Confronting Metaphor in Use An applied linguistic approach (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought.

 

 

 

Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived.

 

 

 

This book brings language and social dimensions into the picture, offering snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the very different cultures of Europe and Brazil and contributing to the theorizing of metaphor in discourse.

 

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Collaborating Towards Coherence (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This book set out to examine communication between writers and readers,and speakers and listeners, from the perspective of the relations of meaning with which speakers and writers can mark the unity within and between their messages.

We found that speakers and writers make use of cohesion in different manners in different texts, which suggests that cohesive strategies are sensitive to communicative conditions.

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Calling for Help Language And Social Interaction in Telephone Helplines (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This book is an edited collection of language and interaction-centred studies that explore what happens when people use the telephone to call for help.More specifically, the focus throughout this collection is on diverse aspects of spoken language and patterns of social interaction in calls made by members of the public to a variety of telephone helplines.

Helplines are telephone-based services that offer callers help, advice or support in a wide range of areas, most commonly in areas relating to health and medicine, the law, finance, psychological wellbeing, interpersonal relationships, various forms of addiction, and computer technology.

Prototypically, a helpline is a ‘dedicated’ service that provides help in a single, particularised area (for example breast cancer, AIDS, gambling addiction, computer software, bereavement, domestic violence, consumer rights).

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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This collection of 19 articles comes out of the 1999 International Symposium of Linguistic Politeness, held in Bangkok, Thailand.

The contributions span a wide geographical and linguistic array, ranging all the way from Ireland and England over Sweden to China and Japan, fromAustralia over Thailand to Greece and Spain. Also, the languages represented are quite untypical for studies in this field: more than half of the contributions (even if not counting the three plenaries) stem from people working in such fields as Chinese, Japanese or Thai.

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Beyond Misunderstanding Linguistic Analyses of Intercultural Communication (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This volume challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can requently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone.

The main purpose of the contributions to this volume is to reconstruct intercultural understanding linguistically. Secondly, intercultural communication is not solely constituted by the fact that individuals from different cultural groups interact. Each contribution of this volume analyses to what extent instances of discourse are institutionally and/or interculturally determined.

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Academic Voices Across Languages and Disciplines (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)

This book explores how the voices of authors and other researchers are manifested in academic discourse, and how the author handles the polyphonic interaction between these various parties.

 

 

 

It represents a unique study of academic discourse in that it takes a doubly contrastive approach, focusing on the two factors of discipline and language at the same time. It is based on a large electronic corpus of 450 research articles from three disciplines (economics, linguistics and medicine) in three languages (English, French and Norwegian).

 

 

 

The book investigates whether disciplines and languages may be said to represent different cultures with regard to person manifestation in the texts. What is being studied is thus cultural identities as tendencies in linguistic practices. For the majority of the features focused on (e.g. metatext and bibliographical references), the discipline factor turns out to contribute more strongly to the variation observed than the language factor. However, for some of the features (e.g. pronouns and negation), the language factor is also quite strong.

 

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How to Write Better Essays by Bryan Greetham (Study Guides)

This book takes the reader carefully through each stage of essay writing from interpretation of the question, to the research, planning, writing and revision.

Readers are shown how to improve not just study skills like note taking, reading, organization and writing, but their thinking skills too. The reader will learn how to analyze difficult concepts, criticize and evaluate arguments, use evidence, and develop more of their own ideas. This book gives clear practical advice, with a troubleshooting section that deals with a range of common problems.

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