Linguistics category: 5616 books
by Sebastian Loebner
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Understanding Semantics, Second Edition, provides an engaging and accessible introduction to linguistic semantics. The first part takes the reader through a step-by-step guide to the main phenomena and notions of semantics, covering levels and dimensions of meaning, ambiguity, meaning and context,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology describes the diversity of morphological phenomena in the world's languages, surveying the methodologies by which these phenomena are investigated and the theoretical interpretations that have been proposed to explain them. The Handbook provides morphologists with...
The Emergence of Phonology
Whole-word Approaches and Cross-linguistic Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
How well have classic ideas on whole-word phonology stood the test of time? Waterson claimed that each child has a system of their own; Ferguson and Farwell emphasised the relative accuracy of first words; Menn noted the occurrence of regression and the emergence of phonological systematicity. This...
by Akbar Dehghan Ferdows
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
The proposed book titled A Psychological Approach to Translation is in fact a study that contains six parts. The first part describes the phenomena and events that motivated the researcher to think up and implement a semi-descriptive/ semi-experimental research, the problems that translation students...
Linguistic Ecology
Language Change and Linguistic Imperialism in the Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
In this book, the author examines the transformation of the Pacific language region under the impact of colonization, westernization and modernization. By focusing on the linguistic and socio-historical changes of the past 200 years, it aims to bring a new dimension to the study of Pacific linguistics,...
by John Russell Rickford
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
By the award-winning former president of the Linguistic Society of America, this collection of some of John Russell Rickford's pioneering works shows how linguists in sociolinguistics and creole studies can benefit from utilizing data, theories and methods from each other, as they more frequently...
Creating Language Crimes
How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
This book by Roger W. Shuy, the senior figure in forensic linguistics, is the first to explain in an accessible way the vital role that linguistic evidence and its proper analysis play in criminal investigations. Shuy provides compelling case studies of how language functions in investigations involving,...
The German Language Today
A Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
This clear and accessible text provides a complete introduction to basic linguistic terms and descriptions of language structures. The German Language Today describes in detail the main liguistic features of the language and the wide variety of speech forms and vocabulary existing within the German-speaking...
Urban Sociolinguistics
The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From Los Angeles to Tokyo, *Urban Sociolinguistics *is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world. Building on William Labov’s famous New York Study, the authors demonstrate how language use in these areas is changing based on belief systems, behavioural norms, day-to-day...
Traductio
Essays on Punning and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Nothing like wordplay can make difference between languages look so uncompromising, can give such a sharp edge to the dilemma between forms and effects, can so blur the line between translation and adaptation, or can cast such harsh light on our illusion of complete semantic stability. In the pun...
The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman
Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic lexicography, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, Tunisian feminist scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur’anic text itself and compares them with the interpretations provided...
by Toby Garfitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"The nature of laughter has recently attracted the attention of a number of different disciplines. In two recent colloquia, TRIO (Translation Research in Oxford) brought together international authorities from fields as diverse as physiology, psychology, linguistics, translation and literary...
Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century
Building on Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This volume offers comprehensive analyses of how we live continuously in a multiplicity and simultaneity of 'places'. It explores what it means to be in place, the variety of ways in which meanings of place are made and how relationships to others are mediated through the linguistic and material semiotics...