This volume illustrates how language revival movements in Russia and elsewhere have often followed a specific pattern of literacy bias in the promotion of a minority’s heritage language, partly ...neglecting the social and relational aspects of orality. Using the Vepsian Renaissance as an example, this volume brings to the surface a literacy-orality dualism new to the discussion around revival movements. In addition to the more-theoretically oriented scopes, this book addresses all the actors involved in revival movements including activists, scholars and policy-makers, and opens a discussion on literacy and orality, and power and agency in the multiple relational aspects of written and oral practices. This study addresses issues common to language revival movements worldwide and will appeal to researchers of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, education and language policy, and culture studies.
Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments: Corpora and Digitally-driven Critical Analysis presents a new and practical approach in Critical Discourse Studies. Providing a data-driven and ...ethically-based method for the examination of arguments in the public sphere, this ground-breaking book: Highlights how the reader can evaluate arguments from points of view other than their own; Demonstrates how digital tools can be used to generate ‘ethical subjectivities’ from large numbers of dissenting voices on the world-wide-web; Draws on ideas from posthumanist philosophy as well as from Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for theorising these subjectivities; Showcases a critical deconstructive approach, using different corpus linguistic programs such as AntConc, WMatrix and Sketchengine. Posthumanism and Deconstructing Arguments is essential reading for lecturers and researchers with an interest in critical discourse studies, critical thinking, corpus linguistics and digital humanities.
Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ...ethical and responsible manner, the key features include: A focus on fieldwork in countries and continents that have undergone colonial expansion, including Australia, the United States of America, Canada, South America and Africa; A description of specialist methods used to conduct research on phonological, grammatical and lexical description, but also including methods for research on gesture and sign, language acquisition, language contact and the verbal arts; Examples of resources that have resulted from collaborations with language communities and which both advance linguistic understanding and support language revitalisation work; Annotated guidance on sources for further reading. This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.
L’étude présentée dans cet ouvrage propose une analyse linguistique de la communication liée à la pandémie de Covid-19, depuis le début de la crise, en février 2020, jusqu’à juin 2020. Les outils de ...la linguistique énonciative et de la pragmatique sont ici mobilisés et articulés à ceux de la rhétorique et de la stylistique. L’étude se fonde sur des corpus français et britannique, politique comme journalistique, et s’articule en deux axes. En montrant comment les allocutions politiques tentent de contrôler (discursivement) la situation, l’axe politique de notre analyse examine les structures saillantes et les marqueurs de l’argumentation et de la construction de l’ethos dans les discours d’Emmanuel Macron et de Boris Johnson. Le second axe étudie la manière dont laquelle la communication journalistique met en mots la crise sanitaire au cours de cette période, à travers des positionnements énonciatifs, mais aussi des actes de langage ou des présupposés, notamment dans des titres et sous-titres d’articles fournis par Le Monde, Le Figaro ainsi que The Guardian et The Telegraph. L’ouvrage s’adresse à un public large de personnes intéressées par la communication et les outils qu’on peut utiliser pour la décrypter, l’analyser et la mettre en question.
This study provides an extensive database for future research on gender and a detailed discussion of the expressive effects produced by means of this grammatical category. By drawing a clear line ...between the denotatum and the designatum and viewing gender as part of the solution to the problem of giving linguistic representation to a mental construal of a spatial nature, this study avoids one of the recurrent stumbling blocks which has hindered research – the temptation to define a grammatical category using biological parameters. The evidence presented shows that gender is not a representation of the presence or absence of sex, human traits, or even personality, but rather the sign of a more abstract mental operation, that which consists in defining the contained space, the form which is implied by any notional content construed in the nominal domain. Cette étude met à la disposition des chercheurs un corpus étendu sur le genre en anglais et une discussion détaillée des effets expressifs produits au moyen de cette catégorie grammaticale. En établissant une ligne de démarcation claire entre le dénotatum et le designatum et en traitant le genre comme une partie de la solution au problème de donner une représentation linguistique à une construction mentale de nature spatiale, cette étude évite un des écueils récurrents ayant entravé la recherche dans ce domaine – la tentation de définir une catégorie grammaticale par des paramètres biologiques. Les données présentées montrent que le genre n’est pas une représentation de la présence ou de l’absence de sexe, de traits humains ou même de personnalité, mais plutôt le signe d’une opération mentale plus abstraite qui consiste à définir l’espace contenu par toute notion située dans le domaine nominal.
Diversity and Rabbinization Ben Ezra, Daniel Stökl; Boustan, Ra‘anan; Brody, Robert ...
Open Book Publishers,
09/2021
Book
Open access
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities ...during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of ”rabbinization” as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE.
Contributing to the vigorous discussion of the viability of syntactic reconstruction, this volume offers methods for identifying i) cognates in syntax, and ii) the directionality of syntactic change, ...thus providing historical syntacticians with evidence that syntactic reconstruction is indeed both theoretically and practically feasible.
El artículo analiza algunas de las principales líneas de investigación de la ciencia de la imagen alemana (Bildwissenschaft) en el contexto de las transformaciones de la cultura digital y su impacto ...en la condición actual de la imagen. Después de hacer una comparación entre las aproximaciones de los estudios visuales anglosajones y de la Bildwissenschaft a la cultura visual y a la imagen, se resumen los enfoques de tres de los teóricos más destacados de este campo de estudio: Gottfried Boehm, Horst Bredekamp y Hans Belting. Finalmente se estudia el alcance de los desarrollos teóricos de estos pensadores para abordar la cultura visual digital, atendiendo a las cuestiones del concepto de imagen, de la agencia icónica y de los medios.
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