Deborah Tannen. Communication Matters

1. Typological classification of languages, synthetic and analytic word forms 2. Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages, position of English 3. Theory of communication; signs, symbols, icons; sound symbolism 4. Saussurian concept of language, langue vs. parole 5. Prague linguistic school; language center vs. periphery; markedness 6. Phonetics and phonology in the language system 7. Free variation, complementary distribution; vowels and co...

Oxford University Press, 2005. - 480 p. This book is about the grammatical means of expressing information source, known as evidentials. The linguistic categorization of information source has a direct bearing on human cognition, communication, types of knowledge, and cultural conventions. This is what makes a cross-linguistic study of evidentials important for all scholars dealing with human cognition and communication, including linguists, psyc...

Edited by Ronald E. Riggio and Robert S. Feldman LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS, 2005 327 pages Contents: Preface Introduction to Applications of Nonverbal Communication Ronald E. Riggio and Robert S. Feldman I. Health Applications I Nonverbal Communication and Health Care Leslie Martin and Howard S. Friedman 1 Facial Expression Decoding Deficits in Clinical Populations with Interpersonal Relationship Dysfunctions Pierre Philipp...

A humanitarian organization in action: organizational discourse as an immutable mobile Fran?ois Cooren, Fr?d?rik Matte, James R. Taylor and Consuelo Vasquez Discourse & Communication Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications. (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore)

Why does human language vary from one person, or one group, to another? In what ways does it vary? How do linguists go about studying variation in, say, the sound system or the sentence structure of a particular language? Why is the study of language variation important outside the academic world, in say education, the law, employment or housing? This book provides an overview of these questions, bringing together a team of experts to survey key...

First published 2004 by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. Identity People like me Artefacts of culture Identity card Otherization Communication is about not presuming Cultural dealing Power and discourse Representation Cultural refugee Complex images Section A, Introduction, establishes the key terms and concepts and extends readers' techniques analysis through practical a...

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. - 239 p. How and why is silence used interculturally? Approaching the phenomenon of silence from multiple perspectives, this book shows how silence is used, perceived and at times misinterpreted in intercultural communication. Using a model of key aspects of silence in communication linguistic, cognitive and sociopsychological and fundamental levels of social organization individual, situational and socioc...

The five sections of the volume encompass a wide range of topics from a variety of perspectives. The forty-seven chapters connect knowledge about language to decision-making in the real world. The volume as a whole highlights the role of applied linguistics, which is to make insights drawn from language study relevant to such decision-making. The chapters are written by specialists from around the world. Each one provides an overview of the histo...

6 illuminating scholarly essays on language and gender. An absolute must-have for all language scientists. Linguistics professor Tannen (You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, LJ 4/1/92) presents five previously published theoretical essays, each revised and introduced for the specialist and accompanied by notes and references. An introduction describes her research methods and conflicts surrounding interdisciplinary gender s...

Четыре главы книги по лингвистике - 177 стр. на английском языке Chapter 1 - language, dialect, accent, variety and standard English A brief history of the standardisation of English in England A brief history of the standardisation of English in the USA Linguistic variation Social variation etc. Chapter 2 - Pragmatics and Discourse Language, meaning and communication Language in context Language as action Speech Act Theory The co-operative prin...