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Worlds of words: complexity, creativity, and conventionality in english language, literature and culturevolume II - Literature and culture. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv. - Pisa University Press, 2019 -
Inspired by the papers presented at the 28th biennial Conference of the Italian Association of English Studies, held in Pisa in September 2017, the essays collected in the Literature Section of this volume intend to contribute to a reflection on complexity and creativity in literary works, focusing both on the diachronic development of these two concepts through different ages and literary periods, and on their synchronic occurrence within texts and across genres. The wide time span covered by the essays, ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary, enables an extensive charting, as well as an inclusive and in-depth understanding, of an extremely rich phenomenology. The papers included in the Culture Section draw together multiple strands which expatiate on a variety of issues and fields, such as the far-reaching project and latest developments of Cultural Studies, trauma and ethnicity, globalisation and cyberspace, the politics of intermediality and communication patterns in social networks. An up-to-date and stimulating cartography is thus offered in which the paradigms of complexity, creativity and conventionality are crucially addressed and investigated in connection with their material contexts.
Worlds of words: complexity, creativity, and conventionality in english language, literature and cultureVol. I - Language. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv. - Pisa University Press, 2019 -
The volume collects articles which discuss complexity, conventionality and creativity in the English language from perspectives as diverse as specialised discourse, language teaching and learning, language varieties, lexical creativity, stylistics, knowledge dissemination through the media and audio-visual translation. It offers a multifaceted picture of the ways in which opposing forces exerted by conventionality and creativity contribute to shaping all levels of the linguistic system. The interpretive paradigm is offered by the theory of complex systems, a rich research framework attempting to describe and explain the dynamics which emerge in the many forms of situational adaptation of natural systems. Norms and conventions are, in fact, constantly exploited and manipulated through the creative behaviour of language users. This may lead to unpredictable synchronic effects and variation and, ultimately, to diachronic innovation.
Introduction to ellipsis in English texts and discourse: A descriptive study. E-book. Formato PDF Veronica Bonsignori - Pisa University Press, 2018 -
Ellipsis is a form of syntactic reduction that is pervasive in both written and oral communication. It has been widely studied from different perspectives, and therefore its definition has always been quite problematic. The present work attempts to define this phenomenon in the English language. An account of the different types of ellipsis is provided, by drawing a classification with examples for each category, and three main approaches for its interpretation are outlined, i.e., text linguistics, psycholinguistics, and pragmatics. The final chapter investigates the use of the different types of ellipsis in English written and spoken texts, e.g., novels, film scripts, research articles, excerpts from diaries, recipes, newspaper headlines, advertisements, transcriptions of face-to-face conversation, etc., within the frame of textual linguistics, in order to shed some light on the different functions it may perform across genres and text types.