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Language and Function
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.
Theme and Rheme
This book argues for the inclusion of a cognitive psychological component in the analysis of theme and rheme, the basic building blocks of the message structure of language. The inference-boundary (IB) model is presented and justified as an explanatory model of the message structure of the clause and, above it, the text. It views theme as an element that is capable of generating a boundary of acceptability within which it is permissible for the rheme to occur. It explains why and how an initial element is considered to be thematic. The IB model also acknowledges the operation of a principle - the principle of acceptable message development - that underlies all that we say and write. This principle forms the basis of a simple test to identify and delimit the thematic portion.
The Order of Words in the Ancient Languages Compared with that of the Modern Languages
New edition of a pioneering work on word order, which originally appeared in French in 1844 (3rd ed., 1879), with an index.
A Study of Sophoclean Drama
A study in the dramatic methods of Sophocles, especially in the revelation of character, as the primary essence of Sophocles' art.
Language, Action, and Context
The roots of pragmatics reach back to Antiquity, especially to rhetoric as one of the three liberal arts. However, until the end of the 18th century proto-pragmatic insights tended to be consigned to the pragmatic, that is rhetoric, wastepaper basket and thus excluded from serious philosophical consideration.It can be said that pragmatics was conceived between 1780 and 1830 in Britain, but also in Germany and in France in post-Lockian and post-Kantian philosophies of language. These early 'conceptions' of pragmatics are described in the first part of the book.The second part of the book looks at pragmatic insights made between 1830 and 1880, when they were once more relegated to the philosop...
The Language of Literature
This volume is a collection of papers revealing the largely unexplored boundary between linguistic and literary approaches to classical texts. Eleven contributions by various scholars discuss a wide range of linguistic and literary apects of classical texts: the narratee in the prologues of Sophocles’ Trachiniae and of Euripides, the chronology in Pindar’s Odes, the relation between tense-aspect and Discourse Modes in Thucydides, Xenophon, Vergil and Ovid, the use of aspect in the Law Code of Gortyn, expressions of futurity and the word order of adjectives in Herodotus, and, finally, ancient and modern views on word order. Following an interdisciplinary approach, all contributions aim at bridging the gap between linguistic and literary study of classical texts.
Tragèdia i articulacions del tràgic
La noció del tràgic s’ha anat articulant al llarg de la història en un procés continuat que, des de les tragèdies representades a Atenes al segle V a. C. fins a l’actualitat, ha recorregut camins molt variats. Aplicant una metodologia filològica a l’anàlisi tant dels textos antics com dels posteriors, les contribucions reunides a Tragèdia i articulacions del tràgic estudien aquesta evolució en els àmbits de la creació literària i cinematogràfica, la traducció, la interpretació dels mites i la filosofia, entre d’altres. Aquesta obra col·lectiva aporta noves aproximacions als grans problemes plantejats per la tragèdia, com ara el conflicte entre la llibertat de l’individu i la necessitat del destí, qüestions que no han deixat mai de tenir vigència i que encara avui ens interroguen.
