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Oxford University Press Australia Labor and Legality An Ethnography of a Mexican
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University of Chicago Press Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure
Book SynopsisIn the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriting rules. The twelve essays in this volume discuss recent challenges to this classical formulation of phrase structure and the alternative conceptions proposed to replace it. Each article approaches this issue from the perspective of a different linguistic framework, such as categorical grammar, government-binding theory, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and tree-adjoining grammar. By contributing to the understanding of the differing assumptions and research strategies of each theory, this volume serves as an important survey of current thinking on the frontier of theoretical and computation linguistics.
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University of Chicago Press Alternative Conceptions of Phrase Structure
Book SynopsisIn the early years of generative grammar it was assumed that the appropriate mechanism for generating syntactic structures was a grammar of context-free rewriting rules. The twelve essays in this volume discuss recent challenges to this classical formulation of phrase structure and the alternative conceptions proposed to replace it. Each article approaches this issue from the perspective of a different linguistic framework, such as categorical grammar, government-binding theory, head-driven phrase structure grammar, and tree-adjoining grammar. By contributing to the understanding of the differing assumptions and research strategies of each theory, this volume serves as an important survey of current thinking on the frontier of theoretical and computation linguistics.
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University of Chicago Press The Design of Agreement Evidence form Chamorro
Book SynopsisA study of the fundamental building blocks that serve to organise natural language systems. The author argues that there are two distinct forms of agreement in linguistic theory: feature compatibility and an abstract syntactic relation. Her primary source of evidence is Chamorro, an Austro-nesian language spoken on Guam and Saipan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: The Surface Design of Chamorro 3: Configurationality 4: On Deriving VSO 5: A Syntactic Agreement Relation 6: The Morphology of Extraction 7: Topic and Focus 8: Syntactic Agreement and Locality 9: Adjunct Extraction 10: On the Design of Agreement App. A: Orthography App. B: Morpheme-by-Morpheme Glosses App. C. Sources Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Fatal Words Communication Clashes Aircraft
Book SynopsisAfter explaining how miscommunication has led to dozens of aircraft disasters, the author proposes innovative solutions for prevention - such as a visual communication system and a computerized voice mechanism to help clear up confusing language.
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University of Chicago Press A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian
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University of Chicago Press Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Vo
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University of Chicago Press Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research Vo
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University of Chicago Press The Last Phonological Rule Reflections on
Book SynopsisA consideration of the challenges that computational innovations pose to current rule-based phonological theories and speculate about the advantages of phonological models based on artificial neural networks and other computer designs.Table of Contents1: Introduction John Goldsmith 2: Harmonic Phonology John Goldsmith 3: Fields of Attraction in Phonology K. P. Mohanan 4: Cognitive Phonology George Lakoff 5: A Connectionist Implementation of Cognitive Phonology Deirdre W. Wheeler, David Touretzky. 6: Finite-State Constraints Lauri Karttunen 7: Problems for Rule Ordering in Phonology: Two Bantu Test Cases Larry M. Hyman References List of Contributors Index
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University of Chicago Press Deconstructing Morphology Word Formation in
Book SynopsisOne of the major contributions to theoretical linguistics during the twentieth century has been an advancement of our understanding that the information-bearing units which make up human language are organized on a hierarchy of levels. It has been an overarching goal of research since the 1930s to determine the precise nature of those levels and what principles guide interactions among them. Linguists have typically posited phonological, morphological, and syntactic levels, each with its own distinct vocabulary and organizing principles, but in Deconstructing Morphology Rochelle Lieber persuasively challenges the existence of a morphological level of language. Her argument, that rules and vocabulary claimed to belong to the morphological level in fact belong to the levels of syntax and phonology, follows the work of Sproat, Toman, and others. Her study, however, is the first to draw jointly on Chomsky's Government-Binding Theory of syntax and on recent research in phonology. Ranging broadly over data from many languages--including Tagalog, English, French, and Dutch--Deconstructing Morphology addresses key questions in current morphological and phonological research and provides an innovative view of the overall architecture of grammar.
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University of Chicago Press Nationalists Nomads Essays on Francophone
Book SynopsisThis text explores how African literature written in French can change the way one thinks about nationalism, colonialism and postcolonialism. Arguing against blanket advocacy of any one model, the author seeks a form of thought that can read and recognize the realities of identity and difference.
