Linguistics category: 5616 books
by Gunnar Linning
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (English Department), course: Basics in Applied Semantics, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Everybody who is seriously acquiring a language different...
Beyond Pure Reason
Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic...
Bastard Tongues
A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures?
Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to...
by Anne Wichmann, Steven Fligelstone
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Corpora are well-established as a resource for language research; they are now also increasingly being used for teaching purposes. This book is the first of its kind to deal explicitly and in a wide-ranging way with the use of corpora in teaching. It contains an extensive collection of articles by...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
New Directions in the Analysis of Multimodal Discourse offers a comprehensive international view of multimodal discourse and presents new directions for research and application in this growing field. With contributions from top scholars around the world, this work opens up the field of multimodal...
The Creation of Israeli Arabic
Security and Politics in Arabic Studies in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those focused on language and linguistics.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues. The book presents a collection of longitudinal studies drawing on conversation analysis across...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Over the last fifty years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-field' survey, covering language practices, beliefs...
Yiddish Given Names
A Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
This important volume in onomastics, the study of names, presents a listing of Yiddish first names in the modern period: 1750 to the present day. Yiddish Given Names: A Lexicon resumes, collects, documents, and corrects the available body of research on Yiddish given names. It aims to establish the...
Communicating Beyond Language
Everyday Encounters with Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
This new book offers a timely and lively appraisal of the concept of communicative repertoires, resources we use to express who we are when in dialogue with others. Each chapter describes and illustrates the communicative resources humans deploy daily, but rarely think about – not only the multiple...
One Language, Two Grammars?
Differences between British and American English
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009
It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British–American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
This volume explores the elusive subject of English prosody—the stress, rhythm and intonation of the language—, and its relevance for English language teaching. Its sharp focus will be especially welcomed by teachers of English to non-native speakers, but also by scholars and researchers interested...
True to the Language Game
African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions...
by Michael Leeser, Justin White
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This module on interactive tasks provides teachers with an overview of the nature of communication and explores the ways in which interactive tasks can promote communicative exchanges among students and teachers. The module provides guidelines for developing tasks, along with examples and options...