Linguistics category: 5616 books
by Eve V. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
How do young children learn language? When does this process start? What does language acquisition involve? Children are exposed to language from birth, surrounded by knowledgeable speakers who offer feedback and provide extensive practice every day. Through conversation and joint activities, children...
by Douglas Biber, Susan Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style. The primary focus of the...
by Tim Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
The way we say the words we say helps us convey our intended meanings. Indeed, the tone of voice we use, the facial expressions and bodily gestures we adopt while we are talking, often add entirely new layers of meaning to those words. How the natural non-verbal properties of utterances interact with...
Origins of Language
A Slim Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Origins of Language: A Slim Guide offers a concise and accessible overview of what is known about the evolution of the human capacity for language. Non-human animals communicate in simple ways: they may be able to form simple concepts, to feel some limited empathy for others, to cooperate to some...
Ontology and Phenomenology of Speech
An Existential Theory of Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the mind to the linear world of human speech, and then back again. Rapid development of linguistic science in the second half of the 20th century, and cognitive science in the beginning of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
This volume contributes to the research in two different research areas: lexical availability studies and vocabulary research in second or foreign languages. Lexical availability is defined as the words that immediately come to mind as a response to a stimulus provided by topics related to domains...
Mi lengua
Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
An increasing number of U.S. Latinos are seeking to become more proficient in Spanish. The Spanish they may have been exposed to in childhood may not be sufficient when they find themselves as adults in more demanding environments, academic or professional. Heritage language learners appear in a wide...
The World of Words
An Introduction to Language in General and to English and American in Particular
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
First published in 1939, this book provides a brief but comprehensive view of language in general, and of English and American language in particular. It is suitable for beginners and those who wish to learn about the basics of linguistics.
The Comment Clause in English
Syntactic Origins and Pragmatic Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Although English comment clauses such as I think and you know have been widely studied, this book constitutes the first full-length diachronic treatment, focusing on comment clauses formed with common verbs of perception and cognition in a variety of syntactic forms. It understands comment clauses...
Negation in Early English
Grammatical and Functional Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Informed by detailed analysis of data from large-scale diachronic corpora, this book is a comprehensive account of changes to the expression of negation in English. Its methodological approach brings together up-to-date techniques from corpus linguistics and minimalist syntactic analysis to identify...
From Sound to Meaning in Context
Studies in Honour of Piotr Ruszkiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This volume is a collection of papers approaching the phenomenon of language from a variety of perspectives. Scholars in phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicology, historical linguistics and translation studies share the results of their research. They invite the reader on a journey into the multifaceted...
by Monika Fludernik
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative.
This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest...
Reflexivity in Language and Intercultural Education
Rethinking Multilingualism and Interculturality
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
With the impact of accelerated globalization, digital technologies, mobility, and migration, the fields of Applied Linguistics, Language, and Intercultural Education have been shifting. One shift in need of further exploration is that of systematic and coherent reflexivity in researching language...
Language
The Cultural Tool
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A bold and provocative study that presents language not as an innate component of the brain—as most linguists do—but as an essential tool unique to each culture worldwide.
For years, the prevailing opinion among academics has been that language is embedded in our genes, existing as an innate...