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1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Linguistik aktuell
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Linguistik aktuell ; 247.
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| Summary |
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for instance, (S)DRT, Centering Theory, Accessibility Theory, QUD, Generalized Conversational Implicatures, Super Monsters and Gesture Semantics and new empirical approaches in the framework of experimental semantics and pragmatics or corpus linguistic discourse analysis. The contributions to this collected volume build on these developments and investigate the linguistic foundations of narration from various perspectives. The contributions address topics such as speech and thought representation, free indirect speech, information structure, anaphora resolution, co-speech gestures, classifier constructions as well as role shift and constructed action. The volume provides new insights in the linguistic structures underlying narration in written, spoken, and sign languages from an experimental, developmental, historical, typological, and theoretical perspective. The contributions will appeal to theoretical linguists, sign language linguists, typologists, literary scholars, psycholinguists, and philosophers |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Approaching narration across modalities: topics, methods, perspectives / Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach -- A new technique for analyzing narrative prosodic effects in SLs using motion capture technology / Ronnie B. Wilbur and Evie Malaia -- Language structure and principles of information organization: an analysis of retellings in Japanese, German, and L2 Japanese / Naoko Tomita -- Texts as answers to questions: Information structure and its grammatical underpinnings in narratives and descriptions in German and English (topic and anaphoric linkage) / Christiane von Stutterheim and Mary Carroll -- Discourse prominence and the selection of anaphora: evidence from pronouns in historical German / Svetlana Petrova -- A centering theoretic account for the changing usage of anaphoric expressions in the history of German / Augustin Speyer -- On the processing of free indirect discourse: first results and methodological challenges / Susanna Salem, Thomas Weskott and Anke Holler -- What is a narration: and why does it matter? / Sonja Zeman -- Reporting vs. pretending. Degrees of identification in role play and reported speech / Franziska Köder -- Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations: the semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions / Jana Bressem, Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller -- Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives / Gemma Barberà and Josep Quer -- Between narrator and protagonist in fables of German Sign Language / Annika Herrmann and Nina-Kristin Pendzich |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Linguistics.
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Linguistics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hübl, Annika, editor.
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Steinbach, Markus, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Linguistic foundations of narration in spoken and sign languages. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018 9027200874 9789027200877 (OCoLC)1022787846 |
| ISBN |
9789027263988 (electronic book) |
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9027263981 (electronic book) |
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9789027200877 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9027200874 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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