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Beauty in Repetition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 49

Beauty in Repetition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book depicts the metal works of Junko Mori and Jacqueline Ryan. Both use metal in their art; however, Mori creates sculptures whereas Ryan focuses on jewelry. Their works were exhibited together at a show held at Blackwell, the Arts and Craft House, located in the United Kingdom.

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 562

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication

The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication brings together internationally-renowned scholars from a range of fields to survey the theoretical perspectives and applied work, including example analyses, in this burgeoning area of linguistics. Features contributions from established researchers in sociolinguistics and intercultural discourse Explores the theoretical perspectives underlying work in the field Examines the history of the field, work in cross-cultural communication, and features of discourse Establishes the scope of this interdisciplinary field of study Includes coverage on individual linguistic features, such as indirectness and politeness, as well as sample analyses of IDC exchanges

Pragmatics & Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Pragmatics & Language Learning

Pragmatics & Language Learning Volume 12 examines the organization of second language and multilingual speakers' talk and pragmatic knowledge across a range of naturalistic and experimental activities. Based on data collected on Danish, English, Hawai'i Creole, Indonesian, and Japanese as target languages, the contributions explore the nexus of pragmatic knowledge, interaction, and L2 learning outside and inside of educational settings.

Translingual Practices
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Translingual Practices

Based on range of global case studies, this book expands current work on translingual playfulness through an exploration of precariousness.

Polarity-Sensitive Expressions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 640
Style Shifting in Japanese
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Style Shifting in Japanese

This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies—including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics—to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between "polite" and "plain" styles, the emergence of a "semi-polite" style, speakers' strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.

Pragmatic Competence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Pragmatic Competence

In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions such as: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language.

Discourse Markers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Discourse Markers

A collection of papers on discourse markers in different languages, presented at the fifth conference of the International Pragmatics Association, Me×ico, in the summer of 1996.

Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation

This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is shown that the postpositional grammatical structure and the predicate-final orientation in Japanese regularly result in a relatively delayed projectability of the possible point at which a current turn may become recognisably complete in comparison to English. Prior to such points, projectability is often limited to the progressive anticipation of small increments of talk. However, participants are able to achieve smooth speaker transitions with minimal gap or overlap through the use of specific grammatical and prosodic devices for marking possible points at which a transition may become relevant.

Morality in the Making of Sense and Self
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Morality in the Making of Sense and Self

"The book contributes to social psychology's Milgram paradigm and the sociology of morality by offering an original theory of the emergence of moral dilemmas in social interaction. Taking Milgram's notorious "obedience" experiments as a case study of morality in interaction, it argues that Milgram's "obedient" and "defiant" behavioural outcomes should be understood in terms of the tension between participants' moral obligations to the confederate Learner and their institutional obligations to the confederate Experimenter. Using the theoretical and methodological approach of ethnomethodological conversation analysis, the book analyses a large number of archived audio-recordings of Milgram's e...