Date: 07-Dec-2010 From: Chris Humphrey <chumphreyc-s-p.org> Subject: Linguophilosophic Parameters of English Innovations in Technosphere: Makhachashvili E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Linguophilosophic Parameters of English Innovations in Technosphere
Published: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.c-s-p.org
The monograph researches the aspects of the English vocabulary development processes in the sphere of new computer technologies. The primary supposition of cyber word-stock terminological nature leads into the study of both linguistic (morphological and semantic) and ontological paradigmatic parameters of innovative cyber-vocabulary of the English language. Linguistically, the development of English cyber-vocabulary acquires an ambivalent character. Primarily, the sources of English computer vocabulary root in the conventional word-formation types. However, the enrichment process of the computer terminology of English incorporates the emergence of the word-formation ways and means, authentic for the given lexical sub-system. Moreover, the evolutionary progress of cybervocabulary determines the new conceptual approach to the "word-formation element" notion. The ontological paradigmatic parameters of English cyber-vocabulary are featured from the following perspectives: lexico-semantic perception of basic metaphysic dimensions of the technosphere (that being "space" and "time") and the anthropologic terminological categorization of technosphere, thus both the anthropocentric and the sociocentric paradigmatics of English innovative cyber-vocabulary being reflected.
Linguistic Field(s):
Lexicography
Morphology
Philosophy of Language
Semantics
Date: 04-Oct-2010 From: Jennifer Tighe <jtighecontinuumbooks.com> Subject: The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy: Mandala E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Language in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Subtitle: The Question of Style
Published: 2010
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
The language of science fiction, and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable. This exciting book steps away from the issues of race, gender and politics that have saturated sci-fi and fantasy criticism. Rather, it challenges two widely held but poorly substantiated beliefs circulating about science fiction and fantasy - that they are
a) written in plain and unremarkable prose b) apt to present characters that are flat types rather than fully realised individuals.
Mandala draws on traditional syntactic categories of stylistic analysis as well as the relatively more recent pragmatic and sociolinguistic paradigms such that the original analyses here take our understanding of these two genres beyond the usual confines, to consider how language is used to draw alternative words, represent the far future and distant past, and create psychologically believable characters.
Covering both British and American fiction and television, this is a wide-ranging and perceptive book.
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Ling & Literature
Syntax
Discourse Analysis
Stylistics
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