Modern Theories Of Language

Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher : Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015020880962

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Modern Theories of Language by Mortéza Mahmoudian Pdf

In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Mortéza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal explanatory power and specific, limited linguistic models. Arguing that at various levels of linguistic analysis different theories offer more or less explanatory power, Mahmoudian makes a persuasive case for an integrated approach incorporating the strengths of both methods. The author begins with the identification of principles which, despite differences in terminology, are held in common by most twentieth-century linguists. He shows the implications, merits, and shortcomings of the major schools of linguistic thought, as well as the techniques one can use in gathering data. Ranging over a wide variety of international linguistic thinking, Mahmoudian takes up the question of what he calls experimentation, or the extent to which the application of certain linguistic theories have validity in constucting models. Simultaneously a survey of the current state of linguistic theory and a case for the necessity of empirical verification in linguistics, Modern Theories of Language builds a bridge across the gulf between many long-standing conflicts in the theory of language. Accessibly written, this provocative work predicts future theorerical and epistemological developments and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, as well as specialists in cognitive psychology and Romance languages.

Author : Philip W. Davis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
ISBN : UCAL:B4389793

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Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106010588413

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Modern Theories of Language by Mortéza Mahmoudian Pdf

In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Mortéza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal explanatory power and specific, limited linguistic models. Arguing that at various levels of linguistic analysis different theories offer more or less explanatory power, Mahmoudian makes a persuasive case for an integrated approach incorporating the strengths of both methods. The author begins with the identification of principles which, despite differences in terminology, are held in common by most twentieth-century linguists. He shows the implications, merits, and shortcomings of the major schools of linguistic thought, as well as the techniques one can use in gathering data. Ranging over a wide variety of international linguistic thinking, Mahmoudian takes up the question of what he calls experimentation, or the extent to which the application of certain linguistic theories have validity in constucting models. Simultaneously a survey of the current state of linguistic theory and a case for the necessity of empirical verification in linguistics, Modern Theories of Language builds a bridge across the gulf between many long-standing conflicts in the theory of language. Accessibly written, this provocative work predicts future theorerical and epistemological developments and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, as well as specialists in cognitive psychology and Romance languages.

Author : Gordon P. Baker,Peter Michael Stephan Hacker
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0631135197

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Language, Sense and Nonsense by Gordon P. Baker,Peter Michael Stephan Hacker Pdf

Author : Carl J. Becker
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN : 9780595327102

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A Modern Theory of Language Evolution by Carl J. Becker Pdf

The discipline of linguistics is a perfect example of the limitations of the modern academy. The combination of social taboos that make certain subject matter unfit for general knowledge and discovery, and the ever-narrowing specialization of scientists leaves us with an intellectual institution that can no longer do anything but apply, repair, and justify the dogma of Victorian Cosmology that is the rule all must follow. Linguistics should be one of the most interesting subjects, considering it is the study of our most valuable and revealing cultural asset, language. However, recent publications from the linguistic department for public consumption have been some of the most trivial and boring intellectual expositions that have ever been put between two covers. Using the entire database of science, we look at the acquisition of language and how it forms our cultural perspective on life, including theories of language evolution. We develop the theory of the evolution of language from song, one of the few suppositions that Charles Darwin actually got right. From this basis we move on to the roots of Proto-Indo-European, which we call Bhear Tongue. Bhear Tongue is essentially the Eurasian language family dimly perceived by one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century, Joseph Greenberg. From this perspective we can now retell the tribal stories from Iberia to Siberia, showing a common origin and motivation for human science and religion.

