Jun 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Perspectives on Interaction
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Perspectives-on-Interaction1-4438-4465-9.htm
Editor: Elena Bonta
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844659 9781443844659 Pages: 205 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844659 9781443844659 Pages: 205 Price: U.S. $ 67.99
Abstract:
Interaction is a prominent part of our everyday life and experience; daily
reality is constructed within the interactions that individuals establish with
those around them, with whom they share experiences in a concrete context.
Objects, phenomena and individuals permanently influence each other through
this dynamic process. The authors of this volume engage in an on-going
interpretative process of defining this influence, giving considerable
attention to the way participants to interaction try to understand each other,
to interpret each other’s activity and prove this in an explicit or implicit
way through a variety of semiotic codes (verbal, nonverbal or paraverbal). The
authors, implicitly, address the question: how do social actors (in their
quality of translators, writers, painters or teachers) see the world around
and the interactions between its constituent parts/activities/processes?
The primary goal of Perspectives on Interaction is to bring together concerns,
approaches, interpretations and analyses on the proposed topic. The authors,
members of a young research group (“Cultural Spaces”), have examined various
aspects through which interaction manifests itself in social practices,
linguistics, translation studies, didactics and literary discourse. This has
made possible the gathering of the material under four headings which
constitute the chapters of the book: Translation as Interaction; Aspects of
Social Interaction; Texts and Representations in Interaction; Interactive
Practices in Literary Discourse. Ideas have been organized around some
important key points: communication, action, interaction, competence,
performance, linguistic and nonlinguistic signs.
The volume will appeal to researchers and students working within the fields
of translation, education, arts, discourse and literature, and offers
inspiring topics and relevant research.
Jun 06
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: The Communicative Mind. A Linguistic Exploration of Conceptual Integration and Meaning Construction
Author: Line Brandt
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Date of publication: June 2013
Audience: College/higher education, Professional & scholarly, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly, Professional & Vocational
Type of publication: Monograph (pp. 636)
Format: Hardback
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-4144-3
Isbn: 1-4438-4144-7
E-book expected September 2013
Advancing a research approach to meaning construction connecting linguistics, philosophy, literary studies, neurophenomenology, cognitive science and semiotics, The Communicative Mind presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways in which the intersubjectivity of communicating interactants manifests itself in language. The book supports its view of the mind as highly conditioned by the domain of interpersonal communication by an extensive range of empirical linguistic data from fiction, poetry and everyday discourse. Among recent theoretical advances in what Brandt refers to as thecognitive humanities is Fauconnier and Turner’s theory of conceptual integration which, offering a bridge between pragmatics and semantics, has proved widely influential in Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics. With its constructive criticism of Fauconnier and Turner’s “general mechanism” hypothesis, according to which “blending” can explain everything from
the origin of language to binding in perception, Brandt’s book brings the scope and applicability of Conceptual Integration Theory into the arena of scientific debate.
The Communicative Mind takes on a host of interrelated theories in cognitive linguistics and based on its in-depth critique of the examined ideas proposes a multifaceted outlook on how language is shaped by the intersubjectivity of interacting cognizers:
* semantics & pragmatics: the grounding of language in a context of dialogue
* fictive interaction in rhetoric and grammar
* fictive motion & change
* the concept of mental spaces in relation to philosophy, neural binding, metaphor, syntax
* a typology of conceptual integration
* the notion of relevance in meaning construction
* cognitive approaches to literary studies
* reading and interpretation of literary text
* semiotic iconicity in poetry: a typology
Preview available: http://www.amazon.com/The-Communicative-Mind-Exploration-Construction/dp/1443841447
Jun 01
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Clusivity
Subtitle: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
Book URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/flyers/Clusivity–A-New-Approach-to-Association-and-Dissociation-in-Political-Discourse1-4438-4403-9.htm
Author: Anna Ewa Wieczorek
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.K. £ 44.99
Hardback: ISBN: 1443844039 9781443844031 Pages: 250 Price: U.S. $ 67.99
Abstract:
Dealing with the concepts of inclusion and exclusion encoded linguistically,
both implicitly and explicitly, this book develops an original framework for
the analysis of these phenomena in political discourse. The approach taken
situates political discourse in a broader context of social and psychological
relations between groups and their members which influence the manner in which
the speaker’s message is constructed and construed by individuals. The present
study proposes a pragmatic-cognitive model which underlies and explains the
discursive representation of belongingness and dissociation in terms of the
conceptual location of various discourse entities in the Discourse Space (cf.
Chilton 2005). The model in question is concerned with three mechanisms which,
combined, form a fully-fledged apparatus for the analysis of the legitimising
power of association and dissociation in political discourse through positive
self and negative other presentation tactics.
The study is a theoretical enterprise which, however, includes a comprehensive
empirical part whose aim is to evaluate and confirm the theoretical
assumptions made. The focus is essentially on the relationship between the
speaker and the addressees and the speaker’s attempt to maintain it
discursively. Thus, Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation
in Political Discourse will appeal to discourse analysts, pragmaticians, and
cognitive analysts, as well as to political and social sciences analysts,
social psychologists, journalists and speechwriters.
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