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The Cultural Semantics Of Forms Of Address

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Author : Gian Marco Farese
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

The Cultural Semantics Of Forms Of Address written by Gian Marco Farese and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.

This study analyses forms of address from both a semantic and cultural point of view with a twofold aim: (i) to show that forms of address express a proper meaning which can be clearly pinpointed with a suitable methodology; (ii) to highlight the differences in address practices of different linguacultures and their implications for cross-cultural communication. The approach taken is that of cultural semantics, the branch of linguistics which investigates the relationship between meaning and culture. Combining semantics and cultural studies, cultural semantics is closely related to various sub-branches of linguistics, most importantly cross-cultural communication, intercultural pragmatics and translation theory. Researchers in cultural semantics adopt the methodology of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage created by Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard and developed in collaboration with numerous academics from around the world. Over decades of cross-linguistic research, NSM has proved itself an optimal methodology to investigate the meanings of words in cross-linguistic perspective, in particular emotion words, cultural keywords and more recently musical terms. The analysis of forms of address is a new application of NSM, and in this case, too, the methodology has proved itself the ideal tool for this purpose. To the best of my knowledge, never before in address research has a scholar done an extended study of the meanings of address expressions and the set of cultural values which guide address practices in a linguacultural world. In line with NSM researchers, the premise to this study is that to pinpoint the meaning of various address expressions and capture the cultural assumptions underlying address practices in English and Italian, it is necessary to produce definitions which are comparable. This permits to highlight the differences between the two linguacultures clearly and to provide language learners and culture outsiders with optimal tools which they can use for cross-cultural training. Although the present study is not written in the form of textbook, being based on NSM it is of considerable pedagogical use. This study is aimed at a very wide readership which includes not only scholars in linguistics, but anyone interested in issues in intercultural communication. In Chapter 1 of the thesis, I review the main studies on address with particular attention to those which are most pertinent to my analysis. In Chapter 2, I introduce the methodology of semantic analysis which I adopted and present my body data. Chapters 3 and 4 focus on the "greetings" Hi and Ciao. In chapters 5 and 6 I analyse nouns used to address people in English and Italian. Chapters 7 to 10 are dedicated to the analysis of the meaning of opening and closing salutations in letters and e-mails and finally, Chapters 11 to 13 focus on cultural scripts and the implications of differences in address practices for intercultural interactions.

The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices

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Author : Gian Marco Farese
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2018-08-15

The Cultural Semantics Of Address Practices written by Gian Marco Farese and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.

This book presents a contrastive analysis of various forms of address used in English and Italian from a cultural semantics perspective. The analysis investigates the different cultural values underlying address practices in English and Italian and emphasizes the risks of miscommunication caused by differences in intercultural interactions.

Semantics Culture And Cognition

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Author : Anna Wierzbicka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Semantics Culture And Cognition written by Anna Wierzbicka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This study ranges across a wide variety of languages and cultures in an attempt to identify concepts which are truly universal and to explore whether certain words are culture-specific.

Contrastive Pragmatics

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Author : Karin Aijmer
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011

Contrastive Pragmatics written by Karin Aijmer and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

We have recently seen a broadening of pragmatics to new areas and to the study of more than one language. This is illustrated by the present volume on Contrastive Pragmatics which brings together a number of articles originally presented at the 10th International Pragmatics Conference in Göteborg in 2007. The contributions deal with pragmatic phenomena such as speech acts, discourse markers and modality in different language pairs using theoretical approaches such as politeness theory, Conversation Analysis, Appraisal Theory, grammaticalization and cultural textology. Also discourse practices and genres may differ across cultures as illustrated by the study of TV news shows in different countries. Contrastive pragmatics also includes the comparative study of pragmatic phenomena from a foreign language perspective, a new area with implications for language teaching and intercultural communication. The contributions to this volume were originally published in Languages in Contrast 9:1 (2009).

