Linguistic Prefabrication

Author : Jianxin Ding
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811070105

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Linguistic Prefabrication by Jianxin Ding Pdf

This book presents an innovative exploration of linguistic prefabrication in the travel advertising discourse from a functional perspective. Most of the previous studies on prefabricated language have adopted a structural, systematic point of view. This study, however, aims at exploring its functions in discourse. The material examined here is the discourse of travel advertising, which has become one of the candidates for ‘late modern discourse par excellence’ and rarely been discussed before. The study covers a wide range of topics, essentially attempting to model linguistic idiomaticity in Systemic Functional Grammar. It assesses how the two fundamental principles of language use, the ‘idiom principle’ and the ‘open-choice principle’, interact with each other to construct English texts. As a counterweight to the traditional structural approach to collocations and idiomatic expressions, this study investigates the ‘phraseology’ of the register of travel advertising, and explores prefabrication and conventionalization in language use and human behavior. It seeks to answer the age-old question of whether human beings are ‘primarily like buses, which travel along regular routes’ or ‘like taxis, which move about freely’. Ritualization, as sociological and anthropological theory have long since recognized, is simply characteristic of all aspects of human behavior and its contexts.

Author : Shan Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811385100

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Chinese Multiword Expressions by Shan Wang Pdf

This book is the first English monograph to systematically explore Chinese Multiword expressions (MWEs) by applying corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches. It reveals the unique characteristics of Chinese MWEs by examining their core attributes, identification and classification, and knowledge framework. It also assesses, for the first time, the distribution and density of Chinese MWEs in textbooks. By doing so, the book provides important insights into Chinese language learning, with implications for natural language processing, lexicography, and psychology. Moreover, it offers a framework for linguists, language teachers and learners, computer scientists, lexicographers, and psychologists to explore their own areas of interest.

Author : Aleksandar Trklja,Łukasz Grabowski
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103102

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Formulaic language by Aleksandar Trklja,Łukasz Grabowski Pdf

The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history. In recent years, linguistic studies of formulaicity have been flourishing and the very notion of formulaicity has been approached from various methodological and theoretical perspectives and with various purposes in mind. The linguistic approach to formulaicity is still in a state of rapid development and the objective of the current volume is to present the current explorations in the field. Papers collected in the volume make numerous suggestions for further development of the field and they are arranged into three complementary parts. The first part, with three chapters, presents new theoretical and methodological insights as well as their practical application in the development of custom-designed software tools for identification and exploration of formulaic language in texts. Two papers in the second part explore formulaic language in the context of language learning. Finally, the third part, with three chapters, showcases descriptive research on formulaic language conducted primarily from the perspectives of corpus linguistics and translation studies. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of formulaic language either from a theoretical or a practical perspective.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136485572

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition by Peter Robinson Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: • 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading • Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. • The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from “Accommodation” to the “ZISA project.” Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.

Author : Peter Jake Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415877510

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition by Peter Jake Robinson Pdf

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition offers a user-friendly, authoritative survey of terms and constructs that are important to understanding research in second language acquisition (SLA) and its applications. The Encyclopedia is designed for use as a reference tool by students, researchers, teachers and professionals with an interest in SLA. The Encyclopedia has the following features: * 252 alphabetized entries written in an accessible style, including cross references to other related entries in the Encyclopedia and suggestions for further reading * Among these, 9 survey entries that cover the foundational areas of SLA in detail: Development in SLA, Discourse and Pragmatics in SLA, Individual Differences in SLA, Instructed SLA, Language and the Lexicon in SLA, Measuring and Researching SLA, Psycholingustics of SLA, Social and Sociocultural Approaches to SLA, Theoretical Constructs in SLA. * The rest of the entries cover all the major subdisciplines, methodologies and concepts of SLA, from "Accommodation" to the "ZISA project." Written by an international team of specialists, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition is an invaluable resource for students and researchers with an academic interest in SLA.

Author : R. Amritavalli
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language and education
ISBN : 8170239435

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Language as a Dynamic Text by R. Amritavalli Pdf

Author : Vaishna Narang,Salonee Priya,Varalakshmi Chaudhry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788132226048

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Second Language Acquisition in Multilingual and Mixed Ability Indian Classrooms by Vaishna Narang,Salonee Priya,Varalakshmi Chaudhry Pdf

This book discusses current research on learning theories and pedagogical practices in second language acquisition, and tries to bridge the gap between the two. Second language acquisition is perceived as the study of the relationship between input, intake and output in a particular task performance, and Indian classrooms are the context for the research studies in this book. The empirical studies discussed in this book are based on two tasks: seminar speech task (SST) and written test performance task (WTPT). The pedagogical practices discussed cover three specific areas: tasks, skills, and strategies. The study focuses on text input processing for written versus spoken tasks, at various levels of task performance, and for language versus information. The authors discuss, among other issues, various elements of second language speech production, teachers’ evaluation of communicative versus form-focused tasks, and task-based versus proficiency-based performance. As a study located in multilingual and mixed ability classrooms, this work provides immense insights to teacher-educators and researchers working in ESL settings with learners from diverse backgrounds.