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University of Chicago Press Novelties in the Heavens Rhetoric and Science in
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating work, Jean Dietz Moss shows how the scientific revolution begun by Copernicus brought about another revolution as well--one in which rhetoric, previously used simply to explain scientific thought, became a tool for persuading a skeptical public of the superiority of the Copernican system. Moss describes the nature of dialectical and rhetorical discourse in the period of the Copernican debate to shed new light on the argumentative strategies used by the participants. Against the background of Ptolemy's Almagest, she analyzes the gradual increase of rhetoric beginning with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Galileo's Siderius nuncius, through Galileo's debates with the Jesuits Scheiner and Grassi, to the most persuasive work of all, Galileo's Dialogue. The arguments of the Dominicans Bruno and Campanella, the testimony of Johannes Kepler, and the pleas of Scriptural exegetes and the speculations of John Wilkins furnish a counterpoint to the writings of Galileo, the centerpiece of this study. The author places the controversy within its historical frame, creating a coherent narrative movement. She illuminates the reactions of key ecclesiastical and academic figures figures and the general public to the issues. Blending history and rhetorical analysis, this first study to look at rhetoric as defined by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century participants is an original contribution to our understanding of the use of persuasion as an instrument of scientific debate.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Expansion of Rhetoric into Science Part One: The Celestial Revolution Chapter 2: Copernicus' Revolutionary Thesis Chapter 3: Evidence from the Heavens: Galileo and Kepler Chapter 4: The Significance of the Sunspot Quarrel Part Two: The Hermeneutical Crisis Chapter 5: Interpreting Scripture Chapter 6: Dominicans on the Side of Galileo Chapter Chapter 7: Galileo's Appeal to the Church Part Three: The Triumph of Rhetoric Chapter 8: The Delicate Balance: Galileo versus Grassi Chapter 9: The Final Salve: Galileo's Dialogue Chapter 10: Galileo Interpreted for Englishmen Postscript: Dialectic and Rhetoric in Modern Science
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The University of Chicago Press Metaphors Dead and Alive Sleeping and Waking A
Book SynopsisTraditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. This title unveils an approach that refutes the rigid dead/alive dichotomy, offering in its place a dynamic model: sleeping and waking.Trade Review"This is a deeply insightful book that both opens up many paths for future research and sheds new light on a problem of millennial standing: the power of metaphor. I anticipate that this work will have a major and lasting impact. Placing metaphor at the center, Muller has brought a new dynamic dimension to linguistic theory." - David McNeill, University of Chicago"
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University of Chicago Press After the Digging
Book SynopsisThese early poems by Alan Shapiro give readers reference on how to read his later poems. The work comprises a sequence on the Irish Famine, and a series on demonic possession in late-17th-century New England. The poems give voice to the pain and delusion of those from other times.
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University of Chicago Press Spatial Prepositions A Case Study from French
Book SynopsisThis striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition in as it appears in the sentence the ball is in the bag postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as the bulb is in the socket and the bottle is in the cap. The force exerted by the landmark (a conceptually fixed object) on the target (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition in than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differencesin French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.
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University of Chicago Press Spatial Prepositions Paper A Case Study from
Book SynopsisThis striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition in as it appears in the sentence the ball is in the bag postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as the bulb is in the socket and the bottle is in the cap. The force exerted by the landmark (a conceptually fixed object) on the target (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition in than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differencesin French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Human Organizations and Social Theory
Book SynopsisAn empirical analysis of social organization, powerfully integrating modern social, psychological, and legal theoryTrade Review"This stimulating work offers a new, promising, integrated theory of social behavior. A timely and welcome attempt to move social theory beyond the debate between positivism and postmodernism."--Martin Ottenheimer, author of The Anthropology of Kinship: An Introductory Text"Murray J. Leaf's ambitious project for studying cultural meaning systems holds the promise of grounding anthropological knowledge about culture empirically. His efforts help establish the ontological status of culture and pave the way for a more scientific anthropology."--Lawrence A. Kuznar, author of Reclaiming a Scientific Anthropology"Finally we have a book that addresses anthropology as a science predicated on our understanding of human societies developed through rigorous fieldwork and not through the distorting lens of science as it was defined by logical positivists. Leaf concludes that anthropology is an experimental science based on 'radical empiricism.' A must read for anyone who takes seriously the vision of anthropology as a science grounded in rigorous fieldwork."--Dwight Read, author of Artifact Classification: A Conceptual and Methodological Approach
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MIT Press Ltd Language vs. Reality
Book SynopsisA fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind?s greatest invention.Language is said to be humankind?s greatest accomplishment. But what is language actually good for? It performs poorly at representing reality. It is a constant source ofdistraction, misdirection, and overshadowing. In fact, N. J. Enfield notes, language is far better at persuasion than it is at objectively capturing the facts of experience. Language cannot create or change physical reality, but it can do the next best thing: reframe and invert our view of the world. In Language vs. Reality, Enfield explains why language is bad for scientists (who are bound by reality) but good for lawyers (who want to win their cases), why it can be dangerous when it falls into the wrong hands, and why it deserves our deepest respect.Enfield offers a lively exploration of the science underlying the bugs and features of language. He examines the tenuous relationship between language and reality; details the array of effects language has on our memory, attention, and reasoning; and describes how these varied effects power narratives and storytelling as well as political spin and conspiracy theories. Why should we care what language is good for? Enfield, who has spent twenty years at the cutting edge of language research, argues that understanding how language works is crucial to tackling our most pressing challenges, includinghuman cognitive bias, media spin, the ?post-truth? problem, persuasion, the role of words in our thinking, and much more.
