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This collection of contributions from both linguists and lawyers brings a pragmatic perspective to the linguistic basis for legal meaning and for finding a norm by which to decide a case. That is, it turns from notions of linguistic meaning as residing in the text, as literal meaning waiting to be dug out, to focus instead on how readers infer pragmatic meaning, and on the kinds of inferencing that characterise legal discourse

"Aussagen darüber, was männlich oder weiblich ist, was für Männer und Frauen normal oder typisch ist (oder eben nicht ist), finden sich in den Massenmedien in grosser Dichte, sowohl explizit als auch implizit. Diese Studie unterzieht bundesdeutsche Pressetexte erstmals einer grossangelegten genderlinguistischen Analyse, um der Frage nachzugehen, wie geschlechtsspezifische Körper- und Rollenbilder in diesen Pressetexten mittels und in Sprache (re)produziert und propagiert werden. Zwei sich ergänzende Methoden werden dazu angewendet: die quantitativ verfahrende Korpuslinguistik und die qualitativ angelegte Framesemantik. Auf diese Weise werden typische Sprachgebrauchsmuster mit ihren charakteristischen (Be)Deutungen erkennbar. Da neben einer synchronen auch eine diachrone Analyse durchgeführt wird, lassen sich sowohl Konstanten als auch Veränderungen im Sprachgebrauch erforschen, was Rückschlüsse auf das (jeweils zeitspezifische) gesellschaftliche Wissen erlaubt"--

"Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert massenmediale, nicht-wissenschaftliche Diskurse zum Thema "Alter(n)" thematisch und sprachlich über mehrere Dekaden (1950er bis einschliesslich 2000er Jahre) mit Mitteln der linguistischen Diskursanalyse, um festzustellen, inwiefern sich das öffentliche Sprechen über Alter(n) angesichts des Wandels von sozio-ökonomischen und demographischen Rahmenbedingungen verändert" --

This book proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature. For millennia, literature from a wide variety of geocultural areas has gathered knowledge about life, about survival, and about living together, without either falling into discursive or disciplinary specializations or functioning as a regulatory mechanism for cultural knowledge. Literature is able to offer its readers knowledge through direct participation in the form of step-by-step intellectual and affective experiences. Through this ability, it can reach and affect audiences across great spatial and temporal distances. Literature – what different times and cultures have been able to understand as such in a broad sense – has always been characterized by its transareal and transcultural origins and effects. It is the product of many logics, and it teaches us to think polylogically rather than monologically. Literature is an experiment in living, and living in a state of experimentation.

"Ottmar Ette's TransArea proceeds from the thesis that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but rather, a process of long duration that may be divided into four main phases of accelerated globalization. These phases connect our present, across the world's widely divergent modern eras, to the period of early modern history. Ette demonstrates how the literatures of the world make possible a tangible perception of that which constitutes Life, both of our planet and on our planet, which may only be understood through the application of multiple logics. There is no substitute for the knowledge of literature: it is the knowledge of life, from life. This English translation will be of great interest to English-speaking scholars in the fields of Global and Area Studies, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, and many more."--

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: The forgotten body -- Chapter I The knowledge of the body -- Chapter II The Corposphere -- Chapter III Social imaginaries, borders, and limits of the semiotics of the body -- Chapter IV Body modalities: Space and movement, rituals and eroticism -- Chapter V Body, aesthetics, and hedonism -- Chapter VI Body and ritual: The structure of the gesture in public ceremonies -- Chapter VII Myth, body, and beauty: Rituals of the Misses -- Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts -- Chapter IX "Your Body is the Message" -- Chapter X Body and Identity: Space, places, and territories -- References -- Index