Linguistics category: 5616 books
Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes
The Representation of Islam in the British Press
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit or subtle? This book uses a detailed analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles on Muslims and Islam, combining corpus linguistics and discourse analysis methods to produce an objective picture of...
Language, Discourse and Literature
An Introductory Reader in Discourse Stylistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This collection shows students of English and applied linguistics ways in which language and literary study can be integrated. By drawing on a wide range of texts by mainly British and American writers, from a variety of different periods, the contributors show how discourse stylistics can provide...
The Making of Vernacular Singapore English
System, Transfer, and Filter
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Singapore English is a focal point across the many subfields of linguistics, as its semantic, syntactic and phonetic/phonological qualities tell us a great deal about what happens when very different types of language come together. Sociolinguists are also interested in the relative status of Singapore...
Wordplay and Translation
Special Issue of 'The Translator' 2/2 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Extended Special Issue
Spik in Glyph? Translation, Wordplay and Resistance in Chicano Poetry, pp 141-160 Tace Hedrick (Comparative Literature, Penn State Harrisburg, USA)This paper examines the nature of contemporary bilingual Chicano poetry from the 1970s to the present, particularly in terms...
Connectionist Natural Language Processing
Readings from Connection Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Connection science is a new information-processing paradigm which attempts to imitate the architecture and process of the brain, and brings together researchers from disciplines as diverse as computer science, physics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, biology, engineering, neuroscience and AI....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations...
Competing Discourses
Perspective and Ideology in Language
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use...
Knowledge & Discourse
Towards an Ecology of Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and disciplines - linguistics, anthropology, sociology,...
Ludwig Wittgenstein
His Place in the Development of Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF (1960). For the most part however they quote the Tractatus and not 2 the Philosophical...
Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners
Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2007
A Co-Publication of Routledge, the Center for Applied Linguistics, and the International Reading Association
This book is a shorter version of *Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners, *reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Studies in Corpus-Based Sociolinguistics illustrates how sociolinguistic approaches and linguistic distributions from corpora can be effectively combined to produce meaningful studies of language use and language variation. Three major parts comprise the volume focusing on: (1) Corpora and the Study...
by T. Schlipfinger
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Innsbruck (Anglistik), course: Linguistics, language: English, abstract: In the following paper, I am going to talk about how music is described out of a linguistic point of view. I am going to show...
Health and Risk Communication
An Applied Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Health and Risk Communication provides a critical and comprehensive overview of the core issues surrounding health and risk communication from the perspective of applied linguistics. It outlines the ways applied linguistics differs from other methods of understanding health and risk communication,...
by John E. Petrovic
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
This provocative defense of language diversity works through the strengths and weaknesses of liberal political theory to inform language policy. The book presents the argument that policy must occupy the space between 'linguistics of community' and 'linguistics of contact' in a way that balances individual...