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MIT Press Ltd Semantics as Science
Book SynopsisAn introductory linguistics textbook that takes a novel approach: studying linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction.This introductory linguistics text takes a novel approach, one that offers educational value to both linguistics majors and nonmajors. Aiming to help students not only grasp the fundamentals of the subject but also engage with broad intellectual issues and develop general intellectual skills, Semantics as Science studies linguistic semantics as an exercise in scientific theory construction. Semantics offers an excellent medium through which to acquaint students with the notion of a formal, axiomatic system—that is, a system that derives results from a precisely articulated set of assumptions according to a precisely articulated set of rules. The book develops semantic theory through the device of axiomatic T-theories, first proposed by Alfred Tarski more than eighty years ago, introducing technic
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MIT Press Ltd The PhonologyPhonetics Interface
Book SynopsisA textbook for advanced students that goes beyond basic phonetics and phonology to investigate their interaction.Is speech in the mouth or in the brain? Do we hear with our ears or our minds? The answer is: both. The sounds of language are both physical objects and cognitive constructs. The physical aspects of speech are the province of phonetics: sound waves that are produced by the movement of articulators and received by the ear. Phonology, by contrast, studies cognitive aspects: systematic patterns in the ways that languages combine sounds to create meaning. Many books look at phonology and phonetics as separate disciplines. This book looks at the interaction between the two.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Biotechnology
Book SynopsisThis volume teaches 100 ""kanji"" that appear frequently in documents dealing with biotechnology and reviews the 365 ""kanji"" presented in ""Basic Technical Japanese"". The lessons are keyed to the final ten chapters of the latter, enabling students to use the two volumes together.
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Yale University Press Japanese The Spoken Language
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Yale University Press ProntiVia Beginning Italian Yale Language
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Yale University Press Seamos pragmaticos Lets Be Pragmatic
Book SynopsisSeamos pragmaticos, written specifically for English-speaking students of Spanish, offers a practical introduction to Spanish pragmatics for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.
