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Mediating cultures. A cognitive approach to English discourse for the social sciences

di Maria Grazia Guido

CONTENTS: Introduction. Chapter One: Language as Cognition and Communication: 1. Language, Mind, and Social Interaction. - 2. The Embodiment of English Sounds. - 3. Language in Socio-Cultural Contexts. — Chapter Two: Concepts of Present and Past in English Discourse: 4. Grammar Dimensions of Present Simple and Perfect - 5. Time-sequence: Past Simple and Perfect. - 6. Word-forms and Pro-forms - Modifying, Defining, and Inquiring. — Chapter Three: Processes in Progress: 7. The Continuous Aspect in English Discourse. - 8. Mental Processes. - 9. Past Enacting and Actions-To-Come. — Chapter Four: Cognitive Positioning in Future Projections: 10. Future Processes. - 11. Conditional Prospects. - 12. Experiencing Comparisons. — Chapter Five: Passive Voice vs. Active Voice in Specialized Genres: 13. Agents and Causation: Transitivity and Syntactic Movements. - 14. Passive and Active Voices in Specialized Registers. — Chapter Six: Modality in the Discourse of Intercultural Communication: 15. The Syntax and Semantics of Modal Verbs. - 16. Deontic and Epistemic Modality. — Chapter Seven: Clause Relationships in Argumentative Discourse: 17. Coherence and Inference in Conditional Sentences. - 18. Clause Relationships in Social Argumentation. — Chapter Eight: Intercultural Conversation Analysis: 19. Acts, Moves and Turns in Conversation. - 20. Spoken Discourse Analysis: Research Methods. — Conclusions. — Keys — References.