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Author : Ellen Thompson
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Language acquisition
ISBN : 1781797730
provides an accessible and up-to-date invitation to key concepts of modern language study.
Author : Leonard Bloomfield
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027280473
This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess. Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was responsible for two classic textbooks in the field of linguistics. The earlier, reproduced here, shows some striking differences to his later views, reflecting much of the then-current thinking on language matters. As such, it represents not only an interesting commentary on the theoretical development of an extremely influential linguist, but more importantly, it is a telling document in the evolving history of the discipline and a rich source for the (psycho)linguist interested in how and why we got from where we were to where we are.
Author : George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139486767
This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language.
Author : George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521305314
This textbook provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of the basic issues and topics involved in the study of language. Its twenty chapters range over speculation about the origin of language, the relationship between language and animal communication, the principal concepts involved in linguistic analysis, the new fields of discourse analysis and computer understander systems, sign language, current views on how children acquire language and how adults learn new languages, how languages change over time and how language is affected by various social, cultural and regional factors. Written in a clear and lively style, with frequent examples from English and other languages, this textbook is designed to introduce the non-specialist reader to issues that fascinate and sometimes frustrate professional linguists. Students taking an introductory course on the nature of human language will find the carefully selected study questions, discussion topics and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter particularly useful. Both as a coursebook and as a book for the general reader, The Study of Language as an exciting way to explore how language works and the role it plays in human life.
Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : UOMDLP:agc6250:0001.001
Author : Lindsay Stern
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525557449
"An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." —Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is bold and vibrant, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college's dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading? Into this delicate moment barrels Ivan's unstable father-in-law, Frank, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn't go as planned, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage, and to begin to fight - at last - for what he holds dear. A dazzlingly insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language, the fragility of love, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves, The Study of Animal Languages marks the debut of a brilliant new voice in fiction.
Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108063784
A seminal 1921 work by the linguist Edward Sapir, outlining his influential ideas and hypotheses on language and its speakers.
Author : Ralph Fasold,Jeffrey Connor-Linton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107717664
This accessible textbook is the only introduction to linguistics in which each chapter is written by an expert who teaches courses on that topic, ensuring balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of the full range of modern linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge the text offers a clear introduction to the traditional topics of structural linguistics (theories of sound, form, meaning, and language change), and in addition provides full coverage of contextual linguistics, including separate chapters on discourse, dialect variation, language and culture, and the politics of language. There are also up-to-date separate chapters on language and the brain, computational linguistics, writing, child language acquisition, and second-language learning. The breadth of the textbook makes it ideal for introductory courses on language and linguistics offered by departments of English, sociology, anthropology, and communications, as well as by linguistics departments.
Author : Matthew W. Crocker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789400916005
Computational Psycholinguistics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Language investigates the architecture and mechanisms which underlie the human capacity to process language. It is the first such study to integrate modern syntactic theory, cross-linguistic psychological evidence, and modern computational techniques in constructing a model of the human sentence processing mechanism. The monograph follows the rationalist tradition, arguing the central role of modularity and universal grammar in a theory of human linguistic performance. It refines the notion of `modularity of mind', and presents a distributed model of syntactic processing which consists of modules aligned with the various informational `types' associated with modern linguistic theories. By considering psycholinguistic evidence from a range of languages, a small number of processing principles are motivated and are demonstrated to hold universally. It is also argued that the behavior of modules, and the strategies operative within them, can be derived from an overarching `Principle of Incremental Comprehension'. Audience: The book is recommended to all linguists, psycholinguists, computational linguists, and others interested in a unified and interdisciplinary study of the human language faculty.
Author : John Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1968-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521095107
This is a comprehensive introduction to theoretical linguistics. It presupposes no previous knowledge and terms are defined as they are introduced; but it gives a rigorous and technical treatment of a wide range of topics, and brings the reader to an advanced level of understanding. Since its first publication in 1968 Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics has been one of the classic introductions to the discipline. In a field which is often seen as rapidly moving, it will continue to be used by students seeking an overview of the central areas of linguistics - phonetics and phonology, grammar and semantics - and to be of great value to anyone interested in the ways in which theory can help to explain the key problems of human language.
Author : Tania Granadillo,Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780816526994
It is a feature of the twenty-first century that world languages are displacing local languages at an alarming rate, transforming social relations and complicating cultural transmission in the process. This language shift—the gradual abandonment of minority languages in favor of national or international languages—is often in response to inequalities in power, signaling a pressure to conform to the political and economic structures represented by the newly dominant languages. In its most extreme form, language shift can result in language death and thus the permanent loss of traditional knowledge and lifeways. To combat this, indigenous and scholarly communities around the world have undertaken various efforts, from archiving and lexicography to the creation of educational and cultural programs. What works in one community, however, may not work in another. Indeed, while the causes of language endangerment may be familiar, the responses to it depend on “highly specific local conditions and opportunities.” In keeping with this premise, the editors of this volume insist that to understand language endangerment, “researchers and communities must come to understand what is happening to the speakers, not just what is happening to the language.” The eleven case studies assembled here strive to fill a gap in the study of endangered languages by providing much-needed sociohistorical and ethnographic context and thus connecting specific language phenomena to larger national and international issues. The goal is to provide theoretical and methodological tools for researchers and organizers to best address the specific needs of communities facing language endangerment. The case studies here span regions as diverse as Kenya, Siberia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Venezuela, the United States, and Germany. The volume includes a foreword by linguistic anthropologist Jane Hill and an afterword by poet and linguist Ofelia Zepeda.
Author : Leonard Bloomfield
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027218927
This is a fac simile edition of Bloomfield's An Introduction to the Study of Language (New York 1914), with an introductory article by Joseph S. Kess. Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949) was responsible for two classic textbooks in the field of linguistics. The earlier, reproduced here, shows some striking differences to his later views, reflecting much of the then-current thinking on language matters. As such, it represents not only an interesting commentary on the theoretical development of an extremely influential linguist, but more importantly, it is a telling document in the evolving history of the discipline and a rich source for the (psycho)linguist interested in how and why we got from where we were to where we are.
Author : Einar Haugen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111684970
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
Author : Jean F. Wallwork
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCAL:B4283037
This book demands no previous knowledge of linguistics but introduces some of the main topics with which linguistic studies deal. It includes a discussion of the nature and functions of language, the differences between spoken and written forms, phonetics, structure, some aspects of meaning, the role of language in education, the teaching of languages and language change.
Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416435
This book contains papers which focus on the twin subjects of globalisation and information/communication technologies (ICTs). They express either fear or optimism regarding their effects on the survival of indigenous cultures, languages and literature. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested to learn more about the role of globalisation in the erosion of cultural as well as linguistic diversity, and the impact of ICTs in the development of indigenous languages in Africa.
