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Drawn From The Ground - Sound, Sign And Inscription In Central Australian Sand Stories

by Jennifer (University Of Melbourne) Green

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 Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. This detailed study takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together.
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Demonstratives In Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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 Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in communication. This book is for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and psychology interested in demonstratives, a key anchor tying language to the world.
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Drawn From The Ground - Sound, Sign And Inscription In Central Australian Sand Stories

by Jennifer Green

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 Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. This detailed study takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together.
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Questions - Formal, Functional And Interactional Perspectives

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 Bringing together a team of formal linguists, functional linguists, discourse analysts, anthropologists, psychologists and sociolinguists, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes. The volume includes data from a range of languages and cultures.
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Drawn From The Ground - Sound, Sign And Inscription In Central Australian Sand Stories

by Jennifer Green

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. This detailed study takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together.
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Event Representation In Language And Cognition

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 Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.
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Drawn From The Ground - Sound, Sign And Inscription In Central Australian Sand Stories

by Jennifer (University Of Melbourne) Green

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 Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. This detailed study takes a multimodal approach to the analysis of the stories and shows how the expressive elements used in the stories are orchestrated together.
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The Anatomy Of Meaning - Speech, Gesture, And Composite Utterances

by N. J. (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) Enfield

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 To understand what others are saying, we rely on more than just words. This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily movements to create unified 'composite utterances'. It presents original case studies based on research of speakers of Lao (a language of Southeast Asia).
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Questions - Formal, Functional And Interactional Perspectives

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 Bringing together a team of formal linguists, functional linguists, discourse analysts, anthropologists, psychologists and sociolinguists, this book asks what questions do and how a question can shape the answer it evokes. The volume includes data from a range of languages and cultures.
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Event Representation In Language And Cognition

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 Event Representation in Language and Cognition examines new research into how the mind deals with the experience of events. The book highlights the newly found evidence which indicates the imposition of boundary conditions on the structure and processing of events and how these are then interpreted by the mind.
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Language, Culture, And Mind - Natural Constructions And Social Kinds

by Paul (Barnard College, Columbia University) Kockelman

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 Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It will be of interest to researchers and students working within the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, psychology, and philosophy.
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Systems Of Nominal Classification

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 This volume, first published in 2000, addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification. Leading scholars review the whole spectrum of nominal classification, from gender systems through to numeral classifiers, providing theoretical interpretations and empirical case studies across a variety of languages.
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Grammars Of Space - Explorations In Cognitive Diversity

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 In this collection, a team of leading linguists and psychologists look at how the spatial domain is structured in language. Drawing on data from a wide range of languages, they uncover considerable cross-linguistic variation across this central domain, adding to debates about the innate foundations of human cognition.
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Person Reference In Interaction - Linguistic, Cultural And Social Perspectives

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 In this book, a team of linguists, sociologists and anthropologists examine how we refer to other people in everyday conversation. Illustrated with authentic data from nine languages from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and culture.
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Space In Language And Cognition - Explorations In Cognitive Diversity

by Stephen C. (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands) Levinson

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 In this 2003 book, Stephen C. Levinson uses differences between languages to explore the relation between language and thought. He shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions.
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Language And Conceptualization

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 To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? This volume is one of the first attempts to tackle explicitly the issue of the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representation from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.
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Language Acquisition And Conceptual Development

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 Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from this rapidly evolving field of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing together two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue.
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Language And Gesture

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 This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologist, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the art analyses to demonstrate that gestures are not merely an embellishment of speech but are integral parts of language itself.
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Language And Conceptualization

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 To what extent is conceptualization based on linguistic representation? And to what extent is it variable across cultures, communities, or even individuals? This volume is one of the first attempts to tackle explicitly the issue of the relationship between linguistic and conceptual representation from a truly interdisciplinary perspective.
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Language Acquisition And Conceptual Development

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 Recent years have seen a revolution in our knowledge of how children learn to think and speak. In this volume, leading scholars from this rapidly evolving field of research examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development, bringing together two vital strands of investigation into close dialogue.
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Demonstratives In Cross-Linguistic Perspective

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 Demonstratives with their pointing gestures are amongst the first words that children learn, and they have fascinated theorists by the combination of slender semantic content and the practical force in communication. This book is for researchers and students in linguistics, philosophy and psychology interested in demonstratives, a key anchor tying language to the world.
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Person Reference In Interaction - Linguistic, Cultural And Social Perspectives

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 In this book, a team of linguists, sociologists and anthropologists examine how we refer to other people in everyday conversation. Illustrated with authentic data from nine languages from the Americas to Asia to the South Pacific, it will be welcomed by researchers and graduate students interested in the relationship between language and culture.
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Tiltrotor Uav Design

by Ferit Aaakici

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Knowledge Management Processes In Small-Medium Enterprises

by Salina Daud e Wan Fadzilah Wan Yusoff

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