Author: Josef VachekPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9789027930248
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
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Selected Writings in English and General Linguistics
Author: Josef VachekPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110803852
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
General Linguistics
Author: Pierre SwiggersPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311019886X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Volume I of Edward Sapir’s Collected Works contains the reedition of Sapir’s papers and reviews in general linguistics, in the philosophy of language and linguistics (the origin of language; general semantics; the construction of an international auxiliary language), as well as his articles on ‘language’ and ‘dialect’ written for the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences. The texts have been reedited and supplied with an introductory study and notes. The introductory studies assess Sapir’s contribution to the linguistic study of the various topics dealt with. Volume I also contains a reprint of retrospective appraisals of Sapir’s work in general linguistics written by Zellig Harris and Stanley Newman.
Language, Thought, and Reality
Author: Benjamin Lee WhorfPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262730068
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Writings by the pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf, including his famous work on the Hopi language as well as general reflections on language and meaning.
Writings in General Linguistics
Author: Ferdinand de SaussurePublisher:
ISBN: 9780199261444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique g n rale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himself but no evidence of this was found. Eighty years later in 1996 a manuscript in Saussure's hand was discovered in the orangerie of his family house in Geneva. This proved to be the missing original of the great work. It is published now in English for the first time in an edition edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, and translated and introduced by Carol Sanders and Matthew Pires, all leading Saussure scholars. The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004. It is remarkable that for eighty years the understanding of Saussure's thought has depended on an incomplete and non-definitive text, the sometimes aphoristic formulations of which gave rise to many creative interpretations and arguments for and against Saussure. Did he, or did he not, see language as a-social and a-historical? Did he, or did he not, rule out the study of speech within linguistics? Was he a reductionist? These disputes and many others can now be resolved on the basis of the work now published. This reveals new depth and subtetly in Saussure's thoughts on the nature and complex workings of language, particularly his famous binary oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (langue) and its performance (parole).
Linguistics and English Literature
Author: H. D. AdamsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107045401
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.
Written Language Revisited
Author: Josef VachekPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902727410X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Josef Vachek, one of the last living exponents of the Prague School, has dedicated 50 years of his life to the study of written language in all its aspects. This volume is a tribute to him on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains a selection of his papers written between 1945 and 1987. Contents Writing and phonetic transcription; Written language and printed language; The linguistic status of written utterances; The primacy of writing?; Segmentation of the flow of speech and written language; The stylistics of written language; Glossematics and written language; Paralinguistic sounds, written language and language development; Written language as a heterogenous system; The 1929 Praguian Theses, internal speech, and written language; Written language seen from the functionalist angle; On the problem of written language; The development of the written norm of English; Puristic tendencies in written language; Redundancy in written language with special regard to capitalization of graphemes; Spelling as an important linguistic concept; Pluridimensionality of written utterances and its consequences; Revaluations of redundant graphemes; Thoughts on some fifty years of research in written language.
The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography
Author: Marco CondorelliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108801412
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1075
Book Description
Written by a team of global scholars, this is the first Handbook covering the rapidly growing field of historical orthography. Comprehensive yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in the field, and in related areas such as morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, linguistic typology and sociolinguistics.
Selected Papers in Structural Linguistics
Author: Bohumil TrnkaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110816636
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Whitney on Language
Author: William Dwight WhitneySociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Volume 1
Author: Ulrich AmmonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110858029
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left behind its status as an interdiscipline between sociology and linguistics and is now a worldwide established field. Sociolinguistics continues to contribute to solving practical problems in areas such as language planning and standardization, language policy, as well as in language didactics and speech therapy. Moreover, new topics and areas of application have arisen from the autonomy of the discipline - these have been systematically and extensively included in the second edition of the handbook. The new overall concept depicts the regional and disciplinary representativity of sociolinguistic research while offering an encyclopedia-like useablitiy for all its readers. This includes theoretical depth and stringency for readers interested in theory, as well as methodical abundance and detail for empirical researchers. The descriptions of methods are so informative and precise that they can directly be used in the preparation of project planning. Similarly, the descriptions in the practice-oriented articles are so precise that users can accurately assess to what extent they can expect a certain sociolinguistic approach to help solve their problems. With an extensive description as its goal, the second edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik takes into account the current standing of the discipline and the modified structure of the field.