David D. Clarke

List of John Benjamins publications for which David D. Clarke plays a role.

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Subjects History of linguistics | Pragmatics
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 2009 Wilhelm von HumboldtCulture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 173–184 | Article
Forsyth, Richard, David D. Clarke and Phoenix Lam 2008 Timelines, talk and transcription: A chronometric approach to simultaneous speechInternational Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13:2, pp. 225–250 | Article
Linguists and other social scientists have employed many transcription conventions to exhibit the temporal interleaving of multi-speaker talk. The existence of many different systems, which are mutually incompatible, is evidence that representing spoken discourse remains problematic. This study… read more
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 2001 Serial metonymy: A study of reference-based polysemisationJournal of Historical Pragmatics 2:2, pp. 245–272 | Article
Metonymy has been studied for at least two thousand years by rhetoricians, for two hundred years by historical semanticists, and for about ten years by cognitive linguists. However, they all have neglected one peculiar aspect of metonymy: its serial nature. Metonymic chains are either synchronic… read more
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 1999 Wilhelm von HumboldtHandbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Nerlich, Brigitte and David D. Clarke 1997 Polysemy: Patterns of meaning and patterns in historyHistoriographia Linguistica 24:3, pp. 349–385 | Article
40 years ago Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy was the pivot of semantics. He was referring then to traditional synchronic and diachronic semantics. Nowadays, some 40 years later, polysemy has again become a central topic in cognitive semantics. This article traces the history of this important… read more