Linguistics category: 5616 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers explain the methods and approaches...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological, anatomical and behavioral studies on living species of Primates and provides a comparative framework for the evaluation of paleoanthropological studies. This double endeavor makes...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to...
Second Language Acquisition
A Theoretical Introduction To Real World Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
This book is written in order to help undergraduate students and trainee teachers to reflect on certain topics and key issues related to second language acquisition. Despite the proliferation of books and introductory courses in second language acquisition, most of these books very often provide a...
by Judit Kormos
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This extremely up-to-date book, Speech Production and Second Language Acquisition, is the first volume in the exciting new series, Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. This new volume provides a thorough overview of the field and proposes a new integrative model of how L2 speech is produced.
The...
Changing Minds Changing Tools
From Learning Theory to Language Acquisition to Language Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of language change.
In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition—often approached as an isolated domain, subject to its own laws and mechanisms—is simply learning, subject to the same...
Human Development, Language and the Future of Mankind
The Madness of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Drawing on and integrating unorthodox thought from a broad range of disciplines including clinical psychology, linguistics, philosophy, natural science and psychoanalysis, this book offers a provocative, original analysis of the global threats to our survival, and proposes a remedy.
The Evolution of Language
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume comprises refereed papers and abstracts of the 10th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EVOLANGX), held in Vienna on 14–17th April 2014. As the leading international conference in the field, the biennial EVOLANG meeting is characterised by an invigorating, multidisciplinary...
by Prakash Mondal
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This book examines linguistic expressions of emotion in intensional contexts and offers a formally elegant account of the relationship between language and emotion. The author presents a compelling case for the view that there exist, contrary to popular belief, logical universals at the intersection...
Second Language Speech
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language...
Cultural Memory of Language
Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
"I can't even speak my own language," were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book. Calling something 'my own' implies a personal, proprietorial relationship with it. But how can it be your own if you cannot speak it?
The Cultural Memory...
Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia
A Corpus Assisted Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia critically examines the uses of language in post-Soviet media and political texts between 1998 and 2007. It will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of media studies, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and scholars in Russian Studies.
Between reality and myth
A corpus-based analysis of the stereotypic image of some Romanian ethnic minorities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2007 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 10,00, University of Bucharest, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relation which can be established between language and stereotyping as a socio-cognitive process. With this...
by Caroline Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field. Rather than just describing what...