Form and Meaning in Language: Papers on semantic roles
Form and Meaning in Language: Papers on semantic roles

Author: Charles J. Fillmore

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The early papers collected here trace a trajectory through the work and thinking of Charles Fillmore over his long and distinguished career--reflecting his desire to make sense of the workings of language in a way that keeps in mind questions of language form, language use, and the conventions linking form, meaning, and practice.

Meaning, Form, and Body
Meaning, Form, and Body

Author: Fey Parrill

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781575865959

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Meaning, Form, and Body brings together renowned figures in the field of cognitive linguistics to discuss two related research areas in the study of linguistics: the integration of form and meaning and language and the human body. Among the numerous topics discussed are grammatical constructions, conceptual integration, and gesture.

Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition
Form-Meaning Connections in Second Language Acquisition

Author: Bill VanPatten

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-21

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1135614202

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This volume addresses theoretical and research domains related to questions of how forms-meaning connections are initiated, processed, and stored, and what internal and external factors may affect these mappings.

From Form to Meaning
From Form to Meaning

Author: David Fleming

Publisher: Pitt Series in Composition, Li

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780822961536

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In the spring of 1968, the English faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) voted to remedialize the first semester of its required freshman composition course, English 101. The following year, it eliminated outright the second semester course, English 102. For the next quarter-century, UW had no real campus-wide writing requirement, putting it out of step with its peer institutions and preventing it from fully joining the "composition revolution" of the 1970s. Fleming shows how contributing factors--the growing reliance on TAs; the questioning of traditional curricula by young instructors and their students; the disinterest of faculty in teaching and administering general education courses--were part of a larger shift affecting universities nationally. He also connects the events of this period to the long, embattled history of freshman composition in the United States.

On Information Structure, Meaning and Form
On Information Structure, Meaning and Form

Author: Kerstin Schwabe

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9789027233646

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This collection of articles offers a new and compelling perspective on the interface connecting syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. At the core of this volume is the hypothesis that information structure represents the common interface of these grammatical components. Information structure is investigated here from different theoretical viewpoints yielding typologically relevant information and structural generalizations. In the volume's introductory chapter, the editors identify two central approaches to information structure: the formal and the interpretive view. The remainder of the book is organized accordingly. The first part examines information structure and grammar, concentrating on generalizations across languages. The second part investigates information structure and pragmatics, concentrating on clause structure and context. Through concrete analyses of topic, focus, and related phenomena across different languages, the contributors add new and convincing evidence to the research on information structure.

Transitivity
Transitivity

Author: Patrick Brandt

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9027255490

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What happens when a canonically transitive form meets a canonically transitive meaning, and what happens when this doesn t happen? How do dyadic forms relate to monadic ones, and what are the entailments of the operations that the grammar uses to relate one to the other? Collecting original expert work from acquisition, processing, typological and theoretical syntax-semantics research, this volume provides a state of the art as well as cutting edge discussion of central issues in the realm of Transitivity. These include the definition and role of "Natural Transitivity," the interpretation and repercussions of valency changing operations and differential case marking, and the interactions between (in)transitive Gestalts in different categories and at different levels of representation."

Perfect Explorations
Perfect Explorations

Author: Artemis Alexiadou

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 9783110172294

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This series consists of collected volumes and monographs about specific issues dealing with interfaces among the subcomponents of linguistic structure: phonology-morphology, phonology-syntax, syntax-semantics, syntax-morphology, and syntax-lexicon. Recent linguistic research has recognized that the subcomponents of grammar interact in non-trivial ways. What is currently under debate is the actual range of such interactions and their most appropriate representation in grammar, and this is precisely the focus of this series. Specifically, it provides a general overview of various topics by examining them through the interaction of grammatical components. The books function as a state-of- the-art report of research.

Contrastive Pragmatics
Contrastive Pragmatics

Author: Karin Aijmer

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9027286647

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We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).