LINGUIST List 11.1211

Mon May 29 2000

Books: Cognitive Ling, Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics

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  • Gillian Caglayan, Cognitive Ling: Language, Text & Knowledge, Lundquist & Jarvella (Eds)
  • Gillian Caglayan, Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Interlanguage Refusals, Gass & Houck

    Message 1: Cognitive Ling: Language, Text & Knowledge, Lundquist & Jarvella (Eds)

     Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:50:58 +0200
    From: Gillian Caglayan <G.CaglayandeGruyter.de>
    Subject: Cognitive Ling: Language, Text & Knowledge, Lundquist & Jarvella (Eds)


    New Publication from Mouton de Gruyter!

    >From the Series Text, Translation, Computational Processing Series Editors: Annely Rothkegel and John Laffling

    Language, Text, and Knowledge Mental Models of Expert Communication

    Lita Lundquist and Robert J. Jarvella (Editors)

    2000. VIII, 326 pages. Cloth. DM 168,- /EUR 85,90 /�S 1226,- /sFr 150,- /approx. US$ 84.00 ISBN 3-11-016724-7 (Text, Translation, Computational Processing 2)



    Casting light on the interplay between language and domain-specific knowledge, this new book brings together ideas and approaches from cognitive linguistics and psychology which aim at explaining how language works, and how people combine their knowledge from a variety of sources as they make sense of and draw inferences from text. The different domains treated come from law, medicine, economics, and the study of risk. In the book, these are approached mainly in the context of communication between experts and laymen, and of differences in and the effects of people's prior knowledge. The over-arching theme of the book is mental models; the twelve papers contained in it concentrate on the relation between cognitive aspects of language and text, and the nature and structure of our knowledge. The areas of language, text, and knowledge are in need of better cross-disciplinary integration, and the present book is ground-breaking in the sense that the editors and contributors succeed in bringing them together with-in the context of communication involving experts.

    Contents Preface o Lita Lundquist and Robert J. Jarvella, Introduction o Pierre-Yves Raccah, Lexical and Dynamic Topoi in Semantic Description: A Theoretical and Practical Differentiation between Words and Terms o Jan Engberg, Does Routine Formulation Change Meaning? - The Impact of Genre on Word Semantics in the Legal Domain o Henrik H�eg M�ller, Noun Phrases in Specialized Communication. The Cognitive Processing of the Danish s-genitive Construction o �se Almlund, Semantic Roles in Expert Texts - Exemplified by the Patient Role in Judgments o Lita Lundquist, Knowledge, Events, and Anaphors in Texts for Specific Purposes o Anne Lise Kj�r, On the Structure of Legal Knowledge: The Importance of Knowing Legal Rules for Understanding Legal Texts o Dorte Madsen, Communicative Situations as Reflected in Text Structure. On Legal Text Production and Background Knowledge o Annely Rothkegel, Transfer of Knowledge in Cross-cultural Discourse o Lene Palsbro, Argumentation and Knowledge - An Empirical Study on Inference-making in Expert and Novice Reasoning o Leo Noordman, Wietske Vonk, and Wim H. G. Simons, Knowledge Representation in the Domain of Economics o Robert J. Jarvella and Suzie Mathieu, On Judging Quantities in Text without Expert Knowledge o Anthony J. Sanford and Linda M. Moxey, Risk Portrayal and Risk Appreciation as a Problem in Language Use o Appendix: A TV judgement o List of Contributors o Subject Index



    For more information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersdegruyter.de

    Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.com

    Message 2: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Interlanguage Refusals, Gass & Houck

     Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:54:20 +0200
    From: Gillian Caglayan <G.CaglayandeGruyter.de>
    Subject: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Interlanguage Refusals, Gass & Houck


    NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

    >From the series Studies on Language Acquisition Series Editor: Peter Jordens

    Susan M. Gass and No�l Houck Interlanguage Refusals A Cross-cultural Study of Japanese-English

    1999. 23 x 15,5 cm. x, 264 pages.

    Paperback DM 58,- /EUR 29,65 /�S 423,- /sFr 53,- /approx. US$ 29.00 ISBN 3-11-016387-X Cloth. DM 158,-/�S 1153,-/sFr 141,-/approx. US$ 79.00 ISBN 3-11-016386-1

    (Studies on Language Acquisition 15)



    Face-threatening speech acts such as refusals present particular problems for all human beings. These problems are exacerbated when individuals are not familiar with the culture in which these speech acts must be performed and do not have the communicative or linguistic facility to fully express their meanings. This book takes an in-depth look at the speech act of refusals as performed in English by native speakers of Japanese. The data-base comes from video-taped exchanges between native speakers of English and native speakers of Japanese during which the Japanese non-native speaker attempts a refusal. The analysis of these sequences approaches the issues from multiple research perspectives, most notably, second language acquisition and pragmatic speech acts. This book looks at interactional aspects of refusal sequences including the non-native speaker's evolving moves, responsive behaviors, and use of non-verbal resources. The focus is on how non-native speakers deal with the pragmalinguistic and interactional problems inherent in performing a face-threatening act and the kind of feedback that they receive in the course of the interaction.

    This book is of interest for those involved in general linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, and applied linguistics.



    Professor Susan Gass is Distinguished Professor at the Michigan State University, United States. Professor No�l Houck is Professor at the Temple University, Tokyo, Japan.



    For more information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersdegruyter.de

    Please visit our website for other publications by Mouton de Gruyter http://www.degruyter.com
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