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The Translation of Slang

Within the Bounds of Possibility?

by Robert Stolt
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of St Andrews, language: English, abstract: 'Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.' This is how American poet Sandburg described the linguistic phenomenon of slang...
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Language

Its Nature and Development

by Otto Jespersen
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

This book was first published in 1922, Language is a valuable contribution to the field of English Language and Linguistics.
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First and Second Language Acquisition

Parallels and Differences

by Jürgen M. Meisel
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five year olds in their first language....
Cover of Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
by David Kemmerer
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

Language is one of our most precious and uniquely human capacities, so it is not surprising that research on its neural substrates has been advancing quite rapidly in recent years. Until now, however, there has not been a single introductory textbook that focuses specifically on this topic. Cognitive...
Cover of Experimental Psycholinguistics (PLE: Psycholinguistics)
by Sam Glucksberg, Joseph H. Danks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013

How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication? First published in 1975, this book is considered one the best of the early books in this field. The task of psycholinguistics is to discover how people produce and comprehend speech. This encompasses virtually all...
Cover of Essays in Syntactic Theory
by Samuel David Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The essays in this important collection explore wide-ranging aspects of the syntax and semantics of human languages. Key topics covered include movement phenomena and the syntax of logical form, methods in generative linguistics and the role of rules vs. principles in syntactic theory. This volume makes a vital contribution to substantive and methodological debates in linguistic theory.
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by Morten H. Christiansen, Christopher Collins, Shimon Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009

Languages differ from one another in bewildering and seemingly arbitrary ways. For example, in English, the verb precedes the direct object ('understand the proof'), but in Japanese, the direct object comes first. In some languages, such as Mohawk, it is not even possible to establish a basic word...
Cover of Introducing English Grammar
by Kersti Börjars, Kate Burridge
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019

*Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. The approach taken is in line with current research in grammar, a particular advantage for students who may go on to study syntax in more depth. All the examples and exercises use...
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The Atoms Of Language

The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar

by Mark C. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008

Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality--and thus mutual intelligibility--of human thought.We are now on the verge...
Cover of Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language
by Carol A. Padden
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

This study, first published in 1988, examines cases of interaction of morphology and syntax in American Sign Language and proposes that clause structure and syntactic phenomena are not defined in terms of verb agreement or sign order, but in terms of grammatical relations. Using the framework of relational...
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by Stephan Vierkant
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2007

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), course: Conceptual Metaphor Theory, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In MORAL POLITICS George Lakoff (2002) claims...
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Translating the Social World for Law

Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism

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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016

This volume examines the linguistic problems that arise in efforts to translate between law and the social sciences. We usually think of "translation" as pertaining to situations involving distinct languages such as English and Swahili. But realistically, we also know that there are many kinds of...
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Faces of English Education

Students, Teachers, and Pedagogy

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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

Faces of English Education provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to current perspectives on English language education, covering new areas of interest and recent studies in the field. In seventeen specially commissioned chapters written by international experts and practitioners, this...
Cover of The Complete Guide to the Theory and Practice of Materials Development for Language Learning
by Brian Tomlinson, Hitomi Masuhara
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

The Complete Guide to the Theory and Practice of Materials Development for Language Learning provides undergraduate and graduate-level students in applied linguistics and TESOL, researchers, materials developers, and teachers with everything they need to know about the latest theory and practice of...
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