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• Convergence and Fragmentation in the "New Era". On the Paradox of Convergence and Fragmentation in the Age of Globalization / Stephen J. Hartnett, Zhengrong Hu, Qingwen Dong, Zhi Li, & Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge
• Convergence and Fragmentation in the Umbrella Revolution: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Mainlandization of Hong Kong / Andrew Gilmore
• Fragmentation and Convergence in the Construction of National Imaginaries in U.S. and Chinese Documentaries, Zhi Li & Xi Wang
• Communication and Crisis in the Age of Convergence. Dueling Narratives of Distrust, Hypocrisy, and Blame: The 2014 U.S.-China Cyber Controversy / Michelle Murray Yang and Wang Da
• Huawei and the 2019 Cyber Security Crisis: Sino-U.S. Conflict in the Age of Globalization / Jufei Wan & Bryan Reckard
• Evolving Forms of Citizen Engagement in the Age of Convergence: The 2016 Baidu and Ctrip Crises as Case Studies in Critique, Trust, and Hope in Contemporary China / Jack Kangjie Liu & Dan Wang
• Case Studies in the Changing Mediascape of China. Rebuilding in Unity: The 2015 Tianjin Explosions and Renewal Discourses in Chinese Social Media / Lisa B. Keränen and Yimeng Li
• Code Switching and Language Games in Contemporary China; or, Convergence and Identity Construction on WeChat / Todd L. Sandel & Peimin Qiu
• "Ploughing Fortunes" or Fine Wine with Chinese Characteristics: U.S. and UK Media Representations of the Chinese Wine Industry / David Gruber
• Conclusion.

"As the United States and China increasingly come together, and while convergence is bringing together communication technologies, people, and platforms in new ways, it also raises key questions in terms of information flows, control, and regulation-and hence the future of US-Chinese relations. The case studies that comprise this book document the ongoing changes, challenges, and transformations within these processes, offering readers informative snapshots of how US-Chinese relations are changing on the ground, in the lived realities of daily communication habits"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Contextualizing the study
• Proclaiming dissent
• Witnessing
• Accounting for dissent
• Conclusion.

"In this timely and innovative book, Tamar Katriel takes a language and discourse-centred approach to the subject of peace activism in Israel-Palestine, one of the most significant political issues of our time, while also posing more general questions about the role played by language in activist movements-how activists themselves conceptualise their speech and its relationship to action. Viewing activism as a globalized cultural formation that gives shape and meaning to grassroots organizations' struggles for political change, this book explores the relations between the cultural categories of speech and action as constructed and evaluated in activist contexts. It focuses on the specific empirical field of defiant discourse associated with the soldierly role in Israeli culture, using it to offer an in-depth exploration of the cultural underpinnings of defiant speech. Katriel interrogates discourse-centered activism as part of social movements' action repertoires on the one hand, and of the local cultural construction of speech cultures on the other. This is critical reading for all students and scholars studying activism and social movements within Linguistics, Middle Eastern studies, Peace studies and Communication studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Digital medical care: securing mothers' lives in rural Kenya through mobile phone applications / Alfred Okoth Akwala
• Social media alternative for health communication in Nigeria / Janet Aver Adikpo, Patience Ngunan Achakpa-Ikyo
• Effect of electronic media sources on cervical cancer awareness among women in Kenya: case study of reproductive health clinics at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi County, Kenya / Rhoydah O.M. Nyambane
• Media awareness preferences for information on sickle cell disorder among university students in southwestern Nigeria / Cynthia Omoseyitan Ojomo, Taye Babaleye Babaleye
• Role of interpersonal communication in adoption of elective caesarean section: a study of couples in Nairobi Kenya / Denish Ouko Otieno, Alfred Akwala
• Framing family planning: an analysis of Nigerian newspaper coverage / Mistura Adebusola Salaudeen
• Dipo and the adolescent Krobo girl: redemption of a contested puberty rite for contemporary sexual health education / Doreen Vivian Kutufam
• Role of journalists in development: an exploration of the professional autonomy of Kenyan journalists / Joel Kibet Ngetich
• Streotyping femininity and masculinity in television drama shows: a case of Kenyan Citizen TV's Papa Shirandula drama / Vincent Mukangayi Achando, Mukangai Achando
• The influence of intercultural communication for immigrant traders in Kenyan informal urban markets / Agnes W. Muchura Theuri
• Developing the leadership potential of African youth through online communities / Lanoi Maloiy, Jocelyn Cranefield
• An assessment of the effectiveness of participatory communication strategies used in implementation of public water projects in rural area: Muranga County, Kenya / Benard M. Muhoro, Alfred Okoth Akwala
• Communication on social network sites: assessing cyberbulling among young women in Nairobi Kenya-- case of Facbook platform / Denish Ouko Otieno, Faith Halima Kirigha, Alfred Okoth Akwala