Concise Encyclopedia Of Semantics

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Author : Keith Allan
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2010-04-06

Concise Encyclopedia Of Semantics written by Keith Allan and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics is a comprehensive new reference work aiming to systematically describe all aspects of the study of meaning in language. It synthesizes in one volume the latest scholarly positions on the construction, interpretation, clarification, obscurity, illustration, amplification, simplification, negotiation, contradiction, contraction and paraphrasing of meaning, and the various concepts, analyses, methodologies and technologies that underpin their study. It examines not only semantics but the impact of semantic study on related fields such as morphology, syntax, and typologically oriented studies such as 'grammatical semantics', where semantics has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of verbal categories like tense or aspect, nominal categories like case or possession, clausal categories like causatives, comparatives, or conditionals, and discourse phenomena like reference and anaphora. COSE also examines lexical semantics and its relation to syntax, pragmatics, and cognitive linguistics; and the study of how 'logical semantics' develops and thrives, often in interaction with computational linguistics. As a derivative volume from Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, it comprises contributions from 150 of the foremost scholars of semantics in their various specializations and draws on 20+ years of development in the parent work in a compact and affordable format. Principally intended for tertiary level inquiry and research, this will be invaluable as a reference work for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics inquiring into the study of meaning and meaning relations within languages. As semantics is a centrally important and inherently cross-cutting area within linguistics it will therefore be relevant not just for semantics specialists, but for most linguistic audiences. - The first encyclopedia ever published in this fascinating and diverse field - Combines the talents of the world's leading semantics specialists - The latest trends in the field authoritatively reviewed and interpreted in context of related disciplines - Drawn from the richest, most authoritative, comprehensive and internationally acclaimed reference resource in the linguistics area - Compact and affordable single volume reference format

Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication

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Author : Lauren Sadow
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-23

Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication written by Lauren Sadow and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with Psychology categories.

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Media Culture And Mediality

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Author : Ludwig Jäger
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2014-03-15

Media Culture And Mediality written by Ludwig Jäger and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Social Science categories.

Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such like »mediality«, »media culture«, »media discourse« and »procedures of media«. Focused on this newly defined terminological field, this volume presents landmark contributions for media studies providing new insights into the current state of research on media theory and media culture, simultaneously developing an agenda for future research.

Discourse Culture And Organization

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Author : Tomas Marttila
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-22

Discourse Culture And Organization written by Tomas Marttila and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In doing so, it presents a clear picture of a poststructuralist and post-foundational research program to postdisciplinary discourse research. Divided into three parts, it begins by elaborating the ontological, theoretical and methodological foundations of the Essex School’s approach to discourse analysis. The second part provides empirical case studies showing how the Essex School research program informs and instructs empirical discourse research. In the concluding third part authors explain how and with what possible consequences this strand of discourse research contributes to social practices of critique. It offers a crucial contribution to the further methodologization and operationalization of the Essex School’s approach so as to make it a viable alternative to discourse-analytical approaches that take dominant positions in today’s ‘field of discourse studies’. The book's transdisciplinary focus will attract readers who use discourse analysis in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, particularly applied linguistics, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history.

Cultural Semantics In The Lexicon Of Modern Chinese

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Author : Ming ZHAO
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-05-01

Cultural Semantics In The Lexicon Of Modern Chinese written by Ming ZHAO and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

What is cultural semantics? How to define and analyze it in the lexicon of modern Chinese? This book outlines the development and research results of cultural semantic theory, and then proposes the distinction between two types of cultural semantics at the synchronic level: conceptual gap items and items with a cultural meaning. It provides criteria for identifying these items by using detailed examples from theory and application. Finally, the two types of cultural semantics are applied to the case of modern Chinese. The criteria proposed for determining the Chinese cultural semantics apply not only to this, but also to other languages. Therefore, this book offers an operational basis for further studies of cultural semantics in academia.

Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication

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Author : Kerry Mullan
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-10-24

Studies In Ethnopragmatics Cultural Semantics And Intercultural Communication written by Kerry Mullan and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.