Author: Jens Allwood
Publisher:
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Category : Homonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Hans Kamp
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004487220
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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This collection of papers addresses context-dependence and methods for dealing with it. The book also records comments to the papers and the authors' replies to the comments. In this way, the contributions themselves are contextually dependent. It represents an inquiry into the activities on the semantics side of the pragmatics boundary.

Author: H. Cuyckens
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110177099
Category : Cognitive grammar
Languages : en
Pages : 513

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This book provides a representative survey of early and more recent concerns in cognitively inspired lexical semantics. As such, it focuses on the issue of polysemy vs. monosemy, it offers fresh perspectives on prototypicality in lexical categories, it sheds light on the development of lexical items in child language acquisition and in diachrony, and it looks at issues going beyond the individual lexical item (onomasiology, synonymy, the relationship between lexical and syntactic meaning).

Author: Anita Fetzer
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027256136
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Based on papers from the IPrA Conference, which was held in Melbourne in 2009.

Author: Rita Finkbeiner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027255792
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Context is a core notion of linguistic theory. However, while there are numerous attempts at explaining single aspects of the notion of context, these attempts are rather diverse and do not easily converge to a unified theory of context. The present multi-faceted collection of papers reconsiders the notion of context and its challenges for linguistics from different theoretical and empirical angles. Part I offers insights into a wide range of current approaches to context, including theoretical pragmatics, neurolinguistics, clinical pragmatics, interactional linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Part II presents new empirical findings on the role of context from case studies on idioms, unarticulated constituents, argument linking, and numerically-quantified expressions. Bringing together different theoretical frameworks, the volume provides thought-provoking discussions of how the notion of context can be understood, modeled, and implemented in linguistics. It is essential for researchers interested in theoretical and applied linguistics, the semantics/pragmatics interface, and experimental pragmatics.

Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748635513
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.

Author: Jonathan Webster
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826497357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Meaning in Context brings together somes of the biggest names in Systemic Functional Linguistics to explore the construction of meaning in language.

Author: Margie Berns
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475798385
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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The introduction of communicative competence as the goal of second and for eign language teaching has led to recognition of the role of context in language learning and use. As communicative competence is defined by the social and cultural contexts in which it is used, no single communicative competence can serve as the goal and model for all learners. This recognition has had an impact on program design and materials development. One significant change is that the choice of a teaching method is no longer the primary concern. Instead, the first step for the program designer is becoming familiar with the social and cultural features of the context of the language being taught. This includes a consideration of the uses speakers make of the language, their reasons for using it, and their attitudes toward it. Contexts of Competence: Social and Cultural Considerations in Commu nicative Language Teaching explores the relationship between context and com petence from a theoretical and practical perspective. Its audience is applied linguists in general and language teaching practitioners in particular. The overall aim of its five chapters is to provide a framework for consideration of various contexts of language learning and use and to guide the implementation and development of models of communicative language teaching that are responsive to the context-specific needs of learners.

Author: Helen Leckie-Tarry
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0567560570
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Language and Context breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between register, genre and context. Leckie-Tarry argues convincingly and engagingly for a functional theory of language which specifies register in terms of contextual and linguistic features, and which suggests a discursive relationship between the two. Moving beyond the limits of much of today's theory, this accessible volume develops a theoretical understanding of the relationship between text, context, langage function and linguistic form. Helen Leckie-Tarry, a specialist in the area of 'register and applied linguistics', died in 1991, aged 49. Although she had finished a large part of this work, her notes and draft chapters have been extensively edited by Professor David Birch. David Birch is currently Professor of Communication and media Studies at Central Queensland University, Australia, and previously taught at Murdoch University, Western Australia, and the National University of Singapore.

Author: Mohsen Ghadessy
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027299676
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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The shift towards a sociolinguistic approach to the analysis of language in the last few decades has necessitated new definitions for a number of concepts that linguists have taken for granted for a long time. This volume attempts to demystify the important notions of ‘text’ and ‘context’ by providing clear definitions and examples within the assumptions of Systemic Functional (SF) linguistics. After a discussion of the role and significance of context by three eminent SF linguists in section one, the influence of context on text is dealt with in section two ‘From Context to Language’. Section three ‘From Language to Context’ considers textual features and their relationship to contextual factors. All the contributors base their analyses on data collected from a variety of spoken and written registers of contemporary English.