Communication plays a critical role in enhancing social, cultural, and business relations. Research on media, language, and cultural studies is fundamental in a globalized world because it illuminates the experiences of various populations. There is a need to develop effective communication strategies that will be able to address both health and cultural issues globally. Dialectical Perspectives on Media, Health, and Culture in Modern Africa is a collection of innovative research on the impact of media and especially new media on health and culture. While highlighting topics including civic engagement, gender stereotypes, and interpersonal communication, this book is ideally designed for university students, multinational organizations, diplomats, expatriates, and academicians seeking current research on how media, health, and culture can be appropriated to overcome the challenges that plague the world today.
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"Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area offers the first comprehensive account of this important understudied word class from synchronic, diachronic, literary, and descriptive perspectives. The work contains studies from the four major language families of South Asia (Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Austroasiatic, Tibeto-Burman) and covers domains in semantics, morphosyntax, and phonotactics. It also includes studies from literature and film that show how expressive form and function are embedded in performative contexts. Finally, the volume also contains first of its kind data from several small endangered languages from the region. Proposing an innovative methodology that combines structural and semiotic analysis, the volume advances a more holistic understanding of areal phenomena that departs from previous studies of the South Asian linguistic area"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• Contributors
• Chapter 1
• Walking in Circle: Democracy, State and Freedom of Expression in Pakistan
• Qaisar Abbas and Farooq Sulehria
• Chapter 2
• Journalism in the Service of Jihad
• Faizullah Jan
• Chapter 3
• Jihad on Screen: The Role of Jihadi Drama, Film and Their Press Coverage, 1979-89 in Islamising Pakistan
• Farooq Sulehria
• Chapter 4
• The Politics of Pity and the Individual Heroine Syndrome: Mukhtaran Mai and Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan
• Fawzia Afzal Khan
• Chapter 5
• TV News as Merchant of War Hysteria: Framing the Kashmir Conflict in India and Pakistan
• Qaisar Abbas
• Chapter 6
• Performing Piety and Sexuality in Pakistan
• Afiya Shehrbano Zia
• Chapter 7
• Cost of Doing their Job: The Online Harassment of Women Journalists
• Ayesha Khan
• Chapter 8
• Counterterrorism Perspective and the Pakistani TV Channels: A Case Study of Osama bin Laden's Assassination
• Amir Hamza Marwan
• Chapter 9
• The Journey of Pakistan's Oscar-success A Girl in the River: An Insider's Account
• Haya Fatima Iqbal
• Chapter 10
• What Freedom? Reflections of a Working Journalist
• Farah Zia
• Chapter 11
• Covering the Periphery: Balochistan as a Blind Spot in the Mainstream Newspapers of Pakistan
• Adnan Aamir
• Chapter 12
• Interviews with I. A. Rehman, Mehdi Hassan, and Eric Rahim: Freedom of Expression and the Sham Democracy
• Qaisar Abbas and Farooq Sulehria
• Index.
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This book unpacks the media dynamics within the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan. It provides an in-depth, critical, and scholarly discussion of contemporary issues such as media, state, and democracy in Pakistan; freedom of expression in Pakistani journalism; Balochistan as a blind spot in mainstream newspapers; media control by state institutions; women and media discourses; TV talk shows and coverage of Kashmir; feminist narrative and media images of Malala Yousufzai and Mukhtaran Mai; jihad on screen; and Osama bin Laden's death on screen, to understand the relation between media and terrorism. The book covers diverse media types including TV, radio, newspapers, print media, films, documentary, stage performance, and social media. Detailed, interdisciplinary, analytical, and with original perspectives from journalists as well as academics, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of media studies, Pakistan studies, politics and international affairs, military and terrorism studies, journalism and communication studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest general readers, policy makers, and those interested in global journalism, mass media, and freedom of expression.
