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Language and Function

To the Memory of Jan Firbas

By: Josef Hladký

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Language and Function

To the Memory of Jan Firbas

By: Josef Hladký

The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027215588

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9789027215581

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

By: Jan Firbas

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Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

By: Jan Firbas

Inspired by the ideas of the Prague School, the theory of functional sentence perspective (FSP) is concerned with the distribution of information as determined by all meaningful elements, from intonation (for speech) to context. A central feature of FSP is communicative dynamism. Jan Firbas discusses the distribution of the degrees of communicative dynamism over sentence elements, which determines the orientation or perspective of the sentence. He examines also the relation of theme and rheme to, and implementation by, syntactic components. Special attention is paid to the relation between FSP and word order. The second part of the book deals with spoken communication and considers the place of intonation in the interplay of FSP factors, establishing the concept of prosodic prominence. It tackles the relationship between the distribution of degrees of communicative dynamism as determined by the interplay of the non-prosodic FSP factors and the distribution of degrees of prosodic prominence as brought about by intonation.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521373085

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9780521373081

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

By: Jan Firbas

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Pragmalinguistics

East European Approaches

By: Jan Prucha

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Pragmalinguistics

East European Approaches

By: Jan Prucha

This volume describes and evaluates the latest theories, empirical findings, and applications in the field of pragmalinguistics developed in some socialist states of Europe – mainly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, and the USSR. The results of the author’s own research in pragmatically oriented psycholinguistics are included as well. The main approaches through which the pragmalinguistic studies have been performed in Eastern Europe are those of functional stylistics, textlinguistics, rhetorics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, social communication theory, and semiotics. Much attention is devoted in the book to applied research, mainly in the spheres of education and instruction, mass communication and propaganda.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027286450

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The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles

By: Ondřej Slówik,Jan Volín

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The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles

By: Ondřej Slówik,Jan Volín

The objective of this monograph is to describe differences in tone realization and perception between two major Vietnamese dialects: Hanoian and Saigonese. The monograph contains a thorough overview of the principal background concepts concerning the lexical function of pitch patterns in the language. The core analyses are based on an extensive sample of several thousand instances of tones for each dialect, and they also address possible effects of speaking style, phrasal prominence and coarticulatory dynamism.

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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8024645068

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9788024645063

Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

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Introduction to Discourse Studies

New edition

By: Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027263108

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9789027263100

Myofascial Trigger Points

Pathophysiology and Evidence-Informed Diagnosis and Management

By: Jan Dommerholt,Peter Huijbregts

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Myofascial Trigger Points

Pathophysiology and Evidence-Informed Diagnosis and Management

By: Jan Dommerholt,Peter Huijbregts

This book examines a special topic, JMMT. Emphasis is on the etiology of trigger points with a critical overview of current concepts. The contributing authors are the most respected myofascial pain research and practice experts. The authors address the etiology of trigger points, the epidemiology of myofascial pain, clinical management of patients, specific treatment issues, and the role of trigger points in various pain syndromes.

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Jones & Bartlett Publishers

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1449610285

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9781449610289

Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics

By: Jan Mulder

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Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics

By: Jan Mulder

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110872013

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9783110872019

Surgical Anatomy of Head and Neck

By: Jelena Krmpotic-Nemanic,Wolfgang Draf,Jan Helms

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Surgical Anatomy of Head and Neck

By: Jelena Krmpotic-Nemanic,Wolfgang Draf,Jan Helms

Contents: The Neck and Thorax.- The Larynx and the Thyroid Gland.- The Face.- The Oral Cavity and the Oropharynx.- The Nose.- The Paranasal Sinus and the Retromaxillary Space.- The Eye and its Orbital Adnexa.- The Ear.- The Middle and Posterior Cranial Fossae.- The Skull and the Gross Anatomy of the Central Nervous System.- The Topography and Variations of the Extra- and Intracranial Vessels.- The Paraganglia.- References.- Index of Operations and Surgically Important Anatomic Relationships.- Subject Index.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642718124

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9783642718120

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News

From canonical headlines to online news texts

By: Jan Chovanec

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Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News

From canonical headlines to online news texts

By: Jan Chovanec

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts, the function of tense needs to be viewed in a close connection with its local context. Traditional news texts are also contrasted with online news, particularly as far as the effect of hypertextuality on the coding of time is concerned. A two-level structural framework for the analysis of online news is proposed in order to account for their increased textual complexity. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students working in the fields of media pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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9027269327

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9789027269324

Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech

By: Jan Volín,Pavel Šturm,Radek Skarnitzl,Tomáš Bořil

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Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech

By: Jan Volín,Pavel Šturm,Radek Skarnitzl,Tomáš Bořil

The monograph Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech provides a missing source of information on a crucial element in the sound structure of the Czech language: the prosodic phrase. The introductory chapters offer a concise lead-in even to non-specialists: they explain the nature and typical approaches to speech prosody and offer an overview of the commonly used hierarchy of prosodic units. The core of the study is based on speech material that was produced with legitimate communicative intents: storytelling, newsreading and poetry reciting. Prosodic phrases in the given material are described in terms of their phonetic structure, acoustic properties, and a specific syntactic issue. Moreover, the perceptual importance of prosodic phrasing is discussed together with a presentation of original perception experiments. A short chapter is dedicated to automatic detection of prosodic breaks by artificial neural networks. Apart from interesting facts about a core unit of prosodic structure, the prosodic phrase, the book can serve as a source of data in designing further experiments with natural language.

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8024657988

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Book's by Jan Firbas

Language and Function

Language and Function

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication

Pragmalinguistics

Pragmalinguistics

The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles

The Lexical Tones of Vietnamese Metropoles

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Introduction to Discourse Studies

Myofascial Trigger Points

Myofascial Trigger Points

Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics

Foundations of Axiomatic Linguistics

Surgical Anatomy of Head and Neck

Surgical Anatomy of Head and Neck

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News

Pragmatics of Tense and Time in News

Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech

Prosodic Phrase in Spoken Czech

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