contained work presents macro-level discussions on a broad range of topics, including: philology, phonology, exegetics, certain words'special meanings, sentence types, the flexible use of words, different grammars in ancient and modern times, and rhetoric. Though chiefly focusing on vocabulary, the book also addresses grammar, and points out grammar problems that differ considerably from those in modern Chinese, in addition to combining morphology and syntax. Further, unlike the majority of textbooks on the subject, it pays more attention to the rhetoric used in ancient Chinese literary works. Rather than simply analyzing linguistic phenomena, the book also (and more importantly) provides a meaningful approach to the study of ancient Chinese. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for researchers, graduate students, and everyone else who is interested in ancient Chinese.

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating discussions around a universe of discourse, sufficient to engender cross-border interactions within the African context, this book shall break a dichotomy of challenges on adaptive processes required to unify resources to assist the development of modern solutions for the African domain.

The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages display? Do we expect to find the same variation in genealogically unrelated languages spoken in the same area? What makes dialects different? The current book answers these questions using data from languages spoken in the Indian subcontinent—an area known for its linguistic richness and diversity. Each chapter in the book presents a wealth of data collected through extensive fieldwork or controlled experimental setups. The chapters examine macro-variation in relative clauses, word order and negation found among Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages. It also investigates meso-level variation among related Eastern Indo-Aryan languages and intra-language and dialectal changes. It encourages scholars to probe deep into the mechanisms that underlie the immense intra- and inter-language variation in the area. It serves as a resource book for postgraduate and research scholars of linguistic typology, theoretical syntax, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and for scholars interested in South Asian languages.

This book offers a solution to one of film history's major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles'and Herman J. Mankiewicz's contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay. It establishes the vital importance of computing and statistics to solving previously intractable puzzles in the arts and humanities. Citizen Kane (1941) is one of the most acclaimed films in the history of cinema. For 50 years it topped the Sight & Sound film critics'poll. Orson Welles directed the film and is credited with co-writing the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. But the co-writer credit generates furious disputes between those who argue Mankiewicz is the sole author of Citizen Kane and those who claim that Welles collaborated fully with its writing. The author employs computing and statistics to answer two questions: What are the distinguishing features of Welles'and of Mankiewicz's writing?And What did each contribute to the writing of the Citizen Kane screenplay? To answer these questions, the author bypasses opinions and impressions, and instead subjects the language of the Citizen Kane screenplay to a ‘forensic'examination. Employing linguistics, basic statistical tests, plus computer technology and software, the author identifies the stylistic signature of each author – the combination of consistent and regular linguistic habits that make each author's writing distinctive. This book replaces impressionistic discussions of Mankiewicz's and Welles'contributions to the Citizen Kane screenplay with a rigorous, experiment-driven statistical analysis. Earlier statistical studies of authorship have discovered that small, unassuming language features (such as punctuation, pronouns, and prepositions) in statistically significant quantities, constitute a screenwriter's distinctive writing habits. Only with the extensive experimentation carried out in this volume, did the author decide Mankiewicz's and Welles'specific habits and their contributions to Citizen Kane.

Este libro presenta una serie de propuestas de investigación, intervención y mediación sobre las alteraciones del lenguaje y la comunicación en contextos clínicos. El leitmotiv de la obra es el sujeto afectado por una alteración del lenguaje: su imagen social, su idiosincrasia cultural y lingüística. La metodología incluye tanto aportaciones de corte experimental como basadas en corpus, o reflexiones metodológicas y epistemológicas, con un enfoque pluridisciplinar y ampliamente pragmático donde la sociología, las ciencias cognitivas, la neurología, las ciencias de la educación y la reflexión filosófica complementan a la lingüística. Refleja, en suma, un clima intelectual y académico, un'estado del arte': el de la lingüística clínica, en general, y en el ámbito hispánico en particular.

This book, part of the series'Synergy: Translation Studies, Literature, Linguistics', intends to gather new perspectives in the field of linguistics. It particularly deals with the cross-cultural aspects of language focusing on the themes such as intercultural communication, intercultural pragmatics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics and second language acquisition. The research covered in this edited book mainly centres on Turkish and English languages benefiting from qualitative, quantitative or mixed methodologies. Our utmost aim is to present various points of view from different areas of linguistics and offer new insights for researchers and scholars in the field.

