[PDF] From Form To Meaning eBook

Author : David Fleming
Publisher : Pitt Series in Composition, Li
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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.

Author : Charles J. Fillmore
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Fey Parrill
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Connotation (Linguistics).
ISBN : 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.

Author : Bill VanPatten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 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.

Author : Patrick Brandt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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."

Author : Susan Kesner Bland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780194343664

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An informative, flexible, and easy-to-use grammar reference and practice book.

Author : Max Nänny
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027221797

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Annotation Presents selected papers from a March 1997 symposium held in Zurich, in sections on general topics, sound and rhythm, typography and graphic design, word-formation, and syntax and discourse. Studies explore iconicity from two different angles. A first group of scholars is especially interested in how far the primary code, the code of grammar, is influenced by iconic motivation and how originally iconic models have become conventionalized. A second group of contributors is more interested in the presence of iconicity as part of the secondary code. Specific subjects include imagination by ideophones, the visual poetry of e. e. cummings, and iconic use of syntax in fiction. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 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).