Presences and absences : transdisciplinary essays / edited by Nóra Séllei and Katarina Labudova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Séllei, Nóra.

Labudova, Katarina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume discusses the question of presence and/or absence from a transdisciplinary perspective, and intends to provide insights into how a wide range of disciplines addresses this issue which has been at the centre of philosophical, theoretical and critical debates in the past decades. As the essays in the volume prove, apparently diverse areas can have a lot in common and talk to each other in sometimes surprising ways. The topics discussed include modals in various languages and black slave funeral sermons, pragmatic markers and the Australian Stolen Generation, the transcendental in poe

Contents:

""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""PRESENCE AND ABSENCE IN LANGUAGEAND LINGUISTICS""; ""THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCE OF PRAGMATICMARKERS IN NATURALLY-OCCURRING,SCRIPTED AND NON-NATIVE DISCOURSE""; ""WHAT GETS HIGHLIGHTEDAND HIDDEN IN A GENRE CHAIN""; ""THE PRESENCE AND ABSENCEOF THE STOLEN GENERATIONS""; ""WORDS THAT MAKE WHOLE""; ""THE REFRESHING PRESENCE OF GODIN THE PERSONAL LYRICSOF ANNE BRADSTREET""; ""“SUCH ABSENCES!�""; ""BLANK SPACE""; ""SPECTRAL PRESENCESIN TWO TURN-OF-THE-CENTURYGHOST STORIES""; ""BEING A SUBJECT IS A HORRIBLE THING""; ""THE PROBLEM THAT HASA MASCULINE NAME""

""“IRONING-BECAUSE-ITS-TUESDAY�""""INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE OPENING SCENESOF VIRGINIA WOOLF�S THE YEARS""; ""MYTH AND RE-PRESENTATION""; ""WATERLESS FLOOD AND MYTHLESS MYTH""; ""THE ARABESQUES OF PRESENCEAND ABSENCE""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""; ""INDEX""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 9, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5320-8

OCLC:

859835018