Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Communication in Humans and Other Animals
Series Title: Advances in Interaction Studies 4
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/ais.4
Author: Gisela Håkansson
Author: Jennie Westander
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027272010 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 104.94
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027204578 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: Europe EURO 38.16
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: U.K. £ 30.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9789027204585 Pages: 242 Price: U.S. $ 54.00
Abstract:
Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal
species. Human language is often thought of as a unique
system, which separates humans from other animals. This
textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication,
and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal
and nonverbal communication, communication in nonhuman
primates, in dogs and in birds. Research questions and
findings from different perspectives are summarized and
integrated to show students similarities and differences in the
rich diversity of communicative behaviours.
A core topic is how young individuals proceed from not being able to
communicate to reaching a state of competent communicators,
and the role of adults in this developmental process.
Evolutionary aspects are also taken into consideration, and
ideas about the evolution of human language are examined.
The cross-disciplinary nature of the book makes it useful for
courses in linguistics, biology, sociology and psychology, but it
is also valuable reading for anyone interested in understanding
communicative behaviour.
Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Multimodality and Active Listenership
Subtitle: A Corpus Approach
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimodality-and-active-listenership-9780567175151/
Author: Dawn Knight
Paperback: ISBN: 9780567175151 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99
Abstract:
Current corpora are invaluable resources for generating accurate and objective
analyses of patterns of language use. However, spoken corpora are effectively
mono-modal, presenting data in the same physical medium – text. The reality of
a discourse situation is lost in its representation as text. Using multimodal
data sets when conducting corpus-based pragmatic analyses is one solution.
This book looks at multimodal corpora in some depth, using backchanneling as
the conversational feature to be analysed. It provides a bottom-up
investigation of the issues and challenges faced at every stage of multimodal
corpus construction and analysis, as well as providing an in-depth linguistic
analysis of a cross section of multimodal corpus data. The collaborative and
co-operative nature of backchannels is highlighted in this book and an adapted
pragmatic-functional linguistic coding matrix for the characterisation of
backchanneling phenomena is presented. Dawn Knight also looks at possible
directions in the construction and use of multimodal corpus linguistics.
Jul 07
ThE CLOwNannouncements
Title: Humboldt, Worldview and Language
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748668793
Author: James W. Underhill
Paperback: ISBN: 9780748668793 Pages: 176 Price: U.K. £ 19.99
Abstract:
With the loss of many of the world’s languages, it is important to question
what will be lost to humanity with their demise. It is frequently argued that
a language engenders a ‘worldview’, but what do we mean by this term?
Attributed to German politician and philologist Wilhelm von Humboldt
(1767-1835), the term has since been adopted by numerous linguists. Within
specialist circles it has become associated with what is known as the
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which suggests that the nature of a language influences
the thought of its speakers and that different language patterns yield
different patterns of thought.
Underhill’s concise and rigorously researched book clarifies the main ideas
and proposals of Humboldt’s linguistic philosophy and demonstrates the way his
ideas can be adopted and adapted by thinkers and linguists today. A detailed
glossary of terms is provided in order to clarify key concepts and to
translate the German terms used by Humboldt.
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