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Heinemann Educational Books Dual Language Instruction from A to Z Practical Guidance for Teachers and Administrators
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Random House USA Inc Seeing Voices
Book SynopsisThe renowned neurologist and bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat takes us on a journey into the world of deaf culture, and the underpinnings of the remarkable visual language of the congenitally deaf. This book will shake your preconceptions about the deaf, about language and about thought.... One of the finest and most thoughtful writers of our time. —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewLike The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture. In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and respect—a minority with its own rich, sometimes astonishing, culture and unique visual language, an extraordinary mode of communication that tells us much about the basis of language in hearing people as well. Seeing Voices is, as Studs Terkel has written, an exquisite, as well as revelatory, work.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Made in America
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Penguin Putnam Inc Signing Illustrated The Complete Learning Guide
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John Wiley & Sons Texto y vida
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Quotatives New Trends and Sociolinguistic
Book SynopsisQuotatives considers the phenomenon quotation from a wealth of perspectives. It consolidates findings from different strands of research, combining formal and functional approaches for the definition of reported discourse and situating the phenomenon in a broader typological and sociolinguistic perspective.Trade Review“Overall, the wide scope of this book means that it will be of interest not only to scholars of language variation and change and those working on the sociolinguistics of globalisation but also to researchers working on the study of reported speech within many other sub-disciplines of linguistics.” (Journal of Sociolinguistics, 20 March 2015) “These distinctive perspectives provide the readership with fresh food for thought on the exciting and important topic of quoting and quotatives, and with a more nuanced knowledge base as regards the linguistic properties, social uses and pragmatic functions. In brief, this volume is a treasure trove and highly recommended for those who are keen on communication studies, discourse analysis and sociology.” (Discourse Studies, 1 January 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii 1 Introduction: What’s New about the New Quotatives? 1 The History of Innovative Quotatives 4 Why? 12 2 You Can Quote Me On That: Defining Quotation 34 Defining Quotation 37 Direct versus Indirect Quotes 55 Why Does itMatter? The Ramifications of Variable Definition 64 3 Variation and Change in the Quotative System: The Global versus the Local 89 Tracing the Global Attestation of Innovative Quotatives 90 Investigating Models of Diffusion 93 Investigating the Global Reality of Innovative Quotatives 97 Putting It All Together 134 4 Quotation across the Generations: A Short History of Speech and Thought Reporting 148 Tracing Quotation in Tyneside English across the Past 60 Years 150 Quotations across the Decades: Tracing the Changes in the Variable Grammar 166 How to Create Variability in a Low Entropy System? 183 5 Ideologies and Attitudes to Newcomer Quotatives 198 Don’t Sound Stupid, Stop Saying like 198 Language Ideologies: Facts and Fiction 202 Testing Attitudes towards the Innovative Quotatives 207 What Type of Person would use such a Form? Testing Associations with Personality Traits 210 Where do be like and go come from? Investigating the Perceptual Geographies of Innovative Quotatives 221 Social Perceptions Associated with be like and go 227 Youth Inarticulateness and the Pedagogical Debate 234 6 Lessons Learned from Research on Quotation 245 The Innovative Quotatives: A New, Uniform and Unique Phenomenon? 245 The Elephant in the Room: Situating Quotation in Linguistic Modularity 251 Tackling Some Illusions 256 Tracing the Present and Future of Quotative Forms 258 Conclusion 270 Appendix 1 Linear Regression Analysis Investigating the Conditioning Factors on the Quotative System in the US and the UK 278 Appendix 2 Alternative Cross-Tabulations 279 Appendix 3 Social Attitudes Survey 284 Index 295
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Handbook of Speech Production
