Linguistics category: 5616 books
Abstracts and Abstracting
A Genre and Set of Skills for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Despite their changing role, abstracts remain useful in the digital world. Highly beneficial to information professionals and researchers who work and publish in different fields, this book summarizes the most important and up-to-date theory of abstracting, as well as giving advice and examples for...
Linguistic and Cultural Studies: Traditions and Innovations
Proceedings of the XVIIth International Conference on Linguistic and Cultural Studies (LKTI 2017), October 11-13, 2017, Tomsk, Russia
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This book features contributions to the XVIIth International Conference “Linguistic and Cultural Studies: Traditions and Innovations” (LKTI 2017), providing insights into theory, research, scientific achievements, and best practices in the fields of pedagogics, linguistics, and language teaching...
by Linda Lombardi
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
First published in 1994. In this study, the author proposes that neutralization is the result of a wellformedness condition that the author calls the Laryngeal Constraint: In languages that have laryngeal neutralization, a laryngeal node is only licensed in a particular syllabic configuration; elsewhere...
Successful Spoken English
Findings from Learner Corpora
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Successful Spoken English demonstrates how spoken learner corpora can be used to define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that language learners can speak effectively whilst still using some non-standard forms, this book:
Examines databases of transcribed...
Language and Law
A resource book for students
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language plays an essential role both in creating law and in governing its implementation. Providing an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this subject, Language and Law:
describes the different registers and genres that make up spoken and written legal language and how they develop...
Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies
Self-Regulation in Context, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers. This volume carries on the author's tradition of linking theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Drawing on examples from a wide range of languages and social setting, The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World is the first single-volume collection surveying current and recent research trends in international sociolinguistics. With over 30 chapters written by leading authorities...
Reflections on Psycholinguistic Theories
Raiding the Inarticulate
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
In a work that is part memoir, part monograph, Nigel Duffield offers a set of lyrical reflections on theories of Psycholinguistics, which is concerned with how speakers use the languages they control, as well as with how such control is acquired in the first place. Written for professionals and enthusiastic...
by N. Gregg
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A critical review of the literature on written expression disorders of individuals with learning disabilities. The purpose of the book is to shed light on issues concerning definition, assessment and interaction for individuals with writing disorders. The integrated model of written expression offered...
by Judit Kormos
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-depth discussion of the second language learning processes of students with specific learning difficulties (SpLDs). It summarizes research advances in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning. TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and problem-solving as well as evaluative tasks, all of which are increasingly available via...
by Robert Stolt
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews, course: Language and Nation in Europe, language: English, abstract: In the broadest sense, language is a means of identification and self-identification of individuals and social systems (Bodi...
American English
Dialects and Variation
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
The new edition of this classic text chronicles recent breakthrough developments in the field of American English, covering regional, ethnic, and gender-based differences.
Now accompanied by a companion website with an extensive array of sound files, video clips, and other online materials to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
This is an exciting addition to the dynamic, multidisciplinary field of membership categorization analysis. Bringing together the biggest names in MCA this landmark publication provides a contemporary analysis of the field and a platform for emerging researchers and students to build upon.
The...