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Beginnings. Ends.
This testimony is a young teen's personal journey through the trials of unplanned pregnancy and abortion. Sandy Thompson transparently shares her story in remembrance the child she never met.
The Intonation of Givenness
This book addresses students and researchers of both phonetics and phonology, and the semantics and pragmatics of discourse. It employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to investigate the marking of aspects of information structure, concentrating on the Given-New dimension. It begins with an overview of the state of the art in the areas of intonation and information structure, and, since the term 'Givenness' has been used in the literature in diverging ways, provides a model of 'Givenness proper', focussing on the cognitive states of discourse referents, and how these states are expressed through the choice of words and their prosody. The empirical evidence provided here is based on German. It comprises the analysis of a read corpus and two perception experiments which show that the dichotomy of 'accented' versus 'uncaccented' corresponding to 'New' versus 'Given' information is inadequate. In fact, there is evidence that a range of pitch accent types (including deaccentuation) can be mapped onto the gradient scale of Givenness degrees, with the pitch height on the accented syllable being the determining factor.
Discourse Description
Discourse Description presents in one convenient volume a variety of approaches to text description that have been proposed in the linguistic literature in the last decade or so. The book is organized to make it easy to understand and compare the various approaches. Since all of the researchers are analyzing the same text, their differences are readily seen. The text they analyze is a letter, mailed in bulk by a Washington-based lobbying organization which is supported by contributions from donors. Far from simply informing the readers, the letter seeks to appeal to them on many levels, intellectual, emotional, and financial. It is a fascinating study in how texts do their work. Discourse Description is expected to serve both as a research document and as a case textbook for graduate and undergraduate courses in discourse and text analysis, as well as a resource for text analysts.
Sandy
Hurricane Sandy . . . Meet Hurricane Sandy! The hurricane may have hit New York City in 2012, but the melodrama is all Southern, straight from the banks of the Mississippi, in John B. Thompson’s 1953 pulp classic, Sandy. Blackbird Books is pleased to reissue Sandy as an eBook-only special, donating all proceeds to hurricane relief. So get your copy of this classic from the golden age of pulps, and get ready for the storm from the safety of your ereader. Enjoy the read, and help those in need!
Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics
This book features a collection of 10 interviews with Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen, who is a key figure in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and has collaborated closely with M.A.K. Halliday since the 1980s. As noted by Professor Chang Chenguang, Editor of the M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series, “this collection of interviews serves as an important reference for scholars and students of SFL. It provides a unique perspective on the theoretical development and future outlooks of SFL, as well as Matthiessen’s own interpretations of the theory. It also enriches our understanding of SFL and is a very useful addition to the series.” Written in an engaging dialogic format, the book paints a vivid picture of SFL thriving among the landscape of general linguistics and of SFL as an important tool now being applied in various areas.
Think Twice
Maya suggests to her friends that they go camping at the state park while school is out for fall break. Brett, Blake, and Gavin are excited at the prospect of fishing, hiking, kayaking, swimming, and telling scary stories at the campfire at night. With permission from their parents, the kids set out to the state park with Maya's parents the next morning. After setting up their campsite, the kids go for a hike in the woods, where they meet a sassy and confident woodpecker named Big Red. Later that night, as the campers sit around their bonfire, Big Red pulls off a prank that surprises and scares the kids, much to his delight. The next day, the woodpecker continues his good-natured pranks to aggravate the kids as they go about their planned activities. The woodpecker kind of grows on the kids and shows them his good side when he explains to them some pluses and minuses of the internet. Although he is confident and self-assured, the woodpecker will need some help from his new friends to escape an embarrassing situation.
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