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Speech Production is the first reference work to provide an overview of this burgeoning area of study. Twenty-four chapters written by an international team of authors examine issues in speech planning, motor control, the physical aspects of speech production, and external factors that impact speech production.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xii 1 Introduction 1 Melissa A. Redford Part I The Speech Mechanism 11 2 Speech Breathing Across the Life Span and in Disease 13 Jessica E. Huber and Elaine T. Stathopoulos 3 Mechanisms of Voice Production 34 Brad H. Story 4 Supralaryngeal Articulators in the Oropharyngeal Region 59 Kiyoshi Honda 5 Jaw and Lips 79 Pascal H.H.M. Van Lieshout 6 Velopharyngeal Function in Speech Production: Some Developmental and Structural Considerations 109 David J. Zajac Part II Coordination and Multimodal Speech 131 7 Interarticulatory Coordination: Speech Sounds 133 Philip Hoole and Marianne Pouplier 8 Rhythm and Speech 158 Fred Cummins 9 Auditory‐Visual Speech Processing: Something Doesn’t Add Up 178 Eric Vatikiotis‐Bateson and Kevin G. Munhall 10 Multimodal Speech Production 200 Lucie Ménard Part III Speech Motor Control 223 11 Motor Equivalence in Speech Production 225 Pascal Perrier and Susanne Fuchs 12 Orofacial Cutaneous Function in Speech Motor Control and Learning 248 Takayuki Ito 13 Auditory Feedback 267 John Houde and Srikantan Nagarajan 14 Speech Production in Motor Speech Disorders: Lesions, Models, and a Research Agenda 298 Gary Weismer and Jordan R. Green 15 Process‐Oriented Diagnosis of Childhood and Adult Apraxia of Speech (CAS and AOS) 331 Ben Maassen and Hayo Terband Part IV Sequencing and Planning 351 16 Central Tenets of the Frame/Content Theory of Evolution and Acquisition of Speech Production 353 Peter F. MacNeilage 17 The Acquisition of Temporal Patterns 379 Melissa A. Redford 18 Insights for Speech Production Planning from Errors in Inner Speech 404 Gary S. Dell and Gary M. Oppenheim 19 Prosodic Frames in Speech Production 419 Stefanie Shattuck‐Hufnagel 20 Fluency and Disfluency 445 Robin J. Lickley Part V Language Factors 475 21 Insights from the Field 477 Didier Demolin 22 Language Effects on Timing at the Segmental and Suprasegmental Levels 505 Taehong Cho 23 Cross‐Language Differences in Acquisition 530 Jan R. Edwards, Mary E. Beckman, and Benjamin Munson 24 Effects of Language on Motor Processes in Development 555 Lisa Goffman Index of Authors 578 Index of Subjects 592
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John Wiley & Sons Inc EnglishRussian RussianEnglish Dictionary
Book SynopsisBased on American rather than British English, this is among the first Russian dictionaries revised for the post-Soviet era. Includes new political terminology, new Russian institutions, new countries and republics and new city names. Contains 26,000 entries in the English-Russian section and 40,000 words in the Russian-English section.Table of ContentsNot Obtainable.
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University of Michigan Press IN FOCUS STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS WRITERS
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The University of Michigan Press Reading in Secondary Content Areas
Book SynopsisSuitable for teachers, administrators, and researchers, this book presents a linguistic approach to teaching reading in different subject areas - an approach that focuses on language itself.
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The University of Michigan Press New Directions in English for Specific Purposes
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The University of Michigan Press Spoken Greek
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The University of Michigan Press Corpus Linguistics in North America
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: North American Perspectives on Corpus Linguistics at the Millennium Rita C. Simpson and John M. Swales Part 1. Corpus Building and Tools The International Corpus of English: Progress and Prospects Charles F. Meyer Collaboration between Corpus Linguists and Digital Librarians for the MICASE Web Search Interface Christina Powell and Rita C. Simpson Representing Spoken Language in University Settings: The Design and Construction of the Spoken Component of the T2K-SWAL Corpus Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, Victoria Clark, and Jenia Walter Creating and Using Multimillion-Word Corpora from Web-Based Newspapers Mark Davies Concordance Programs for Corpus Linguistics Susan Hockey Part 2. Corpus-Based Analyses and Applications Using Corpus-Based Methods to Investigate Grammar and Use: Some Case Studies on the Use of Verbs in English Douglas Biber Discovering the Usual with Corpora: The Case of Remember Hongyin Tao Discourse Management and New-Episode Flags in MICASE John M. Swales and Bonnie Malczewski Reflexive Academic Talk: Observations from MICASE Anna Mauranen Rethinking French Grammar for Pedagogy: The Contribution of Spoken Corpora Aaron Lawson The Lexical Phrase as a Pedagogical Tool: Teaching Disagreement Strategies in ESL Stephanie Burdine Writing Development among Elementary Students: Corpus-Based Perspectives Randi Reppen Glossary Contributors
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The University of Michigan Press A Student Commentary on Pausanias Book 2
Book SynopsisProvides intermediate-level students of Classical Greek the necessary linguistic, historical, mythographical, archaeological, and geographical information to read and comprehend Book Two of Pausanias' Periegesis. Book Two of Pausanias' work covers several major cities of the northeast Peloponnesus and the prominent island of Aegina.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Lives in Two Languages
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University of Michigan Press Genre and the Language Learning Classroom
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Penguin Putnam Inc Like Literally Dude