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• 1. What Is Genetic Translation Studies Good For?, Ariadne Nunes (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal), Joana Moura (Catholic University of Portugal and University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Marta Pacheco Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Part I. Genetic Approaches to Translation and Collaboration
• 2. Latency, Inference, Interaction, Joao Dionisio (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 3. Unveiling the Creative Process of Collaborative Translation, Esa Christine Hartmann (University of Strasbourg, France)
• 4. Czeslaw Milosz's Genetic Dossier in the Polish Translations of Negro Spirituals, Ewa Kolodziejczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
• 5. The Genesis of a Compilative Translation and its de Facto Source Text, Laura Ivaska (University of Turku, Finland)
• 6. Allographic Translation, Self-Translation and Alloglottic Rewriting, Elsa Pereira (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Part II. Translators' Stories and Testimonies
• 7. Peter Handke as Translator of Rene Char, Joana Moura (Catholic University of Portugal and University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 8. On the Bodily Dimension of Translators and Translating, Barbara Ivancic (University of Bologna, Italy) and Alexandra L. Zepter (University of Cologne, Germany)
• 9. The Translator's View of Translation, Dominique Faria (University of the Azores and University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 10. Gregory Rabassa's Writings and his Translations of Lobo Antunes' Works, Marisa Mourinha (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Part III. Translators at Work
• 11. The Coindreau Archives, Patrick Hersant (Universite Paris 8 and Ecole normale superieure, France)
• 12. Authorship and (Self-)Translation in Academic Writing, Karen Bennett (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 13. Camilo Castelo Branco as Author and Translator, Carlota Pimenta (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• 14. Vasconcelos Abreu's O Panchatantra, Ariadne Nunes (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal) and Marta Pacheco Pinto (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Index.
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Examining the research possibilities, debates and challenges posed by the emerging field of genetic translation studies, this book demonstrates how, both theoretically and empirically, genetic criticism can shed much-needed light on translators' archives, the translator figure and the creative process of translation. Genetic Translation Studies analyses a diverse range of translation materials including manuscripts, typographical proofs, personal papers, letters, testimonies and interviews in order to give visibility, body and presence to translators. Chapters draw on translations of works by authors such as Saint-John Perse, Nikos Kazantzakis, Rene Char, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Camilo Castelo Branco, in each case revealing the conflicts and collaborations between translators and other stakeholders, including authors, editors and publishers. Covering an impressive array of language contexts, from Portuguese, English and French to Greek, Finnish, Polish and Sanskrit, this book demonstrates the value of the genetic turn in translation studies and offers new ways of working with translator correspondences.
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• Introduction
• 1. The Surrounding Public Sphere
• 2. From Warao to Spanish: The Translation of Poverty and the Poverty of Translation
• 3. From Spanish to Warao: Translating the National Anthem
• 4. Greetings and Promises
• 5. Frames and Revolutionary Magic
• 6. Revolutionary Messaging Conclusion Index.
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Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center-periphery dynamics in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens. Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction' and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations participate in the formation and contestation of state power through daily practices and the use of different speech genres, emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce revolutionary subjects. Establishing the centrality of language and semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish, it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote loyalty to the regime.
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• Making, media, and theory
• Workshop : conductive play dough
• In defence of uselessness
• Workshop : useless box
• Writing with a soldering iron : on the art of making attention
• Workshop : smartphone basket
• Digital rituals, wearables and non-users
• Workshop : resistor case
• Epilogue: Dirty media.

