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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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Author:   Marta Dynel
Publisher:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint:   Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781443806091

ISBN 10:   1443806099
Pages:   399
Publication Date:   30 April 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Marta Dynel, Ph.D., is an assistant professor (adiunkt) in the Department of Pragmatics in the Institute of English at the University of Lodz. She has published internationally in linguistic journals (e.g. Journal of Pragmatics and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics) and volumes (e.g. for Peter Lang and Cambridge Scholars Press). Her research interests are focused primarily on pragmatic, cognitive and sociolinguistic mechanisms of humour, as well as on the processes of social influence and the rhetoric of advertising. She has recently published a book titled Humorous Garden-Paths: A Pragmatic-Cognitive Study (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

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