 | Analyzing Conversation: Rules and Units in the Structure of Talk (Language and Communication Library)
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 | ADVANCES WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS CL
Publication Date: April 8, 1994| ISBN-10: 0415095190 | ISBN-13: 978-0415095198| Edition: 1 This work provides an overview of a wide range of approaches to written text analysis. It includes both classic and specially commissioned papers by distinguished authors, which share a common linguistic framework. The pieces contain a variety of focuses from the patterning of paragraphs, sections or whole texts to the organization of clauses, individual expressions and single words, as well as a variety of text-types. The examples used range from pure science through social science, academic journ...
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 | Anaphora, Discourse, and Understanding: Evidence from English and French
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0198236484 | ISBN-13: 978-0198236481"This was a different man," said Mr Welbecker. "Listen! This man was called Hamlet and his uncle had killed his father because he wanted to marry his mother." "What did he want to marry his mother for?" said William. "I've never heard of anyone wanting to marry their mother."* In almost any conversation the meaning of what is said depends on the listener seeing how some words refer to what has already been said, and that others must be related to the characteristics of time, place, or person of the situation aro...
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 | Acquiring Conversational Competence (Language, Education & Society Series)
Publication Date: September 8, 1983| ISBN-10: 0710094590 | ISBN-13: 978-0710094599Examines how children and adults use language to perform a variety of informational, social and poetic functions - to introduce, sustain and elaborate topics, to provide relevant responses and to play. ...
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 | Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk and Culture in America (Advances in Discourse Processes)
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 | Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism (Studies in Literature and Religion (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England).)
Publication Date: June 1996| Series: Studies in Literature and Religion (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England). Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts ...
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 | An Aesthetics Of Vulnerability: The Sentimentum and The Novels Of Graham Swift (Gothenburg Studies in English)
Publication Date: December 31, 2003| ISBN-10: 9173464791 | ISBN-13: 978-9173464796This is a Ph.D. dissertation. Arguing against the view that postmodernism is marked by "the waning of affect," this book investigates the fate of sentimentality in postmodernist fiction. The investigation focuses on the novels of the British author, Graham Swift, tracing in them the emergence of a blending of representations of sentimentality with a postmodernist aesthetics and a postmodern ethico-spiritual imagination - a blending resulting in what is designated by the shorthand "the sentimentum." The expr...
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 | Applicative Constructions (Oxford Studies in Typology and Linguistic Theory)
Publication Date: March 1, 2007| ISBN-10: 0199270929 | ISBN-13: 978-0199270927| Edition: 1 This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and why they have changed over time. ...
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| After Theory: Postmodernism/Postmarxism
Publication Date: June 1990| ISBN-10: 0415041791 | ISBN-13: 978-0415041799"After Theory" proposes a post-Marxist attitude to theory as a means to escape the twentieth century cloistering of critique, and the consequent resistance of society to change through radical thought. This book should be of interest to advanced students and teachers of modernist and postmodern literature. ...
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 | American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer
Publication Date: August 29, 2005| ISBN-10: 0761832505 | ISBN-13: 978-0761832508| Edition: 1St Edition How is terrorism transformed into media entertainment? What is the connection between affirmative action and narcissism? Why has pathos become an endangered-perhaps an extinct-species in the contemporary American psyche? In American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer, Steven Carter addresses these and other questions that have helped to define American popular culture since the nineteen-sixties.Cover painting: Kyle Margiotta, Baja, 1999. Oil on canvas. ...
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| Alternate Worlds: A Study of Postmodern Antirealistic American Fiction
Publication Date: July 1, 1991"Plot, character, setting and theme", according to John Hawkes, perhaps the first post-World War II antirealist, constitute "the true enemies of the novel". Working from that position, John Kuehl looks at 11 literary traits the post modern antirealist finds user friendly, in a pattern search through the works of some of today's most imaginative writers - Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Gass, Pynchon and Vonnegut, to name only a few - from some who have made it to the top of the bestseller lists to other barely known outside academic circles. Framing the study are an i...
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 | Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age (American Studies - a Monograph Series)
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 | After Postmodernism: Reconstructing Ideology Critique (Inquiries in Social Construction series)
Publication Date: November 11, 1994| ISBN-10: 080398877X | ISBN-13: 978-0803988774This interdisciplinary book addresses the key questions posed by the postmodernist challenge: Is it possible to reflect and criticize in an age when every claim to truth is placed under suspicion? Are social critics contaminated by the same ideological distortions they identify in society?The text reviews different responses to such dilemmas and thus examines ways to reconstruct social theory and critique following the postmodern attack on the traditional foundations of knowledge. Whether looking at politic...
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 | The age of iron and other interludes (Archives of post-modern literature, no. 102)
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 | Applying Conversation Analysis
Release Date: August 11, 2005| ISBN-10: 1403942331 | ISBN-13: 978-1403942333| Edition: First Edition This book explores the relationship between conversation analysis and applied linguistics, demonstrating how the analysis of institutional talk can contribute to professional practice. With a foreword by Paul Drew, the core of the collection brings together researchers from a wide range of applied areas, dealing with topics such as language impairment and speech therapy, medical general practice, retailing, cross-cultural training, radio journalism, higher education and language teaching ...
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 | Any Good Movies? Commentaries on Our Modern Literature
Publication Date: 2006Fate and free will. Modernity. Postmodernism. In Any Good Movies? Phil Steele talks back to over 500 films in commentaries that see cinema as a principal currency of our culture and are not just helpful to deciding what movies to watch but are especially for people who like to think and talk about what they've just seen on the screen. ...
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 | Analyzing Language in Restricted Domains: Sublanguage Description and Processing
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| Analysing Talk (Studies in English Language)
Publication Date: August 23, 1994| ISBN-10: 0333428595 | ISBN-13: 978-0333428597The book offers a step-by-step approach to the task of describing what is systematic in conversational behaviour. The book is organised as a series of practical exercises, teaching skills such as transcribing verbal interaction and identifying and describing special events'. An investigation is made into how participants show awareness of patterns of speech structure (eg taking turns and interrupting). ...
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 | Apocalypse and After: Modern Strategy and Postmodern Tactics in Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky
Publication Date: January 30, 1995 Apocalypse and After examines the development of Modernism into Postmodernism as it occurs in the works of three major poets and attends closely to the social and political dimensions of that development as embodied in these writers’ distinctive poetics. Modernism’s struggle to develop a new global strategy was to a great extent a response to the catastrophe of World War I, while the Postmodern resort to fragmentary tactics stems from the failure of Modernist strategy both to avert World War II and to come to terms with ...
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 | About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture (Religion and Postmodernism)
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0226791610 | ISBN-13: 978-0226791616| Edition: 1 "Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it.Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion app...
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