LINGUIST List 4.543

Mon 12 Jul 1993

Books: Discourse, Nonverbal, Psycholinguistics

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    Message 1: Discourse, Nonverbal, Psycholinguistics

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    DISCOURSE

    Rand, Sharon Rebecca THE FRENCH IMPARFAIT AND PASSE SIMPLE IN DISCOURSE 1993 xii,136 pp. paper ISBN: 0-88312-822-5 $15.00 Summer Institute of Linguistics and U Texas Arlington >Internet: academic.bookssil.org Tense-Aspect Discourse Examines imparfait and passe simple in French literary narrative, defining the imparfait as STATE and the passe simple as EVENT, by nonboundedness vs. boundedness. Shows how these definitions unite temporal and aspectual values traditionally associated with them.

    Baker, Mona et al (eds.) TEXT AND TECHNOLOGY, IN HONOUR OF JOHN SINCLAIR Discourse John Benjamins 1993 xii, 361 pp. Cloth US:1 55619 494 3/EUR:90 272 2138 3 US$69.00/Hfl. 125.-- Focuses on three major areas of modern linguistics: discourse analysis, corpus-driven analysis of language, and computational linguistics. An extensive index further enhances the value of this collection as a reference point for many of the issues that currently lie at the heart of modern linguistics research.

    Iwasaki, Shoichi SUBJECTIVITY IN GRAMMAR AND DISCOURSE. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND A CASE STUDY OF JAPANESE SPOKEN DISCOURSE John Benjamins 1993 xii, 151 Discourse Cloth US:1 55619 368 8/EUR:90 272 2612 1 US$49.00/Hfl. 90,-- Investigating the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view, this volume provides a theoretical and methodological basis for the study of various aspects of language and discourse and applies these specifically to Japanese spoken discourse, for which the data are added in an appendix.

    Maynard, Senko K. DISCOURSE MODALITY. SUBJECTIVITY , EMOTION AND VOICE IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE John Benjamins 1993 x, 315 pp Discourse Cloth US:1 55619 292 4/EUR:90 272 5036 7 US$63.00/Hfl. 110,-- Focusing on non-propositional, i.e. the expressive and interactional, meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings, this study shows Japanese to be richly featured for the expression of personal voice and emotive nuances and confronts the theoretical issues underlying this richness.

    NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

    Poyatos, Fernando PARALANGUAGE. A LINGUISTIC AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO INTERACTIVE SPEECH AND SOUND John Benjamins 1993 xiv, 478 pp. Nonverbal Communication Cloth US:1 55619 149 9/EUR:90 272 3527 9 US$125.00/Hfl. 220,-- The book initially sensitizes the reader to our sound generating movements and to all human external and environmental sounds and their unquestionable communicative qualities. Then an anatomical- psychological- auditory approach to voice production (identifying many neglected articulations) is combined with the analysis of its visual manifestations as the triple reality of speech: language-paralanguage- kinesics).

    UCLA WORKING PAPERS IN PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, summer 1993, volume 2, # 1 $15 (+ $5.00 for airmail outside of US). Prepayment by check or internat'l money order required payable to: Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Dept of Linguistics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir - BINDING IN ICELANDIC:EVIDENCE FROM LANGUAGE ACQUISITION. Results of an experimental study on the various components of binding and their interaction in the adult and developing grammars of Icelandic.