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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Methods of approaching the study of discourse have developed rapidly in the last ten years, influenced by a growing interdisciplinary spirit among linguistics and anthropology, sociology, cognitive and cultural psychology and cultural studies, as well as among established sub-fields within linguistics...
The Discourse of Reading Groups
Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Of interest in their own terms as a significant cultural practice, reading groups also provide a window on the everyday interpretation of literary texts. While reading is often considered a solitary process, reading groups constitute a form of social reading, where interpretations are produced and...
English as a Second Language in the Mainstream
Teaching, Learning and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Since it was first established in the 1970's the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education. Drawing extensively on empirical research and theoretical work in linguistics, sociology, psychology...
The Biolinguistic Enterprise
New Perspectives on the Evolution and Nature of the Human Language Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This book, by leading scholars, represents some of the main work in progress in biolinguistics. It offers fresh perspectives on language evolution and variation, new developments in theoretical linguistics, and insights on the relations between variation in language and variation in biology. The authors...
by Juliane House
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
In this interdisciplinary book, Juliane House breaks new ground by situating translation within Applied Linguistics. In thirteen chapters, she examines translation as a means of communication across different languages and cultures, provides a critical overview of different approaches to translation,...
Generative Linguistics
An Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Critical Humanist Perspectives
The Integrational Turn in Philosophy of Language and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The present book is a collection of scholarly reflections on the theme of humanism from an integrational linguistic perspective. It studies humanist thought in relation to the philosophy of language and communication underpinning it and considers the question whether being a ‘humanist’ binds one...
Mandarin Chinese Words and Parts of Speech
A Corpus-based Study
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This monograph is a translation of two seminal works on corpus-based studies of Mandarin Chinese words and parts of speech.
The original books were published as two pioneering technical reports by Chinese Knowledge and Information Processing group (CKIP) at Academia Sinica in 1993 and 1996,...
by John W Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The Complete Lojban Language is a complete description of the artificial language Lojban. It serves as a reference grammar for the language, offering an overview of the language, as well as linguistic details on every aspect of the language. This book serves as the standard defining the language design....
Approaches to Language, Culture, and Cognition
The Intersection of Cognitive Linguistics and Linguistic Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Approaches to Language, Culture and Cognition aims to bring cognitive linguistics and linguistic anthropology closer together, calling for further investigations of language and culture from cognitively-informed perspectives against the backdrop of the current trend of linguistic anthropology.
by Mira Ariel
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Accessing Noun-Phrase Antecedents offers a radical shift in the analysis of discourse anaphora, from a purely pragmatic account to a cognitive account, in terms of processing procedures. Mira Ariel defines referring expressions as markers signalling the degree of Accessibility in memory of the antecedent....
The Changing English Language
Psycholinguistic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience,...
by Deborah Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume. Arranged thematically, this book covers major developments in Anglo-American feminist linguistics, and Cameron’s responses to these, spanning the last twenty years.
The...
Unity in Diversity
Current Trends in Translation Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Translation studies as a discipline has grown enormously in recent decades. Contributions to the discipline have come from a variety of fields, including machine translation, history, literature, philosophy, linguistics, terminology, signed language interpreting, screen translation, translation pedagogy,...