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Diachronic Changes Underlying Synchronic Distribution
Scalar Inferences and Word Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study. Departing from the traditional analysis in diachronic changes in Chinese linguistics, the cognitive constructionist approach employed in this book is...
Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts
Conceptualisation, research and pedagogic implications
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book investigates the theoretical, empirical and pedagogical issues to help us better understand what is happening with English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) communication and to activate this knowledge in respective communicative contexts. It focuses specifically on Japanese contexts and also includes...
Advances in Biolinguistics
The Human Language Faculty and Its Biological Basis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent studies in psycho linguistics have ranged through a variety of languages. In this trend, which has no precedent, studies in language processing have followed studies in language acquisition and theoretical linguistics in considering language universals in a broader scope than only in English....
by Roger D. Sell
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity. This has now radically changed.
‘Pragmatics’ could be informally defined as the study of relationships between language and...
Racialization and Language
Interdisciplinary Perspectives From Perú
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Drawing on frameworks from applied linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this volume employs a linguistics approach to understanding race and racism in Latin America, with a particular focus on Peru. Building on recent debates in Peru on cultural and biological definitions of race, the book...
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Solving Crime With Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr. John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic linguists specialising in authorship.
Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes gone bad to allegations...
Merge in the Mind-Brain
Essays on Theoretical Linguistics and the Neuroscience of Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This collection of nine papers brings together Naoki Fukui’s pioneering body of work on Merge, the basic operation of human language syntax, from the two distinct but related perspectives of theoretical syntax and neurosciences. Part I presents an overview of the development of the theory of Merge...
Typography & Language in Everyday Life
Prescriptions and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Typography and Language in Everyday Life provides a detailed look at graphic as well as linguistic aspects of language and suggests there is much to be gained from collaboration between typographers and applied linguists.
The first part of the book provides an introduction to aspects of typographic...
by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
An understanding of language as a complex system helps us to think differently about linguistics, and helps us to address the impact of linguistic interaction. This book demonstrates how the science of complex systems changes every area of linguistics: how to make a grammar, how to think about the...
Social Semiotics
Key Figures, New Directions
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
M.A.K Halliday’s work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in the generation of social semioticians who have taken Halliday’s concept of social semiotics and developed it further in various directions, making...
by Siobhan Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This core textbook provides an engaging and accessible introduction to the field of pragmatics: the study of the relationship between linguistic meaning and context. Assuming no prior knowledge, Siobhan Chapman surveys the development of pragmatics from the very beginning to the present day and engages...
Text-Based Research and Teaching
A Social Semiotic Perspective on Language in Use
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Contributions in this book illustrate the many methods available for researching language in context and for the analysis of everyday text types. Each chapter highlights language as a resource for the expression of meanings—a social semiotic resource. Text analysis is used to reveal our capacity...
Exploring Digital Communication
Language in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies or taking an introductory MA course, as well as advanced undergraduates. Titles in the series are...