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Language And World Creation In Poems And Other Texts

by Elena Semino

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 <p><i>Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts</i> introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates in detail three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis, possible world theory and schema theory are included, making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks. </p>
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Language And World Creation In Poems And Other Texts

by Elena Semino

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 <p><i>Language and World Creation in Poems and Other Texts</i> introduces an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts. The book demonstrates in detail three ways of approaching poetic text worlds, namely as discourse situations, possible worlds, and mental constructs. Clear and detailed introductions to linguistic theories of definiteness and deixis, possible world theory and schema theory are included, making the book accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with these frameworks. </p>
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Language In Literature - Style And Foregrounding

by Geoffrey Leech

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p>Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. </p><p>In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. </p><p>Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the flight from the text that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. </p><p>The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.<strong> </strong></p>
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Language In Literature - Style And Foregrounding

by Geoffrey Leech

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 <p>Over a period of over forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the mystery of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. </p><p>In this book, seven earlier papers and articles, read previously only by a restricted audience, have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart. </p><p>Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the flight from the text that has characterized thinking about language and literature in the last thirty years, when the response of the reader, rather than the characteristics and meaning potential of the text itself, have been given undue prominence. </p><p>The book provides an enlightening analysis of well-known (as well as less well-known) texts of great writers of the past, including Keats, Shelley, Samuel Johnson, Shaw, Dylan Thomas, and Virginia Woolf.<strong> </strong></p>
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Language And Characterisation - People In Plays And Other Texts

by Jonathan Culpeper

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 <p>Textual Explorations General Editors-<br>Mick Short, Lancaster University<br>Elena Semino, Lancaster University<br>The focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, and the theoretical issues which such work raises. Textual Explorations will include books that cover studies of literary authors, genres and other groupings, stylistic studies of non-literary texts, translation study, the teaching of language and literature, the empirical study of literature, and corpus approaches to stylistics and literature study. Books in the series will centre on texts written in English. Readership of the series is mainly undergraduate and postgraduate students, although advanced sixth formers will also find the books accessible. The series will be of particular interest to those who study English language, English literature, text linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies. </p><p><em>Language & Characterisation- People in Plays & Other Texts</em> explores how the words of a text create a particular impression of a character in the reader''s mind. Drawing together theories from linguistics, social cognition and literary stylistics, it is the first book-length study to focus on:</p><ul> <li>the role of language and characterisation</li> <li>characterisation in the dialogue of play texts</li> </ul><p>Containing numerous examples from Shakespeare''s plays, the book also considers a wide range of other genres, including, prose fiction, verse, films, advertisements, jokes and newspapers. Language and Characterisation is as practical as it is theoretical and equips readers with analytical frameworks to reveal and explain both the cognitive and the linguistic sides of characterisation. Clear and detailed introductions are given to the theories, and useful suggestions for further analysis are also made at the end of each part of the book. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers of language, literature and communication. </p>
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Language And Characterisation - People In Plays And Other Texts

by Jonathan Culpeper

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 <p>Textual Explorations General Editors-<br>Mick Short, Lancaster University<br>Elena Semino, Lancaster University<br>The focus of this series is on the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, and the theoretical issues which such work raises. Textual Explorations will include books that cover studies of literary authors, genres and other groupings, stylistic studies of non-literary texts, translation study, the teaching of language and literature, the empirical study of literature, and corpus approaches to stylistics and literature study. Books in the series will centre on texts written in English. Readership of the series is mainly undergraduate and postgraduate students, although advanced sixth formers will also find the books accessible. The series will be of particular interest to those who study English language, English literature, text linguistics, discourse analysis and communication studies. </p><p><em>Language & Characterisation- People in Plays & Other Texts</em> explores how the words of a text create a particular impression of a character in the reader''s mind. Drawing together theories from linguistics, social cognition and literary stylistics, it is the first book-length study to focus on:</p><ul> <li>the role of language and characterisation</li> <li>characterisation in the dialogue of play texts</li> </ul><p>Containing numerous examples from Shakespeare''s plays, the book also considers a wide range of other genres, including, prose fiction, verse, films, advertisements, jokes and newspapers. Language and Characterisation is as practical as it is theoretical and equips readers with analytical frameworks to reveal and explain both the cognitive and the linguistic sides of characterisation. Clear and detailed introductions are given to the theories, and useful suggestions for further analysis are also made at the end of each part of the book. The book will be essential reading for students and researchers of language, literature and communication. </p>
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Poetics Of Science Fiction

