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Meio ambiente
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 136

Meio ambiente

"Pensar globalmente, atuar localmente." Essa ideia simples e universal que hoje serve de base para políticas públicas em todo o mundo é o eixo norteador dessa obra. Pois, como diz o professor Marcos Reigota no prefácio, "nossa responsabilidade com as gerações atuais e futuras é enorme, por isso são sempre bem-vindas propostas pedagógicas que considerem a complexidade da problemática ambiental nos seus aspectos locais, globais, individuais e coletivos". Karen Currie apresenta sugestões práticas para o trabalho interdisciplinar em sala de aula. Utilizando o meio ambiente como tema gerador, ela indica formas de explorar tópicos como a água, o lixo e a conservação da natureza a fim de desenvolver a consciência crítica do aluno sobre a importância da participação de todos, envolvendo escola e comunidade em um projeto estimulante. - Papirus Editora

Questions of Intonation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Questions of Intonation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-06-26
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneous speech, as well as texts read aloud. The book suggests alternative ways of examining the subject and primarily uses data derived from Edinburgh speech, which is explicitly compared with descriptions of standard southern English. The book critically examines many conventional assumptions made about the formal features of intonation, particularly ‘tonic’ or primary stress’, and about the functions of intonation, specifically rising intonation. A model of intonation is presented which demonstrates that the limited resources of intonation are exploited by several different expressive systems. This approach is justified in detailed analysis of extensive stretches of speech, supported by instrumental analysis as well as by experiments which elicit judgements by both naïve and phonetically trained judges. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics, English Language, speech therapy, and English as a Foreign Language, as well as historians interested in the history of language.

From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

From Discourse Process to Grammatical Construction

This study deals with interactional processes in conversational discourse, and the way they may get 'syntacticized' into grammatical constructions. It investigates the link between discourse function and syntactic form, and the ways in which grammatical form is a reflection on communicative function, through examining the communicative functions of Left-Dislocation in English. The investigation is corpus-based, and focuses on spontaneous conversation, but other discourse types are also taken into account. The overall perspective is resolutely empirical, and preconceptions about the possible functions of Left-Dislocation are avoided. Contents 1. Theoretical preliminaries; 2. Referent-introduction (1): interaction; 3. Referent-introduction (2): recoverability; 4. Referent-introduction (3): topicality; 5. Other functions of LD; 6. Prosodic aspects of LD; 7. LD in other discourse types; 8. A broader perspecitive; 9. General conclusion; Notes, Appendices, References, Subject and author indices.

Presentation in Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

Presentation in Language

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Linguistic Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 826

Linguistic Meaning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Dr Keith Allan presents a coherent, consistent and comprehensive account of linguistic meaning, centred around an informally presented theory of meaning. It is intended for graduate and undergraduate students of linguistics, or any linguist curious about what a theory of meaning should seek to accomplish and the way to achieve that aim. The work assumes that the primary task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to describe the meaning of speech acts. This in turn presupposes a theory of semantics and a theory of prosodic meaning, as well as a proper treatment of the co-operative principle, context and background information. These matters are dealt with in detail. The second task of a theory of linguistic meaning is to identify what meaning is, to explain the relationships between sense and denotation, and to explicate the nature of meaningful properties and meaning relations. These matters are fully covered, and the work concludes with a summary of the principle arguments presented.

Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 657

Pragmatic Organization of Discourse in the Languages of Europe

The volume is a collection of papers reporting the results of investigations on the interaction of discourse and sentence structure in the languages of Europe. The subjects discussed in the book include: morphosyntactic characteristics of spontaneous spoken texts; different patterns of word order in a pragmatic perspective; the coding of the pragmatic functions topic and focus in sentences with non-canonical word orders (e.g. dislocations, clefts); the range of functions of verb-subject order in declarative clauses and the notion of theticity; prosodic patterns of de-accenting of given information; deixis and anaphora; coding of definiteness and article systems. The book provides the empirical basis for the comparative survey of major phenomena found in the languages of Europe which have pragmatic relevance. Beside traditional areas of investigation at the interface between syntax and pragmatics such as dislocations, new areas are explored, such as the prosody of given information. Data are considered within a functional-typological approach.

Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Intonation Patterns in Tyrolean German

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... an electronic text and sound files to give the reader access to the speech samples." -- p. [xv].

The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

The Pragmatics of Discourse Anaphora in English

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics.

Functional Categories and Parametric Variation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Functional Categories and Parametric Variation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-09-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar involves functional categories.

Specificational and Predicative Clauses
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Specificational and Predicative Clauses

In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative clauses, specificational clauses have sparked much debate. A key concern is how specificational clauses with indefinite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "A popular holiday go-to is Rome") compare to, and contrast with, other copular clauses, especially specificational clauses with definite ‘variable’ NP (e.g. "The main can’t-miss in Italy is Rome") and predicative clauses with indefinite predicate nominative (e.g. "Rome is a great city"). This book addresses this concern by offering a functional-structural analysis of t...