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Plutarch's Prism - Rebecca Kingston - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Plutarch's Prism - Rebecca Kingston - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Throughout the early modern period, political theorists in France and England drew on the works of Plutarch to offer advice to kings and princes. Elizabeth I herself translated Plutarch in her later years, while Jacques Amyot''s famous translations of Plutarch''s The Parallel Lives led to the wide distribution of his work and served as a key resource for Shakespeare in the writing of his Roman plays, through Sir Thomas North''s English translations. Rebecca Kingston''s new study explores how Plutarch was translated into French and English during the Renaissance and how his works were invoked in political argument from the early modern period into the 18th century, contributing to a tradition she calls ''public humanism''. This book then traces the shifting uses of Plutarch in the Enlightenment, leading to the decline of this tradition of ''public humanism''. Throughout, the importance of Plutarch''s work is highlighted as a key cultural reference and for its insight into important aspects of public service.

DKK 1042.00
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Pragmatics in English - Kate (kingston University Scott - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatics in English - Kate (kingston University Scott - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Pragmatics – the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people say – is a core subject in English language, linguistics, and communication studies. This textbook introduces the key topics in this fast-moving field, including metaphor, irony, politeness, disambiguation, and reference assignment. It walks the reader through the essential theories in pragmatics, including Grice, relevance theory, speech act theory, and politeness theory. Each chapter includes a range of illustrative examples, guiding readers from the basic principles to a thorough understanding of the topics. A dedicated chapter examines how research is conducted in pragmatics, providing students with resources and ideas for developing their own projects. Featuring exercises, a comprehensive glossary, and suggestions for further reading, this book is accessible to beginner undergraduates, including those with no prior knowledge of linguistics. It is an essential resource for courses in English language, English studies, and linguistics.

DKK 288.00
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Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style - Kate (kingston University Scott - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Referring Expressions, Pragmatics, and Style - Kate (kingston University Scott - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Reference is a major theme in the study of language and language use. Providing a relevance-theoretic account of reference resolution, this book develops our understanding of procedurally encoded meaning by exploring its function and role in reference resolution. A range of referring expressions are discussed, including definite descriptions, demonstratives and pronouns. Existing work on the pragmatics of reference has largely focused on how reference is resolved. However, speakers can do much more than just secure reference when they use a referring expression. A speaker''s choice of expression might communicate information about their attitudes and their emotions, and referring expressions can also be used to create stylistic and poetic effects. The analyses in this book widen the focus to consider these broader effects, and the discussions and arguments presented take seriously the idea that referring expressions can contribute to meaning and communication in a way that goes beyond reference.

DKK 948.00
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Strolling Players of Empire - Kathleen (state University Of New York Wilson - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Strolling Players of Empire - Kathleen (state University Of New York Wilson - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Why did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston and Calcutta, Fort Marlborough in Sumatra, St. Helena and Port Jackson in New South Wales as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural tradition through their own performances, as Englishness became also a production of non-English peoples across the globe.

DKK 335.00
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