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Author : Maryann Overstreet,George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108837231
This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.
Author : Nicholas Groom,Maggie Charles,Suganthi John
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027267900
Corpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn between them. This book showcases a variety of current corpus-based approaches to the study of grammar and discourse, and makes a case for seeing grammar and discourse as fundamentally inter-related phenomena. The book features contributions from leading experts in cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, critical discourse studies, genre and register analysis, phraseology, language learning and teaching, languages for specific purposes, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics and text linguistics. An essential reference point for future research, Corpora, Grammar and Discourse has been edited in honour of Susan Hunston, whose own work has consistently pushed at the boundaries of corpus-based research on grammar and discourse for over three decades.
Author : Karin Aijmer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748635511
An original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.
Author : Begoña Crespo García
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042023413
To understand the characteristics of present-day English language and culture we must have some understanding of the earlier stages of language use. Bells Chiming from the Past investigates the early development of English and covers different aspects of English medieval studies, from traditional philological concerns, to the most recent perspectives of modern linguistics applied to early English texts. Most of the papers are based on empirical research in English Historical Linguistics, and will contribute substantially to our theoretical and descriptive understanding of English varieties, both written and spoken. The book focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and culture during the Middle English period. Some of the articles are clearly linguistically-oriented, but most could be included under a wider philological perspective since they study both language and the cultural milieu in which linguistic events took place. Bells Chiming from the Past is aimed at an international readership and makes a desirable addition to the field of Historical Linguistics, featuring as it does contributions from an array of well-known professionals from different academic and scientific institutions.
Author : Ursula Lenker,Hans Sauer,Judith Huber,Gaby Waxenberger,Robert Mailhammer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027248428
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women's mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.
Author : Grace Qiao Zhang,Ming-Yu Tseng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108842396
Based on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses elasticity in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective.
Author : Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783319060071
The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language. This series will give readers insight into how pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data and also, how corpora can illustrate pragmatic intuitions. The present volume, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014: New Empirical and Theoretical Paradigms in Corpus Pragmatics, proposes innovative research models in the liaison between pragmatics and corpus linguistics to explain language in current cultural and social contexts.
Author : Lidewij van Gils,Caroline Kroon,Rodie Risselada
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110678291
These volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: The volumes contain chapters on Latin lexicography, etymology, morphology, phonology, Greek-Latin language contact, Latin syntax, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics.
Author : Sebastian Hoffmann,Bettina Fischer-Starcke,Andrea Sand
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027268358
In this stimulating collection of papers, leading researchers from Europe and North America demonstrate the theoretical and methodological importance of corpus studies of phraseology and show how data-intensive case studies provide new perspectives on language use. One of the main theoretical findings of recent linguistics is that phraseology is central to language organization. The authors show how software and statistical techniques can reveal phraseological patterns in different text types – literary, academic and commercial – and also typical paths of language change across the last 200 years. These patterns are revealed only when computational methods are applied to corpora consisting of hundreds of millions of running words, collected from thousands of authentic texts. A major feature of the book is its critical comparison and evaluation of different quantitative and statistical tools, which readers can use for their own empirical work. Originally published in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 18:1 (2013).
Author : Matthias Eitelmann,Dagmar Haumann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257956
Taking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a heuristic approach, morphological extravagance captures word-formation processes characterised by constraint violations, interface phenomena as well as borderline phenomena not easily reconcilable with traditional postulates of morphological accounts. In this regard, the notion of extravagance allows for an exploration of rule-bending language use both empirically and theoretically. The volume makes a valuable contribution to studies on morphological variation, which has only recently seen a renewed and growing interest in morphological phenomena that challenge morphological frameworks. The volume is of interest to all researchers who seek to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms and factors at work in morphological variation and who are interested in the reassessment of morphological theorising in light of empirical data.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Applied linguistics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112082461
Author : Ruth A. Berman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262066
The goal of the volume is to shed fresh light on Modern Hebrew from perspectives aimed at readers interested in the domains of general linguistics, typology, and Semitic studies. Starting with chapters that provide background information on the evolution and sociolinguistic setting of the language, the bulk of the book is devoted to usage-based studies of the morphology, lexicon, and syntax of current Hebrew. Based primarily on original analyses of authentic spoken and online materials, these studies reflect varied theoretical frames-of-reference that are largely model-neutral in approach. To this end, the book presents a functionally motivated, dynamic approach to actual usage, rather than providing strictly structuralist or formal characterizations of particular linguistic systems. Such a perspective is particularly important in the case of a language undergoing accelerated processes of change, in which the gap between prescriptive dictates of the Hebrew Language Establishment and the actual usage of educated, literate but non-expert speaker-writers of current Hebrew is constantly on the rise.
Author : Peyman G.P. Sabet,Grace Q. Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137486387
This book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are generally vaguer.
Author : Brian Clancy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317372196
Intimate discourse – that between couples, family and close friends in private, non-professional settings – lies at the heart of our everyday linguistic experience. It creates and sustains our closest relationships. Using an innovative blend of the community of practice model with a corpus linguistic methodology, Brian Clancy expertly reveals the patterns that characterise the shared linguistic repertoire of intimates. Corpus methods such as frequency and concordance are thoroughly introduced, exemplified and systematically employed in order to operationalise the concept of the community of practice in relation to intimate discourse. A half-million-word corpus of intimate data collected in various settings throughout Ireland provides the data for insights into patterns such as intimates’ use of pronouns, vocatives, taboo language and pragmatic markers. The intimate linguistic repertoire that emerges is shown to facilitate the delicate balance between our instinctive desire to be involved in the lives of those closest to us while at the same time recognising their need for privacy and non-imposition. Investigating Intimate Discourse will primarily be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers working in the area, and to those working in related areas such as discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Advanced undergraduates taking modules in those subjects will also find the book useful.
Author : Alessandra Barotto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110722130
The book aims to examine the relationship between exemplification and categorization, using linguistic data from Japanese to better understand how people create and communicate conceptual categories in real-life situations (cf. the notion of ad hoc categories). In the book, exemplification is defined in functional terms as a process through which a speaker signals that a given entity should be construed as representative of a larger category of similar entities. The status of example can thus be encoded by means of dedicated analytical markers that overtly signal the exemplifying relation (e.g. for example), but also by making explicit reference to the larger category from which the examples have been selected. Through a case-study on four Japanese exemplifying markers (ya, nado, tari, toka), this book aims to understand (i) how examples are used and encoded by speakers to make reference to conceptual categories, (ii) what types of categories speakers can create and communicate by means of exemplification, (iii) how the relationship between exemplification and categorization can be used by speakers to achieve specific discourse effects, such as vagueness and politeness.
