Linguistics category: 5616 books
by Geoffrey N. Leech
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Over the years, pragmatics - the study of the use and meaning of utterances to their situations - has become a more and more important branch of linguistics, as the inadequacies of a purely formalist, abstract approach to the study of language have become more evident. This book presents a rhetorical...
by Mary McGee Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In the last few years categorial grammars have been the focus of dramatically expanded interest and activity, both theoretical and computational. This book, the first introduction to categorical grammars, is written as an objective critical assessment. Categorial grammars offer a radical alternative...
by Anamaria Berea
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This book integrates current advances in biology, economics of information and linguistics research through applications using agent-based modeling and social network analysis to develop scenarios of communication and language emergence in the social aspects of biological communications. The book...
The Personal Weblog
A Linguistic History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book outlines a coherent genre history of the personal weblog from the perspective of media linguistics. An analysis of a diachronic corpus (1997–2012) suggests distinct phases in the history of the genre. In addition to media linguistics, the author draws on methods from textual and corpus...
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016.
The total of 89 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The book also contains 4 invited...
Linguistic Epidemiology
Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese.
The book makes a significant contribution to empirical work on semantic...
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
17th International Conference, CICLing 2016, Konya, Turkey, April 3–9, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, Part II
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
The two-volume set LNCS 9623 + 9624 constitutes revised selected papers from the CICLing 2016 conference which took place in Konya, Turkey, in April 2016.
The total of 89 papers presented in the two volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The book also contains 4 invited...
Languages of the World
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
What do all human languages have in common and in what ways are they different? How can language be used to trace different peoples and their past? Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, the new edition of this engaging textbook introduces readers to the rich diversity of human languages, familiarizing...
Spoken and Written Discourse in Online Interactions
A Multimodal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Winner of the AIA Book Prize for a research monograph in the field of English Language and Linguistics (2016)
Common patterns of interactions are altered in the digital world and new patterns of communication have emerged, challenging previous notions of what communication actually is in...
by Julia Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
With our increasing use of digital and online media, the way we interact with these forms of communication is having an enormous impact on our literacy and learning.
In Digital Literacies, Julia Gillen argues that to a substantial extent Linguistics has failed to rise to the opportunities presented...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Cognitive Poetics is a new way of thinking about literature, involving the application of cognitive linguistics and psychology to literary texts. This student-friendly book provides a set of case studies to help students understand the theory and master the practice of cognitive poetics in analysis.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor presents the first ever comprehensive, in-depth treatment of all the sub-fields of the linguistics of humor, broadly conceived as the intersection of the study of language and humor. The reader will find a thorough historical, terminological, and theoretical...
Grounded Theory in Applied Linguistics Research
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This volume demystifies the procedures and practical uses of Grounded Theory, a well-established research methodology used around the world today by social scientists, teachers, and qualitative researchers. Intended for graduate students, supervisors, and researchers, it provides readers with the...
by H.M. Hoenigswald
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
These separate but related essays owe their existence to a combined concern for the workings of text criticism and historical linguistics and for the history of scholarship in these fields. On earlier occasions I have suggested certain views on the development of the so-called comparative method....