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
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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-9910955462003321

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	Bhatt Rajesh <1973->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2006
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (216 p.)
Disciplina	415/.6
Collana	Interface explorations
Soggetto topico	Modality (Linguistics) Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-19387-2 9786612193873 3-11-019734-0
Classificazione	ET 470
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The syntax of infinitival relatives -- Chapter 3. Non-Modal subject infinitival relatives -- Chapter 4. Infinitival questions -- Chapter 5. Ability modals and their actuality entailments -- Back matter
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451745003321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007
Descrizione fisica	xii, 239 p. : ill
Disciplina	415
Altri autori (Persone)	EgurenLuis Fernandez SorianoOlga
Collana	Linguistik aktuell =Linguistics today
Soggetto topico	Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax Semantics Reference (Linguistics) Modality (Linguistics) Focus (Linguistics)
ISBN	9786612151934 9781282151932 1282151932 9789027291257 902729125X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Coreference, Modality, and Focus -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Tensed modals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Imperfective modals -- 3. Modals and the preterit -- 3.1 The epistemic construal -- 3.2 The entailment reading -- 3.3 The counterfactual reading -- 4. Temporal parameters and modality -- 5. Modals and negation -- 6. The perfect -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Weak Crossover, specificity and LF chains -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Weakest Crossover -- 3. A formalization of the notion of specificity -- 4. Introducing the specificity tests -- A. Antireconstruction -- B. Weak island extraction -- C. Participial agreement in French -- D. Clitic doubling in Romanian -- E. Extraction from existential constructions -- F. Scope reconstruction -- 5. Methodological remarks -- 6. Specificity tests -- 6.1 A. Antireconstruction -- 6.2 B. Weak island extraction -- 6.3 C. Participial agreement in French -- 6.4 D. Clitic doubling in Romanian -- 6.5 E. Extraction from existential constructions -- 6.6 F. Scope reconstruction -- 6.7 Conclusion -- 7. WCO and LF chains -- 7.1 Specificity and LF chains -- 7.2 WCO configurations -- 8. Future extensions and refinements -- 8.1 Feature transmission under variable binding -- 8.2 Some open empirical issues -- 9. Conclusion -- References -- Conditions on sub-extraction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Islands and minimalism -- 3. CED effects -- 3.1 On freezing effects in SPEC-T -- 3.2 Phase theory and phase edges -- 3.3 More asymmetries on sub-extraction -- 4. Sub-extraction from objects -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Focus, exhaustivity, and deletion in English Pseudogapping -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pseudogapping -- 3. The role of focus in the semantics of ellipsis -- 3.1 The question of alternatives -- 3.2 Kratzer's (1991) account. 3.3 Alternatives and contrastiveness: An extension of Kratzer's (1991) theory -- 4. The role of focus in the syntactic derivation of Pseudogapping in English -- 4.1 Previous analyses of Pseudogapping -- 4.1.1 Movement of the remnant: HNPS and Pseudogapping -- 4.1.2 Movement of the remnant: Object Shift -- 4.2 The EPP and focus -- 5. The exhaustivity problem -- 5.1 Focus movement in Hungarian -- 5.2 Exhaustivity in ellipsis -- 5.3 Syntactic focus movement and contrastiveness -- 6. Extension to other ellipsis cases: Sluicing -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Reconstruction and scope in exclamative sentences -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two types of exclamative sentences -- 3. Negation in exclamative sentences -- 3.1 Scope effects in exclamative sentences -- 3.2 Apparent counter examples -- 3.3 Exclamative quantifiers as positive polarity items -- 4. Reconstruction and scope -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Reconstruction without movement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Resumption -- 3. Reconstruction -- 4. Reconstruction and resumption -- 5. The paradox -- 6. Reconstruction: Issues and parameters -- 6.1 Type of resumption -- 6.2 Type of binding condition: positive vs. negative -- 6.3 Gap vs. resumption -- 6.4 Scope vs. binding reconstruction -- 7. Our proposal: What copies can do -- 7.1 Syntactic asymmetries: On copy processes -- 7.1.1 Reconstruction with weak resumption via ellipsis -- 7.1.2 Reconstruction with strong resumption via movement -- 7.2 Semantic asymmetries: On copy interpretation -- 7.2.1 Resumptives as definite copies -- 7.2.2 Covariant readings of definite copies -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- From polarity to modality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emphatic affirmation in Spanish -- 2.1 The affirmative marker sí -- 2.2 Bien as an assertive marker -- 2.3 Bien vs. sí: The illocutionary force of bien. 3. Syntactic analysis of assertive markers bien and sí -- 3.1 Emphatic affirmation and negative polarity Some puzzling asymmetries -- 3.2 The status of emphatic affirmative markers as wh-operators -- 3.3 The position of the subject in emphatic affirmative sentences -- 3.4 Recapitulation: bien and sí in the articulated CP domain -- 4. On the status of que in emphatic affirmative sentences -- 4.1 From bien to bien que -- 4.2 Sí in pre-Comp position -- 4.3 Characterizing que in the CP domain -- 4.3.1 Alternative I: que heads FocusP -- 4.3.2 Alternative II: que heads ForceP -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Beyond the Infinitive vs. Subjunctive Rivalry -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The phenomenon -- 3. From Classical Greek to Modern Greek Tracing back some changes in Greek -- 3.1 Delimiting the object of study -- 3.2 Greek and the loss of infinitives -- 3.3 What lies beneath: surviving changes in Mood -- 3.3.1 Loss of subjunctive in infl -- 3.3.2 The gradual birth of the Subjunctive C -- 3.4 Summary -- 4. Complementation: Parataxis, true embedding and hybrid instances -- 5. The analysis -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Romance infinitives with subjects, subjunctive obviation and Control Theory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Control and inflected infinitives: Case-driven accounts -- 3. Control and inflected infinitives: Movement accounts -- 4. Control and inflected infinitives: Attract-driven accounts -- 5. Subjunctive obviation: Some background notions -- 6. Subjunctive properties and inflected infinitives -- 7. Inflected infinitives and a sympathetic theory of control -- 8. Summary and concluding remarks -- References -- On the syntactic features of epistemic and root modals -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relative scope of Tense and Modals -- 2.1 Epistemic modals scope over tense -- 2.2 The universal hierarchy of functional categories -- 3. Epistemic modals and Force. 3.1 Epistemics and connected speech -- 3.2 Epistemic Modals and Quantifiers -- 3.2.1 Interpretation of declarative Force -- 3.2.2 Syntactic contexts for epistemics and other speech event modifiers -- 3.3 Variation in the features of Force -- 3.3.1 Evidential systems -- 3.3.2 Relative tenses -- 4. Modality and Mood -- 5. Summary -- References -- Subject index -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.
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