Dennis Kurzon
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dennis Kurzon is involved.
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Legal Pragmatics
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky
The volume Legal Pragmatics is a contribution to the interface between language and law. It looks at how the principles of language use can be beneficial to clarifying legal issues, its twelve chapters (together with the Introduction) offering a wide spectrum of the latest approaches to the area of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.
Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives
Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler
This book is a collection of articles which deal with adpositions in a variety of languages and from a number of perspectives. Not only does the book cover what is traditionally treated in studies from a European and Semitic orientation – prepositions, but it presents studies on postpositions, too.… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.
Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context
Edited by Susanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon
The growing interest in prepositions is reflected by this impressive collection of papers from leading scholars of various fields. The selected contributions of Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context focus on the local and temporal semantics of prepositions in relation to… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.
Discourse of Silence
Dennis Kurzon
The book deals initially with the interpretation of the silent answer to a question. From a semiotic approach to the contrast between silence and speech mainly within a Greimasian framework, the discussion turns to the application of pragmatic tools such as conversational analysis and adjacency… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.
It is Hereby Performed...: Explorations in legal speech acts
Dennis Kurzon
This book deals with speech acts, especially performatives, that are regarded as ‘operative’ in legal discourse. After a detailed exposition of speech act theory in relation to legislative texts, the author discusses the legal document as a communicative act; potential speech acts and delegated… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:6] 1986. vii, 81 pp.
2018 Chapter 4. Literal interpretation and political expediency: The case of Thomas More Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 81–98 | Chapter
In July 1535, the trial of Sir Thomas More took place, in which the ex-Lord Chancellor was accused, and found guilty, of high treason for not expressing support for two statutes passed in 1534, which formed the basis of Henry VIII’s constitutional and religious changes: the Act of Succession and… read more
2018 Introduction Legal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2017 Chapter 10. Thematic silence as a speech act Implicitness: From lexis to discourse, Cap, Piotr and Marta Dynel (eds.), pp. 217–232 | Chapter
This chapter will discuss the speech act status of thematic silence, one of the four types of silence presented in Kurzon (2007). This type of silence is not strictly silence in the sense that someone is not talking where talk is expected. It refers to the non-mention of a topic by the speaker… read more
2016 The three silences of Sir Thomas More: A pragmatic perspective Journal of Historical Pragmatics 17:1, pp. 107–128 | Article
The paper discusses three instances of silence in the life and writings of Sir Thomas More in terms of conversational and thematic silence. The first is the silence of the London citizenry in More’s History of Richard the Third (1513). The second is the House of Commons’ response of silence, in… read more
2016 Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres: Competing engagements in public google hangouts Pragmatics 26:2, pp. 291–304 | Article
This study explores the phenomenon of multiactivity during recreational video-mediated communication (VMC) through the analysis of competing engagements. From a data corpus of naturally occurring interactions in public Google Hangouts, we focus on instances of competing engagements triggered by… read more
2015 Silence Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article
2008 The systematization and typology of the instant messaging writing system used by young Israeli Arabs Written Language & Literacy 11:1, pp. 35–48 | Article
This study investigates a new writing system based on the Roman script that has been used by Israeli Arabs in Israel for about ten years. This system is associated with instant messaging (IM); people usually use it when sending SMSs or when utilizing any of the computer-mediated communication… read more
2008 The silent witness: Pragmatic and literal interpretations Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 161–178 | Article
The Israeli Supreme Court has changed its decisions several times concerning the evidence of the silent witness in criminal cases, focusing on the interpretation of section 10a of the 1971 Evidence Ordinance – whether or not to admit as testimony what the witness has told the police if the witness… read more
2008 A brief note on diacritics Written Language & Literacy 11:1, pp. 90–94 | Article
This short note relates to remarks made by Peter Daniels in his 2006 article ‘On beyond alphabets’ on diacritics which he defines as markers that have a consistent phonological function in the particular script. From examples taken from French, Czech and other languages using the roman script, it… read more
2008 "Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languages Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 209–227 | Article
The paper focuses firstly on English ago followed by the temporal NP, which seems to function as a postposition, although English is a SVO language, with prepositions. A comparison is then carried out with similar deictic expressions in other languages, including European, Semitic, Caucasian,… read more
2008 Introduction Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous
2002 Preface Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Preface
2002 ‘Preposition’ as functor: The case of long in Bislama Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 231–248 | Article
1996 The maxim of quantity, hyponymy and Princess Diana Pragmatics 6:2, pp. 217–227 | Article
1989 The sign, its addresser and addressee: Aspects of legal and liturgical texts From Sign to Text: A semiotic view of communication, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 297–306 | Article
1988 The theme in text cohesion The Prague School and Its Legacy, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 155–164 | Article