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Author : Vulf Plotkin
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781581129939
A description of the English language as a dynamic system in the evolutionary process of radical typological restructuring, which has deeply affected its constituent subsystems - grammatical, lexical and phonic.
Author : Abram De Swaan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745663463
This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these groups constitute one coherent world language system, connected by multilingual speakers in a surprisingly powerful way. The chances of a language thriving depend on its position in the system. There are thousands of small, peripheral languages, each connected to one of a hundred central languages. The entire system is held together by one global language: English. A language is a ‘hypercollective' good: the more speakers it has, the higher its communication value for each one of them. Thus, when people think that a language is gaining new speakers, that in itself is a reason for them to want to learn it too. That is why, in an age of globalization, only a few languages remain for transnational communication and these often prevail even in national societies. This important book discusses a number of specific constellations in detail: India, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa and the European Union. De Swaan concludes by providing a sober but illuminating view of language policy in multilingual societies. This book will be essential reading for those studying sociology, communication studies and linguistics.
Author : James Milroy,Lesley Milroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136446238
Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language. James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of standardisation and its social consequences, in particular discrimination against low-status and ethnic minority groups on the basis of their language traits. This Routledge Linguistics Classic is here reissued with a new foreword and a new afterword in which the authors broaden their earlier concept of language ideology. Authority in Language is indispensable reading for educationalists, teachers and linguists and a long-standing text for courses in sociolinguistics, modern English grammar, history of English and language ideology.
Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991-09-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521246962
Essays by one of the most influential scholars in modern linguistics, including previously unpublished pieces.
Author : Peter Antony Master
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English language
ISBN : UCSC:32106018639994
This book teaches teachers how to present grammar lessons to their students with confidence and clarity. Introduces future teachers of English to the major elements of English grammar in a systematic fashion, using step-by-step procedures, charts, diagrams, and exercises. Includes a complete answer key to exercises. Grammar teachers.
Author : Lesley Milroy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134687589
This influential and widely used book has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on linguistic discrimination on the basis of class, race and ethnicity.
Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509
Author : Josef Vachek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110803853
Author : Robert P. Stockwell,J. Donald Bowen,John W. Martin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1965-06-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780226775043
This series is designed to provide a detailed account of one of the major problems in the teaching of a second language—the interference caused by structural differences between the native language of the learner and the foreign language he is studying. The similarities and differences between English and the language being taught are described in two volumes, one on the sound systems and one on the grammatical systems, for some of the foreign languages most in demand in the United States today.
Author : Henry Lee Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674535006
In this work the author discusses recent advances in linguistic science and the applicability of linguistics to the teaching of reading, the structure of English, as well as the relation of the spoken language to literature in the secondary schools and to the teaching of foreign languages throughout the educational system. The importance of the "structure" of the language as essential preparation for all who teach any aspect of the language arts--from reading in the elementary grades to literature and foreign languages in the secondary schools and colleges--is developed thoroughly. An extremely significant point is the application of linguistics to teaching. Henry Lee Smith shows that if a child is not systematically taught the relationship between sound symbol and written symbol when he is ready and eager for it his reading can easily become a serious problem.
Author : Nick C. Ellis,Diane Larsen-Freeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444334005
Explores a new approach to studying language as a complex adaptive system, illustrating its commonalities across many areas of language research Brings together a team of leading researchers in linguistics, psychology, and complex systems to discuss the groundbreaking significance of this perspective for their work Illustrates its application across a variety of subfields, including languages usage, language evolution, language structure, and first and second language acquisition "What a breath of fresh air! As interesting a collection of papers as you are likely to find on the evolution, learning, and use of language from the point of view of both cognitive underpinnings and communicative functions." Michael Tomasello, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780062032522
"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." — New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
Author : Vivian J Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781444119015
English is increasingly becoming the world's lingua franca. If we are not native speakers of one of the many varieties of English, then we may be students of English, or use English regularly for academic or business purposes. The English Language series, which is international in focus, aims to synthesize the wealth of existing linguistic research both on and in English. Each volume in the series is designed to present these findings in an accessible, enlightening and entertaining way not only to students of English linguistics but to learners and users of English across the globe. The English Writing System describes how writing is not simply ancillary to other aspects of language but vitally important to almost everything we do, from signing our wills to sending a text message. This book discusses the mechanics of the writing systems of English; the different ways people process words on a page and the mistakes they can make; how children and second language learners acquire these systems; the historical development of the language and the progress of writing technology: in short, the effectiveness of the writing systems of English. Combining an academic perspective from linguistics and psychology with insights into everyday spelling mistakes, The English Writing System will interest students and teachers of linguistics, literature, the English language, psychology and education.
Author : Yaroslav Levchenko
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783640637317
Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the present work is to investigate the neologisms in the lexical system of the modern English language and reveal the major trends and tendencies taking place within the processes of the new words formation and distribution. To achieve the above mentioned purpose the following objectives are established: to study the theoretical linguistic material and the latest data on those lexicological facts and phenomena which are related to the topic of the present research; to analyze the most highly rated newspapers of Great Britain with the aim of selecting newly created and borrowed lexemes; to build up a collection of neologisms from the above mentioned mass media; to define the dominant part of speech prevailing among the collected neologisms and the distribution of other parts of speech within this framework; to define and study the types of word building inherent in the neologisms; to define and investigate the most dominant word building type and study the distribution of other ones characteristic of the collected new lexemes. In the present paper there were used such methods of scientific research as analysis and synthesis, following every chapter and part of the current work, descriptive method and the method of statistical analysis, methods of typological and lexicological analysis, comparative method, adapted NeoTrack method of neologisms detection (Appendix B), plus deductive and inductive methods of investigation and generalising the retrieved facts and data.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003271280
"Attempts to indentify the fundamental concepts of language, argues that the study of language reveals hidden facts about the mind, and looks at the impact of propaganda".
