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The Stylistics of Poetry

Context, cognition, discourse, history

by Professor Peter Verdonk ...

Series series Advances in Stylistics
Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk covers everything from intrinsic textual meaning and external context in its widest sense to ... Read more

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Written over the last thirty years, this collection of Professor Peter Verdonk's most important work on the stylistics of poetry clearly shows that the stylistics of poetic discourse is a diverse and valuable interdiscipline. Discussing the poetry of Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst many others, Verdonk covers everything from intrinsic textual meaning and external context in its widest sense to
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Pragmatics

by Stephen C. Levinson ...

Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
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. This textbook provides 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 ... Read more

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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. This textbook provides 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
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Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

A Practical Resource

Edited by Brian Paltridge, Aek Phakiti ...

Series series Research Methods in Linguistics
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes:* qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods* research techniques and approaches* ethical considerations* sample studies* a glossary of key terms* resources for studentsAs well as covering a range of methodological issues, it looks at numerous areas in depth, including ... Read more

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Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes:* qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods* research techniques and approaches* ethical considerations* sample studies* a glossary of key terms* resources for studentsAs well as covering a range of methodological issues, it looks at numerous areas in depth, including
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Collocation

Applications and Implications

by G. Barnbrook, O. Mason, R. Krishnamurthy ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation. ... Read more

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This book presents a comprehensive description of collocation, covering both the theoretical and practical background and the implications and applications of the concept as language model and analytical tool. It provides a definitive survey of currently available techniques and a detailed description of their implementation.
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Meaning and Relevance

by Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber ...

When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts ... Read more

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When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension is a process of inference guided by precise expectations of relevance. What are the relations between the linguistically encoded meanings studied in semantics and the thoughts
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Lexical Meaning

by M. Lynne Murphy ...

Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word meanings and syntax and semantics more generally. It provides a balanced overview of the main theoretical ... Read more

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The ideal introduction for students of semantics, Lexical Meaning fills the gap left by more general semantics textbooks, providing the teacher and the student with insights into word meaning beyond the traditional overviews of lexical relations. The book explores the relationship between word meanings and syntax and semantics more generally. It provides a balanced overview of the main theoretical
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A Unification of Morphology and Syntax

Investigations into Romance and Albanian Dialects

by M. Rita Manzini, Leonardo M. Savoia ...

Series series Routledge Leading Linguists
This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch dialects, whilst the theoretical framework is extremely sophisticated and up-to-date. Linguists of all ... Read more

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This highly original and innovative analysis focuses on the morphosyntax of dialects comprising Italy, Corsica and the Italian and Romansch-speaking areas of Switzerland. The empirical base used in the book includes a wealth of previously unknown or understudied data from a variety of Romansch dialects, whilst the theoretical framework is extremely sophisticated and up-to-date. Linguists of all
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Formal Models in the Study of Language

Applications in Interdisciplinary Contexts

Edited by Cristina Grisot, Christopher Laenzlinger, Joanna Blochowiak, Stephanie Durrleman ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions, by seasoned and budding linguists of all different linguistic backgrounds, reflect Jacques Moeschler’s diverse and visionary ... Read more

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This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions, by seasoned and budding linguists of all different linguistic backgrounds, reflect Jacques Moeschler’s diverse and visionary
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The Theory of Descriptions

Russell and the Philosophy of Language

by G. Stevens ...

Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project. ... Read more

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The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic inquiry to Russell's philosophical project.
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The SenticNet Sentiment Lexicon: Exploring Semantic Richness in Multi-Word Concepts

by Raoul Biagioni ...

Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classification.In 6 chapters the book sheds light on the comparison of sentiment classification accuracy between single-word and multi-word concepts, for ... Read more

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The research and its outcomes presented in this book, is about lexicon-based sentiment analysis. It uses single-, and multi-word concepts from the SenticNet sentiment lexicon as the source of sentiment information for the purpose of sentiment classification.In 6 chapters the book sheds light on the comparison of sentiment classification accuracy between single-word and multi-word concepts, for
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Linguistic Pragmatics of Intercultural Professional and Business Communication

by Svetlana N. Orlova, Elena N. Malyuga ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic and extralinguistic realia in the framework of cognitive linguistics, as well as oral and ... Read more

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This monograph presents the result of the authors’ scientific research on the development of cognitive discursive approach to issues of intercultural professional and business communication (IPBC) and the study of the language of professional communication, the links binding the language with non-linguistic and extralinguistic realia in the framework of cognitive linguistics, as well as oral and
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Speaking Hatefully

Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary

by David Boromisza-Habashi ...

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In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term “hate speech” as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűlöletbeszéd, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of the term, the interpretive strategies used to generate those competing meanings, and the parallel moral systems that ... Read more

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In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term “hate speech” as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral struggle in public deliberation. This empirical study of gyűlöletbeszéd, or "hate speech," in Hungary documents competing meanings of the term, the interpretive strategies used to generate those competing meanings, and the parallel moral systems that
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