Suchergebnisse

Part 1: Language Changes: Looking Within a Language -- Chapter 1. Language and Revolution: Disruptions and Ruptures in the (Social) Histories of Language -- Chapter 2. Different Sources, Same Path – The Development of Addressee Based Deictics to Markers of Discourse Status -- Chapter 3. Diachronic Typological Profiling Against Synchronic Variation in the Anglophone World -- Chapter 4. Taboo Negators and The Jespersen Cycle -- Chapter 5. Standardise this! Prescriptivism and Resistance to Standardization in Language Revitalisation -- Chapter 6. Be Seeing Youse: Understanding the Place of Youse in Contemporary Australian English -- Chapter 7. 'I could literally care less': Online Attitudes to Language Change(s) -- Chapter 8. Is Kate Burridge Unique? -- Chapter 9. Construction Grammar and Language Change in Australia: What do you think this is, Bush Week? -- Chapter 10. Unlocking the English Wordhord Today -- Part 2: Across Languages -- Chapter 11. Semantic Change, Partial Synonymy and the Indeterminacy of Interpretation -- Chapter 12. Old, Middle, and Modern: Temporality and Typology -- Chapter 13. Language Contact and Language Change in the Sepik Region of New Guinea -- Chapter 14. What's the Score? -- Part 3: Language Changes: Other Aspects -- Chapter 15. From Seeing to Feeling: How Do Deafblind People Adapt Visual Sign Languages? -- Chapter 16. Sound Symbolism and Language Change -- Chapter 17. The Singpho Water Flowing Song: Searching for the poetics in a rich maze of linguistic forms.

"Metaphor has long provided a rich way to speak about the unspeakable, to refer to delicate issues. Sex is one such area. This book follows a cognitive-linguistic and relevance-theoretic approach to the language of sex, considering metaphor as a bridge that brings together mind and language. It does this through the analysis of the antithetical mechanisms of verbal mitigation and offence. These two mechanisms are (more commonly know as) euphemism and (its lesser known companion term) dysphemism. The volume reflects on the social and communicative functions that sexual metaphors perform in a sample of almost two hundred postings taken from internet forums. How do people think about sex? How do people avoid talking about sex? How do people paraphrase sexual topics? It offers an account of how real language users understand sexual taboo in present-day English and also a great grounding in manual corpus work on a qualitative level"--