This book tackles the problems of engineering students and teachers while developing language skills through language education, transforming students'mind-set through cultural studies, developing students'intellectual abilities and personal qualities, and the use of information technologies in order to enhance the educational process. The International Conference Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives will take place 20–22 April 2022. It will be organized by Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in collaboration with Research Centre Kairos (Tomsk, Russia). The event aims to raise discussions around a variety of aspects related to the integration of the humanities into engineering education.As such, the book will be of interest to the teachers, researchers and institutional leaders looking for the latest insights, experiences and research results on the topic.

Dans un monde de plus en plus globalisé, la question du contact entre les langues et les cultures prend une place toujours plus prépondérante. Ainsi, plus de la moitié de la population mondiale utilise quotidiennement plusieurs langues ou dialectes. Le présent ouvrage, réunissant des chercheurs issus aussi bien d'aires culturelles différentes que de disciplines variées, se propose d'examiner les divers contextes multi- et plurilingues dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Le choix de cette méthode implique une pluralité d'approches et une complémentarité des apports émanant de la sociologie, de la linguistique et de la sociolinguistique, des études cinématographiques, de la musicologie, de la traductologie ou encore de la littérature. En ce sens, cet ouvrage constitue une invitation directe à décloisonner les disciplines afin d'engager une réflexion croisée et nuancée sur le phénomène complexe du multi- et du plurilinguisme.

Speech is primary in human communication from many points of views. In the evolution of the human species, linguistic signs have been realized first orally. In the history of humankind only a relatively small number of languages had a written form. Until recently, only a minority of people had access to writing. The spoken uses are predominant in the formation of our experience and in our relationships with other humans. Most of our actions involve the use of language in spoken form. In short, the speech mode shapes the entire communicative life of individuals and communities and therefore represents the native usage of language. Based on these premises, this book aims to place spontaneous spoken texts at the centre of linguistic analysis because the inclusion of speech usage in general grammar is necessary not only to account for spoken communication, but also to have a more realistic idea of what a language is as a whole. It follows that linguistic analysis requires not only the knowledge of speech properties as such, but the integration among different point of views to understand whether and to what extent its features affect the grammaticality of languages. The essays collected in this book present study of scholars based on rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis of different corpus based and corpus driven data with diachronic, typological, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, educational objectives. A complex framework emerges which opens up new perspectives in many areas of linguistics and forces to review the relationship between the linguistic system and factors traditionally considered external. Investigating speech not only enriches linguistics with new data, but also puts forward new theoretical points of view.

For decades, a small set of major world languages have formed the basis of the vast majority of linguistic theory. However, minoritized languages can also provide fascinating contributions to our understanding of the human language faculty. This pioneering book explores the transformative effect minoritized languages have on mainstream linguistic theory, which, with their typically unusual syntactic, morphological and phonological properties, challenge and question frameworks that were developed largely to account for more widely-studied languages. The chapters address the four main pillars of linguistic theory – syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology – and provide plenty of case studies to show how minoritized language can disrupt assumptions, and lead to modifications of the theory itself. It is illustrated with examples from a range of languages, and is written in an engaging and accessible style, making it essential reading for both students and researchers of theoretical syntax, phonology and morphology, and language policy and politics.

In Present-Day English, the only flexible sentence constituent in unmarkeddeclarative sentences is the adverbial, which can often be placed in initial, medial, or end position. This book presents the first empirical and corpus-based study on the usage patterns and functions of medially-placed linking adverbials in conceptually-written academic English. By combining quantitative with detailed qualitative analyses of selected corpus examples, the present study explores whether the placement of linking adverbials in medial position can be regarded as a focusing strategy, similar to focusing adverbs and cleft sentences. Moreover, it investigates whether different medial positions are associated with distinct discourse functions, such as the marking of contrastive topics or differentfocus meanings.

Cet ouvrage se consacre à la notion de terminologienumérique considérée comme uneapproche de la discipline impliquant la représentationnumérique d'informations conceptuelleset linguistiques d'un domaine spécifique.L'objectif est l'illustration des étapes deconception et d'implémentation de base dedonnées terminologiques multilingues permettantle respect des meilleures pratiques dansla gestion des données terminologiques dunumérique. Pour ce faire, l'ouvrage met enexergue les nouvelles compétences du terminologueà l'ère numérique. Celles-ci trouvent leurvéritable essence dans l'esprit interdisciplinaireet collaboratif de la recherche.

