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Text World Theory is a cognitive model of all human discourse processing. In this introductory textbook, Joanna Gavins sets out a usable framework for understanding mental representations. Text World Theory is explained using naturally occurring texts and real situations, including literary works, advertising discourse, the language of lonely hearts, horoscopes, route directions, cookery books and song lyrics. The book will therefore enable students, teachers and researchers to make practical use of the text-world framework in a wide range of linguistic and literary contexts. Features *An accessible and enabling course book which includes suggestions for exploration and further reading. *Draws on linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, poetics and stylistics, and will be attractive to students and researchers working in all of these disciplines. *Each chapter provides a reader-friendly introduction to an aspect of Text World Theory and includes at least two practical applications of these ideas to real discourse examples.

Literature --- Pragmatics --- 801.56 --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Mental representation. --- Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Representation, Mental --- Abstraction --- Perception

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Complexity (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Pragmatics

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Conversation analysts have begun to challenge long-cherished assumptions about the relationship between gender and language, asking new questions about the interactional study of gender and providing fresh insights into the ways it may be studied empirically. Drawing on a lively set of audio- and video-recorded materials of real-life interactions, including domestic telephone calls, children's play, mediation sessions, police-suspect interviews, psychiatric assessments and calls to telephone helplines, this volume is the first to showcase the latest thinking and cutting-edge research of an international group of scholars working on topics at the intersection of gender and conversation analysis. Theoretically, it pushes forward the boundaries of our understanding of the relationship between conversation and gender, charting new and exciting territory. Methodologically, it offers readers a clear, practical understanding of how to analyse gender using conversation analysis, by presenting detailed demonstrations of this method in use.

Sociolinguistics --- Pragmatics --- Conversation analysis. --- Discourse analysis. --- Language and languages --- Language and sex. --- Oral communication --- Sex differences. --- Conversation analysis --- Discourse analysis --- Language and sex --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Sex and language --- Sex --- Sexism in language --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Sex differences --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology --- Feminism --- Gender --- Methodology --- Language use --- Theory --- Book

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In this book Gillian Brown draws on a wide range of examples of discourse analysis to explore the ways in which speakers and listeners use language collaboratively to talk about what they can see in front of them and about a series of events. She examines the conditions under which communication is successful, and the conditions under which it sometimes fails. The focus of her attention is upon the listener's role, as the listener tries to make sense of what the speaker says in a highly constrained context; her cognitive/pragmatic approach to discourse analysis both complements and challenges the sociological/anthropological perspectives on the subject which currently predominate. Gillian Brown is co-author of the well-known textbook Discourse Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1983).

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Reference (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Communication orale --- --Discours --- --Analyse --- --Grammaire générale --- --Deixis --- Pragmatics --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Oral communication. --- Discourse analysis. --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Signification (Linguistics) --- Onomasiology --- Semantics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semiotics --- Deixis. --- Grammar, Comparative and general - Deixis --- Discours --- Analyse --- Grammaire générale --- Deixis

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A substantial proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic', that is, it consists of oft-repeated chunks. From pause fillers such as you know, to phrases such as Many thanks!, Is this seat taken? or strong tea, they form a phenomenon central in language. This important new book investigates formulaic language from the point of view of language change. Employing a novel quantitative and data-led approach, it traces and analyses change in phraseology across 20th Century German as used in Switzerland. Drawing on nearly 20 million words of textual evidence, it shows that social and cultural change in the speech community is the predominant motivator of change, though other factors are also at play. The book demonstrates a close link between language change and the culture of the speech community, arguing that this has repercussions for the study of language in general, as well as the study of society and history.

Grammar --- Historical linguistics --- German language --- Written German --- Written communication --- Written German. --- Oral-formulaic analysis. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistic models. --- Discourse analysis. --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Models, Linguistic --- Linguistics --- Typology (Linguistics) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Formulaic analysis, Oral --- Folk literature --- Folklore --- Oral tradition --- History and criticism --- Methodology --- Oral-formulaic analysis --- Linguistic models --- Discourse analysis