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Strategies of Ambiguity
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a ...
Ambiguity and Narratology
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of litera...
Vagueness, Ambiguity, and All the Rest
This book aims to address a gap in the existing literature on the relationship between vagueness and ambiguity, as well as on their differences and similarities, both in synchrony and diachrony, and taking into consideration their relation to language use. The book is divided into two parts, which address specific and broader research questions from different perspectives. The former part examines the differences between ambiguity and vagueness from a bird-eye perspective, with a particular focus on their respective functions and roles in language change. It also presents innovative linguistic resources and tools for the study of these phenomena. The second part contains case studies on vagueness and ambiguity in language change and use. It considers different strategies and languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Medieval Latin, and Old Italian. The readership for this volume is broad, encompassing scholars in a range of disciplines, including pragmatics, spoken discourse, conversation analysis, discourse genres (political, commercial, notarial discourse), corpus studies, language change, pragmaticalization, and language typology.
Playway to English Level 4 Pupil's Book
Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the Pupil's Book: • Fantastic varied tasks keep children motivated • Cross-curricular activities take children's learning beyond the English language classroom • Self evaluation sections help children retain and recycle new language • Regular Word play sections encourage pupils to use the target language creatively
Idioms and Ambiguity in Context
The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children’s literature. Looking at the connection between context and understanding of idiomatic expressions in either their phrasal or their compositional reading, the study investigates how ambiguity is activated, if, how, and when it is perceived on the different levels of communication, and how literary texts use this ambiguity in playful ways.
Wie spät ist zu spät?
In Deutschland wird mindestens jede fünfte Geburt medikamentös eingeleitet, davon etwa jede dritte wegen "Terminüberschreitung". Ziel der Einleitung ist es, Tod, Behinderung oder Krankheit des Kindes zu verhindern. Eine Auswertung von über fünf Millionen Geburtsdaten bestätigt allerdings nicht, dass sich ab dem überschrittenen Geburtstermin die Rate der Totgeburten oder schweren Geburtskomplikationen erhöht. Die routinemäßige Geburtseinleitung bei gesunden Schwangeren, die ein gesundes Kind erwarten, gehört vermutlich nicht zu den Maßnahmen, die eine Totgeburt verhindern. Das Buch richtet sich an Hebammen, ÄrztInnen und Frauen, die nach einer fundierten Unterstützung bei der gemeinsamen Entscheidungsfindung für oder wider eine Geburtseinleitung suchen. Erstmals in Deutschland bietet es dafür eine Analyse der relevanten Daten und eine Bewertung von verfügbaren Entscheidungshilfen und Informationen für Schwangere.
Playway to English Level 3 Pupil's Book
Playway to English Second edition is a new version of the popular four-level course for teaching English to young children. Pupils acquire English through play, music and Total Physical Response, providing them with a fun and dynamic language learning experience. In the Pupil's Book: • Fantastic varied tasks keep children motivated • Cross-curricular activities take children's learning beyond the English language classroom • Self evaluation sections help children retain and recycle new language • Regular Word play sections encourage pupils to use the target language creatively
Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)
The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
Ambiguity
This edited volume investigates the concept of ambiguity and how it manifests itself in language and communication from a new perspective. The main goal is to uncover a great mystery: why can we communicate effectively despite the fact that ambiguity is pervasive in the language that we use? And conversely, how do speakers and hearers use ambiguity and vagueness to achieve a specific goal? Comprehensive answers to these questions are provided from different fields which focus on the study of language, in particular, linguistics, literary criticism, rhetoric, psycholinguistics, theology, media studies and law. By bringing together these different disciplines, the book documents a radical chan...
Idioms and Ambiguity in Context
The present study explores the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity in children's literature. Looking at the connection between context and understanding of idiomatic expressions in either their phrasal or their compositional reading, the study investigates how ambiguity is activated, if, how, and when it is perceived on the different levels of communication, and how literary texts use this ambiguity in playful ways.