Book SynopsisWith easygoing authority... [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language.—The Wall Street Journal“Smart and funny—I loved it! —Mignon Fogarty, author of New York Times bestseller Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better WritingA lively linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate—and why our “like”s and “literally”s actually make us better communicatorsParanoid about the “ums” and “uhs” that pepper your presentations? Concerned that people notice your vocal fry? Bewildered by “hella” or the meteoric rise of “so”? What if these features of our speech weren’t a sign of cultural and linguistic degeneration, but rather, some of the most dynamic and revolutionary tools at our disposal?In Like, Literally, Dude, lingu
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The German Language
Book SynopsisThis work introduces students of German to a linguistic way of looking at the language. Written from a Chomksyan perspective, it covers the basic structural components of the German language: syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, and the lexicon.Trade Review"The linguistics field should have volumes like this for all of the world's languages, or at least the world's major languages. The authors... have penned a comprehensive account of German phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, stylistics, dialectology, and the historical background - in short, the makings for an interesting and solid course in German linguistics." Multilingua "I think this book succeeds at what must be a near impossible task: to introduce beginning students to the structure of German and to linguistic analysis at the same time, and to do both in a reader-friendly way that doesn't compromise on academic seriousness. This is a book, then, which students, teachers and even researchers of German linguistics will welcome and from which undergraduate courses will benefit hugely." Heinz Giegerich, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Edinburgh "The challenge in designing a successful language course is to integrate enough general linguistic ideas to be able to describe the features of the language insightfully, while also illustrating the classical linguistic problems of the language concerned. This book succeeds in these aims, and deserves to find a place on the reading lists for all courses in German linguistics." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction:. 1.1. What Is The German Language?. 1.2. A Linguistic Description. 1.3. The Grammar And Grammatical Knowledge. 1.4. Other Linguistic Knowledge. 1.5. Further Reading. 2. Syntax:. 2.1. The Concept Of Syntax. 2.2. Phrase Structures Of German. 2.3. Case In German. 2.4. The Position Of The German Verb. 2.5. Syntactic Processes. 2.6. Further Reading. Exercises. 3. Morphology:. 3.1. Morphemes And Morphology. 3.2. Morphology And Word-Formation. 3.2.1. Inflection. 3.2.2. Derivation. 3.2.3. Compounding. 3.2.4. Conversion. 3.2.5. Other Morphological Processes. 3.3. The Relationship Between Morphology And Phonology. 3.4. Productivity. 3.5. Borrowings From Other Languages. 3.6. The Relationship Between Morphology And Syntax. 3.7. Further Reading. Exercises. 4. Phonetics:. 4.1. Introduction. 4.2. Air-Stream Type. 4.3. State Of The Glottis. 4.4. State Of The Velum. 4.5. Oral Articulators. 4.6. Manner. 4.7. Lip Position. 4.8. Vocoid Articulations. 4.9. Place Of Articulation. 4.10. Resonance. 4.11. Voice Onset Time. 4.12. The Transcription Of German And English. 4.13. Further Reading. Exercises. 5. Phonology:. 5.1. Preliminaries. 5.2. Syllable Structure. 5.3. The Obstruents. 5.4. Affricates. 5.5. Nasals. 5.6. Other Consonants. 5.7. Vowels. 5.8. Connected Speech. 5.8.1. Assimilation. 5.8.2. Lenition. 5.8.3. Shortening. 5.8.4. Deletion. 5.9. Further Reading. Exercises. 6. Lexis:. 6.1. The Lexicon And The Nature Of Lexical Entries. 6.2. Thematic Structure. 6.3. Categories Of Lexical Items. 6.4. The Meaning Of Lexical Items. 6.5. The Nature Of Lexical Items. 6.6. Relations Among Lexical Items. 6.7. Sense Relations. 6.8. Further Reading. Exercises. 7. Stylistics:. 7.1. Stylistics And The Style Of Text. 7.2. Style And Deviation. 7.3. Stylistic Principles. 7.4. Metaphor. 7.5. Repetition. 7.6. Iconicity. 7.7. Compression. 7.8. Ambiguity. 7.9. Cohesion. 7.10. Style And Choice. 7.11. Further Reading. Exercises. 8. Historical Background:. 8.1. Preliminaries. 8.2. Phonology. 8.3. Umlaut. 8.4. Morphology. 8.5. Syntactic Changes. 8.6. Lexical And Semantic Changes. 8.7. External Influences. 8.8. Further Reading. Exercises. 9. Contemporary Variation:. 9.1. Preliminaries. 9.2. Variation By Use. 9.3. Variation By User. 9.3.1. Regional Accents. 9.3.2. Morphological And Syntactic Variation. 9.3.3. Lexical Variation. 9.4. Further Reading. Exercises. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Towards an Ecology of World Languages
