Dennis Kurzon

List of John Benjamins publications for which Dennis Kurzon plays a role.

Online Resource

Legal Pragmatics

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 288] 2018. viii, 278 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics

Adpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives

Edited by Dennis Kurzon and Silvia Adler

[Typological Studies in Language, 74] 2008. viii, 307 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Prepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context

Edited by Susanne Feigenbaum and Dennis Kurzon

[Typological Studies in Language, 50] 2002. vi, 304 pp.
Subjects Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax

Discourse of Silence

Dennis Kurzon

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 49] 1998. vi, 162 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
Subjects Discourse studies | Forensic & legal linguistics | Pragmatics
Kurzon, Dennis 2018 Chapter 4. Literal interpretation and political expediency: The case of Thomas MoreLegal 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
Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky 2018 IntroductionLegal Pragmatics, Kurzon, Dennis and Barbara Kryk-Kastovsky (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
Kurzon, Dennis 2017 Chapter 10. Thematic silence as a speech actImplicitness: 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
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
Rosenbaun, Laura, Sheizaf Rafaeli and Dennis Kurzon 2016 Blurring the boundaries between domestic and digital spheres: Competing engagements in public google hangoutsPragmatics 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
Kurzon, Dennis 2015 SilenceHandbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | 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
Kurzon, Dennis 2008 The silent witness: Pragmatic and literal interpretationsDimensions 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
Kurzon, Dennis 2008 A brief note on diacriticsWritten 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
Kurzon, Dennis 2008 "Ago" and its grammatical status in English and in other languagesAdpositions: 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
Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler 2008 IntroductionAdpositions: Pragmatic, semantic and syntactic perspectives, Kurzon, Dennis and Silvia Adler (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous
Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon 2002 PrefacePrepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Preface
Kurzon, Dennis 2002 ‘Preposition’ as functor: The case of long in BislamaPrepositions in their Syntactic, Semantic and Pragmatic Context, Feigenbaum, Susanne and Dennis Kurzon (eds.), pp. 231–248 | Article
Kurzon, Dennis 1996 The maxim of quantity, hyponymy and Princess DianaPragmatics 6:2, pp. 217–227 | Article
Kurzon, Dennis 1988 The theme in text cohesionThe Prague School and Its Legacy, Tobin, Yishai (ed.), pp. 155–164 | Article