Author : Lionel Wee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000343076

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The Communicative Linguistic Landscape by Lionel Wee Pdf

How exactly do linguistic landscapes communicate and what theoretical significance might follow from such an inquiry? This book addresses these questions by taking as its starting point the insight that the individual or organisation that is responsible for the production of a sign may not be physically present at the landscape itself. The information to be conveyed is typically designed as a piece of signage to be emplaced at the site. Drawing on Goffman’s notion of a production format, the book argues that the constructed piece of sign and its intended placement within the landscape combine to constitute an animator complex. This raises the possibility of a disruption to the sign and its placement in the landscape. The book describes various ways in which the integrity of the animator complex can be disrupted (e.g. the sign may be moved out of place through vandalism or acts of nature, or the organisation that the sign represents may no longer be in business), identifi es different types of animators, and expands on the implications for phenomena such as affect, multivocality, footing and the materiality of language. In doing so, the book also demonstrates the value of bringing in Bakhtin’s work on heteroglossia and the dialogicity of communication, integrating the ideas of Bakhtin with those of Goffman.

Author : Joanna Kopaczyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199945160

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The Legal Language of Scottish Burghs by Joanna Kopaczyk Pdf

This book offers an innovative, corpus-driven approach to historical legal discourse. It is the first monograph to examine textual standardization patterns in legal and administrative texts on the basis of lexical bundles, drawing on a comprehensive corpus of medieval and early modern legal texts. The book's focus is on legal language in Scotland, where law--with its own nomenclature and its own repertoire of discourse features--was shaped and marked by the concomitant standardizing of the vernacular language, Scots, a sister language to the English of the day. Joanna Kopaczyk's study is based on a unique combination of two methodological frameworks: a rigorous corpus-driven data analysis and a pragmaphilological, context-sensitive qualitative interpretation of the findings. Providing the reader with a rich socio-historical background of legal discourse in medieval and early modern Scottish burghs, Kopaczyk traces the links between orality, community, and law, which are reflected in discourse features and linguistic standardization of legal and administrative texts. In this context, the book also revisits important ingredients of legal language, such as binomials or performatives. Kopaczyk's study is grounded in the functional approach to language and pays particular attention to referential, interpersonal, and textual functions of lexical bundles in the texts. It also establishes a connection between the structure and function of the recurrent patterns, and paves the way for the employment of new methodologies in historical discourse analysis.

Author : Robert Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429886171

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The Politics of Organizational Change by Robert Price Pdf

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully understood, it can impede organizational change and development. In order to minimise the political aspects of organizational dynamics there is a need to understand the extent to which organizational culture brings about politicised conformance and how individuals shape their behaviour through self-interest to conform—sense-giving and sense-making nexus—thus moderating the degree of change initiatives. The Politics of Organizational Change explores the relationship between self-interest, power, politics and managing organizational change from a theoretical perspective. It encourages the fundamental questioning of the relationship between self-interest, power and control inherent within organizational change, and discusses the attendant implications for managing change. It will be of value to those who require a text that goes beyond set patterns of coverage found in textbooks dealing with managing change.

Author : Wolfgang Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521317029

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Second Language Acquisition by Wolfgang Klein Pdf

An up-to-date account of the main problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. As such, this introduction provides students with a "real" understanding of the fundamental topics in the field and the advances achieved by empirical research.

Author : Maosong Sun,Min Zhang,Dekang Lin,Haifeng Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642414916

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Chinese Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data by Maosong Sun,Min Zhang,Dekang Lin,Haifeng Wang Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2013, and of the First International Symposium on Natural Language Processing Based on Naturally Annotated Big Data, NLP-NABD 2013, held in Suzhou, China, in October 2013. The 32 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 252 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on word segmentation; open-domain question answering; discourse, coreference and pragmatics; statistical and machine learning methods in NLP; semantics; text mining, open-domain information extraction and machine reading of the Web; sentiment analysis, opinion mining and text classification; lexical semantics and ontologies; language resources and annotation; machine translation; speech recognition and synthesis; tagging and chunking; and large-scale knowledge acquisition and reasoning.

Author : Marge E. Landsberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110882926

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Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes by Marge E. Landsberg Pdf

Author : Christopher S. Butler,María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Susana M. Doval-Suárez
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027294180

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The Dynamics of Language Use by Christopher S. Butler,María de los Ángeles Gómez González,Susana M. Doval-Suárez Pdf

This book brings together a collection of articles characterized by two main themes: the contrastive study of parallel phenomena in two or more languages, and an essentially functional approach in which language is regarded, first and foremost, as a rich and complex communication system, inextricably embedded in sociocultural and psychological contexts of use. The majority of the studies reported is empirical in nature, many making use of corpora or other textual materials in the language(s) under investigation. The book begins with an introductory section in which the editors provide surveys of the state of the art in both functional and contrastive linguistics. The other five sections of the volume are devoted to (i) a cognitive perspective on form and function, (ii) information structure, (iii) collocations and formulaic language, (iv) language learning, and (v) discourse and culture.

Author : Marjorie Mcshane,Sergei Nirenburg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262362603

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Linguistics for the Age of AI by Marjorie Mcshane,Sergei Nirenburg Pdf

A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than attempting to model what people do and how they do it. In this book, Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg return to the original goal of recreating human-level intelligence in a machine. They present a human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems that emphasizes meaning--the deep, context-sensitive meaning that a person derives from spoken or written language.