1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003320160403321

Autore

Greaves, C.desmond

Titolo

Sean O'Casey, politics and art / by C. Desmond Greaves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Lawrence, 1979

Descrizione fisica

206 p ; 23 cm

Disciplina

920

Locazione

DECLI

Collocazione

920 GRE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957696803321

Titolo

Pragmatic markers and pragmaticalization : lessons from false friends / / edited by Peter Lauwers, Gudrun Vanderbauwhede and Stijn Verleyen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012

ISBN

9781283902328

128390232X

9789027273703

9027273707

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 p.)

Collana

Benjamins Current Topics ; ; 44

Benjamins current topics, , 1874-0081 ; ; v. 44

Altri autori (Persone)

LauwersPeter

VanderbauwhedeGudrun

VerleyenStijn

Disciplina

401/.45

Soggetti

Pragmatics

Discourse markers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pragmatic Markers and Pragmaticalization; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; How false friends give true hints about pragmatic markers; 1. Definition and delineation of the topic; 2. State of the art; 3. The relevance of the study of cognates; 3.1 Descriptive challenges; 3.2 Relevance to linguistic typology; 3.3 Relevance to the study of grammaticalization and pragmaticalization; 4. Summary; Note; References; Semantic change; 1. Introduction; 2. Current debates on the evolution of hedging particles; 2.1 Terminological preliminaries; 2.2 Traugott and Dasher's (2002) IITSC

2.3 Grammaticalisation or pragmaticalisation?2.4 Formal factors and the syntactic nature of the source; 2.5 The role of persistence; 2.6 An ecology of competing terms; 3. The pragmaticalisation of 'effectively' and finalement; 3.1 Methodology: Corpora of spontaneous spoken French and English; 3.2 Effectivement and 'effectively'; 3.2.1 French effectivement; 3.2.2 English 'effectively'; 3.3 'Finally' and finalement; 3.3.1 The 'summing up' sense of finalement; 3.3.2 The hedging use of finalement; 4. Towards a cross-linguistic semantic map; 4.1 Persistence; 4.2 Degrees of pragmaticalisation

4.3 Translation equivalence?5. Conclusions; Notes; References; Corpora; Degrees of pragmaticalization; 1. Research context and aims; 2. Methodology and theoretical framework; 3. Synchronic functions; 3.1 English 'actually'; 3.2 French actuellement; 3.3 Synchronic correspondences; 4. Diachronic development; 4.1 Earliest meanings: 13th-16th centuries; 4.2 Divergence: 17th and 18th centuries; 4.3 Most recent developments: 19th century-present; 5. Conclusions and theoretical implications; Notes; References; Corpora; "You're absolutely right!!"; 1. Structure of the article

2. Preliminary considerations2.1 The meaning of 'absolutely' and absolutamente; 2.2 Comments to previous literature on stance adverbials and contrastive analysis; 2.3 Hypotheses on the contrastive analysis of 'absolutely' and absolutamente; 2.4 Description of the data; 3. The syntactic functions of 'absolutely' and absolutamente; 3.1 Modifiers of words; 3.2 Clausal constituents: Verbal Group-oriented Adjuncts and clause-oriented Adjuncts; 3.3 (Parts of) minor clauses; 4. Results of the quantitative analysis and discussion

4.1 Frequencies of 'absolutely' and absolutamente in the BNC and the CREA4.2 'Absolutely' and absolutamente as modifiers of words; 4.2.1 Modifiers of adjectives; 4.2.2 Modifiers of adverbs; 4.2.3 Modifiers of pronouns; 4.2.4 Modifiers of prepositions; 4.2.5 Modifiers of determiners; 4.2.6 Modifiers of modal auxiliaries; 4.2.7 Modifiers of nouns; 4.3 'Absolutely' and absolutamente as clausal constituents; 4.3.1 VG-oriented adverbs; 4.3.2 Clause-oriented adverbs; 4.4 'Absolutely'/absolutamente as (parts of) minor clauses

5. Maximal degree versus certainty: Similarity between the discourse functions of 'absolutely' and absolutamente and those of adverbs of certainty

Sommario/riassunto

In this paper, we investigate the evolution from imperatives to discourse markers in Romance, with a corpus-based approach. We focus on the case of items coming from verbs meaning 'to look', in a semasiological perspective: Spanish and Catalan mira, Portuguese olha, Italian guarda, French regarde, Romanian uite. We show that they all share many uses, among which turn-taking, introduction of reported speech, hesitation phenomenon, topic-shifting and modalization, except for French regarde. We then establish (against Waltereit, 2002) that the development



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140822503321

Autore

Schafer D. Paul

Titolo

Revolution or Renaissance : Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age / / D. Paul Schafer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2008

Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

9786613667564

9780776627182

077662718X

9781280690624

1280690623

9780776617732

0776617737

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ii, 303 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Governance series ; ; 16.

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Business & Economics / Economics / Theory

Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social

Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world - economics and culture - to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however, it is not capable of coming to grips with the problems threatening human and non-human life on this planet. After tracing the evolution of the economic age from the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776 to the present, he turns his attention to culture --