Autore	Bouissac Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina	791.3 791.3014
Soggetto topico	Circus -- Social aspects Discourse analysis -- Social aspects Modality (Linguistics) Multimedia communications Performing arts -- Semiotics Semiotics Visual communication Circus - Social aspects Performing arts - Semiotics Discourse analysis - Social aspects Social Sciences Recreation & Sports
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-70614-8 1-4411-0261-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462521603321

Autore	Bouissac Paul
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina	791.3 791.3014
Soggetto topico	Circus -- Social aspects Discourse analysis -- Social aspects Modality (Linguistics) Multimedia communications Performing arts -- Semiotics Semiotics Visual communication Circus - Social aspects Performing arts - Semiotics Discourse analysis - Social aspects Social Sciences Recreation & Sports
ISBN	1-283-70614-8 1-4411-0261-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910813810603321

Autore	Ransom Evelyn N
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, 1986
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (238 p.)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Typological studies in language
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Complement Modality (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb phrase
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-31394-4 9786613313942 90-272-7918-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	COMPLEMENTATION: ITS MEANINGS AND FORMS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I. An Introduction to Complement Meanings and Forms; CHAPTER II. The Information Modalities; CHAPTER III. The Evaluation Modalities; CHAPTER IV. The Combined Modalities; CHAPTER V. The Higher Sentence and Its Complement Modalities; CHAPTER VI. The Representation of Modality and Its Implications; REFERENCES
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457758903321

Autore	Hu Jian <1950->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore : , : Springer, , [2023]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (177 pages)
Disciplina	415
Collana	Peking University Linguistics Research Series
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general Modality (Linguistics)
ISBN	981-9927-64-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Form-Meaning Mapping and Grammatical Metaphor -- 1.2 Defining Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality -- 1.3 Goals of This Book -- 1.4 Theoretical Orientation -- 1.5 Methodology Prospects -- 1.6 Outline of the Book -- References -- 2 GM Theory and Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality -- 2.1 The Theory of Grammatical Metaphor -- 2.1.1 Clarification of Key Notions -- 2.1.2 The Development of GM Theory -- 2.1.3 Ideational Metaphor and Interpersonal Metaphor -- 2.1.4 The Current State of GM Studies -- 2.2 The Systemic Functional Approach to Modality -- 2.3 SFL Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality -- 2.4 The Semiotic Grammar Alternative to Metaphor of Modality -- 2.5 The Problems with GM Theory and MM Studies -- 2.6 Summary -- References -- 3 Towards a Constructional Approach to Metaphor of Modality -- 3.1 General Research Questions -- 3.2 Constructional Approaches to Grammar -- 3.2.1 Cognitive Grammar as a Construction Grammar -- 3.2.2 Cognitive Construction Grammar -- 3.3 Subjectivity from a Constructional Perspective -- 3.3.1 Modality and Subjectivity -- 3.3.2 Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity from a Constructional Perspective -- 3.4 Towards the Constructional Approach to Metaphor of Modality -- 3.5 The Usage-Based Model -- 3.6 The Corpus-Linguistic Methodology -- 3.7 Summary -- References -- 4 The Semantic Motivation of MM -- 4.1 Theoretical Basis -- 4.2 The Proposal of a Refined Model -- 4.3 The Semantic Analysis of MM -- 4.4 Summary -- References -- 5 The Lexical and Syntactic Properties of MM -- 5.1 The Usage-Based Model and Corpus-Based Method -- 5.2 The Syntactic Properties of MM -- 5.2.1 Problems with Constituency Analysis -- 5.2.2 The Syntagmatic Structure of MM -- 5.3 [It be ADJ that P] Construction. 5.3.1 The Productivity of the Construction -- 5.3.2 The Lexical Properties of the Construction -- 5.4 [I VMental that P] Construction -- 5.5 [I be ADJ that P] Construction -- 5.6 Summary -- References -- 6 The Pragmatics and Discourse Functions of MM -- 6.1 Discourse as the Research Instrument -- 6.2 [I VMental that P] Constructions -- 6.2.1 Functions of the Construction in Discourse -- 6.2.2 The Distributional Features of the Construction -- 6.3 [I VVerbal that P] Constructions -- 6.4 [It be ADJ that P] Construction -- 6.4.1 The Functions of This Construction in Discourse -- 6.4.2 The Distributional Features of the Construction -- 6.5 Summary -- References -- 7 Conclusion -- 7.1 Summary of Major Findings -- 7.2 Implications and Contributions of the Study -- 7.3 Limitations and Future Research -- Reference -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Bibliography.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910739455303321