1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148933103321

Autore

Donne John <1572-1631>

Titolo

Love Poems of John Donne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

HarperCollins UK

ISBN

0-00-742413-2

Disciplina

821.3

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Read by Richard Burton in a manner that truly does justice to the virtuosity to the love poems of England's most outstanding Metaphysical poet, bending both meaning and sound to the service of the Metaphysical conceit.Donne's poetry embraces a wide range of secular and religious subjects. He wrote cynical verse about inconstancy, poems about true love, Neoplatonic lyrics on the mystical union of lovers' souls and bodies and brilliant satires and hymns depicting his own spiritual struggles.Whatever the subject, Donne's poems reveal the same characteristics that typified the work of the metaphysical poets: dazzling wordplay, often explicitly sexual; paradox; subtle argumentation; surprising contrasts; intricate psychological analysis; and striking imagery selected from nontraditional areas such as law, physiology, scholastic philosophy, and mathematics.Expertly recited by Richard Burton, John Donne's love poetry stands alone as one of England's greatest ever love poets.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910163141703321

Autore

Gotzner Nicole

Titolo

Alternative Sets in Language Processing : How Focus Alternatives are Represented in the Mind / / by Nicole Gotzner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319527611

3319527614

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv,162 pages) : 15 illustrations,  12 illustrations in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition, , 2946-2584

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Semiotics

Pragmatics

Grammar, Comparative and general - Phonology

Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar

Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics

Phonology and Phonetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the cognitive mechanisms underlying the processing of alternatives. In a series of language comprehension experiments, the author shows that



intonational focus and focus particles such as 'only' shape the representation of alternatives in a listener's mind in a fundamental way. This book is relevant to researchers interested in semantics, pragmatics, language processing and memory. Nicole Gotzner is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) in Berlin, Germany. She is affiliated with the DFG Priority Programme Xprag.de "New Pragmatic Theories Based on Experimental Evidence". Her research combines semantic and pragmatic theory with language processing and child language acquisition.