In 1905, Bertrand Russell published'On Denoting'in which he proposed and defended a quantificational account of definite descriptions. Forty-five years later, in'On Referring', Peter Strawson claimed that Russell was mistaken: definite descriptions do not function as quantifiers but (paradigmatically) as referring expressions. Ever since, scores of theorists have attempted to adjudicate this debate. Others have gone beyond the question of the proper analysis of definite descriptions, focusing instead on the complex relations between definites, indefinites, and pronouns. These relations are often examined with attention to the phenomena of scope and anaphora. This collection assembles nineteen new papers on definite descriptions and related topics. The contributors include both philosophers and linguists, many of whom have been active participants in the various debates concerning descriptions. The volume contains a brief general introduction and is divided into six sections, each of which is accompanied by a detailed introduction of its own. Several of the sections concern issues associated with the Russell/Strawson debate. These include the sections on incomplete descriptions, the referential/attributive distinction, and presupposition and truth value gaps. There is also a section on the representation of definites and indefinites in semantic theory, containing papers that reject certain core assumptions of the Russellian paradigm. Linguists interested in definites have traditionally been concerned with how such expressions interact with other expressions, including pronouns and indefinites. They have explored, and continue to explore, these interactions through the complex phenomena of scope and anaphora. In the section dealing with anaphoric pronouns and descriptions, indefinites and dynamic syntax/semantics, five linguists propose and defend their views on these and related issues. Finally, there is a section that concerns the relation between proper names and descriptions and, more particularly, the idea that some names, those introduced into the language by description, are semantically equivalent to definite descriptions.

Los trabajos que se recogen en este volumen son una muestra de la vasta y diversa producción científica desarrollada por numerosos investigadores e investigadoras que, en su mayoría, están vinculados al Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Andrés Bello de la Universidad de La Laguna. Son múltiples las lenguas objeto de estudio –latín y griego clásicos, griego moderno, inglés, español, árabe, bereber y mancañá– y distintos los enfoques y planteamientos en los diferentes aspectos y temas tratados: gramática, lexicología, lexicografía, fraseología, análisis del discurso, procesamiento del lenguaje natural, enseñanza de segundas lenguas, traducción, contacto de lenguas e historiografía lingüística.

Il volume raccoglie sedici studi che spaziano dalla linguistica alla letteratura in dialetto e alle arti visive. Attraverso prismi e metodologie disciplinari differenti, i contributi restituiscono episodi della complessità linguistica dell'italiano nelle sue varietà geografiche e sociali, con particolare attenzione alle sue manifestazioni artistiche passate e contemporanee. Frutto della collaborazione di studiosi di vari paesi, Italia, Italie comprende saggi di Paolo Balboni e Fabio Caon, Francesca Cadel, Lorenzo Coveri, Daniela D'Eugenio, Roberto Dolci, Alberto Gelmi, Pietro Gibellini, Michael Lettieri, Nicoletta Maraschio, Dario Marcucci, Renato Martinoni, Eugenia Paulicelli, Franco Pierno e Matteo Brera, Antonia Rubino, Anthony J. Tamburri e Pietro Trifone. Prefazione di Claudio Marazzini e postfazione di Monica Calabritto.

Synergy II: Linguistics intends to present recent studies on Turkish linguistics. The aim is to introduce theoretical and applied linguistic approaches focusing on Turkish language. The structure of the book is thematically designed based on the micro and macro linguistics. The themes presented are phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, morphophonology, bilingualism, cognitive stylistics, register analysis of various Turkish text genres, identity, and language teaching. You will come across studies that catch your attention as you are leafing through the pages of the book.

In the volume, to locate the science of language and communication in the most recent philosophical and methodological context that science offers today, we have proposed reconciling two avenues of the scientific process, i.e. the “third-person observation-experiment-algorithm method being the traditional method of doing science; and the inner, first-person insights of contemplative science, in a sense of phenomenological flânerie through unexplored cultural landscapes”. The present book targets research addressing the phenomenological aspect of communication and the methodology of linguistic research. The volume may be of interest to linguistic scholars, cultural linguists, semioticians, interdisciplinary scholars, and students of the humanities and cultural/social specialisations.

Figure majeure de la linguistique, Antoine Culioli a ouvert un champ de recherche qui a renouvelé les sciences du langage du 20e siècle. Fermement convaincu de la nécessité d'un «programme scientifique qui allie l'empirique sous sa forme la plus fine et le raisonnement métalinguistique», il a consacré tous ses efforts à l'analyse de l'activité de langage «appréhendée à travers la diversité des langues, des textes, des situations».

This book is an accessible introduction to linguistics specifically tailored for teachers of second language/bilingual education. It guides teachers stepwise through the components of language, focusing on the areas of linguistics that are most pertinent for teaching. Throughout the book there are opportunities to analyze linguistic data and discuss language-related issues in various educational and social contexts. Readers will be able to identify patterns in actual language use to inform their teaching and help learners advance to the next level. A highly readable account of how language works, this book is an ideal text for teacher education courses.