Author : Aleksandra Pendarovska
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638298520

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Classical vs. Modern theory in cognitive linguistics by Aleksandra Pendarovska Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2+ (B), University of Cologne (English Seminar), language: English, abstract: Language, in general, has always been an intricate matter for research. In the course of development of the linguistics as a field of studies particularly dedicated to the task of exploring the language faculty and its features a lot of breakthrough discoveries have been made. With respect to the particular point of research, there are several subcategories of linguistics that are the direct result of the interactive research on a particular phenomenon. The cognitive linguistics is, doubtlessly, one of the few such linguistic branches, that is composed of the research fields of sciences such as: psychology, anthropology, philosophy and computer science. However, cognitive linguistics does not focus on particular features of language or particular parts of the grammar, but attempts to discover its interplay with perception of the world, that is, the reality that surrounds the human beings. In its characterisation of the language as part of the cognitive system and not an independent feature, the cognitive linguistics is in opposition to the generative linguistics and the Chomskyan postulation that language faculty is inborn. Moreover, Chomsky claims that language is “modular”, that is, it exists individually from the other cognitive faculties. The main aim of the cognitive linguistics is to discover the laws of structure of natural language categorisation as well as the intricate connection between language and thought. Terry Regier defines its function in the following manner: “In the domain of semantics in particular, cognitive linguistics seeks to ground meaning not directly in the world, but in mental and perceptual representations of the world“. (1996: 27) As the methodology and historical development of this field of studies are quite extensive, this paper will rather focus on the analysis of the main division of classical, also known as Aristotelian and modern theory. In the analysis of these two juxtaposed theories the pioneer work of the linguist William Labov and the psychologist Elisabeth Rosch would be taken into consideration. An emphasis would be put on Eleanor Rosch ́s findings with respect to the extent of her contribution to the new ways of understanding categorisation of entities and clarification of certain aspects. Furthermore, some critical approaches of her findings would be regarded.

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027283726

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Limiting the Arbitrary by John E. Joseph Pdf

The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato’s dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments in the Cratylus. The second half follows three of the dialogue’s naturalistic themes through subsequent linguistic history — natural grammar and conventional words, from Aristotle to Pinker; natural dialect and artificial language, from Varro to Chomsky; and invisible hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory — in search of a way forward beyond these seductive yet spurious and limiting dichotomies.

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : OCLC:1345567810

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Language, Sense and Nonsense by Gordon P. Baker Pdf

Author : Karl Bühler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211828

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Theory of Language by Karl Bühler Pdf

Karl Buhler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. This is an English translation of Buhler's theory that begins with a survey on 'Buhler's legacy' for modern linguistics (Werner Abraham), followed by the Theory of Language, and finally with a special 'Postscript: Twenty-five Years Later !'

Author : John A. Goldsmith,Geoffrey J. Huck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136159909

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Ideology and Linguistic Theory by John A. Goldsmith,Geoffrey J. Huck Pdf

In The Ideological Structure of Linguistic Theory Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.

Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027281593

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The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory by E.F.K. Koerner Pdf

This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their initiation to the trade within the framework of transformational-generative grammar, some in one or the other structuralist mould, yet others in the philology and linguistics of particular languages and language families. They all share, however, some doubts concerning characteristic attitudes and procedures of present-day ‘mainstream linguistics’. All want, not a uniformity of ideological stance, but a union of individualists working towards the advancement of theory and empirical accountability.

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo,María Junkal Gutierrez Mangado,Maria Martinez Adrian
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027205254

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Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition by María del Pilar García Mayo,María Junkal Gutierrez Mangado,Maria Martinez Adrian Pdf

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.

Author : Andrew Ortony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521405610

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Metaphor and Thought by Andrew Ortony Pdf

Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical issues, the volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential fresh ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology, education and artificial intelligence.

Author : Jane Milling,Graham Ley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230629158

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Modern Theories of Performance by Jane Milling,Graham Ley Pdf

The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of key modern practitioners from Stanlislavski to Boal. Designed to be read alongside primary source material, each chapter offers not only a summary and exposition of these theories, but a critical commentary on their composition as discourses. Close scrutiny of the cultural context and figurative language of these important, and sometimes difficult, texts yields fresh insight into the ideas of these practitioners.

Author : Anna Bondaruk,Anna Prażmowska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443879859

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Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I) by Anna Bondaruk,Anna Prażmowska Pdf

This is the first volume in a series of three books called Within Language, Beyond Theories, which focuses on current linguistic research surpassing the limits of contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to gain new insights into the structure of the language system and to offer more explanatorily adequate accounts of linguistic phenomena from a number of the world's languages. This volume brings together twenty-five papers pertaining to theoretical linguistics, and consists of three par ...