by Peter Stockwell

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 <p><i>The Poetics of Science Fiction</i> uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context. The discussion ranges from a detailed investigation of new words and metaphors, to the exploration of new worlds, from pulp science fiction to the genre''s literary masterpieces, its special effects and poetic expression. Speculations and extrapolations throughout the book engage the reader in thought-experiments and discussion points, with selected further reading making it a useful source book for classroom and seminar.</p>
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Poetics Of Science Fiction

by Peter Stockwell

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 <p><i>The Poetics of Science Fiction</i> uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context. The discussion ranges from a detailed investigation of new words and metaphors, to the exploration of new worlds, from pulp science fiction to the genre''s literary masterpieces, its special effects and poetic expression. Speculations and extrapolations throughout the book engage the reader in thought-experiments and discussion points, with selected further reading making it a useful source book for classroom and seminar.</p>
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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis And Stylistic Variation In Spoken And Written English

by Peter Wilson

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 <p> We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact, full of gaps, because speakers and writers operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be understood rather than expressed. This book systematically analyses this inherent gappiness of language, known as ellipsis, and provides an account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational, which affect its use. Peter Wilson draws on a wide variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to present a comprehensive classification of elliptical language that ranges from the conversational fragment and the advertisement to the dialogue of Shakespeare and imagist poetry. <i>Mind the Gap </i>shows how ellipsis is a feature of major structural and stylistic importance to our understanding of spoken and written language, and will be of interest to undergraduate students of linguistics, literature, communication and the interrelations between them..</p>
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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis And Stylistic Variation In Spoken And Written English

by Peter Wilson

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 <p> We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact, full of gaps, because speakers and writers operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be understood rather than expressed. This book systematically analyses this inherent gappiness of language, known as ellipsis, and provides an account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational, which affect its use. Peter Wilson draws on a wide variety of examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and non-literary to present a comprehensive classification of elliptical language that ranges from the conversational fragment and the advertisement to the dialogue of Shakespeare and imagist poetry. <i>Mind the Gap </i>shows how ellipsis is a feature of major structural and stylistic importance to our understanding of spoken and written language, and will be of interest to undergraduate students of linguistics, literature, communication and the interrelations between them..</p>
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Language In Literature - Style And Foregrounding

by Geoffrey Leech

58,12€ + 10% CARD

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 Leech sets the concept of foregrounding (also known as defamiliarization) at the heart of the interplay between form and interpretation. Through practical and insightful examination of how poems, plays and prose works produce special meaning, he counteracts the 'flight from the text'.
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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis And Stylistic Variation In Spoken And Written English

by Peter Wilson

85,16€ + 10% CARD

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 Examining the "gappiness" of language technically known as ellipsis, this text provides an account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational which affect its use.
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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis And Stylistic Variation In Spoken And Written English

by Peter Wilson

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Language And World Creation In Poems And Other Texts

by Elena Semino

209,54€ + 10% CARD

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The Poetics Of Science Fiction

by Peter (University Of Nottingham, Uk) Stockwell

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Language And Characterisation - People In Plays And Other Texts

by Jonathan (Lancaster University, Uk) Culpeper

232,51€ + 10% CARD

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Language In Literature - Style And Foregrounding

by Geoffrey Leech

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Powderhorn

by Joseph Mcinerny

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Inner Vision - The Sculpture Of Michael Naranjo

by Michael Naranjo

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Rehabilitation Medicine And Thermography

by Mathew H.M. Lee e Md, Jeffrey M. Cohen

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Language And World Creation In Poems And Other Texts

by Elena Semino

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 This is an interdisciplinary and practical approach to the analysis of poetry which focuses on text worlds, namely the contexts, scenarios or types of reality that readers construct in their interaction with the language of texts.
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The Poetics Of Science Fiction

by Peter (University Of Nottingham, Uk) Stockwell

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 Uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the 20th century, the book uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context.
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Language And Characterisation - People In Plays And Other Texts

by Jonathan (Lancaster University, Uk) Culpeper

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 Drawing together theories from linguistics, social cognition and literary stylistics, this book focuses on the role of language and characterization in the dialogue of play texts. Containing numerous examples from Shakespeare's plays, the book also considers other genres, such as films and verse.

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