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Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino's films, humorous dialogues from "Sex and the City", witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama's speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume. The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Dynel, Marta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
Subjects:
Discourse analysis > Congresses.
Language.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Vocabulary.
REFERENCE > Word Lists.
Discourse analysis
Conference papers and proceedings
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Where lexicon meets cognition : can crisis construction and legitimization of policies be studied through lemma patterns? / Piotr Cap
  • Deictic centre and conceptualisation of clusivity : a case study of Barack Obama's pre-election speeches / Anna Ewa Wieczorek
  • A functional analysis of the New Testament dialogues : ideology in light of functional sentence perspective / Martin Adam
  • Discourse approaches to specialised and popular academic English : comparing stance, hedges and modality / Josef Schmied
  • A note on legal discourse semantics and J.L Austin's theory of speech acts / Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
  • Communicating legal knowledge : an exploratory multi-dimensional study of legal academic genres / Stanisław Goźdź-Roszkowski
  • Unspeakable words : the taboo fringe of the lexicon / David Singleton
  • The role of questions in talk shows / Anita Schirm
  • 'Laughter' in L2 computer-mediated discourse / Charlotte Taylor
  • Add humour to your ad : humour in advertising slogans / Marta Dynel
  • Bakhtinian dialogical communication and pragmatic markers / Bledar Toska
  • Different languages, different contextualization resources : politeness and discourse strategies in English and in Japanese / Ippei Inoue
  • Semantic and pragmatic functions of GA-clefts in Japanese / Chiaki Kumamoto
  • Functional equivalence and domestication strategies in film translation / Ilaria Parini
  • Translating language-specific and culture-specific humor for the screen : the case of Sex and the city / Julia Stelter
  • Orthographic depth and psycholinguistic grain size : an attempt to explain differences in reading accuracy and speed across languages / Joanna Nijakowska
  • Building L2 communicative confidence through interlingual tasks : towards function-focused L2 learning / Bogusława Whyatt.

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