A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
Title | A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Germana D’Acquisto |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 144387485X |
This book explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. The corpus used in this analysis includes sixty-six Security Council Resolutions (2965 words) and forty General Assembly Resolutions (2529 words) from 1948 to 2006 related to the most relevant events of the conflict. In particular, the study investigates the role of the English verbal system in relation to modality in the institutional language of the United Nations and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types, taking into account the communicative interaction between the legal authority, the United Nations, and the addressees, Member States and the International Community. It discusses the use of prescriptive and performative verbs used to express different degrees of obligation in the United Nations documents.
Language and Diplomacy
Title | Language and Diplomacy PDF eBook |
Author | Jovan Kurbalija |
Publisher | Diplo Foundation |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Diplomacy |
ISBN | 9990955158 |
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Heine |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 1152 |
Release | 2015-02-19 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191664790 |
This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most useful models for the task in hand. Distinguished scholars from all over the world explain the rationale and aims of over thirty explanatory approaches to the description, analysis, and understanding of language. Each chapter considers the main goals of the model; the relation it proposes from between lexicon, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; the way it defines the interactions between cognition and grammar; what it counts as evidence; and how it explains linguistic change and structure. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis offers an indispensable guide for everyone researching any aspect of language including those in linguistics, comparative philology, cognitive science, developmental philology, cognitive science, developmental psychology, computational science, and artificial intelligence. This second edition has been updated to include seven new chapters looking at linguistic units in language acquisition, conversation analysis, neurolinguistics, experimental phonetics, phonological analysis, experimental semantics, and distributional typology.
Diplomatic Discourse
Title | Diplomatic Discourse PDF eBook |
Author | Ray T. Donahue |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997-11-13 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1567502903 |
This work seeks to provide insight into the role that discourse and rhetorical analysis plays in the crucial area of international conflict resolution and diplomatic process.
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence
Title | Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence PDF eBook |
Author | Junfeng Zhang |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 2015-09-18 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1443883131 |
Interpersonal Prominence and International Presence focuses on the construction and translation of diplomatic discourse (DD) for conveying a message suggesting uncertainty and capable of being read in a number of ways. After a summary and an analysis of its characteristics, the book provides a definition of DD, showing that implicit DD is marked with an interpersonal prominence among its three meta-functions from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The book then gives a definition of implicitness, proposes a lexical model and identifies Lexicogrammatical Metaphor (LGM) as the linguistic mechanism of generating implicitness in DD via intralingual translation, and if necessary, interlingual translation. After this, a case study of DD generated around the 2001 Sino-US Air Collision incident is provided, which is used to establish a descriptive and explanatory three-dimensional model that is capable of providing textual accounts of translational treatments in intralingually configuring implicitness in DD and interlingually re-expressing it. This model consists of three components, namely linguistic composition, interactional dynamics, and perlocutionary imaging. Among them, perlocutionary imaging prevails over the other two in constructing and translating implicitness in DD.
Diplomatic and Political Interpreting Explained
Title | Diplomatic and Political Interpreting Explained PDF eBook |
Author | Mira Kadrić |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2021-07-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1000411362 |
*First comprehensive student guide in English to the practice of political and diplomatic interpreting *includes a wide range of interviews with practising interpreters and diplomats and includes an introductory chapter from a diplomat, thus providing a truly inter-professional approach to the subject. *ideal as a core text for political and diplomatic interpreting modules and as recommended reading for a section of Public service Interpreting modules
English for Diplomatic Purposes
Title | English for Diplomatic Purposes PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Friedrich |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2016-05-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1783095490 |
English is used in diplomatic contexts worldwide, including in situations where none of the interlocutors are native-speakers. This ground-breaking volume brings together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners to discuss the needs of those using and learning English for Diplomatic Purposes. Chapter authors use concepts from sociolinguistics, World Englishes, Peace Linguistics and English as a Lingua Franca. Combined with this theoretical background is a pragmatic understanding of the work of diplomacy and the realities of communication, as well as exercises designed to help students, teachers and practicing diplomats reflect on, and develop, their language use. This book represents an important first step in the opening-up of English for Diplomatic Purposes as a distinct field of study and learning, and as such will be required reading for those working and studying in this area.