Humorous Garden-Paths
A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2009
320 pages
978-1-4438-1228-3 (ISBN)
Description
Taboo words, Quentin Tarantino's films, humorous dialogues from ",Sex and the City",, witty advertising slogans, the Bible, Barack Obama's speeches, or legal discourse are only a few of the topics addressed in the volume.The study of discourse is a diversified and fast-developing field of language research, embracing methodological proposals, discourse analyses, comparative research, translation studies and teaching perspectives. Within each of the approaches, theoretical frameworks and postulates abound. The list of research topics is inexhaustible, especially that each year brings new real-life material subject to analysis and issues to elaborate.Each chapter is devoted to a different topic and deploys a separate theoretical framework. The diversity of research data, methodologies and theoretical viewpoints guarantees the volume's being a representative sample of multifarious developments in discourse approaches. The book should thus be an interesting resource for enterprising researchers and students of linguistics.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- CHAPTER SIX
- FINAL COMMENTS
- APPENDIX
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
