Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages

Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages
Author: Gabriele Diewald
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110223961

The series is a platform for contributions of all kinds to this rapidly developing field. General problems are studied from the perspective of individual languages, language families, language groups, or language samples. Conclusions are the result of a deepened study of empirical data. Special emphasis is given to little-known languages, whose analysis may shed new light on long-standing problems in general linguistics.

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation

Epistemic Stance in English Conversation
Author: Elise Kärkkäinen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027253579

This book is the first corpus-based description of epistemic stance in conversational American English. It argues for epistemic stance as a pragmatic rather than semantic notion: showing commitment to the status of information is an emergent interactive activity, rooted in the interaction between conversational co-participants. The first major part of the book establishes the highly regular and routinized nature of such stance marking in the data. The second part offers a micro-analysis of I think, the prototypical stance marker, in its sequential and activity contexts. Adopting the methodology of conversation analysis and paying serious attention to the manifold prosodic cues attendant in the speakers' utterances, the study offers novel situated interpretations of I think. The author also argues for intonation units as a unit of social interaction and makes observations about the grammaticization patterns of the most frequent epistemic markers, notably the status of I think as a discourse marker.

Adolescent Health and Wellbeing

Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
Author: Alessandro Pingitore
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030258165

This book presents a detailed and updated review of the widespread changes that take place during adolescence, adopting a preventive perspective that reflects physical, social, cognitive, and emotional changes. It addresses a broad range of aspects, including: the preventive programs and their systemic effects; the role of environment in influencing the healthy behaviors of adolescents and young adults; the use of e-Health technology in health and behavioral interventions for adolescents; and the clinical and prognostic implications of primordial prevention in healthy adolescents. All of these elements are subsequently reviewed using a multidimensional approach, in order to offer extensive information on the complex changes that characterize adolescents’ physiological, psychological, and neurobiological development. In addition, the book depicts the preventive strategies currently used in various social settings (school, family, sport club, health policies) aimed not only at reducing lifestyle risk behaviors, but also at improving resilience, happiness, social involvement, self-esteem, and sociability. This update is essential in the light of the fact that, to date, prevention has mainly been directed towards adolescents with physical or mental disorders rather than their healthy peers. As such, the book offers a valuable tool for pediatricians, child and adolescents psychiatrists, and for all professionals involved in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Sedentary Behavior and Health

Sedentary Behavior and Health
Author: Zhu, Weimo
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2017-01-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1450471285

With research from leading scientists, Sedentary Behavior and Health: Concepts, Assessments, and Intervention presents evidence on sedentary behavior, its apparent health risks, and suggestions on measuring and altering this behavior.

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty

The Semantic Field of Modal Certainty
Author: A. M. Simon-Vandenbergen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783110196177

This book provides a detailed account of the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of modal adverbs of certainty in present-day English. Methodologically it relies on three types of data: monolingual corpora, translation corpora and informant testing. It is the first study in which the semantic field of certainty as realised by English adverbs is explored.

The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood

The Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics of Spanish Mood
Author: Henk Haverkate
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2002-09-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729738X

This study provides a consistent description and explanation of the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of Spanish mood. A major focus of attention is the central role of the truthfunctional categories of realis, potentialis and irrealis as parameters relevant to mood selection in both subordinate and non-subordinate clauses. Furthermore, a proposal is offered for a new typology of clause-embedding predicates. The framework chosen stems from the insight that complement-taking predicates share the property of providing information on the set of mental processes which characterize intentional human behavior. At the level of pragmatic analysis, mood selection is examined from a variety of angles. Thus, specific research is conducted within the framework of speech act theory, relevance theory, politeness theory and the theory of Gricean maxims.

Studies in Evidentiality

Studies in Evidentiality
Author: Robert M. W. Dixon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027229625

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Amazon

Amazon
Author: Adam Sutherland
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512405922

Find out how Amazon became the world's largest online retailer. Discover how the company started by developing a unique way to sell books and grew into a giant of the e-commerce industry in a short span of time. This book unveils: ● The people behind Amazon's revolutionary retail and product development strategies. ● The technological innovation driven by Amazon, from the Kindle to the Fire Phone. ● What the future might hold for Amazon, from drone delivery to space travel! From the battle for e-books to Amazon's marketing savvy, this book examines the factors that led to amazing developments for the e-commerce industry as a whole.

The Panicosaurus

The Panicosaurus
Author: K. I. Al-Ghani
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1849053561

Offers age appropriate explanations and advice on anxiety in children and ways they can cope with it through the story of "Mabel and the Panicosaurus."