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<font face="arial" size=2>John Benjamins Publishing announces two new
works in Functional Linguistics:<br>
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Grammatical Relations in Change<br>
Jan Terje Faarlund (ed.) <br>
<i>University of Oslo<br>
</i>Studies in Language Companion Series 56 <br>
United States and Canada: 1 58811 034 6 / USD 100.00 (Hardcover)<br>
Rest of world: 90 272 3058 7 / NLG 220.00 (Hardcover)<br>
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The eleven selected contributions making up this volume deal with
grammatical relations, their coding and behavioral properties, and the
change that these properties have undergone in different languages. The
focus of this collection is on the changing properties of subjects and
objects, although the scope of the volume goes beyond the central
problems pertaining to case marking and word order. The diachrony of
syntactic and morphosyntactic phenomena are approached from different
theoretical perspectives, generative grammar, valency grammar, and
functionalism. The languages dealt with include Old English, Mainland
Scandinavian, Icelandic, German and other Germanic languages, Latin,
French and other Romance languages, Northeast Caucasian, Eskimo, and
Popolocan. This book provides an opportunity to compare different
theoretical approaches to similar phenomena in different languages and
language families.<br>
<i>Contributions by</i>: Jan Terje Faarlund; Werner Abraham; John Ole
Askedal; Elly van Gelderen; Alice C. Harris; Lars Heltoft; Alana Johns;
D. Gary Miller; Muriel Norde; Lene Schøsler; Annette
Veerman-Leichsenring.<br>
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Reanimated Voices. <br>
Speech reporting in a historical-pragmatic perspective. <br>
Daniel E. Collins<br>
<i>The Ohio State University<br>
</i>Pragmatics & Beyond NS 85 <br>
United States and Canada: 1 58811 023 0 / USD 114.00 (Hardcover)<br>
Rest of world: 90 272 5104 5 / NLG 250.00 (Hardcover)<br>
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Reanimated Voices addresses three activities: reporters evoking
speech events; interpreters (re)constituting those speech events; and
historical pragmaticians eavesdropping in time on the reporters and
interpreters. Can one reconstruct aspects of pragmatic competence on the
basis of written texts only? Reanimated Voices answers this in the
affirmative. It offers a methodology for historical-pragmatic
reconstruction to explain the synchronic patterns of variation in
premodern writings. <br>
Reanimated Voices examines the distribution of reporting strategies in a
corpus of medieval Russian texts. Forms preferred in specific recurring
contexts are matched with the need(s) served by those contexts - a fit
reflecting collective intentionality. Occasional “residual forms”
-strategies that appear in contexts where others predominate- also
reflect cooperative behavior; they index utterances departing from the
prototype or unusual configurations of participants. Thus Reanimated
Voices explores reporting as an activity of rational agents coordinating
interpretation in accordance with cultural and institutional notions of
relevance.<br>
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