"Making Media Theory is an investigation and demonstration of hands-on approaches to the study and practice of Media Theory"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• A Narrative Perspective
• Media and Violence
• Media and Social Representation
• Media Use and Social Control
• "New" Media, New Narratives?
• Conclusion.

"A nuanced and authoritative take on how media use affects society"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Theoretical Background: Child Bilingualism and the Role of Sibling Order in Heritage Language Maintenance
• Local Context and Methods
• Summary of Protocols
• Data Analysis
• Researcher Positionality
• Siblings' Language Use Patterns
• Siblings' Language Ideologies and Identities
• Siblings' Language Practices in the Home and Community
• Siblings' Language Practices in the School
• Conclusion: Rethinking Heritage Language Maintenance in the U.S.

"Based on a multi-year ethnography in one Spanish-speaking community in New Jersey, this book is a meticulous account of six Mexican families that explores the relationship between siblings' language use patterns, practices, and ideologies. Combining insights gained from language socialization and heritage language studies within the larger field of sociolinguistics, the book's findings examine siblings' sociolinguistic environments and the ways in which these Latino children use and view their multilingual resources in the home, school, and broader community. This study emphasizes the links between siblings' language ideologies, agentive decision making, and linguistic patterns, and the ways in which birth order influences the different dimensions of heritage language maintenance in the U.S."-- Provided by publisher.

"These lectures deal with the role of cognitive modelling in language-based meaning construction. To make meaning people use a small set of principles which they apply to different types of conceptual characterizations. This yields predictable meaning effects, which, when stably associated with specific grammatical patterns, result in constructions or fixed form-meaning parings. This means that constructional meaning can be described on the basis of the same principles that people use to make inferences. This way of looking at pragmatics and grammar through cognition allows us to relate a broad range of pragmatic and grammatical phenomena, among them argument-structure characterizations, implicational, illocutionary, and discourse structure, and such figures of speech as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, and irony"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Ten Lectures on Construction Grammar and Typology, William Croft presents a unified theory of linguistic form and meaning that encompasses crosslinguistic diversity, verbalization and language change. Croft begins from construction grammar, a theory of syntax in which all syntactic structures are a pairing of form and meaning. Constructions are posited as basic; syntactic categories are defined by constructions. The internal structure of constructions directly link elements of constructions to the meanings they express, Constructions across languages can be situated in a space of syntactic variation. Grammar emerges from the verbalization of experience. Constructions occur in a probability distribution across the conceptual space of meanings. These probability distributions evolve, leading to grammatical change in language, modeled in an evolutionary framework"-- Provided by publisher.

"Issues in multilingualism and its implications for communities and society at large, language acquisition and use, language diversification, and creative language use associated with new linguistic identities have become hot topics in both scientific and popular debates. A ubiquitous aspect of multilingualism is language contact. This book contains twelve articles that discuss specific aspects of Contact Linguistics. These articles cover a wide range of topics in the field, including creoles, areal linguistics, language mixing, and the sociolinguistic aspects of interactions with audiences. The book is dedicated to Pieter Muysken whose work on pidgin and creole languages, mixed languages, code-switching, bilingualism, and areal linguistics has been ground-breaking and inspirational for the authors in this book, as well as numerous other scholars working on the various facets of this rapidly expanding field"-- Provided by publisher.

