An Analysis of the Semantic Field of the German Particles "überhaupt" and "eigentlich"
Author: Theo Harden
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9783878082071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Theo Harden
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9783878082071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gunther Kaltenböck
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-11-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9004253246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hedging is an essential part of everyday communication. It is a discourse strategy which is used to reduce commitment to the force or truth of an utterance to achieve an appropriate pragmatic effect. In recent years hedges have therefore attracted increased attention in Pragmatics and Applied Linguistics, with studies approaching the concept of hedging from various perspectives, such as speech act - and politeness theory, genre-specific investigations, interactional pragmatics, and studies of vague language. The present volume provides an up-to-date overview of current research on the topic by bringing together studies from a variety of fields. The contributions span a range of different languages, investigate the use of hedges in different communicative settings and text types, and consider all levels of linguistic analysis from prosody to morphology, syntax and semantics. What unites the different studies in this volume is a corpus-based approach, in which various theoretical concepts and categories are applied to, and tested against, actual language data. This allows for patterns of use to be uncovered which have previously gone unnoticed and provides valuable insights for the adjustment and fine-tuning of existing categories. The usage-based approach of the investigations therefore offers new theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the context-dependent nature and multifunctionality of hedges.
Author: Sara Nofri
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-11
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 3658009527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sara Nofri combines several research methods (multilingual bibliographic research, quantitative content analysis, semiotic text analysis, interviews to journalists) and a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective for investigating environmental communication in the daily quality press of Germany, Italy, Sweden and UK. She provides an in-depth portrait of the features, the focus, the themes and stakeholders involved, individuates different "cultures of environment" and "cultures of communication", and provides insights and practical tools to analyze and then evaluate environmental communication. The methodological approach of this study can be readily transposed to studies investigating other contexts, cultures and media.
Author: Senko K. Maynard
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9027250367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the Japanese language is richly endowed to express personal voice and emotive nuances, and confronts the theoretical issues related to this. The author proposes a new theoretical framework for Discourse Modality, a primary concern for Japanese speakers, to analyze the 'expressiveness' of language.
Author: Mary Michele Wauchope
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This exhaustive study of a set of Old High German particles, thoh, ia, and thanne, focuses on the pragmatic functions of those particles. After categorizing modal particles - particles which indicate implicitly a speaker's relationship to or attitude toward his or her own discourse - as a subset of metacommunicative particles, the author argues convincingly that thoh, ia, and thanne exhibit modal particle functions in four Old High German texts: they point to a speaker's presuppositions and expectations, determine interlocutionary force, and convey connotations ranging from surprise to accusation.
Author: Eric E. Andvik
Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies a small class of uninflectable lexical items (particularly jo and na).