Dec 05
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Title: New Perspectives on the Origins of Language
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 144
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/slcs.144
Editor: Claire Lefebvre
Editor: Bernard Comrie
Editor: Henri Cohen
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271136 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 116.60
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027206114 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 165.00
Abstract:
The question of how language emerged is one of the most fascinating and
difficult problems in science. In recent years, a strong resurgence of
interest in the emergence of language from an evolutionary perspective has
been helped by the convergence of approaches, methods, and ideas from several
disciplines. The selection of contributions in this volume highlight scenarios
of language origin and the prerequisites for a faculty of language based on
biological, historical, social, cultural, and paleontological forays into the
conditions that brought forth and favored language emergence, augmented by
insights from sister disciplines. The chapters all reflect new speculation,
discoveries and more refined research methods leading to a more focused
understanding of the range of possibilities and how we might choose among
them. There is much that we do not yet know, but the outlines of the path
ahead are ever clearer.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters
Subtitle: A time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 236
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.236
Author: Keiko Tsuchiya
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027271013 Pages: Price: S. Korean won 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027256416 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Abstract:
How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural
setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular
context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a
student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the
UK, comparing British tutor – British student conversations with British tutor
– Japanese student conversations in English. A new research methodology, a
time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis, is introduced for analysing
listenership and turn-taking structure, synthesising visual data with verbal
data in timeline. The method also integrates discourse-pragmatic and
conversation analytic approaches with the corpus-based analysis. This work
reports strategies in use of response tokens for framework shifts and
multi-functional nature of hand gestures observed in the conversations.
Therefore, this book is highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate
students, who study pragmatic and discursive practice in intercultural
settings using multimodal corpora.
Dec 05
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Ideology in Language Use
Subtitle: Pragmatic Guidelines for Empirical Research
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/semantics-and-pragmatics/ideology-language-use-pragmatic-guidelines-empirical-research?format=PB
Author: Jef Verschueren
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 25.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107695900 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 39.99
Abstract:
The relationship between language and ideology has long been central to research in discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, and has also informed other fields such as sociology and literary criticism. This book, by one of the world’s leading pragmatists, introduces a new framework for the study of ideology in written language, using the tools, methods and theories of pragmatics and discourse analysis. Illustrations are drawn systematically from a coherent corpus of excerpts from late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history textbooks dealing with episodes of colonial history and in particular the 1857 ‘Indian Mutiny’. It includes the complete corpus of excerpts, allowing researchers and students to evaluate all illustrations; at the same time, it provides useful practice and training materials. The book is intended as a teaching tool in language-, discourse- and communication-oriented programs, but also for historians and social and political scientists.
Introduction; Part I. Language Use and Ideology; Part II. Pragmatic Rules of Engagement; Part III. Pragmatic Guidelines and Procedures; Conclusion.
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