Semantik

“The Book of Enoch” is one of the most notable extant apocryphal works of the Bible. Estimated to have been written around 300 BC, this ancient Jewish religious work is ascribed by tradition to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah. Con...

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This   is a sophisticated and nuanced introduction to critical discourse analysis (CDA) that covers a range of topics in an accessible, engaging style. With international examples and an interdisciplinary approach, readers gain a rich underst...

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` A highly effective introduction to the range of approaches found in discourse analysis a lively and intellectually stimulating Reader' - David Silverman, Goldsmith College, University of London Discourse Theory and Practice is much more than a c...

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Wie gestaltet Gryphius in seinem Dramenwerk interaktionale Sprache? Inwiefern dienen seine Stücke als rhetorische Musterdialoge, wo bieten sie situativ geprägte Bühnensprache, taugen sie als Fenster zur historischen Mündlichkeit des 17. Jahrhunder...

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This book explores the reflexivity of language both from the perspective of the lay speaker and the linguistic analyst. Linguistic inquiry is conditional upon linguistic reflexivity, but so is language. Without linguistic reflexivity, we would not...

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2011 Reprint of 1956 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The hypothesis suggested by Whorf that the structure of a person's language is a factor in the way in which he understands real...

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A proper understanding of intelligibility is at the heart of effective pronunciation teaching, and with it, successful teaching of speaking and listening. Far from being an optional 'add-it-on-if-we-have-time' language feature, pronunciation is es...

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Det här är en bok som i första hand handlar om att skriva olika slags facklitteratur eller vetenskaplig prosa. Men den som skriver skönlitteratur har också mycket att hämta. Här finns en rad betraktelser om språk- och stilfrågor i vidaste be...

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James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: theres the serendipitous wit of scientists, ...

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This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations. The presentation includes introductory articles on the application of frames to linguistics and philosophy of science, offering readers the tools to conduct the interdisciplina...

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In this thesis, I investigate the descriptive and the practical aspects of moral language. Hybrid theories maintain that utterances of moral sentences have both a descriptive and practical linguistic function. The thesis includes an evaluation and...

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Hur avgör man om en text är läsbar eller inte? Hur får man ihop ett vetenskapligt resonemang i en uppsats? Hur gör man sin webbplats besökarvänlig? Går det att skriva en broschyr som fungerar för flera olika läsargrupper? En tredjedel av alla yrke...

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Har du någon gång upplevt att det varit svårt att få andra att lyssna? Har du blivit missförstådd trots att du inom dig visste precis vad du ville få fram? Har du, fastän du förberett dig, känt hur rampfebern slagit klorna i dig? Grattis! Du är fu...

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Politics is no longer the art of the possible, but of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way that it is perceived. In Storytelling Christian Salmon looks at the twenty-first century hijacking of creativ...

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Från slutet av 1980-talet har retorik etablerat sig som ett fullskaligt akademiskt ämne vid flera svenska lärosäten. Retorikvetenskapen har allt tydligare tagit form som ett forskningsfält i egen rätt. Nu går den svenska retorikens utveckling in i...

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Language - in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings - is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out the...

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A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; Am...

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This accessible guide to discourse employs an innovative, inductive approach, with a clear focus on genre that allows students to examine language in context. Using real texts, students are shown how each dimension of discourse links together and ...

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One of the few books which systematically brings post-structuralist theory to bear on substantive political analysis. Offers accessible accounts of different strands of discourse theory such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis and genealogy, which a...

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"For the specialist in the study of narrative structure, this is a solid and very perceptive exploration of the issues salient to the telling of a storywhatever the medium. Chatman, whose approach here is at once dualist and structuralist, di...

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Om retoriken i politiken Talskrivarna är något av ett förstlingsverk i Sverige. För på svenska finns tidigare i stort sett ingenting sammanhållet skrivet om inhemska talskrivare till framträdande politiker. I USA är det annorlunda och har varit så...

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A popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index

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I dagens mediebrus verkar uttryck för populism, faktaresistens och antidemokratiska ideologier bli allt vanligare. En viktig uppgift för skola och högre utbildning är därför att förse elever, studenter och lärare med kritiska analysverktyg så att ...

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Introducing Social Semiotics uses a wide variety of texts including photographs, adverts, magazine pages and film stills to explain how meaning is created through complex semiotic interactions. Practical exercises and examples as wide ranging as f...

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Having read tons of screenplays as an executive, Denny Martin Flinn has come to understand that while all good screenplays are unique, all bad screenplays are the same. Flinn's book will teach the reader how to avoid the pitfalls of bad screenwrit...

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This book provides an introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics. Chapter 1 introduces our general orientation to genre from the perspective of system and structure, and places genre within...

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" . . . fascinating throughout. . . . the book is recreative in the highest sense." Arthur C. Danto, The New Republic "A gem for Holmes fans and armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection, and Peirce scholars." ...

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Combining theory from cognitive semantics and pragmatics, this book offers both a new model and a new usage-based method for the understanding of intersubjectivity, and how social cognition is expressed linguistically at different levels of comple...

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This book has three distinctive characteristics: (1) It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective; (2) It provides a comprehensive view of poetry, with groups of chapters on the Sound Stratum of Poetry (rhyme patterns and gestalt theory; metre...

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Why do we know so much more than we have evidence for in certain areas, and so much less in others? In tackling these questions--Plato's and Orwell's problem--Chomsky again demonstrates his unequalled capacity to integrate vast amounts o...

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