Studies in Area Linguistics
Author | : Hans Kurath |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hans Kurath |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne McCabe |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : 9781781794333 |
This introductory textbook provides readers with a foundation in methods for analysing and understanding language from various theoretical perspectives within linguistics and language studies. Its novel approach introduces systemic functional linguistics, text and discourse analysis, and formal approaches to linguistics. It demonstrates applications of these approaches to reveal how we use language in society, how our brains process language, and how we learn language. Topics include phonetics, phonology, conversation analysis, morphology, semantics, functional and formal syntax, text linguistics, genre analysis, evaluative lexis in text, multimodal representations of meaning, language change and variation, animals and language, the brain and language, and first and second language development/acquisition. The main language focused on is English, while other languages are also drawn on to illustrate the principles, models and theories. Learning outcomes, exercises (with answer key), ideas for project work, and questions for reflection are provided throughout. A final chapter gathers explanations of various fields of practice within linguistics, written by linguists from around the world, including David Crystal (Clinical Linguistics), Frances Christie (Educational Linguistics), and Malcolm Coulthard (Forensic Linguistics). An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies offers an array of analytical tools for undergraduate students of language, communication, and education, and provides an overview of the field for those interested in further study in linguistics and applied language studies. Readers will come away with a heightened sensitivity to and appreciation of their own and other's use of language for creating meaning and for interaction.
Author | : Stefan Th. Gries |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2012-08-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110274051 |
The volume contains a collection of studies on how the analysis of corpus and psycholinguistic data reveal how linguistic knowledge is affected by the frequency of linguistic elements/stimuli. The studies explore a wide range of phenomena , from phonological reduction processes and palatalization to morphological productivity, diachronic change, adjective preposition constructions, auxiliary omission, and multi-word units. The languages studied are Spanish and artificial languages, Russian, Dutch, and English. The sister volume focuses on language representation.
Author | : Pieter Muysken |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027231000 |
From linguistic areas to areal linguistics explores language description and typology in terms of areal background, presenting case studies in areal linguistics. Some concern well-established linguistic areas such as the Balkan, other regions such as East Nusantara (Indonesia) and the Guapore-Mamore (Amazon) regions have never before been studied in an areal perspective, and yet other areas are involved in current debates. The insight has gained ground that languages owe many of their characteristics to the languages they are in contact with over time. Yet the nature of these areal influences remains a matter of debate. Furthermore, areas are often hard to define. Hence the title: a shift from linguistic areas as concrete and circumscribed objects to a new way of doing linguistics: areally. New findings include the observation that there may be many more language areas than previously recognized. The book is primarily directed at linguists working in descriptive, comparative, historical and typological linguistics. Since it covers linguistic areas from four continents, it will have a wide appeal.
Author | : Dell H. Hymes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tony McEnery |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780415286237 |
Covering the major approaches to the use of corpus data, this work gathers together influential readings from leading names in the discipline, including Biber, Widdowson, Sinclair, Carter and McCarthy.
Author | : Alice Vittrant |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 798 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110402130 |
This book lies at the crossroads of areal typology, language contact and genetic affiliation. Concerned with mainland Southeast Asia in particular, the various grammatical sketches lay emphasis on characteristics shared by unrelated languages.
Author | : James W. Gair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Sinhalese language |
ISBN | : 0195095219 |
This volume collects twenty-nine published and unpublished papers by the linguist James Gair, considered the foremost western scholar of the Sri Lankan languages Sinhala and Jaffna Tamil. Ranging over thirty years, his work also considers issues in a variety of Indian languages, including Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Bengali. The collection reflects the wide range of Gair's interests, from morpho-syntactic questions to questions regarding historical and areal linguistics, especially language contact and diglossia, and extending to language acquisition. By collecting these papers and making them newly accessible, this volume will provide an important resource not only for scholars of these languages but for linguists interested in the theoretical issues Gair explores.
Author | : Glenn G. Gilbert |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780820479347 |
Original Scholarly Monograph
Author | : Willemijn M. Klein |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9400984537 |
It was in the course of 1980 that it dawned upon several friends and colleagues of Manfred Bierwisch that a half century had passed since his birth in 1930. Manfred's youthful appearance had prevented a timely appreciation of this fact, and these friends and co11eagues are, therefore, not at ali embarrassed to be presenting him, almost a year late, with a Festschrift which willleave a trace of this noteworthy occasion in the archives of linguistics. It should be realized, however, that the deIay would have easily extended to 1990 if alI those who had wanted to contribute to this book had in fact written their chapters. Under the pressure of actuality, several co11eagues who had genu ineIy hoped or even promised to contribute, just couIdn't make it in time. Still, their greetings and best wishes are also, be it tacitly, expressed by this volume. Especia11y important for the archives would be a record of the celebrated one's works and physical appearance. For the convenience of present and future generations this Festschrift contains a bibliography of Manfred Bierwisch's scientific publications, which forms a chapter in itself. The frontispiece photograph was taken unawares by one of our accomplices. The title of this Festschrift may alIow for free associations of various sorts.