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The Conceptualization Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of meaning was tackled by the Reference Theory. According to this theory, meaning is regarded as objective in...
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Comparative Theory
Before discussing the comparative theory, we should first familiarize ourselves with some definitions to leave an overall impression.
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The Configuration Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of stylistic devices was tackled by the Dictionary theory. According to this theory, the core meaning of a word is...
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The Experientialism Theory
In the traditional era, the dominant theory concerning the source of knowledge was Rationalism. According to this theory, reason is regarded as the...
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The Contextualization Theory
Formalist Stylistics adheres strictly to a text. This stance is inspired by the theory of textualism, which emerged in the second half of the...
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The Idealization Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of meaning was tackled in terms of realism, a theory of meaning which stipulates that the meaning of an expression...
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Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors
Long distance (or “exempt”) uses of anaphors in Eurasian languages are often compared to the special logophoric pronouns found in certain West...
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Re-analyzing ‘say’ complementation: Implications for case theory and beyond
This paper argues based on data from Uyghur (Turkic) that clausal complementation structures involving a special form of the verb ‘say’ are actually...
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Prolegomena to a theory of X-marking
The morphological marking that distinguishes conditionals that are called “counterfactual” from those that are not, can also be found in other modal...
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Intention reports and eventuality abstraction in a theory of mood choice
Recent work on mood choice considers fine-grained semantic differences among desire predicates (notably, ‘want’ and ‘hope’) and their consequences...
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Towards a theory of morphosyntactic focus marking
Based on six detailed case studies of languages in which focus is marked morphosyntactically, we propose a novel formal theory of focus marking,...
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A flexible scope theory of intensionality
Extant attempts to incorporate intensionality into the grammar either systematically over-generate, or systematically under-generate. In this paper,...
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Introduction Towards a Theory of Disaster and Crisis Management: Transactional Theory of Persuasion, Coercion and Manipulation (TTPCM)
Crisis/disaster management cannot be fully achieved in the absence of an adequate in-depth understanding of influence. Thus, in this chapter we...
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Children’s surface, textbase, and situation model representations of written and illustrated written narrative text
According to the tripartite model of text representation (van Dijk & Kintsch, 1983), readers form representations of the text surface and textbase,...
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An Analysis of Humour Style in Nigerian Situation Comedy
Verbal blunders are usually perceived as humorous. However, they are also sometimes explained away as “a momentary loss of control over speaking”...
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Item Response Theory
In this chapter, the two basic assumptions of IRT (i.e., unidimensionality and local independence), the three most commonly used dichotomous IRT...
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Flexemes in theory and in practice
This paper provides an in-depth investigation of the possibility of systematically using flexemes – i.e., lexical units characterized in terms of...
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Colloquial Russian between theory and practice: what is claimed and what is real?
This paper presents an extensive review of the research literature on Colloquial Russian (CR) in the past 50 years with an extra focus on the...
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Theory of Mind and the Mechanism of Imagination for a Companion Robot
We extend the architecture of F-2 companion robot to simulate some verbal (semantic) judgements, that can be considered as the theory of mind—other’s...
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Genre Theory in Systemic Linguistics
Genre is not a new word, but there have been different understandings of it in different disciplines.