Dec 10
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Commitment
Edited by Philippe De Brabanter and Patrick Dendale
Institut Jean Nicod & Université Paris 4-Sorbonne / University of Antwerp
Paperback
ISBN 978 90 272 2682 2 | EUR 95.00 | USD 143.00
Commitment is a notion widely invoked in speech-act theory, in studies on modality and in dialogue modelling, but it has never been the central topic of a monograph or a collective volume in linguistics. This volume is the very first to bring together researchers from different linguistic traditions and request them to focus on the notion. All the contributions presented here use commitment as a key concept in accounting for a broad range of linguistic phenomena in various languages, from illocutionary acts like assertions and questions to modal expressions, through sentence-types, finite subordinate clauses, concessive markers, tense markers, and even text-types and genres. Each contributor takes pains to explicate his/her understanding of the term commitment, thus making interesting comparisons possible across theoretical boundaries. Some authors also point out potential drawbacks of the notion and argue for replacing or supplementing it with a related concept of involvement.
Dec 10
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Title: Information Structure, Discourse Structure and Grammatical
Structure
Series Title: Belgian Journal of Linguistics 26
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/bjl.26
Editor: Bart Defrancq
Editor: Gudrun Rawoens
Editor: Els Tobback
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027226860 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 161.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027226860 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 107.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027226860 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 113.42
Abstract:
This volume is a collection of papers dealing with the close connection
between discourse and grammar, illustrating the many, sometimes conflicting,
facets of that relationship in various European languages. Central to all
contributions is their focus on diverse aspects of clause combination and on
the various parameters, such as information structure, that have a special tie with clause
combination. Most of the papers are centred around subordination as a
grammatical structure and its status in a discourse. With a few notable
exceptions, subordination has been thought of as part of the discursive
background. This volume adduces convincing evidence from the field of
deictic/anaphoric items, information structure and rhetorical structure in
favour of a more nuanced approach to the status of subordination in discourse.
It also illustrates how rhetorical patterns in discourse give rise, through a
grammaticalisation process, to new interclausal dependencies.
Dec 10
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Evaluating Cognitive Competences in Interaction
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 225
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.225
Editor: Gitte Rasmussen
Editor: C.E. Brouwer
Editor: Dennis Day
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027273338 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 76.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.40
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256300 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
Evaluation is a part of everyday life. Competences, knowledge and skills are
assessed in ordinary as well as in institutional settings like hospitals,
clinics and schools. This volume investigates how evaluations are being
carried out interactionally. More specifically, it explores how people
evaluate each others’ cognitive competences as they deal with each others’
understandings, knowings, feelings, doings, hearings and learnings
face-to-face.
The contributions focus on different evaluation activities in a variety of
institutional settings in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Holland and the United
States of America.
All the contributions approach the theme by use of Ethnomethodology (EM)
and/or Conversation Analysis (CA). Thus, the analytic interests concern how
participants organize activities of evaluating cognitive competences by means
of recognizable interactional methods. This approach differs from other
approaches and research interests within cognitive science as it concentrates
on how people in interaction orient towards cognitive competence irrespective
of scientific theories.
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