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The volume comprises papers that were presented at the 14th European conference on «Formal Description of Slavic Languages 10.5» at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic.The conference focuses on formal approaches to Slavic phonology, morphology, syntax and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-26
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Cartography is a research program within syntactic theory that studies the syntactic structures of a particular language in order to better understand the semantic issues at play in that language. The approach arranges a language's morpho-syntactic features in a rigid...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-04-20
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La ricerca sistematizza le modalità di presentazione del sapere specialistico in linguistica. Si esplorano le forme del saggio e dell’articolo nelle riviste linguistiche moderne.La metodologia applicata combina la retorica con l’analisi dei generi del discorso. Le...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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This book offers a pragma-semantic analysis of linguistic means expressing speaker involvement in the genre of political interview. The research is based on an analysis of 40 interviews with British and American politicians. The aim of this work is to confirm or reject...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-19
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This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in a fieldwork situation. In twelve chapters discussing 11 language families from four continents, authors draw on their own fieldwork experience, pairing explicit methodological...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-01-02
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This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the positive construction, a term for sentences with a gradable adjective but with no overt degree...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-04
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Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Yan Huang's highly successful textbook on pragmatics - the study of language in use - has been fully revised and updated in this second edition. It includes a brand new chapter on reference, a major topic in both linguistics and the philosophy of language. Chapters have...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Dieser Sammelband ist im Rahmen der Sektion Dialogizität in der Argumentation auf dem XXXII. Romanistentag in Berlin (September 2011) entstanden. Ziel war es, Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zusammenzubringen, um Erkenntnisse und Methoden aus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-11
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Temporality surveys the ways in which languages of different types refer to past, present, and future events, through an in-depth examination of four major language types: tense-based English, tense-aspect-based Polish, aspect-based Chinese, and mood-based Kalaallisut. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-04-24
Collection :
Explorations in Semantics
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The papers in this collection discuss broadly understood cognitive turns in the philosophy of language, inspired by the Chomskyan revolution in linguistics, Langacker’s and Lakoff’s Cognitive Linguistics, but also phenomenology, Relevance Theory and Classical Indian...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-03-24
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A kinship term is defined as a lexical item which is used to name a person who is connected by certain blood relations with other persons or a group of persons. Kinship term systems were first studied scientifically in the latter half of the 19th century by the American...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-01-10
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The book offers an interdisciplinary account of linguistic research. It covers the repertoire of such fields of study as cognitive linguistics, translation studies and glottodidactics. Primarily, it throws light on different aspects concerning modern linguistics...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-27
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The analysis is a contribution to contemporary linguistics, particularly the theory of syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Within the theoretical framework of predicate-argument syntax (also known as semantic syntax), the author analyses the role of the adjective as an...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Diese Arbeit zeichnet die wichtigsten Aspekte für die Entwicklung des deutschen Sprachraumes und der deutschen Sprache im 20. Jahrhundert nach. An der Schwelle des 20. Jahrhunderts wurden die Rechtschreibung und die Aussprache normiert, wobei allerdings viele Fragen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-06-10
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The book’s principal argument is that the concepts of Cognitive Linguistics offer considerable explanatory potential which can be systematically used in accounts of translation, and especially of subtitling as its more specifically constrained audiovisual mode....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Argumentation ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der menschlichen Kommunikationsfähigkeit und der sprachlichen Kompetenz. In der Regel entstehen in den realen monologischen und dialogischen Kommunikationsvorgängen komplexe argumentative Strukturen, die über die einfachen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-09
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Den Untersuchungsgegenstand dieser typologischen Studie bildet die Semantik der Körperteilbenennungen (Somatismen) in elf Sprachen, die zu fünf verschiedenen Sprachfamilien gehören. Hierbei geht es insbesondere darum, die Semantik der Körperteilbezeichnungen aus der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-09
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