Der vorliegende Band ist der Romanistin Eva Lavric als Festschrift gewidmet. Er spiegelt durch die Auswahl der Beiträge Eva Lavrics wissenschaftliches Œuvre und ihre vielfältige internationale Vernetzung wider. Die Beiträge nehmen häufig eine kontrastivlinguistische Perspektive ein, beschäftigen sich aber nicht nur mit dem Deutschen und dem Französischen, sondern gehen weit darüber hinaus. Methodologisch spannt sich der Bogen von theoretischen Modellierungen und klassischen systemlinguistischen Beschreibungen syntaktischer oder semantischer Phänomene über diskursanalytische Ansätze und neue soziolinguistische Methoden wie dem «linguistic landscaping» bis hin zur Korpuslinguistik und Interaktionsforschung.

'Wörter, Wörterbücher, Wortschätze'bündelt verschiedene (korpus-)linguistische Analysewege, methodische Zugänge und Herausforderungen einer sich stetig wandelnden und digitalisierenden Linguistik. In insgesamt 14 Beiträgen werden aktuelle Ansätze, aber auch Forschungsdesiderate der Linguistik vom Wort zum Wortschatz dargestellt. Im ersten Teil stehen,Wörter, Sprache und Gesellschaft‘ im Vordergrund. Es geht um Schlagwörter im Schweizer Energiediskurs, die Etablierung einer linguistischen KI-Forschung, Personennamen aus genderlinguistischer Perspektive, Wörter in der ‚Linguistic Landscape‘ des Ruhrgebiets, die Sprache in mathematischen Beweisen, Emojis in Whatsapp-Kommunikation und Intertextualität in Online-Zeitungen. Im zweiten und dritten Teil werden aktuelle und historische Wörterbücher, e-Wörterbücher wie ‚elexiko‘, digitale Sprachressourcen und neue Online-Plattformen wie ‚Wortschatzwissen.de‘ vorgestellt und/oder untersucht. Dabei finden sich quantitative und qualitative Analysen mit digitaler Datenbasis genau so wieder wie Analysen, die Wörterbücher und Wörterbucheinträge sprachvergleichend erörtern. INHALT I WÖRTER, SPRACHE UND GESELLSCHAFT Maren Runte & Julia Krasselt: Schlagwörter im Schweizer Energiediskurs. Korpuslinguistische Methoden zur Identifikation von salienter Lexik im Diskurs. Derya Gür-Şeker: Perspektiven und Ansätze einer linguistischen KI-Forschung. Ein Plädoyer für ein neues Teilgebiet der Linguistik Yvonne Luft: Dem gendergerechten Sprachwandel zuschauen: Zur Wechselwirkung von Sprache, Gesellschaft, Geschlecht und Recht am Beispiel von Personennamen Ulrich Schmitz: Wörter an der Ruhr. Zur Banalität von Straßentexten Evelyn Ziegler: Wörter, Wortverbindungen und Wortspiele in der ‚Linguistic Landscape‘des Ruhrgebiets Bernhard Schröder: Die kleinen Welten mathematischer Beweise Michael Beißwenger & Steffen Pappert: Warum Emojis keine Wörter sind – aber wichtige Einheiten der Interaktion Helge Goman & Derya Gür-Şeker: (Multimodale) Vernetzungsstrukturen in Online-Zeitungen analysieren. Methodische und analytische Zugänge einer digitalen Linguistik II E-WÖRTERBÜCHER, WORTSCHÄTZE UND WORTSCHATZDIDAKTIK Ulrich Schnörch: Nachdenken über die Stichwortauswahl: die Lemmaselektion beim Wortschatzminimum sowie den e-Wörterbüchern ‚elexiko‘ und ‚Paronyme − Dynamisch im Kontrast‘ Petra Storjohann: Dynamik und Variation im Gebrauch und bei der Dokumentation von Paronymen Rainer Perkuhn: Überlegungen zur sprachstandbezogenen Relativierung von Wortschätzen. Ein theoretischer Rahmen und eine kleine empirische Studie Lea Hoffmann & Marc Kleinheyer: Wortschatzdidaktik im digitalen Zeitalter – eine Einordnung des Projekts,Wortschatzwissen.de‘ III WÖRTERBÜCHER KONTRASTIV Heinz Eickmans: Vom „Lern- und Studir-buch“ zum striktalphabetischen „Aufschlag-buch“: Matthias Kramers niederländisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (1719) und die „neue Auflage“ von Johann Daniel Titius (1759) Eglė Kontutytė & Vaiva Žeimantienė: Zum zweisprachigen juristischen Wortschatz: Was fehlt in deutsch-litauischen Rechtswörterbüchern?

