 | Variation in Second Language Acquisition: Discourse and Pragmatics (Multilingual Matters, 49-50)
Publication Date: January 1989| Series: Multilingual Matters, 49-50 These volumes present a number of solutions to the problems of studying variability in second language acquisition. The contributors combine insights from recent research in a number of fields - quantitative sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, language typology, social psychology, the sociology of language, ethnomethodology, pidgin-creole studies - which expose the richness of approaches represented in the volumes. A generalized view of second language acquisition, sensitive to both socio- an...
 | | 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. ...
|  | W. H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics
Publication Date: January 15, 2000| ISBN-10: 031222138X | ISBN-13: 978-0312221386This study reads Auden's poetry and plays through the shifts from modernism to postmodernism. It analyzes the experiments in Auden's writings for their engagement with crucial contemporary problems: that of the individual in relation to others, loved ones, community, society, but also transcendental truths. It shows that rather than providing firm answers, Auden's poetry emphasized the absence of certainties. Yet far from becoming nihilistic, it generates hope, affection, and most importantly an ethical chal...
|  | Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity
Publication Date: January 8, 1998| ISBN-10: 0198159471 | ISBN-13: 978-0198159476Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world. ...
|  | The Translated World: A Postmodern Tour of Libraries in Literature
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|  | Where 'Indians' Fear to Tread?: A Postmodern Reading of Louise Erdrich's North Dakota Quartet (Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas/ Studies in North)
Publication Date: August 14, 2001| Series: Studien zu Geschichte, Politik und Gesellschaft Nordamerikas/ Studies in North (Book 18) The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern r...
|  | Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex
Release Date: August 22, 1990"[T]his collection is interesting and timely, and the attempt of many of the essays to re-establish what their authors usually call a humanistic criticism is a welcome and useful provocation." —Donald GrayIn this series of essays from Novel: A Forum on Fiction, a pantheon of scholars explores the conflict between "humanist" and "posthumanist" responses to questions about the novel's relevancy in postmodern times. ...
|  | The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: September 30, 1996| ISBN-10: 0313297193 | ISBN-13: 978-0313297199Since 1950, when his short stories first appeared, Kurt Vonnegut has published almost 50 short stories, 13 novels, twoplays, and a teleplay. He has remained one of the shrewdest commentators—and often harshest critics—of American society, challenging the complacency of the Eisenhower years, watching the Kennedy's with admiration, and disliking Nixon. He has remained one of the most important chroniclers of American life, his message often foreboding though rarely gloomy. Yet he occupies an am...
|  | TYPOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF LINGUIST
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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...
|  | 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...
|  | The A to Z of Postmodernist Literature and Theater (The A to Z Guide Series)
Publication Date: July 23, 2009| ISBN-10: 0810868555 | ISBN-13: 978-0810868557Postmodernist literature embraces a wide range of forms and perspectives, including texts that are primarily self-reflexive; texts that use pastiche, burlesque, parody, intertextuality and hybrid forms to create textual realities that either run in opposition to or in parallel with an external reality; fabulations that develop both of these strategies; texts that ironize their relationship to reality; works that use the aspects already noted to more fully engage with political or cultural realities; texts that ...
|  | The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence
Publication Date: November 4, 1994Much of the critical writing on the fiction of Alice Munro has explored and emphasized Munro's 'realism'. But her stories frequently turn on what has been left out; they are rife with unsent (unfinished) letters, with things people mean to, but do not, say or tell. Ajay Heble's study focuses on Munro's involvement with a 'discourse of absence' and suggests that our understanding of these texts often depends not only on what happens in the fiction, but also on what might have happened.Munro's stories confer their meaning not simply by referring to an outer re...
|  | Thinking Difference: Critics in Conversation (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy)
Publication Date: May 18, 2004| ISBN-10: 0823223086 | ISBN-13: 978-0823223084| Edition: 2 Differencehas been a term of choice in the humanities for the last few decades, animating an extraordinary variety of work in philosophy, literary studies, religion, law, the social sciences-indeed, in virtually every area of the academy.In projects ranging from deconstructive readings of canonical texts to a radical rethinking of the sacred, differencehas been the node around which theorists have explored questions of conflict, power, identity, meaning, and knowledge itself in postmodern culture. A...
|  | 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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|  | True Relations: Essays on Autobiography and the Postmodern (Contributions to the Study of World Literature)
Publication Date: January 21, 1998| ISBN-10: 0313305099 | ISBN-13: 978-0313305092The essays in this collection explore new directions in autobiography studies. Examining a wide range of texts, from narratives of suicide survivors, cross-dressers, and people with HIV/AIDS to self-representations in the visual arts, the collection demonstrates how writers have used the postmodern experience fragmentation to forge new kinds of identities.Postmodern selves, the essayists argue, are relational selves, constructed from the acute need to find identity through collaboration with others. Postmode...
|  | The Unravelling of the Postmodern Mind
Publication Date: February 15, 2001Can the postmodern decide things? Can it oppose abuses of fantasy and power, and resist the attractions of violence? Who stands to gain from postmodernity? Cristopher Nash sets out these questions and more, taking the view that the entire body of writing on postmodernity needs to be reread. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Work, Postmodernism and Organization: A Critical Introduction (Organization, Theory and Society series)
Publication Date: May 2, 2001| ISBN-10: 0761959440 | ISBN-13: 978-0761959441| Edition: 1 Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization.The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice.Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and post...
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