 | Speakers, Listeners and Communication: Explorations in Discourse Analysis
Publication Date: September 29, 1995| ISBN-10: 0521481570 | ISBN-13: 978-0521481571Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. The focus of her attention is on the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; and her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges current sociological/anthropological persp...
 |  | Semiotics and Legal Theory (Legal Semiotics Monographs)
Publication Date: June 1, 1997| Series: Legal Semiotics Monographs Semiotics and Legal Theory is an exercise in exposition, comparison, criticism, and construction. Jackson takes two very different intellectual traditions - structuralist semiotics as represented by A.J. Greimas and modern (mainly positivist) legal theory as represented by Hart, MacCormick, Dworkin, and Kelsen¡Xand by juxtaposing them seeks to clarify and assess their respective semiotic presuppositions, in order to lay some foundations for a semiotically sensitive theory of law.This book is designed for both jurists and...
|  | Rhetorical Figures in Science
Publication Date: July 1, 1999| ISBN-10: 0195117506 | ISBN-13: 978-0195117509A comprehensive guide to the language of argument, Rhetorical Style offers a renewed appreciation of the persuasive power of the English language. Drawing on key tests from the rhetorical tradition, as well as on newer approaches from linguistics and literary stylistics, Fahnestock demonstrates how word choice, sentence form, and passage construction can combine to create effective spoken and written arguments. With examples from political speeches, non-fiction works, and newspaper reports, Rhetorical Style surv...
|  | A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Publication Date: December 30, 1991| ISBN-10: 0313273642 | ISBN-13: 978-0313273643Thirty-three leading American and British playwrights, from Robert Anderson to Paul Zindel, discuss their views on their own work and contemporary drama, and offer projections about theater for the 21st century. Proceeding from the premise that recent drama in various ways is a reaction to the modernism of Theater of the Absurd, the interviewer, John DiGaetani, terms the diverse responses "postmodernism." This concept, while not universally accepted by the playwrights interviewed, becomes a point of departu...
| | Spectacular Allegories: Postmodern American Writing and the Politics of Seeing
Publication Date: June 1, 1998In a wide-ranging study, Josh Cohen argues that the American fixation with "image" - literally celebrating the surface, the visual, the spectacular spaces of the cinema and the city - has produced a crisis of literary perception, with crucial cultural and political consequences. Using the work of Walter Benjamin to underscore his analysis, Cohen explores the implications of this postmodern obsession in a series of fascinating readings of contemporary American fiction - Norman Mailer, James Ellory, Robert Coover and Joan Didion amongst others - and draws on new t...
| | The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution 1642-1660
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|  | Russian Postmodernist Metafiction
Publication Date: April 11, 2011| ISBN-10: 3034306091 | ISBN-13: 978-3034306096One of the most outstanding properties of Russian postmodernist fiction is its reliance on metafictional devices which foreground aspects of the writing, reading or structure, and draw attention to the constructed nature of fiction writing. Some common metafictional strategies include overt commentary on the process of writing, the presence of an obtrusive narrator, dehumanization of character, total breakdown of temporal and spatial organization and the undermining of specific literary conventions. This book ...
|  | Science, Technology, and Latin American Narrative in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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|  | Self As Narrative: Subjectivity and Community in Contemporary Fiction (Oxford English Monographs)
Publication Date: August 29, 1996| ISBN-10: 019818364X | ISBN-13: 978-0198183648Remembrance and self-reflection are narrative acts in which we create, rather than simply retrieve, our personal pasts and hence our conceptions of who we are. Self as Narrative considers the human capacity to evaluate, modify, and move between a plurality of communal and communicative contexts in the creation of meaningful narratives of selfhood. ...
|  | Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity
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|  | Speaking Culturally: Language Diversity in the United States
Publication Date: October 12, 1999| ISBN-10: 0803959117 | ISBN-13: 978-0803959118| Edition: 1 In Speaking Culturally Fern Johnson probes the rich cultural legacies and deep cultural dimensions underlying discourse in the United States. This culturally rich examination of discourse places the changing demographics of the United States in linguistic perspective and draws upon the author’s "language-centered perspective on culture" to illuminate the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans. Language is placed in the context...
