Linguistics category: 5616 books
by Sandy Petrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book, first published in 1990, combines an introduction to speech-act theory as developed by J. L. Austin with a survey of critical essays that have adapted Austin's thought for literary analysis. Speech-act theory emphasizes the social reality created when speakers agree that their language...
Philosophy for Linguists
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Philosophy for Linguists provides students with a clear, concise introduction to the main topics in the philosophy of language. Focusing on what students of linguistics need to know and how philosophy relates to modern linguistics, the book is structured around key branches of the field: semantics,...
«Quo vadis, Kommunikation?» Kommunikation Sprache Medien / «Quo vadis, Communication?» Communication Language Media
Akten des 46. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Sibiu 2011- Proceedings of the 46 th Linguistics Colloquium, Sibiu 2011
Language: German
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Quo vadis, Kommunikation? Kommunikation – Sprache – Medien ist der Tagungsband des 46. Linguistischen Kolloquiums an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität in Sibiu/Hermannstadt, Rumänien. Die Essays beleuchten die Rolle der Medien in der heutigen Kommunikation: sie sind zugleich Ausgangspunkt oder Anwendungsgebiet...
Introducing Chomsky
A Graphic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world children learn, in very similar ways, languages...
The Language of Branding
Theory, Strategies, and Tactics
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The Language of Branding: Theory, Strategies and Tactics shows marketers how to use language successfully to improve brand value and influence consumer behavior.
Luna and Lerman are among only a few researchers who take a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways language influences how consumers...
The Riddle of the Labyrinth
The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative.
When famed archaeologist...
The Language Instinct
How The Mind Creates Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.
In this classic, 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,...
by Marcyliena H. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments...
by George Yule
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite-sized sections, clearly explaining the major concepts in linguistics through all the key elements of language. This...
by Sandra Chung
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking,...
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented."...
Serendipities
Language and Lunacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 1998
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False,"...
Talking 'Bout Your Mama
The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most potent sources of rap: the viciously...
by David Crystal, St Martins Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth...