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Beyond Language Boundaries
The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers. Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greeting...
On Comitatives and Related Categories
This is the first book-length functional-typologically inspired crosslinguistic study of comitatives and related categories such as the instrumental. On the basis of data drawn from 400 languages world-wide (covering all major phyla and areas), the authors test and revise a variety of general linguistic hypotheses about the grammar and cognitive foundations of comitatives. Three types of languages are identified according to the morphological treatment of the comitative and its syncretistic association with other concepts. It is shown that the structural behaviour of comitatives is areally biassed and that the languages of Europe tend to diverge from the majority of the world's languages. Th...
Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance
Virtually unstudied until the 1980s, discourse markers have gone on to become a growth industry. Research on markers is central to comprehensive theories of the synchronic linguistic system as such, of the use of language in communication, and of language change. From the very beginning, linguists working on Romance languages have been at the forefront of research on discourse markers. Including among its contributors many of the foremost experts in the field, this volume not only offers substantial state-of-the-art introductions to the diverse facets of contemporary research on discourse markers, with a focus on Romance, but it achieves added value by including in each chapter original and ...
Gestures We Live By
This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.
Grammatical systems without language borders
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings and interactions of distinct grammatical systems, but (2) sociolinguistic research suggests that language borders and bound “languages” are counterfactual social constructs that cannot capture the diversity and fluidity of actual language use. This seems to constitute something like a “quantum-linguistic” paradox: language systems aren’t real (they are just ideological constructions), but at the same time, they are a reflection of act...
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Diese vierbändige Bibliographie führt erstmals die internationale Forschungsliteratur zur Wörterbuchforschung zusammen. Sie erlaubt den schnellen und gezielten Zugriff auf historische ebenso wie auf gegenwartsbezogene Themen und Arbeitsgebiete und stellt ein bibliographisches Fundament zur Verfügung, auf dem zukünftige Forschung aufbauen kann. Sie ist zugleich eine bibliographische Dokumentation der Geschichte der germanistischen Wörterbuchforschung und Lexikographie des Deutschen im Kontext seiner wichtigsten lexikographischen Partnersprachen. DieBibliographie ist ein Arbeitsinstrument für die Lexikographie zahlreicher Sprachen und für die internationale Wörterbuchforschung; auch f...
El español y el alemán en contraste y sus implicaciones didácticas
Esta obra consta de estudios contrastivos sobre el par de lenguas español-alemán, que se plantean desde una perspectiva eminentemente aplicada a la didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras y su traducción. Reúne análisis empíricos de fenómenos particulares de la fonética, la prosodia, la morfología, la sintaxis, la semántica y la pragmática, que ponen al descubierto semejanzas y diferencias entre ambos sistemas lingüísticos de gran relevancia en los procesos de adquisición y enseñanza. En el volumen se despliegan distintas propuestas metodológicas, como el empleo de corpus paralelos o de programas de traducción automática, y se discute críticamente su potencial y limitaciones en la aplicación a la enseñanza de idiomas extranjeros.
Corpus audiovisual plurilingüe (Llibre + DVD)
Aquest llibre i el DVD que l'acompanya conté els 360 textos que constitueixen el Corpus Audiovisual Plurilingüe (CAP), elaborats per dotze informants, cada una de les quals ha participat en tres sessions d’entrevistes en tres llengües diferents (català, castellà i anglès) i ha produït trenta textos –10 per sessió. Els textos corresponen a cinc tipus (narració, descripció, exposició, instrucció i argumentació) i han estat elicitats amb dos procediments diferents (experimental i experiencial). La durada total aproximada d’aquest corpus és d’unes 22 hores i el total de mots, d’uns 100.000. Les entrevistes s’han enregistrat amb una càmera de vídeo que emmarca tota l...
