Crossroads Semantics

Author : Hilke Reckman,Lisa L.S. Cheng,Maarten Hijzelendoorn,Rint Sybesma
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265999

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Crossroads Semantics by Hilke Reckman,Lisa L.S. Cheng,Maarten Hijzelendoorn,Rint Sybesma Pdf

As language is a multifaceted phenomenon, the study of language, as long as it is geared at providing a comprehensive picture of it, cannot be restricted to one component or one approach. This applies to the many different components of language as well, including semantics. If we want to fully understand the phenomenon of language meaning, we must not limit our research to lexical semantics, syntax-induced meaning or pragmatics. In order to enable ourselves to construct a consistent account of meaning, we need to extract relevant information from research done in different frameworks and from different theoretical standpoints. This volume brings together a number of computational, psycholinguistic as well as theoretical studies, which highlight and illustrate how research done in one subfield of linguistics can be relevant to others. The articles highlight the different ways in which one can work with different aspects of language meaning.

Author : Adam Makkai,Valerie Becker Makkai,Luigi Heilmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UCAL:B4283282

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Linguistics at the Crossroads by Adam Makkai,Valerie Becker Makkai,Luigi Heilmann Pdf

Author : Adam Makkai,Valerie Becker Makkai,Luigi Heilmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : LCCN:79312499

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Linguistics at the Crossroads by Adam Makkai,Valerie Becker Makkai,Luigi Heilmann Pdf

Author : Helen Bromhead,Zhengdao Ye
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781760463939

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Meaning, Life and Culture by Helen Bromhead,Zhengdao Ye Pdf

This book is dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka, one of the most influential and innovative linguists of her generation. Her work spans a number of disciplines, including anthropology, cultural psychology, cognitive science, philosophy and religious studies, as well as her home base of linguistics. She is best known for the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach to meaning—a versatile tool for exploring ‘big questions’ concerning the diversity and universals of people’s experience in the world. In this volume, Anna Wierzbicka’s former students, old and current colleagues, ‘kindred spirits’ and ‘sparring partners’ engage with her ideas and diverse body of work. These authors cover topics from the grammar of action verbs to cross-cultural pragmatics, and over 30 languages from around the world are represented. The chapters in Part 1 focus on the NSM approach and cover four themes: lexico-grammatical semantics, cultural keywords, semantics of nouns, and emotion. In Part 2, the contributors connect with a meaning-based approach from their own intellectual perspectives, including syntax, anthropology, cognitive linguistics and sociolinguistics. The deep humanistic perspective, wide-ranging themes and interdisciplinary nature of Wierzbicka’s research are reflected in the contributions. The common thread running through all chapters is the primacy of meaning to the understanding of language and culture.

Author : Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters,Lauren Sadow
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789813299832

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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Kerry Mullan,Bert Peeters,Lauren Sadow Pdf

This book is the first in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. In addition, it explores ethnopragmatics and conversational humour, with a further focus on semantic analysis more broadly. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Author : Lauren Sadow,Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789813299795

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Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication by Lauren Sadow,Bert Peeters,Kerry Mullan Pdf

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics. This third volume explores the potential of Minimal English, a recent offshoot of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage, with special reference to its use in Language Teaching and Intercultural Communication. Often considered the most fully developed, comprehensive and practical approach to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantics, Natural Semantic Metalanguage is based on evidence that there is a small core of basic, universal meanings (semantic primes) that can be expressed in all languages. It has been used for linguistic and cultural analysis in such diverse fields as semantics, cross-cultural communication, language teaching, humour studies and applied linguistics, and has reached far beyond the boundaries of linguistics into ethnopsychology, anthropology, history, political science, the medical humanities and ethics.

Author : Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Jenny Doetjes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198795858

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The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr,Jenny Doetjes Pdf

This volume offers detailed accounts of current research in grammatical number in language. Following a detailed introduction, the chapters in the first three parts of the book explore the multiple research questions in the field and the complex problems surrounding the analysis of grammatical number: Part I presents the background and foundational notions, Part II the morphological, semantic, and syntactic aspects, and Part III the different means of expressing plurality in the event domain. The final part offers fifteen case studies that include in-depth discussion of grammatical number phenomena in a range of typologically diverse languages, written by - or in collaboration with - native speakers linguists or based on extensive fieldwork. The volume draws on work from a range of subdisciplines - including morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics - and will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in all areas of theoretical, descriptive, and experimental linguistics.