|  | Romancing the Postmodern
Publication Date: July 21, 1992| ISBN-10: 041507987X | ISBN-13: 978-0415079877| Edition: 1 "Romancing the Postmodern" exposes the theory of romance to the romance of theory, outlining the implications for feminism of literature's least easily definable genre. By re-aligning the two powerful genres of postmodernism and romance, Diane Elam highlights what is unique to postmodernism about the definition of history, and reintroduces the previously hidden figure of woman in the light of new gender definitions. Elam offers a new theoretical stance, reaching back to literature's greatest romant...
|  | Signs of Change: Premodern - Modern - Postmodern (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature, 4)
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|  | Social Work Practices: Contemporary Perspectives on Change
Publication Date: January 28, 2000| ISBN-10: 0761962727 | ISBN-13: 978-0761962724| Edition: 1 Karen Healy profoundly challenges, in the context of the postmodernity of late capitalism, many of the assumptions upon which the critical tradition in social work has been founded. This is a book which interrogates not only the emancipatory metanarratives of left perspectives from her position within the left, but also questions many of the received ideas about her professional power and identity, and about the kinds of social work practices necessary in order to continue to pursue welfare as a...
|  | Second Language Conversations (Advances in Applied Linguistics)
Publication Date: June 2004| ISBN-10: 0826469086 | ISBN-13: 978-0826469083| Edition: Pbk. Ed Conversations involving speakers whose first language is not the language in which they are talking have become widespread in the globalized world. Migration and increased travel for business or pleasure - as well as communication through new technologies such as the internet - make Second Language Conversations an increasingly common everyday event. Here, Conversation Analysis is used to explore natural, casual talk between speakers in a second language. The contributors shift emphasis away from...
|  | Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics in Postmodern Realisms
Publication Date: April 19, 2010Postmodernism's critics often accuse the movement of being dangerously amoral due to its apparent wariness of concepts such as truth, ethics and justice. "Stories of the Middle Space" explores the possibility of 'postmodernism-with-a-conscience' and examines a variety of British and Canadian postmodern fiction to show how twentieth-century critical theory can be brought into fruitful dialogue with a faith-based perspective. Highlighting the wide variety of ethical concerns considered by writers such as Timothy Findley, Thomas King, Carol Shields, Julian Barnes...
|  | Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism/No. 2 (Bucknell Review, V. 25, No. 2)
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|  | Speech Acts and Conversational Interaction
Publication Date: January 26, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521464994 | ISBN-13: 978-0521464994This study proposes a new theory of speech acts, Dynamic Speech Act Theory. It is predicated on the assumption that speech act theory, if it is to be of genuine empirical and theoretical significance, must be embedded within a general theory of conversational competence capable of accounting for how we do things with words in naturally occurring conversation, and it synthesizes traditional speech act theory, conversation analysis, and artificial intelligence research in natural language processing. ...
|  | Roman Constructions: Readings in Postmodern Latin
Publication Date: March 16, 2000| ISBN-10: 0198153090 | ISBN-13: 978-0198153092Roman Constructions collects together twelve published and unpublished papers on Latin literature and literary theory from 1989 to 1999. The papers share a common "postmodern" emphasis on the role of the modern scholar and critic in the construction, rather than recreation, of meaning, and attempt to show how this approach works in detailed readings of a number of Latin authors, above all Vergil. The papers deal with such topics as point of view and focalization, intertextuality, historical contextualization, ...
|  | Revising Life Through Literature: Dialogical Change from the Reformation through Postmodernism
Publication Date: April 6, 2006| ISBN-10: 0810857197 | ISBN-13: 978-0810857193After the Reformation, science superseded both religion and literature as the favored source of knowledge. As people became free of a catechism of rote responses, they found the concept of self-determination both liberating and terrifying. Literature stepped in by providing examples of fictional characters that made choices in circumstances similar to the quandaries faced by readers—situations that could not be easily resolved by scripture alone. As a critical theory, dialogism makes our literary heritag...
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