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Understanding language through humor /
"Students often struggle to understand linguistic concepts through examples of language data provided in class or in texts. Presented with ambiguous information, students frequently respond that they do not 'get it'. The solution is to find an example of humour that relies on the targ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Talking to Garfield; 3 Did I hear that right?; Letters and sounds; Phonetics (actual sounds)and phonemics (the idea of those sounds); Traversing the phonetic
- phonemic divide; Words together, words apart; Word pastimes; Spoonerisms; Malapropisms; Mondegreens; 4 Twisted words; Prefixes, suffixesaffixes; Compound words; Clipping old words and growing new ones; Idioms; Reduplication; Brands and generics; Sound-alikes, spell-alikes, and shades of meaning; Bushisms and Steven Colbertisms; 5 Fitting words together.
- Structural ambiguity and the grouping of words in a sentenceVerbs and their objects; Using (and misusing)pronouns; All the monkeys are not in the zoo and other semantic ambiguities; 6 Meaning one thing and saying another; Deixis; Direct vs. indirect speech; Speech acts and performatives; Cooperative Principles of conversation; Presupposition; 7 Fitting the pieces together; Structure; Repetition; Pronouns; Known to new information; Conceptual patterns; Conversational structure; Context; Whos talking to whom; Speakers; Listeners; The where and when of discourse; The channels of discourse; Genre.
- Genres in generalGenres of humor; 8 "Kids say the darndest things"; The development of phonology (speech sounds); The development of word meaning; Syntactic development; A guide to "caregiver speech" (how adults talk to children); A final word: child language acquisition, television, and parenting styles; 9 Variety is the spice of life; Types of varieties; How varieties sound; Variable vocabularies; Variable grammars; Variable uses and style-switching; 10 Cross-cultural gaffes; Pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar; Conversational misfires; 11 The language police.
- Soft enforcement: standardization and grammatical correctnessHard enforcement: language and politics; Offensive speech and using humor to evade enforcement; 12 So long, and thanks for all the fish ... ; Notes; Glossary; Index.