| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 390 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Where lexicon meets cognition : can crisis construction and legitimization of policies be studied through lemma patterns? / Piotr Cap -- Deictic centre and conceptualisation of clusivity : a case study of Barack Obama's pre-election speeches / Anna Ewa Wieczorek -- A functional analysis of the New Testament dialogues : ideology in light of functional sentence perspective / Martin Adam -- Discourse approaches to specialised and popular academic English : comparing stance, hedges and modality / Josef Schmied -- A note on legal discourse semantics and J.L Austin's theory of speech acts / Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka -- Communicating legal knowledge : an exploratory multi-dimensional study of legal academic genres / Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski -- Unspeakable words : the taboo fringe of the lexicon / David Singleton -- The role of questions in talk shows / Anita Schirm -- 'Laughter' in L2 computer-mediated discourse / Charlotte Taylor -- Add humour to your ad : humour in advertising slogans / Marta Dynel -- Bakhtinian dialogical communication and pragmatic markers / Bledar Toska -- Different languages, different contextualization resources : politeness and discourse strategies in English and in Japanese / Ippei Inoue -- Semantic and pragmatic functions of GA-clefts in Japanese / Chiaki Kumamoto -- Functional equivalence and domestication strategies in film translation / Ilaria Parini -- Translating language-specific and culture-specific humor for the screen : the case of Sex and the city / Julia Stelter -- Orthographic depth and psycholinguistic grain size : an attempt to explain differences in reading accuracy and speed across languages / Joanna Nijakowska -- Building L2 communicative confidence through interlingual tasks : towards function-focused L2 learning / Bogusława Whyatt |
| Summary |
Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino's films, humorous dialogues from "Sex and the City", witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama's speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume. The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing field of language research, embracing methodological proposals, discourse analyses, comparative research, translation studies and teaching perspectives. Otherin each of the approaches, theoretical frameworks and postu .. |
| Notes |
"This collection of peer reviewed articles is the result of an international conference on discourse approaches held in Poland"--Intro. p. [1] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis -- Congresses
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Language.
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Linguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
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REFERENCE -- Word Lists.
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Discourse analysis
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dynel, Marta
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| ISBN |
9781443808293 |
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1443808296 |
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1282191926 |
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9781282191921 |
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