Studies in English Language

Studies in English Language
Author: M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847065740

A fascinating, seventh volume in the Collected Works of M.A.K Halliday series, on Studies in English Language.

Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries

Linguistics across Historical and Geographical Boundaries
Author: Dieter Kastovsky
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 1596
Release: 2011-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110856131

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

Language and Function

Language and Function
Author: Josef Hladký
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027215581

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.

Syntax–Semantics Interface

Syntax–Semantics Interface
Author: Eva Hajičová
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 8024637146

The volume SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE is a collection of selected studies written by Eva Hajičová and published between the years 1973 and 2014. The contributions are based on the theoretical framework of the Functional Generative Description as proposed by Petr Sgall in early sixties and developed further by him and his followers since then. Thematically, the volume reflects the author’s research contributions to four main domains: (i) the specification of the underlying (deep) sentence structure (analyzed in terms of dependency relations), (ii) the information structure of the sentence (topic-focus articulation) and its relation to the specification of presupposition and negation and to other related phenomena, (iii) building of a scheme of annotated corpus of Czech to serve among other things for verification of linguistic theoretical claims, and (iv) some fundamental aspects of discourse structure, namely the notion of the hiearachy of elements in the stock of knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer. All the papers except for one have been originally published in English and in they pay due respect to a comparison of the author’s original findings with the currrent state-of-the-art of linguistic theory at home and abroad.

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News
Author: Jan Chovanec
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269327

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts, the function of tense needs to be viewed in a close connection with its local context. Traditional news texts are also contrasted with online news, particularly as far as the effect of hypertextuality on the coding of time is concerned. A two-level structural framework for the analysis of online news is proposed in order to account for their increased textual complexity. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students working in the fields of media pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics.