Linguistics category: 5616 books
Dialogue and Discourse (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)
A Sociolinguistic Approach to Modern Drama Dialogue and Naturally Occurring Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section – Dialogue – it studies specific drama texts. Drama has been neglected by linguistic studies of literature, and this book develops a new area of literary-linguistic stylistics. It demonstrates how recent advances in...
Studies in Linguistic Geography (RLE Linguistics D: English Linguistics)
The Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
The publication in the past ten years of linguistic atlases of England and Scotland has not only advanced our knowledge of the lexical and morphological variety inherent in the English language, but has made it possible to establish a number of methodological principles for the study of language both...
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics
Its Nature, Origins and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and...
by Margaret Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
From the ancient Mediterranean world to the present day, our conceptions of what is universal in language have interacted with our experiences of language learning. This book tells two stories: the story of how scholars in the west have conceived of the fact that human languages share important properties...
Exploring English Language Teaching
Language in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those entering postgraduate studies and language professionals returning to academic study. The books take an innovative ‘practice to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.
Forty-one chapters are organised into five sections covering:
theoretical perspectives informing language and identity...
by William A. Kretzschmar, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language features, the importance of regional and social proximity...
Language and Literacy (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics)
The Sociolinguistics of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Despite a vast amount of study, literacy is still a very confused topic, which requires the integration of findings from different areas. Reading and writing are psychological skills, but they are also linguistic skills (since people read and write meaningful language) and social skills (since written...
by Gary L. Milsark
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In order to bring some minimal amount of order to the chaos that almost inevitably attends the use of the word ‘existential’ in a linguistic investigation, the author reserved the term existential sentence (ES) to designate all and only those English sentences in which there appears an occurrence...
Lexis and Creativity in Translation
A Corpus Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Computers offer new perspectives in the study of language, allowing us to see phenomena that previously remained obscure because of the limitations of our vantage points. It is not uncommon for computers to be likened to the telescope, or microscope, in this respect. In this pioneering computer-assisted...
by Barry Blake
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This study covers a number of topics that are prominent in the grammars of Australian Aboriginal languages, especially ergativity and manifestations of the hierarchy that runs from the speech-act participants down to inanimates. This hierarchy shows up in case marking, number marking and agreement,...
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
A Practical Resource
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes:
* qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods
* research techniques and approaches
* ethical considerations
* sample studies
* a glossary of key terms
* resources for...
Interactional Linguistics
Studying Language in Social Interaction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The first textbook dedicated to interactional linguistics, focusing on linguistic analyses of conversational phenomena, this introduction provides an overview of the theory and methodology of interactional linguistics. Reviewing recent findings on linguistic practices used in turn construction and...
Facets of Linguistics
Proceedings of the 14 th Norddeutsches Linguistisches Kolloquium 2013 in Halle an der Saale
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
This volume aims to represent the breadth and depth of current linguistic research of predominantly young linguists and thus to produce a snapshot of topical linguistic issues and trends. Therefore, it presents papers from systemic linguistics next to ones on text linguistics, sociolinguistics and...