Author : Kathryn Allan,Justyna A. Robinson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110252903

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Current Methods in Historical Semantics by Kathryn Allan,Justyna A. Robinson Pdf

Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across the discipline of historical semantics. In addition to emphasising the use of new technology, the potential of current theoretical models (e.g. within variationist, sociolinguistic or cognitive frameworks) is explored along the way.

Author : Carsten Levisen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783111338002

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Postcolonial Semantics by Carsten Levisen Pdf

Author : Pavol Štekauer,Rochelle Lieber
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781402035968

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Handbook of Word-Formation by Pavol Štekauer,Rochelle Lieber Pdf

This is the most comprehensive book to date on word formation in terms of scope of topics, schools and theoretical positions. All contributions were written by the leading scholars in their respective areas.

Author : Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110726626

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Approaches to Language and Culture by Svenja Völkel,Nico Nassenstein Pdf

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It identifies current and future directions of research, including language socialization, language reclamation, speech styles and genres, language ideology, verbal taboo, social indexicality, emotion, time, and many more. Furthermore, it offers areal perspectives on the study of language in cultural contexts (namely Africa, the Americas, Australia and Oceania, Mainland Southeast Asia, and Europe), and it lays the foundation for future developments within the field. In this way, the book bridges the disciplines of cultural anthropology and linguistics and paves the way for the new book series Anthropological Linguistics.

Author : Wolfgang Förstner,Lutz Plümer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3764357584

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Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps by Wolfgang Förstner,Lutz Plümer Pdf

Acquiring spatial data for geoinformation systems is still mainly done by human operators who analyze images using classical photogrammetric equipment or digitize maps, possibly assisted by some low level image processing. Automation of these tasks is difficult due to the complexity of the object, the topography, and the deficiency of current pattern recognition and image analysis tools for achieving a reliable transition from the data to the high level description of topographic objects. It appears that progress in automation only can be achieved by incorporating domain-specific semantic models into the analysis procedures. This volume collects papers which were presented at the Workshop "SMATI '97". The workshop focused on "Semantic Modeling for the Acquisition of Topographic Information from Images and Maps." This volume offers a comprehensive selection of high-quality and in-depth contributions by experts of the field coming from leading research institutes, treating both theoretical and implementation issues and integrating aspects of photogrammetry, cartography, computer vision, and image understanding.

Author : Oliver Czulo,Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783946234265

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Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation by Oliver Czulo,Silvia Hansen-Schirra Pdf

Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German Association for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL) conference in Hamburg where researchers from the three fields presented and discussed their interdisciplinary work. While the studies contained in this volume draw from a wide variety of objectives and methods, and various areas of overlaps between CL, TS and MT are addressed, the volume is by no means exhaustive with regard to this topic. Further cross-fertilisation is not only desirable, but almost mandatory in order to tackle future tasks and endeavours.}

Author : Barry Stocker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000100976

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Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings by Barry Stocker Pdf

One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida’s ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies. Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to present his most important philosophical writings and is an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work. Barry Stocker’s clear and helpful introductions set each reading in context, making the volume an ideal companion for those coming to Derrida’s writings for the first time. The selections themselves range from his most infamous works including Speech and Phenomena and Writing and Difference to lesser known discussion on aesthetics, ethics and politics.

Author : Darja Fišer,Andreas Witt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783110767407

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CLARIN by Darja Fišer,Andreas Witt Pdf

CLARIN, the "Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure", has established itself as a major player in the field of research infrastructures for the humanities. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the organization, its members, its goals and its functioning, as well as of the tools and resources hosted by the infrastructure. The many contributors representing various fields, from computer science to law to psychology, analyse a wide range of topics, such as the technology behind the CLARIN infrastructure, the use of CLARIN resources in diverse research projects, the achievements of selected national CLARIN consortia, and the challenges that CLARIN has faced and will face in the future. The book will be published in 2022, 10 years after the establishment of CLARIN as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium by the European Commission (Decision 2012/136/EU). Watch our talk with the editors Darja Fišer and Andreas Witt here: https://youtu.be/ZOoiGbmMbxI