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Where East Looks West

Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast

By: Dennis Kurzon

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Where East Looks West

Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast

By: Dennis Kurzon

The aim of the book is to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. The evidence seems to point, although inconclusively, to historical and sociolinguistic factors, some of which pertain to India as a whole, while others are unique to the Konkani-speaking regions.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853596736

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9781853596735

It is Hereby Performed

Explorations in Legal Speech Acts

By: Dennis Kurzon

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Explorations in Legal Speech Acts

By: Dennis Kurzon

This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as 'operative' in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated legislation; wills, the marriage ceremony and statutes as reversible performatives; and the distinction between the deictic function of this and the anaphoric function of that in legal documents. The final chapter is concerned with another text type, case reports, and addresses the question whether the judge makes or merely declares the law. This is discussed from the point of view of certain syntactic structures, in particular modal verbs.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027225567

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9789027225566

Discourse of Silence

By: Dennis Kurzon

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Discourse of Silence

By: Dennis Kurzon

The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency pairs to the interpretation of silence. A model is presented which attempts to explain the observer’s cognitive competence, and its limits, in being able to interpret the silent answer. A basic distinction is also made between intentional silence (the refusal to answer) and non-intentional silence (the psychological inability to answer). The interpretation of silence is extended from a theoretical viewpoint to an analysis of various discourse types. Firstly, silence in the legal world: the accused’s and the witness’s right of silence, the right of legal authorities to silence the broadcasting of direct speech. The author then analyzes the silencing of characters in a literary text (Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice), in a biblical text (Moses and his speech impediment in Exodus), in opera (Moses’ silence in Schoenberg’s opera Moses und Aron) and in the cinema. Here, after the initial discussion of Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence, focus is shifted to the generation gap and the representation of silence by song in Mike Nichols’ The Graduate.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027282609

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9789027282606

Where East Looks West

Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast

By: Dennis Kurzon

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Success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coast

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Neurobiology of Mental Illness

By: Dennis S. Charney,Eric J. Nestler

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Neurobiology of Mental Illness

By: Dennis S. Charney,Eric J. Nestler

This is a new edition of the first comprehensive text to show how the advances in molecular and cellular biology and in the basic neurosciences have brought the revolution in molecular medicine to the field of psychiatry. The book begins with a review of basic neuroscience and methods for studying neurobiology in human patients then proceeds to discussions of all major psychiatric syndromes with respect to knowledge of their etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing information across numerous levels of analysis, including molecular biology and genetics, cellular physiology, neuroanatomy, neuropharmacology, and behavior, and in translating information from the basic laboratory to the clinical laboratory and finally to clinical treatment. Editors Dennis Charney and Eric Nestle, along with their six section editors and over 150 contributors, have revised and updated all 80 chapters from the previous edition and have added new chapters on topics relating to, for example, genetics, experimental therapeutics, and late-life mood disorders. Both a textbook and a reference book, Neurobiology of Mental Illness is intended for psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and upper level students.

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Oxford University Press

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0199857547

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9780199857548

Discourse of Silence

By: Dennis Kurzon

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Discourse of Silence

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This work discusses the discourse of silence and looks at how people relate to silence in specific conte×ts. It e×amines the application of semiotic tools to e×plore several facets of silence in everyday conversation, and reviews various studies of silence that have been published. The book interprets silence in terms of modality in order to distinguish between intentional and unintentional silence. It also presents an analysis of the silence of characters in films, biblical and cinematic te×t in which the terms of reference generally e×pand - from the silent answer, through the silencing of characters by authors, to silence as a feature of the generation gap.

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168

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027250626

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9789027250629

Dennis Hopper

Interviews

By: Dennis Hopper

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Dennis Hopper

Interviews

By: Dennis Hopper

Collected interviews spanning from 1957 to 2009 with the popular bad-boy actor and rebel director of Easy Rider

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1617036560

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9781617036569

Words from the Worm

An Unauthorized Trip Through the Mind of Dennis Rodman

By: Dennis Rodman

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Words from the Worm

An Unauthorized Trip Through the Mind of Dennis Rodman

By: Dennis Rodman

In Words from the Worm, the colorful creature who turned the NBA into a three-ring circus holds court on an array of issues. In his own words, he tells of his troubled upbringing, his mighty rebounding skills, his philosophical approach to life, his flair for women's clothing, his status as a cultural icon, and much more.

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Where East Looks West

Where East Looks West

It is Hereby Performed

It is Hereby Performed

Discourse of Silence

Discourse of Silence

Where East Looks West

Where East Looks West

Neurobiology of Mental Illness

Neurobiology of Mental Illness

Discourse of Silence

Discourse of Silence

Dennis Hopper

Dennis Hopper

Words from the Worm

Words from the Worm

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