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Author : Linda Cardinal,Selma K. Sonntag
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780773544833
Original and provocative analyses of how state traditions inform language policy choices in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Author : Xing Yu
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781525595073
This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the civilized society replaces the tribe of the primitive society. Language replaces kinship in playing a role in the formation of human society. Then this book argues that while humans communicate using language, they form political, economic and cultural communities which in turn jointly sustain the formation of the state. While humans use language in communication, they also create a series of language solutions to the organization of the state. They make a constitution, hold elections and even set up representation when they govern their state in the principle of democracy. Extending the distance of linguistic communication also underlies the formation of government as well as the emergence of three juxtaposing branches of government—administrative, legislative and judicial bodies. By using language in long-distance linguistic communication, humans further create their history, philosophy, literature, art, religion and law which play a role in the construction of people’s spirit that guides the operation and the future development of the state. Language not only gives origin to the state but also presets the whole process of the development of the state. This book offers one of the most systematic theories about the formation, the building and the future of the state.
Author : Christopher Ricks,Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520378605
"Sprawling, uncoordinated, uneven, noisy, and appealing," wrote one reviewer of the first edition of this book, published on 1 January 1980. "The language is in rude health," wrote another. Exactly a decade later, here is the book anew, with the same editors but with fifty fresh contributors writing essays and poems that engage our language today. Imaginative attention is bestowed on the changes of recent years, changes not only in the language but in how language is understood. In the forefront are the relations between British English, American English, and those other Englishes with which they compete or cooperate. The nervous negotiations of gender and feminism. The darkness of AIDS. The bright flicker of the computer. The old smolderings of "standard English" and correctness. The "bad language" that has lately done so well in our society. How all this has been politicized—or is it rather that its inevitably political nature has only now been recognized? Here these and many other facets of the language catch the various light. What has changed is understood in relation to what has not changed, and what has been gained in relation to what has been lost. There is sweep as well as detail, telescope as well as microscope, in this contemplation of the world of our language as it enters the world of the 1990s. The State of the Language has been prepared in cooperation with the English-Speaking Union of San Francisco. Some titles of essays in the book: Whose English? by Sidney Greenbaum Look, Ma, I'm Talking by Sandra Gilbert Fighting Talk by Marina Warner No Opera Please—We're British by Michael Bawtree Changing What We Sing by Margaret Doody On Not Being Milton: Nigger Talk in England Today by David Dabydeen Talking Black by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Subway Graffiti by Walter J. Ong Doublespeak by William Lutz It's a Myth, Innit? Politeness and the English Tag Question by John Algeo This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
Author : Christopher Ricks,Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520059069
Fifty new contributors have written essays and poems that engage the English language as it is today. This new edition includes "bad language" that has lately done so well in today's society.
Author : Leonard Michaels
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520037634
Considers a wide range of topics related to contemporary language
Author : Philip Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015026844590
Is the English language in decline? Many people seem to think so--but Philip Howard isn't one of them. The Literary Editor of The Times of London, Howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in English. His is not the Panglossian attitude that all is neccessarily for the best in the best of all possible languages, but he does feel that change is necessary--and healthy--in any living language. Howard here examines the language in its various branches and categories, such as grammar and pronunciation, spelling and punctuation, dialect and slang. He discusses the effect the new technologies, from cable TV to photocomposition, are having on the mother tongue, and he examines the new dialects that are coming into use. He navigates the back streets of euphemism and the broad, boring boulevards of cliche. He asks whether the language is actually changing as fast as we suppose, and, if so, why. Howard argues that as far as we can, we should strive to direct and control the changes in English in ways that increase its power. And where we can't help it, he says, we should lie back and enjoy its immense richness, which is unrivaled by any other language. Rather than have us wring our hands, Philip Howard entreats us, with his customary with and erudition, to use our tongues in concert with our brains. About the Author: Philip Howard is the author of New Words for Old, Weasel Words, Words Fail Me, and, most recently, A Word in Your Ear.
Author : William Safran,J.A. Laponce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317983842
This new study powerfully asserts the pivotal importance of the interplay between language and ethnicity, which is often underestimated as a component for political stability. These leading scholars present five key case studies of South Africa, Algeria, Canada, Latvia and Senegal. All five countries are multilingual nations where language has been a central political issue that has challenged their unity and stability. These studies are underpinned by two general, comparative and theoretical discussions, which analyse how scholars consider social class and economic factors to be the primary sources for political cohesion or of malcontent with the system and the new avenues opened by a focus on issues of langauge. This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of linguistics, language, politics and sociology. This is a special issue of the leading journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
Author : Emmanuel Roche,Yves Schabes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262181827
Finite-state devices, such as finite-state automata, graphs, and finite-state transducers, have been present since the emergence of computer science and are extensively used in areas as various as program compilation, hardware modeling, and database management. Although finite-state devices have been known for some time in computational linguistics, more powerful formalisms such as context-free grammars or unification grammars have typically been preferred. Recent mathematical and algorithmic results in the field of finite-state technology have had a great impact on the representation of electronic dictionaries and on natural language processing, resulting in a new technology for language emerging out of both industrial and academic research. This book presents a discussion of fundamental finite-state algorithms, and constitutes an approach from the perspective of natural language processing.
Author : Peter W. Culicover,Elizabeth V. Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0814254438
Basics of Language for Language Learners, 2nd edition, by Peter W. Culicover and Elizabeth V. Hume, systematically explores all the aspects of language central to second language learning: the sounds of language, the different grammatical structures, the tools and strategies for learning, the social functions of communication, and the psychology of language learning and use.
Author : C. O'Reilly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230504639
Developments in the European Union over the last decade have been largely positive from the perspective of stateless and minority ethnic groups and the survival and prosperity of minority languages. This selection of sociologically and ethnographically oriented work enables the reader to compare developments in different ethno-linguistic revival movements within the European Union. The contributions also explore the impact of EU policy and discourse on the individual movements and the orientation of Western Europe as a whole towards linguistic heterogeneity and cultural diversity. A companion volume (0-333-92924-1) examines the status of minority languages in post-1989 Eastern Europe.
Author : Gareth Price
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614514640
Using Taiwan as a case study, this book constructs an innovative theory of a political sociology of language. Through documentary and ethnographic data and a comparative-historical method the book illustrates how language mediates interactions between society and the state and becomes politicized as a result; how language, politics and power are intertwined processes; and how these processes are not isolated in institutions but socially embedded.
Author : T. Judt,D. Lacorne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403982452
This edited collection examines the role that language has played in forming modern European nations. With language an omnipresent issue within the European Union, the importance languages have played within the histories and present situations of member nations is a crucial topic. Drawing on an international cast of contributors, the book explores the issues of monolingualism vs. plurilingualism within individual nations, the revival of languages in nations such as former soviet republics, and concludes with a look at language in the electronic age.
Author : Brian D. Joseph
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814209130
Author : Sue Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137576477
This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage and group identity.
Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429684630
Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan. The book examines the process whereby this strategic simplification took place in Japan, beginning with a discussion of the background to the problem and the reasons why change was indicated. The history, characteristics and spheres of the four major styles found in documents of the modern period are examined, as are initial moves towards language reform in the fields of education and printed media. Separate illustrations in Japanese script are provided to give an idea of the changing visual complexity of texts; in-text references, however, are romanized except where the use of characters is essential. Wherever possible, English sources are cited in addition to Japanese; where published translations are available, these are cited in order to enable non-speakers of Japanese to follow up references if they so desire.