Linguistics category: 5616 books
Psycholinguistic Research (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
Implications and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Originally published in 1979, this book represents an effort to bring together the two disciplines at the core of psycholinguistics, psychology and linguistics. It discusses a broad variety of theoretical approaches to psycholinguistics as well as covering a wide range of topics.
At the time...
by David Block
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts. It begins with a detailed presentation of what has become a popular approach to identity in the social sciences (including applied linguistics) today, one that is inspired in poststructuralist...
by Charles Barber, Joan Beal, Philip Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English...
The Disappearing Dictionary
A Treasury of Lost English Dialect Words
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery. All you have to do is choose a location, find some old documents, and dig a little.
In The Disappearing Dictionary, linguistics expert Professor David Crystal collects together delightful...
by David Crystal, Derek Davy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
A series to meet the need for books on modern English that are both up-to-date and authoritative.For the scholar, the teacher, the student and the general reader, but especially for English-speaking students of language and linguistics in institutions where English is the language of instruction,...
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English
Linguistic Change in Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent...
by Richard Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics with the rigour of more formal theories. This...
Trust the Text
Language, Corpus and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
John Sinclair is one of the major figures in applied linguistics and his work is essential study for students.
This accessible book collects in one volume Sinclair's key papers on written discourse structure, lexis patterns, phraseology, corpus analysis, lexicography and linguistic theory from the...
Antonymy
A Corpus-Based Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Antonymy is the technical name used to describe 'opposites', pairs of words such as rich/poor, love/hate and male/female. Antonyms are a ubiquitous part of everyday language, and this book provides a detailed, comprehensive account of the phenomenon.
This book demonstrates how traditional linguistic...
Speech Acts and Clause Types
English in a Cross-Linguistic Context
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning,...
Mind The Gap
Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is, in fact, full of gaps, because speakers and writers operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be understood rather than expressed. This book systematically...
The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure
Animacy and Thematic Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the...
Mutual Misunderstanding
Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1992
Do others understand what we say or write? Do we understand them? Theorists of language and interpretation claim to be more concerned with questions about "what" we understand and "how" we understand, rather than with the logically prior question "whether" we understand...
by Edith A. Moravcsik
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language typology identifies similarities and differences among languages of the world. This textbook provides an introduction to the subject which assumes minimal prior knowledge of linguistics. It offers the broadest coverage of any introductory book, including sections on historical change, language...