Los trabajos de investigación que se recogen en este volumen abarcan temáticas lingüísticas tan diversas como la sintaxis, la lexicología, la lexicografía, la dialectología, la traducción, la toponimia, la didáctica, el discurso público, etc., y lenguas tan heterogéneas como el español, el bereber, el mancañá y el árabe. Coinciden todos ellos en atender a los problemas que abordan con las metodologías lingüísticas más recientes, que van desde la lingüística contrastiva hasta la lingüística de género, pasando por la semántica lingüística, la traductología, la sociolingüística, la onomástica, la historiografía, la lingüística del discurso o la fraseología.

This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own terms.The treatise is divided into three parts. Part I presents established and newly developed concepts that are vital for formulating a nuanced theoretical model of transmedial narration. Part II investigates the specific transmedial media characteristics that are most central for realizing narratives in a plenitude of different media types. Finally, Part III contains brief studies in which the narrative potentials of painting, instrumental music, mathematical equations, and guided tours are illuminated with the aid of the theoretical framework developed throughout the book. Suitable for advanced students and scholars, this book provides tools to disentangle the narrative potential of any form of communication.

New language technologies and research in linguistics evaluatesvarious aspects of those technologies that have adopted forunderstand languages and have also examined the researchesthat have taken place in the field of linguists. It includes a briefdescription about the languages and linguists along with a detailedpresentation on traditional linguists. Provide the readerwith the insights into the development of various technologies that have taken place inthe field of linguists, so as to understand the technological convergence for languageprocessing and analysis: new technologies for linguistic research and linguistic researchfor new technologies.

This volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Łódź, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, rhetoric and argumentation, methodology, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges, thus making for a concise handbook of modern linguistics. It is recommended to graduate students of philology, as well as researchers working in linguistics and other disciplines within the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences.

L'œuvre littéraire peut ȇtre appréhendée comme un espace où agissent simultanément deux forces opposées. D'une part, il s'agit des forces de décomposition qui travaillent sa structure, augmentant l'entropie du système textuel ; de l'autre, il y a des forces de rééquilibrage qui tendent à relier, à fédérer les parties disjointes afin de réussir une (im)possible unité. Les travaux développés dans ce livre étudient différents aspects du fonctionnement formel et sémantique du fragment dans la littérature française et francophone. Ils démontrent que la décomposition de la forme ne vise pas la destruction de l'œuvre, mais permet de faire ressortir son potentiel de recréation. A literary work can be considered as a place under the influence of opposing forces. On the one hand, there are deconstructing forces which, by affecting the structure, interfere with its continuity; on the other hand, there are counteracting forces that seek to connect separated parts to create a new unity. The contributions in this book examine the formal and semantic functioning of a fragment in French and Francophone literature. They prove that the decomposition of form does not cause the destruction of the work, but releases all its creative potential.

Le présent livre propose de réfléchir sur le texte, produit d'une activité discursive susceptible d'être mesurée aux différents niveaux de son architecture – aussi bien à l'échelle de la séquence qu'à l'échelle de l'œuvre entière. Les enjeux de notre recherche s'articulent autour de la fragmentation et du fragment, deux notions pertinentes qui ne sont pas ici appréhendées en tant qu'agent perturbateur, voire destructeur d'un ensemble régi par un ordre canonique ou par une norme, mais comme une invitation à (re)penser les potentialités latentes de la structure établie. This book proposes reflections on the text, which we treat as a product of discursive activity that we observe at various levels of its architecture - both at the sequence level and in relation to the global structure. Our research focuses on fragmentation and fragment, two important concepts that we capture here not as a destructive factor for the whole structure according to the canonical order or norm, but as an invitation to reconsider the hidden potential of a once fixed structure.

« Ce nouveau recueil captivant réunit un large cercle d'éminents chercheurs et de collègues distingués du Professeur Ahmed Moutaouakil, européens et marocains, pour rendre hommage non seulement à l'homme mais surtout à la linguistique et la traductologie comme disciplines dynamiques. Les premiers chapitres discutent de l'interface entre la grammaire et le discours par le biais d'une exploration, contextualisation et application de théories pertinentes. Le livre aborde ensuite des problèmes grammatico-discursifs avant de s'ouvrir à des perspectives plus vastes. C'est ici que les études de traduction prennent tout leur sens, par rapport à l'usage créatif du langage, et que la linguistique côtoie la biologie. Le livre de Jadir prône l'étude du langage comme science internationale, interdisciplinaire, interculturelle et surtout humaine. » Pr. Dr. J.L. Mackenzie (Université Libre d'Amsterdam)

Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Frage, inwieweit Verknappung bewusst als funktionales Instrument und zeitgenössisches Stilmittel in Sprache, Kultur und neuen Medien eingesetzt wird. Der Sammelband untersucht das Phänomen der Verknappung zunächst als Strategie in der digitalen Welt, der Werbung und der graphischen Kommunikation und anschließend als Stilmittel in Kunst, Literatur und Sprache. Die Beiträger heben die Rolle von Verknappung als Nährboden für neue Komprimierungsprozesse hervor und zeigen übergreifend unterschiedliche Realisierungen von Verknappung in der modernen Gesellschaft auf.

Dieses Buch untersucht sprachwissenschaftliche und medienspezifische Fragestellungen sowie Herangehensweisen unter dem Aspekt der Medienlinguistik. Die AutorInnen beziehen dabei Ansätze, Konzepte und Methoden weiterer Disziplinen mit ein. Medienlinguistik und Interdisziplinarität sind somit eng miteinander verknüpft. Der Band gibt anhand ausgewählter Medientextsorten Einblick in neuere Entwicklungen und lässt dabei sowohl theoretische Überlegungen als auch empirische Analysen zu Wort kommen.

The juxtaposition of habitat, a product of architecture, and speech, a product of language, enables us to envisage a dual orientation for what could be called'architexture'. The architectural text focuses on the analysis of architects'discourse, architectural metaphors or spatial markers and prepositions. Textual architecture, meanwhile, explores composition, syntactic ordering, text structure or'construction'grammars. Through verbalisation or spatialization, through verbal or architectural communication, the speaker and the architect are subjected to numerous constraints despite a certain freedom of speech and freedom of construction. Both this constructed speech and this spoken construction summon the architect-speaker to his or her language domus. It is this dual position that the articles in this collection aim to occupy. La mise en regard de l'habitat, produit de l'architecture, et du discours, produit de la langue, permet d'envisager une double orientation de ce que l'on pourrait nommer l'« architexture ». Le texte de l'architecture traite de l'analyse de discours d'architectes, de métaphores architecturales ou de marqueurs spatiaux et prépositions spatiales, tandis que l'architecture du texte investit la composition, l'agencement syntaxique, la structure d'un texte ou encore les grammaires dites « de construction ». D'une mise en discours ou en espace, à travers une communication verbale ou architecturale, l'énonciateur et l'architecte sont soumis à de nombreuses contraintes en dépit d'une liberté de parole et de construction. Cette parole construite autant que cette construction parlée convoquent l'énonciateur-architecte dans sa domus langagière. C'est cette double posture qui fait l'objet des contributions de cet ouvrage collectif.

Der Band vereint linguistische Analysen und Ergebnisse zum Beraten in verschiedensten Handlungsfeldern wie Medizin, Psychiatrie, Pflege, Recht, Schule und Hochschule, Weiterbildung, Coaching, Philosophische Praxis, Psychotherapie, Supervision, Soziale Arbeit, Gründung und Wirtschaft. Jedes Einzelkapitel bietet eine detaillierte Beschreibung eines Beratungsformates und seiner spezifischen sprachlich-kommunikativen Merkmale. Davon ausgehend wird eine gesprächslinguistische Typologie entwickelt, die den Facettenreichtum des Beratens anhand einer Merkmalsmatrix abbildet. Diese erlaubt, Typen von Beraten zu bestimmen, miteinander zu vergleichen und zu differenzieren. Damit liefert der Band auch wichtige theoretische und methodologische Impulse für gesprächslinguistische Typologisierungsansätze.

Con la presente miscelánea de trabajos quiere el Instituto Universitario de Lingüística Andrés Bello, que rinde en su nombre homenaje al más grande de los gramáticos de la lengua española, traer a la memoria a dos de los lingüistas más influyentes de todos los tiempos: al fundador de la lingüística comparada, el alemán Franz Bopp, en el bicentenario de la publicación de su «Conjugationssystem» (1816), y al fundador de la lingüística moderna, el ginebrino Ferdinand de Saussure, en el centenario de la publicación de su «Cours» (1916). Partiendo de los conceptos y distinciones metodológicas establecidos por estos tres autores y sus continuadores han elaborado los investigadores de nuestro centro los diversos trabajos de temática gramatical, lexicológica, lexicográfica, onomástica, etimológica, dialectológica, de lingüística textual, de planificación lingüística, de didáctica de la lengua, etc., que se recogen en este volumen.

