Grace Zhang

Elastic Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Language is like a slingshot, stretching for various communicative targets. This book reveals the art of purposive and powerful language stretching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781107028449
• ISBN-10: 1107028442
• Artikelnr.: 42790066

Autorenporträt

Grace Q. Zhang is an Associate Professor at Curtin University of Technology, Perth. She was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics by the University of Edinburgh in 1996, and has published extensively on elastic/vague language.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Theoretical foundations
3. Elasticity Theory
4. Methodology
5. Linguistic realisation of elastic language
6. Strategies of elastic language
7. Elastic language, power and gender
8. Elastic language and speech factors
9. General discussion
10. Conclusions and implications.