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An Investigation of Hate Speech in Italian
Language is a key element in constructing and reinforcing social identities. Through hate speech, language becomes an instrument of creating and spreading stereotypes, discrimination, and social injustices based on attributes such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, nationality, political ideology, disability, or sexual orientation. The rise of digital communication, especially social media, has made hate speech a major topic of research in various fields. An Investigation of Hate Speech in Italian analyses hate speech from a linguistic perspective. The focus is not only on lexical means, but also on more subtle grammatical and pragmatic strategies related to implicit meanings or conversat...
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 ...
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...
The Pragmatics of Catalan
This book aims to disseminate at an international level a set of innovative studies whose descriptive and applied point of reference is the Catalan language. The volume constitutes a significant contribution to the field of intercultural pragmatics and also to a broad range of grammatical and cognitive issues which have been approached from the pragmatic perspective.
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...
Wortbildung heute
Nachdem die Erforschung der Wortbildungsregularitäten des Deutschen in den zentralen Bereichen zu erheblichen Fortschritten und weithin konsensfähigen Ergebnissen geführt hat, wendet sich die Forschung in den letzten Jahren verstärkt neuen Aspekten zu, wobei textlinguistische und in verschiedener Weise anwendungsorientierte Fragen eine erhebliche Rolle spielen, daneben aber auch andere, häufig theoriespezifischere Herangehensweisen gewählt werden. Wie viele andere Bereiche der Sprachwissenschaft hat sich auch die Wortbildungsforschung mit der neuen Möglichkeit auseinanderzusetzen, elektronische Korpora als empirische Basis zu nutzen. Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse der Tagung zur...
