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Author: Louise Pound
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Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Brigitte Nerlich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277265
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 373

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It is widely believed by historians of linguistics that the 19th-century was largely devoted to historical and comparative studies, with the main emphasis on the discovery of soundlaws. Syntax is typically portrayed as a mere sideline of these studies, while semantics is seldom even mentioned. If it comes into view at all, it is usually assumed to have been confined to diachronic lexical semantics and the construction of some (mostly ill-conceived) typologies of semantic change. This book aims to destroy some of these prejudices and to show that in Europe semantics was an important, although controversial, area at that time. Synchronic mechanisms of semantic change were discovered and increasing attention was paid to the context of the sentence, to the speech situation and the users of the language. From being a semantics of transformations', a child of the biological-geological paradigm of historical linguistics with its close links to etymology and lexicography, the field matured into a semantics of comprehension and communication, set within a general linguistics and closely related to the emerging fields of psychology and sociology.

Author: Jean-Louis Chiss
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042917774
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : fr
Pages : 278

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Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans le cadre des recherches en histoire des theories linguistiques et didactiques. Centre sur une oeuvre, celle de Charles Bally, il s'est construit a partir des questions qu'elle nous pose et que nous posons a travers elle. Le terme d'historicite dans le titre vient rappeler qu'au-dela des conditions de production du discours de Bally, de son contexte historico-geographique, epistemologique et culturel, les problematiques mises en place n'ont pas epuise - tant s'en faut - leur energie questionnante. Qu'il s'agisse de la stylistique, de la perspective enonciative et sociologique, de l'apprentissage et de l'enseignement des langues, ce theoricien du langage n'est plus a tirer de l'oubli, de l'indifference ou de la marginalisation. L'ambition est certes ici d'explorer plus avant telle facette de l'oeuvre d'un grand linguiste mais surtout de montrer que son travail s'inscrit a la confluence de problematiques essentielles pour la linguistique, la didactique des langues et les sciences humaines: les relations entre pensee et langage, entre langue et litterature, le sujet dans la langue, le systeme et ses variations, la langue a enseigner et a apprendre. Organisees en quatre ensembles (Theorie generale et elements de reception; Debats sur la stylistique; Problematiques enonciatives et sociolinguistiques; Langue, societe et ecole), les contributions du present volume dessinent un continuum marque de multiples recurrences comme si chacune d'elles disait a la fois la specificite d'une prise et la necessite d'un point de vue synthetique.

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Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080547842
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 26924

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The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field

Author: Huseynaga Rzayev
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532669844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 603

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This exhaustive linguistic dictionary has been designed both for classroom use and for English language professionals. It provides a unique and effective learning source which ‘mirrors’ the continual spring of linguistic knowledge. It suggests a comprehensive, insightful analysis of the highly controversial and complicated issues of present day linguistics. This dictionary provides a pedagogical tool for those teaching various aspects of language to both upper lever undergraduates and graduate level researchers, and exploits the benefits of Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian language scholarship in this field.

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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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Includes section "Reviews".

Author: William J. Ashby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277087
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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This volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 1991 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, held in Santa Barbara. In addition, the volume contains revised versions of three of the keynote papers. A welcome aspect of this collection, reflective of the conference itself, is the recurrent incorporation of historical and social factors into explanations of linguistic form.

Author: Jan Zienkowski
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027207852
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific philosophical, cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational, or interactional angles, this 8th volume focuses on theories and phenomena at the level of discourse, but leaving aside conversational interaction. It provides the reader with pragmatics-oriented information on discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and critical linguistics, as well as text linguistics and appraisal theory, while introducing other specific approaches to discourse through concepts such as polyphony, intertextuality, genre, and "enonciation." Furthermore, topics such as public discourse, narrative, figures of speech, cohesion and coherence, pragmatic markers, manipulation, and humor, are all dealt with in separate chapters. The binding idea, explained in the introduction, is that discursive pragmatics may serve as a platform for a diversity of perspectives on discourse, as they have emerged not only in the language sciences but also in the humanities and social sciences in general."

Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674008960
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

Author: E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483297543
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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This book presents in a single volume a comprehensive history of the language sciences, from ancient times through to the twentieth century. While there has been a concentration on those traditions that have the greatest international relevance, a particular effort has been made to go beyond traditional Eurocentric accounts, and to cover a broad geographical spread. For the twentieth century a section has been devoted to the various trends, schools, and theoretical framework developed in Europe, North America and Australasia over the past seventy years. There has also been a concentration on those approaches in linguistic theory which can be expected to have some direct relevance to work being done at the beginning of the twenty-first century or those of which a knowledge is needed for the full understanding of the history of linguistic sciences through the last half of this century. The last section of this book reviews the applications of some of these findings. Based on the foundation provided by the award winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics this volume provides an excellent focal point of reference for anyone interested in the history of the language sciences.