Download Full eBooks in PDF
Dialect Matters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Dialect Matters book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107130470
Trudgill's lively book traces the histories of dialects and accents, and defends the legitimacy of the language of ordinary people.
Author : Peter Trudgill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108832960
Bringing together Trudgill's columns for the New European, this collection explores the influence of European language on English.
Author : Donna Jo Napoli,Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199889921
Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of language and its role in our lives are either misconceived or influenced by myths and stereotypes. Language Matters provides a highly informative tour of the world of language, examining these and other vexing and controversial language-related questions. Throughout, Napoli and Lee-Schoenfeld encourage and lead the reader to use common-sense and everyday experience rather than preconceived notions or technical linguistic expertise. Both their questions and their conclusions are surprising, sometimes provocative, and always entertaining. This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.
Author : Timothy Reagan
Publisher : IAP
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607521891
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the educational domain this seems to be especially true. Language is not merely an intrinsic component of the educational process as the medium of instruction in the classroom, but also serves as the mediator of social reality for students and teachers alike. It plays a central role in articulating and conveying not only social, cultural and empirical ideas, but ideological concepts as well. It is also used to make judgments about the speaker, not to mention its role in maintaining differential power relations. And yet, in spite of this, the role of language is not sufficiently recognized in classroom practice much of the time. Nor is language, except in fairly narrow ways, really an especially central part of the curriculum, in spite of its incredible importance. To be sure, we do spend a great deal of time and money attempting to teach students to read and write (that is, to provide them with basic literacy skills), and we provide nominal support for foreign language education programs. We also provide limited support for children coming to school who do not speak English. What we do not do, though, is to recognize the absolute centrality of language knowledge and language use for the educated person. This book seeks to address these issues from the broad perspective of critical pedagogy.
Author : Laurie Bauer,Janet Holmes,Paul Warren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781349919536
This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language by focusing on questions such as: - Where does language come from? - Why don't we all talk the same? - Who needs grammar? Suitable for students with no experience of linguistics, this lively introduction to language approaches will encourage students to think.
Author : Collen Sabao,Esther Mavengano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040039748
Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe. Reflecting on Shona, Xitsonga, Sotho, Xhosa, Tjwao, Nambya, IsiNdebele, Nyanja, Tshivenda, English and Braille, the book uncovers both the internal and external factors that impact language structures, language use and language ideologies across the country. The book considers how colonial legacies and contemporary language domination and minoritisation have led to language endangerment. It considers the fate of communities whose languages are marginalised and, in the process, poses questions on what can and should be done to preserve Zimbabwean languages. The authors' offerings range across subjects as diverse as music, linguistic innovation, education, human rights, literature, language politics and language policy, in order to build a rich and nuanced picture of language matters in the country. Coming at a critical moment of increasing mobility, migration, cultural plurality and globalisation, this book will be an important resource for researchers across African literature, linguistics, communication, policy and politics.
Author : Shobhana L. Chelliah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030661908
This book offers the latest insights on language documentation, a reborn, refashioned, and reenergized subfield of linguistics motivated by the urgent task of creating a record of the world’s fast disappearing languages. Language documentation provides data to challenge and improve existing linguistic theory. In addition, because it requires input from various fields to be comprehensive, language documentation serves to build bridges between linguistics and other disciplines. Language documentation also provides resources for communities interested in language and culture preservation, language maintenance, and language revitalization. This book informs, evokes interest, and encourages involvement at all levels.
Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1975-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521099986
Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues.
Author : Jila Ghomeshi
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1894037448
It is hard to find someone who doesn't have a pet peeve about language. The act of bemoaning the decline of language has become something of a cottage industry. High profile, self-appointed language police worry that new forms of popular media are contributing to sloppiness, imprecision, and a general disregard for the rules of grammar and speech. Within linguistics the term "prescriptivism" is used to refer to the judgements that people make about language based on the idea that some forms and uses of language are correct and others incorrect. This book argues that prescriptivism is unfounded at its very core, and explores why it is, nevertheless, such a popular position. In doing so it addresses the politics of language: what prescriptivist positions about language use reveal about power, authority, and various social prejudices.
Author : Janet Wilde Astington,Jodie A. Baird
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195347845
"Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children's understanding of people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions, and whose actions and interactions can be interpreted and explained by taking account of these mental states. The gradual development of children's theory of mind, particularly during the early years, is by now well described in the research literature. What is lacking, however, is a decisive explanation of how children acquire this understanding. Recent research has shown strong relations between children's linguistic abilities and their theory of mind. Yet exactly what role these abilities play is controversial and uncertain. The purpose of this book is to provide a forum for the leading scholars in the field to explore thoroughly the role of language in the development of the theory of mind. This volume will appeal to students and researchers in developmental and cognitive psychology.
Author : Britt-Marie Apelgren,Ann-Marie Eriksson,Susanne Strömberg Jämsvi
Publisher : Critical Issues in the Future
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9004507906
"This book highlights that language matters permeate all areas of higher education and that language matters for everyone involved in academic institutions: in policy, in teaching and learning, in administration, in research and in leadership. The chapters in this volume address national, institutional and local levels, and range from legal texts to students' and teachers' stories across disciplines. It provides a useful picture for all those who work in the various fields of higher education. Contributors are: Britt-Marie Apelgren, Tove Bull, Josep Maria Cots, Ann-Marie Eriksson, Sylva Frisk, Lídia Gallego-Balsà, Peter Garrett, Linnea Hanell, Luke Holmes, Niina Hynninen, Susanne Strömberg Jämsvi, Kathrin Kaufhold, Maria Kuteeva, Ragnhild Ljosland, Heidi Rontu, Taina Saarinen and Linus Salö"--
Author : K. V. Tirumalesh
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : English language
ISBN : 8170239478
Contributed research papers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004507920
This book offers an account of what, how and why language matters in academia by providing examples from a wide range of areas in European institutions.
Author : Christopher N. Candlin,Sik Hung Ng,Chi-yue Chiu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015063664661
This book stresses on the social purpose of language use and its cognitive development. It covers a diverse set of topics with many real-life illustrations of the interaction of culture, identity and communication.
Author : Thomas Purnell,Eric Raimy,Joe Salmons
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299293338
Wisconsin is one of the most linguistically rich places in North America. It has the greatest diversity of American Indian languages east of the Mississippi, including Ojibwe and Menominee from the Algonquian language family, Ho-Chunk from the Siouan family, and Oneida from the Iroquoian family. French place names dot the state's map. German, Norwegian, and Polish—the languages of immigrants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—are still spoken by tens of thousands of people, and the influx of new immigrants speaking Spanish, Hmong, and Somali continues to enrich the state's cultural landscape. These languages and others (Walloon, Cornish, Finnish, Czech, and more) have shaped the kinds of English spoken around the state. Within Wisconsin's borders are found three different major dialects of American English, and despite the influences of mass media and popular culture, they are not merging—they are dramatically diverging. An engaging survey for both general readers and language scholars, Wisconsin Talk brings together perspectives from linguistics, history, cultural studies, and geography to illuminate why language matters in our everyday lives. The authors highlight such topics as: • words distinctive to the state • how recent and earlier immigrants have negotiated cultural and linguistic challenges • the diversity of bilingual speakers that enriches our communities • how maps can convey the stories of language • the relation of Wisconsin's Indian languages to language loss worldwide.