Das Buch zeigt die sich dynamisch entwickelnde Textlinguistik aus dem Blickwinkel des polonistischen und des germanistischen Forschungskreises. Die AutorInnen untersuchen die unterschiedlichen Facetten der Disziplin. Sie gehen unter anderem der Frage nach, wie religiöse Lieder und Biographien aus textorientierter Perspektive analysiert werden können. Wie sich die Frage des Rezipienten als Instanz gestaltet, wird ebenfalls in den Fokus gerückt. Der aktuelle politische mediale Pressediskurs über die sprachliche Profilierung des Selbstbildes der Deutschen zu Beginn der Flüchtlingskrise oder über den Brexit und seine Folgen, ist ebenso Teil der Untersuchung. Die Ergebnisse beider Forschungskreise werden durch neueste theoretische Erkenntnisse und Analysemethoden untermauert.

Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for all undergraduate and postgraduate students of Spanish. No prior knowledge of linguistics is assumed as the book takes you step-by-step through all the main subfields of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. Phonology. morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, second language acquisition, history of the Spanish language, dialectology and sociolinguistics are concisely and accurately outlined providing a comprehensive foundation in the field.A comprehensive companion website provides a wealth of additional resources including further exercises to reinforce the material covered in the book, extra examples to clarify the most difficult concepts, extensive audio clips which reproduce the sounds of phonemes and allophones and sonograms. Written in a clear and accessible manner with extensive auxiliary materials, Introducción a la lingüística hispánica actual has been specially designed for students of Spanish with little or no linguistic background who need to understand the key concepts and constructs of Spanish linguistics.

Dieser Band sammelt Ergebnisse der sprachwissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen einer französisch-polnisch-deutschen Forschungsgruppe. Die Beiträge behandeln theoretische Probleme und empirische Beobachtungen der Textlinguistik. Der Band ist den semantischen Aspekten von Textanfängen gewidmet und thematisiert verschiedene Texttypen und -sorten. Dazu gehören literarische Texte, ältere Rechtstexte, narrative Erzählungen und Pressetexte. Die Beiträge beinhalten neben den textlinguistischen Ansätzen auch theoretische Überlegungen aus den Bereichen der Phraseologie und der Kognitiven Linguistik.

Das Buch analysiert Medientextsorten aus unterschiedlichen kulturellen Bereichen. Die Autoren untersuchen Profilierungstechniken im medialen Diskurs, Skandalisierungsphänomene, Topoi in der Argumentation sowie kultur- und sprachspezifische Divergenzen. Medienkommunikation ist ein Untersuchungsgegenstand, der neben sprach- und medienwissenschaftlichen Zugängen immer auch die Einbeziehung weiterer Ansätze und Methoden erfordert. Die besondere Thematisierung interlingualer und interkultureller Vergleiche macht ein interdisziplinäres Vorgehen relevant.

Sprachdidaktik und Sprachwissenschaft werden meist als getrennte Wissenschaftsbereiche betrachtet. Die rein theoretische, lediglich abstrakte linguistische Forschung wird als die «echte» Wissenschaft angesehen, während der Sprachdidaktik ein praxisorientierter Anspruch zugeschrieben wird. Die traditionelle Sichtweise übersieht bewusst die bestehenden Verbindungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis jeder Wissenschaft und vernachlässigt einerseits die theoretischen Grundlagen der Sprachdidaktik und andererseits die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten der Sprachwissenschaft. Die im Buch versammelten Beiträge stellen eine mögliche Verknüpfung beider Bereiche her. Näher betrachtet werden die Lern-Lehrkommunikation, die Textkompetenz und der Einfluss von Mehrsprachigkeit.

Questo volume si concentra sulla nozione di attributo e di frase attributiva, un terreno particolarmente fertile per la definizione di una cesura tra l'approccio, o meglio gli approcci, presenti nella tradizione tedesca e le categorie usate in Italia e in genere fuor di Germania. Lo scavo storiografico rivela come la progressiva stratificazione di concetti e termini di'antica'ascendenza, associata a differenti tentativi di aggiornamento, abbia dato origine alla situazione odierna, in cui i livelli di analisi diversi si intersecano, si sovrappongono e fondono in soluzioni che sono talvolta di difficile lettura. La parabola di tale percorso viene qui descritta e analizzata, dagli ultimi rappresentanti della tradizione della grammaire générale nei primi decenni del XIX secolo, fino alle trasformazioni più recenti della grammatica valenziale e generativa. Da Becker a Chomsky dunque, con uno sguardo particolare alle più diffuse grammatiche contemporanee.

