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Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age
An Introductory Coursebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Critical Reading and Writing in the Digital Age is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. Using examples from numerous genres – such as fiction, poetry, advertisements and newspapers – this...
Linguistic Relativities
Language Diversity and Modern Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2010
There are more than six thousand human languages, each one unique. For the last five hundred years, people have argued about how important language differences are. This book traces that history and shows how language differences have generally been treated either as of no importance or as all-important,...
Talking Back, Talking Black
Truths About America's Lingua Franca
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
“Superb.” —Steven Pinker
“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication, as well as the still unfolding journey that has led to its creation. . . . [His]...
Language Change
Progress or Decay?
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of...
by John Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Sociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words--morphology or phonology--and more at how our words and sentences are influenced by the society around us--for instance, how...
Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era
The Struggles for Language Control in the New Order in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy. The ten case studies presented here examine...
by Peter Stockwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Poetics of Science Fiction uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the...
English in the World
History, Diversity, Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe today. The first half of the book outlines the history of the language from its fifth-century roots through its development as a national, a colonial, and...
by Lillian Brise
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach. The young science of pragmatics...
Translation Solutions for Many Languages
Histories of a flawed dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Many "translation solutions†? (often called "procedures,†? "techniques,†? or "strategies†?) have been proposed over the past 50 years or so in French, Chinese, Russian, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Czech, and Slovak. This book analyzes, criticizes...
The Aesthetics of Communication
Pragmatics and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
AESTHETICIZING PRAGMATICS The Gamut of Pragmatics Pragmatics emerged among the sciences of language at the end of the 1960's in reaction to certain totalizing models in linguistics: structuralism (primarily in Europe) and generative grammar (initially in the United States). Certain disciples of Chomsky...
Syntactic Analysis
An HPSG-based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
In syntactic analysis, as in linguistics generally, the skills required to first identify, and then make sense of, complex patterns in linguistic data involve a certain specific kind of reasoning, where various alternatives are entertained and modified in light of progressively broader empirical coverage....
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Prague Linguistic Circle came into being on the afternoon of October 6, 1926, when five Czech and Russian linguists gathered to hear a lecture by a German colleague. From this international beginning, the interests of the group grew to first encompass language in all its functional heterogeneity...