What do we know today about the development of human language, and what future research will help improve diagnosis of disorders and ensure effective intervention? Explore the answers in this comprehensive volume: an in-depth study of both oral and written forms of language, both typical and atypical language development, and the evolutionary, biological, sociocultural, and cognitive factors that affect literacy acquisition. Based on presentations from a joint meeting of the 16th Extraordinary Brain Symposium and the conference All About Language, which was hosted and supported by St. Petersburg State University, Russia, this volume combines cutting-edge research, insights, questions, and recommendations from more than 40 respected contributors. Readers will explore key topics such as how infants learn and build a body of words what eye tracking can tell us about reading development whether language impairments are inherited how early intervention promotes language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder what role executive function plays in both reading development and disorders how students with reading difficulties respond to intervention how reading disabilities are identified in children learning English as a second language what recent studies say about the relationship between spoken and written language how telehealth can make language interventions more accessible Essential reading for researchers, specialists, and future professionals, this book expertly synthesizes our current knowledge about language and literacy development-and highlights the knowledge gaps we need to fill to support better outcomes for children.
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In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know when their use is ethically wrong? How can we judge untruthfulness in the messiness of situated discourse? Drawing on pragmatics, philosophy, psychology, and law, All Bullshit and Lies? develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing untruthful discourse in situated context. TRUST, or Trust-related Untruthfulness in Situated Text, sees untruthfulness as encompassing not only deliberate manipulations of what is believed to be true (the insincerity of withholding, misleading, and lying) but also the distortions that arise from an irresponsible attitude towards the truth (dogma, distortion, and bullshit). Chris Heffer discusses times when truth is not <"in play, >" as in jokes or fiction, as well as instances when concealing the truth can achieve a greater good. The TRUST framework demonstrates that untruthfulness becomes unethical in discourse, though, when it unjustifiably breaches the trust an interlocutor invests in the speaker. In addition to the theoretical framework, this book provides a clear, practical heuristic for analyzing discursive untruthfulness and applies it to such cases of public discourse as the Brexit <"battle bus, >" Trump's tweet about voter fraud, Blair and Bush's claims about weapons of mass destruction, and the multiple forms of untruthfulness associated with the Skripal poisoning case. In All Bullshit and Lies? Chris Heffer turns a critical eye to fundamental questions of truthfulness and trust in our society. This timely and interdisciplinary investigation of discourse provides readers a deeper theoretical understanding of untruthfulness in a postfactual world.
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"In Anatolian Verbal Stem Formation, David Sasseville offers an extensive classification of the Luwian, Lycian and Lydian verbal stem classes. This serves as a basis for reconstructing the Proto-Luwic stage and subsequent comparison with Hittite, providing new insights into the Proto-Anatolian verbal system and by extension into the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European. Besides its contribution to the study of verbal morphology, the present book also provides significant insights into the philology of the Anatolian languages. The detailed analyses of the synchronic data, including a philological survey of verbal forms and paradigms for the individual stem classes, enhance our understanding of Luwian, Lycian and Lydian and thereby benefit the fields of Hittitology and other studies on the Classical period in Asia Minor"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Prosodic entanglement and the anti-contiguity of wh- and c
• An anti-contiguity approach to Tano in-situ interrogative distribution
• An anti-contiguity approach to Nupe interrogative distribution.

A recent wave of research has explored the link between wh- syntax and prosody, breaking with the traditional generative conception of a unidirectional syntax-phonology relationship. In this book, Jason Kandybowicz develops Anti-contiguity Theory as a compelling alternative to Richards' Contiguity Theory to explain the interaction between the distribution of interrogative expressions and the prosodic system of a language. Through original and highly detailed fieldwork on several under-studied West African languages (Krachi, Bono, Wasa, Asante Twi, and Nupe), Kandybowicz presents empirically and theoretically rich analyses bearing directly on a number of important theories of the syntax-prosody interface. His observations and analyses stem from original fieldwork on all five languages and represent some of the first prosodic descriptions of the languages. The book also considers data from thirteen additional typologically diverse languages to demonstrate the theory's reach and extendibility. Against the backdrop of data from eighteen languages, Anti-contiguity offers a new lens on the empirical and theoretical study of wh- prosody.
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The second edition of Arabic Sociolinguistics offers an extended commentary on the important findings of new critical approaches to language and society in Arab-speaking countries. Following a recent wave of political upheavals in the Middle East, the book engages with latest academic works that relate language to power and conflict in the Arab world. In addition to thoroughly updated accounts of diglossia, code-switching, gender, language policy and language variation in the region, Reem Bassiouney discusses the most important recent development in the field - critical sociolinguistics - in a new dedicated chapter that challenges the tendency of applying Western linguistic methods and terms to superdiverse communities. By covering the key developments of linguistic theories and contexts with up-to-date examples to help explain the phenomena under discussion, this is the most comprehensive book on Arabic sociolinguistics today.
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• Avant-propos. Archéologie(s) de la traduction
• Traduction et brouillons d'auteurs
• Fondements théoriques et méthodologiques pour une génétique de la traduction. Concepts, méthodes, visées
• Variations sur un jardin. Logique narrative et orthonymie dans cinq traductions italiennes de l'épisode horticole de Bouvard et Pécuchet
• "L'ange" de Valéry. Esquisse d'une étude génétique et traductologique
• Traduire ou "mettre nos pas sur les vestiges de ceux de l'auteur". Valéry en arabe
• Genèse d'une pensée traductologique
• L'écriture de la traduction. Les brouillons d'Elmar Tophoven pour la traduction de Djinn
• Genèse et exégèse par André Pézard de sa traduction de Dante
• Traduire les essais sur la poésie d'Yves Bonnefoy. Un mouvement d'adhésion au travail textuel
• Anamnèses
• Énumération elliptique et syntaxe nominale dans les Motets d'Eugenio Montale traduits par Philippe Jaccottet
• Traduire Georges Perec en français ?
• Pérégrinations transeuropéennes et transatlantiques de la matière épique médiévale de Fierabras. Enjeux de traduction, entre la France et le Brésil
• Observatoires de l'activité traduisante
• La traduction poétique, questionnement et plaisir esthétique, une gageure. La traduction des Roses d'Hercule du poète espagnol Toms Morales
• La traduction face à la critique génétique
• Dans la tête de la traductrice
• L'influence des outils sur la créativité en traduction littéraire.

"La traduction du texte littéraire implique, parfois autant que la création de première main, un processus complexe d'élaboration, dont témoignent les divers brouillons des traducteurs. Ces dossiers de genèse ouvrent une perspective de recherche essentielle à la compréhension du processus. Ils conjuguent entre autres les aventures de deux écritures, la genèse de l'original pouvant conditionner la genèse de la traduction, dans ses principes comme dans ses solutions. Leur exploration exige, partant, un savoir et un savoir-faire dont les disciplines de la genèse textuelle, de la linguistique, de la psycholinguistique et de la traductologie peuvent aider à constituer les concepts, les méthodes et les visées."--Page 4 of cover.

• Chapter 1. Utterance and Context (Maria de Ponte, Kepa Korta, John Perry).-
• Chapter 2. Indirectness and Intentions in Metasemantics (Michael Glanzberg).-
• Chapter 3. Speaker Intentions and Objective Metasemantics (Jeffrey C. King).-
• Chapter 4. Speakers, Hearers and Demonstrative Reference (Palle Leth).-
• Chapter 5. How to Say When (Agustin Vincente & Dan Zeman).-
• Chapter 6. Distributed Utterances (Mark McCullagh).-
• Chapter 7. Demonstratives in First Order Logic (Geoff Georgii).-
• Chapter 8. De se as Variable Binding: on Context Sensitivity in Utterance Reports (Joan Gimeno-Simo).-
• Chapter 9. How Can "I" Refer to Me? Banishing Monsters at The Source (David Kashtan).-
• Chapter 10. Compositionality in Truth Conditional Pragmatics (Adrain Briciu).-
• Chapter 11. Occasion Sensitivity and What is Said (Claudia Picazo Jaque).-
• Chapter 12. Context and Communicative Success (Joey Pollock).-
• Chapter 13. Truth and Context (Gerald Vision).-
• Chapter 14. Subsentential Speech Acts: a Situated Contextualist Account (Joanna Odrowaz-Sypniewska).-
• Chapter 15. Some Constraint on Contextualism about Modals (Daniel Skibra).
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This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language. Topics include the scope of context-dependency, the nature of content and the character of input data of cognitive processes relevant for the interpretation of utterances. There's also coverage of the role of beliefs and intentions as contextual factors, as well as the validity of arguments in context-sensitive languages. The contributions consider foundational issues regarding context-sensitivity from three different, yet related, perspectives on the phenomenon of context-dependence: representational, structural, and functional. The contributors not only address the representational, structural and/or functional problems separately but also study their mutual connections, thus furthering the debate and bringing competing approaches closer to unification and consensus. This text appeals to students and researchers within the field. This is a very useful collection of essays devoted to the roles of context in the study of language. Its essays provide a useful overview of the current debates on this topic, and they put forth novel contributions that will undoubtedly be of relevance for the development of all areas in philosophy and linguistics interested in the notion of context. Stefano Predelli Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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