Cet ouvrage rassemble des textes étalés sur une quarantaine d'années, sans cohésion préétablie. Avec le recul, on y perçoit une tonalité commune dans la confrontation récurrente entre la pulsion des philosophes pour le « système » - incarné par Hegel - et sa contestation par le langage en son effervescence subversive - arcboutée à la traque par Humboldt du potentiel langagier coextensif à l'humanité. Avec, à l'horizon, l'espoir d'une fécondation mutuelle, non garantie, d'autant plus exigible.

Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to some extent non-verbal) communication. Grammar is merely the systematized aspect of language: by drawing on data from oral communication in a number of languages – with its phonological, pragmatic and gestural aspects – and taking into account palaeontology, anthropology, psychology and evolutionary biology, it is possible to shed new light on the phenomenon of language, meant and designed for communication, and not merely grammar. This book explores why language operates the way it does, why it is acquired the way it is, how it evolved in the first place, and why it is that some phenomena in language are universal while others are not. The author also considers whether apparently separate defining properties of our species are in fact narrowly correlated aspects of one and the same biological reality, which converges in language. Finally, the book explores the possibility that language is both the reason and the effect of the intrinsic responsibility that we feel for our fellow beings, akin to that which in different contexts is called love for our neighbour, or altruism.

This is the new edition of Linguistics: An Introduction. It is a bestselling introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. This reworked edition features: -new chapters on sign languages, writing, and text and discourse-coverage of writing in electronic media-revised and updated chapters on languages of the world and psycholinguisticsFirmly based around taught courses and catering to student needs, it addresses all the topics that a student will need in their study of language. With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises and key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this is a firmly pedagogic text that takes difficult concepts and explains them in an easy to understand way. It features examples taken from a range of languages across the world. Global in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for linguistics students. The book comes with a large Companion Website, also extensively revised and expanded. For lecturers and instructors, a comprehensive Answer Book is also available to go along with the questions throughout the chapters.

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions. Editors Rachel Rosenstock and Jemina Napier have assembled an international group of renowned linguists and interpreters to examine various aspects of International Sign. Their contributions are divided into three parts: International Sign as a Linguistic System; International Sign in Action—Interpreting, Translation, and Teaching; and International Sign Policy and Language Planning. The chapters cover a range of topics, including the morphosyntactic and discursive structures of interpreted IS, the interplay between conventional linguistic elements and nonconventional gestural elements in IS discourse, how deaf signers who use different signed languages establish communication, Deaf/hearing IS interpreting teams and how they sign depicting verbs, how best to teach foundation-level IS skills, strategies used by IS interpreters when interpreting from IS into English, and explorations of the best ways to prepare interpreters for international events. The work of the editors and contributors in this volume makes International Sign the most comprehensive, research-based analysis of a young but growing field in linguistics and interpretation.

This volume is one of the first books to present a comprehensive view of lexical pragmatics, describing its origins, assumptions, scope, methodology and the various approaches to it, focusing specifically on the approach offered by relevance theory. In addition to theoretical considerations, the book discusses particular linguistic expressions and pragmatic phenomena, showing how the relevance-theoretic tools may be used to explore pragmatically motivated changes to lexically encoded meanings. The most recent developments are discussed and questions are asked to indicate directions for further research within this rapidly developing field.

This book was born from the desire to conduct an inquiry into the heterogeneity and variety of linguistic theories in order to assess their descriptive and explanatory power. The first part of the volume brings together contributions addressing formal and theoretical issues. It focuses on the specific questions of metalinguistic discourses, representations and formal symbols, and considers the case of representations pertaining to different metalinguistic levels and their possible translation from one level to another. The essays compiled in this section also examine how generative semantics paved the way for current trends in cognitive linguistics, and provide an analysis of the historical and epistemological context of the notion of metafunction found in Systemic Functional Grammar. The contributions gathered in the second part of the book evaluate the results of a certain number of linguistic studies, putting various theories to the test. They specifically discuss the notion of intersective gradience, analyse modality and the question of irony within two different theoretical frameworks, and deal with parenthetical verbs in the light of an utterer-centred approach.This book will appeal to all linguists with an interest in linguistic theories, to advanced students in linguistics, as well as to scholars in cognate fields such as epistemology, philosophy of language, psychology and neurosciences.