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Global Linguistics

An Introduction

By: Marcel Danesi,Andrea Rocci

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Global Linguistics

An Introduction

By: Marcel Danesi,Andrea Rocci

The book provides an introduction to an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that can be called "global linguistics" (GL). GL emerges to tackle the ever-growing phenomenon of intercultural communication (IC) in today's world of international contacts. The specific aim of GL is to look at the form and contents of dialogues among speakers of different cultural backgrounds who will use a "default language" or koiné (usually English) to interact, in order to detect communication breakdowns at various levels of "depth", as well as the opportunities for developing sound intercultural communication practice. The book includes an accessible presentation of fundamental questions concerning languages and language use. Among the questions addressed are the universal design features of languages, the connection between language and conceptual systems, how people use language to coordinate their actions and interact in a variety of social contexts, and the place of language in a semiotic view of culture. The volume also addresses how language, context and culture shape the way in which we argue a point and try to persuade other people, and why intercultural argumentation is both necessary and risky. Global Linguistics: An Introduction describes fundamental notions in linguistics and cognate fields and is thus well-suited for use as a textbook in courses dealing with IC in general. At the same time, the book is of general interest to scholars in linguistics and communication studies, as it places particular emphasis on theoretical models such as argumentation theory and conceptual metaphor theory, which are generally not presented in textbooks on language and IC.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110214040

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Modality in Argumentation

A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

By: Andrea Rocci

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Modality in Argumentation

A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

By: Andrea Rocci

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation.

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Springer

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9402410635

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9789402410631

Theology as Freedom

On Martin Luther's "De servo arbitrio"

By: Andrea Vestrucci

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Theology as Freedom

On Martin Luther's "De servo arbitrio"

By: Andrea Vestrucci

Back cover: Andrea Vestrucci presents a pioneering analysis of Martin Luther's "De servo arbitrio", one of the most challenging works of Christian theology. From the hidden God to predestination, from justification to ontology, from logic to aesthetics the author explores a paradigm-shifting perspective on theological language.

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Mohr Siebeck

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316156975X

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9783161569753

Exploring Multivariate Data with the Forward Search

By: Anthony C. Atkinson,Marco Riani,Andrea Cerioli

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Exploring Multivariate Data with the Forward Search

By: Anthony C. Atkinson,Marco Riani,Andrea Cerioli

This book is concerned with data in which the observations are independent and in which the response is multivariate. Companion book to Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis (ISBN 0-387-95017) published by Springer in 2000.

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642

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387218408

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9780387218403

Political Fellini

Journey to the End of Italy

By: Andrea Minuz

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Political Fellini

Journey to the End of Italy

By: Andrea Minuz

Federico Fellini is often considered a disengaged filmmaker, interested in self-referential dreams and grotesquerie rather than contemporary politics. This book challenges that myth by examining the filmmaker’s reception in Italy, and by exploring his films in the context of significant political debates. By conceiving Fellini’s cinema as an individual expression of the nation’s “mythical biography,” the director’s most celebrated themes and images — a nostalgia for childhood, unattainable female figures, fantasy, the circus, carnival — become symbols of Italy’s traumatic modernity and perpetual adolescence.

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Berghahn Books

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1782388206

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Modality in Argumentation

A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

By: Andrea Rocci

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A Semantic Investigation of the Role of Modalities in the Structure of Arguments with an Application to Italian Modal Expressions

By: Andrea Rocci

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Red Wine for Your Health

By: Andrea Schaffer

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Red Wine for Your Health

By: Andrea Schaffer

This book explores the history and tradition of wine as a curative agent. Schaffer decodes the French Paradox theory - a scientific experiment that found that in red wine-drinking cultures such as France, the rates of heart diseases and stroke were much lower than in countries where red wine is less-often consumed.

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Sasasota, Fla. : Sarasota Press, ; Toronto : Key Porter c2001.

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1553560019

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9781553560012

Global Linguistics

An Introduction

By: Marcel Danesi,Andrea Rocci

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An Introduction

By: Marcel Danesi,Andrea Rocci

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110214067

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Global Linguistics

Global Linguistics

Modality in Argumentation

Modality in Argumentation

Theology as Freedom

Theology as Freedom

Exploring Multivariate Data with the Forward Search

Exploring Multivariate Data with the Forward Search

Political Fellini

Political Fellini

Modality in Argumentation

Modality in Argumentation

Red Wine for Your Health

Red Wine for Your Health

Global Linguistics

Global Linguistics

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