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This book offers a cognitive-pragmatic, and specifically relevance-theoretic, analysis of different types of humorous discourse, together with the inferential strategies that are at work in the processing of such discourses. The book also provides a cognitive pragmatics description of how addressees obtain humorous effects. Although the inferences at work in the processing of normal, non-humorous discourses are the same as those employed in the interpretation of humour, in the latter case these strategies (and also the accessibility of contextual information) are predicted and manipulated by the speaker (or writer) for the sake of generating humorous effects. The book covers aspects of research on humour such as the incongruity-resolution pattern, jokes and stand-up comedy performances. It also offers an explanation of why ironies are sometimes labelled as humorous, and proposes a model for the translation of humorous discourses, an analysis of humour in multimodal discourses such as cartoons and advertisements, and a brief exploration of possible tendencies in relevance-theoretic research on conversational humour.

Introduces basic concepts of grammar in a format which inspires the reader to use linguistic arguments. This title focuses on syntactic analysis and evidence. It includes a glossary.

Asserts that explanatory factors behind word order variation go beyond the syntactic and are to be found in studies of how the mind grammaticizes forms, processes information and speech act theory considerations of speakers' attempts to get hearers to build preferred mental representations.

This volume is part of a series that provides a platform for monograph studies into synchronic and diachronic linguistics. It looks at the subject of the syntax of relative clauses, and includes such topics as the semantics of relative clause constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek and Hindi.

This volume is composed of updated, revised and expanded papers from the 21st annual meeting of the AAAL, plus additional contributions. Its aim is to present complementary, multiple perspectives on the analysis of the development of tense and aspect in L2.

Translation as a profession provides an in-depth analysis of the translating profession and the translation industry. This book starts with a presentation of the diversity of translations and an overview of the translation-localisation process. It also includes a glossary together with a list of Websites for further browsing.

This work aims to provide an in-depth study and background information pertaining to lexicography and terminology, focusing on English words abroad.

This title examines what we actually know about the effects of literature on the reader. The title applies methods of the social sciences to literary theory, presenting a psychological explanation based on the conception of literature as a moral laboratory.

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners' performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA 'planning' lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA.

The term "applied linguistics" is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. This title aims to highlight the importance of applied linguistic research concerning the deployment of multilingualism, and to stimulate the debate about it.

Composed of two parts, this title contains a palaeographical discussion about Bodleian Library, MS Auctarium D 2.19. It aims to survey preceding printed versions of the MS, such as Stevenson & Waring (1856-65) and W W Skeat (1871-87), and also to publish the complete edition of the MS with the whole Latin text interlineally glossed in Old English.

Describes methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents research based on the "Norwegian Newspaper Corpus". This book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and more.

Presents developments in the linguistics of humour. This volume depicts theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope.

How interpersonal relations are established and negotiated in online message boards by giving an overview of panoply of interpersonal relations, including positively and negatively marked behavior. This book provides refinement of theoretical positions of fields of research, students and professionals are (re-)acquainted with subject at hand.

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little - if any - discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the developments in the study of this phenomenon.

Words are never used in isolation but in combination and not with any word but only with certain specific words. This dictionary reconstructs the frame to which 3,000 Italian entries belong and aims to help non-Italian speakers with an advanced linguistic competence to find the appropriate word combinations for communicating in Italian.

Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. This volume presents an overview of the language, from the sound system to parts of speech.