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Dimensions of Humor
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to exploring humor in the academic world. It is a rich collection of essays by an international array of scholars representing various theoretical perspectives and practical orientations in the disciplines of Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation, but all concerned with the interactional aspects of humor. The two main reasons behind the publication of this volume are, first, to continue the journey along the path towards full recognition of humor as a discipline worthy of research and assessment, and, second, to offer a new and integrating perspective on hu¬mor to showcase the wide range of dimensions that it offers. This book is sure to become an important reference and source of inspiration for scholars in the various subfields of Humor Studies: Linguistics, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Translation.
Systemic Functional Grammar of Spanish
This book offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English. The authors analyse Spanish according to the three main 'metafunctions': ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The result is a comprehensive examination of Spanish grammar from the clause upwards. Presupposing little or no knowledge of Spanish, this book will be of interest to researchers in Spanish language, systemic functional linguistics or contrastive linguistics.
The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe
Machine generated contents note: -- Timeline: European Reception of Tennyson / Paul Barnaby -- Introduction / Leonee Ormond -- France. Tennyson's French Reception / Ann Kennedy Smith -- Gustave Doré: Interpreter of Tennyson's Idylls of the King / Gilles Soubigou -- Italy. The Critical Reception of Tennyson in Italy / Giuliana Pieri -- Sleeping Beauties and Femmes Fatales: Tennyson, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italian Pre-Raphaelitism / Giuliana Pieri -- Spain. The Reception of Alfred Lord Tennyson in Spain: Difficulties and Achievements / Juan Miguel Zarandona -- Portugal. Between Victorian 'Hypocrisy' and 'Spiritual Supremacy': Tennyson in Portugal / Jorge Bastos da Silva -- Germany. Tennyson's Reception in Germany / Torsten Caeners -- Russia. The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Russia / Olga Sobolev Bulgaria -- The Reception of Tennyson in Bulgaria: 1880-2010 / Yana Rowland -- Greece. Tennyson in Greek Letters: 1830-1930: from Enoch Arden to 'Ulysses' / Georgia Gotsi -- Cavafy's Quarrel with Tennyson / David Ricks
A University Course in English Grammar
This comprehensive descriptive grammar is a complete course for first degree and postgraduate students of English as a Foreign Language. It is also suitable as background reading for course for literature and discourse studies, since grammatical usage is illustrated with authentic texts, many of them from literary sources. Originally published by Prentice Hall in 1992, this text is now readily available world-wide from Routledge. Key features include: *chapters divided into modules of class-length material *literary and other authentic texts to illustrate points of grammar *clear chapter and module summaries enable efficient teacher preparation and student revision *tasks for individual study at the end of each chapter *answer key to tasks and comprehensive index.
Linguistic Choice Across Genres
This book, based on revised papers originally delivered at the VII International Systemic Functional Workshop in Valencia in 1995, explores some of the choices open to speakers and writers for the expression of meaning in different socio-cultural contexts. Many of the papers draw their inspiration from models of language developed by Michael Halliday and in particular recent theories of variation in relation to texts and genres explored by Halliday and his followers. There is an emphasis on the interdependence and interaction of linguistic choices across sentence boundaries and speaking turns, and also a consistent focus across many papers on the importance of lexicogrammar in the constructi...