Book SynopsisThere are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers.Trade Review"A treasure-trove addition in the realm of ecolinguistics ... of interest not only to professional linguists – it is also a highly recommended textbook for students of linguistics." Jan Blommaert and Pan Lin, Journal of Sociolinguistics "This is an important book, original in its conception, provocative in its argument, accessible in its content. Given the growing interest in language diversity, the publication of this book in English will be of great value for students and scholars alike." Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford "Calvet’s ideas are great, and are as relevant today as ever." David Crystal, University of WalesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements INTRODUCTION: practices and representations 1. The ecology of languages The need for identity and its linguistic manifestations: endogenous and exogenous relexifications The graphic environment Dramatic change in a specific linguistic ecology: the example of Australia The political frontier and the ecolinguistic system The influence of the horse on European languages 98 A false conception of linguistic ecology: Bickerton's simulation project Conclusions 2. The galaxy of languages Constellations of languages The galactic model and linguistic policy: the example of the European Community The Hindi constellation The Bambara constellation The galaxy of writing systems Conclusions 3. Regulation and change: the homeostatic model An example of internal regulation: vernacular variants of French Of ships and languages: from Christopher Columbus to lingua franca Vernacularization as ecological acclimatization:varieties of French in Africa African argots and the ecolinguistic niche; the example of Bukavu Conclusions: acclimatization and acclimatation 4. Linguistic representations and change Linguistic insecurity and representations: a historical approach Some theoretical problems: a first approach Some problems of description Conclusions 5. Transmission and change The transmission of first languages and the myth of the mother tongue The case of creoles: upheaval in the ecolinguistic niche and linguistic change The transmission of gravitational systems Conclusion: evolution and revolution 6. Five case studies One name for several languages: Arabic schizoglossia Several names for one language: the example of Kituba One, two or three languages? The example of Serbo-Croat Kraemer: the invention of French in the socioprofessional context An ecological niche: the Island of St-Barthélemy CONCLUSION: Inventing language, giving it a name Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) IranianSaudi Rivalry since 1979
Book SynopsisThe fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is usually attributed to sectarian differences, even by the states' own elites. However, this book shows that in their official speeches, newspaper editorials and Friday sermons, these elites use sectarian and nationalist references and tropes to denigrate each other and promote themselves in the eyes of their respective constituencies in the region. Talal Mohammad, who is fluent in both Arabic and Persian, examines Saudi-Iranian rivalry using discourse analysis of these religious, political and journalistic sources. Tracing what has been produced since 1979 in parallel, he argues for a consistent pattern of mutual misrepresentation, whereby each frames its counterpart as the Other' to which a specific political agenda can be justified and advanced. The book covers key events including the Iranian Revolution, the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the Taliban war, the fall of Saddam, the Arab Spring, the rise of Mohammed bin Salman, and t
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Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) Letter Perfect
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Kultur International Films French Made Simple Learn to Speak and Understand
Book SynopsisFrench Made Simple will help you learn to speak French quickly and easily! An invaluable introduction to one of the most studied languages, French Made Simple is ideal for students, business professionals, and tourists alike. Teaching the basics of grammar, vocabulary, and culture, it guides you step-by-step through the process of learning and conversing quickly. Refreshingly easy to understand, French Made Simple includes: • Grammar basics • Modern vocabulary • Helpful verb chart • French-English dictionary • Reading exercises • Economic information • Common expressions • Review quizzes • Complete answer key
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Johns Hopkins University Press American English Spelling An Informal Description
Book SynopsisAn essential reference work, American English Spelling moves beyond questions of how words are spelled to an understanding of why they are spelled as they are.Trade Review"Until now we have had no work like this. In prose that is a pleasure to read, Cummings reveals order in a seemingly chaotic domain, an accomplishment that is surely the essence of humanistic and scientific scholarship."--Charles ReadTable of ContentsDetailed Table of ContentsPrefaceNotes on UsagePart I: AnalysisChapter 1. Spelling as SystemChapter 2. The Explication of Written WordsPart II: TacticsChapter 3. Sequences and DistributionsChapter 4. String Patterns and RulesChapter 5. Suffix RulesChapter 6. VCV in DisyllablesChapter 7. The Third Syllable RulesPart III: ProceduresChapter 8. Silent Final e and Its Deletion RuleChapter 9. The Twinning RulesChapter 10. Assimilated PrefixesPart IV: CorrespondencesChapter 11. The Sounds and Letters of EnglishChapter 12. Short a, /a/Chapter 13. Short e, /e/Chapter 14. Short i, /i/Chapter 15. The Short o's, /ä/ and /ó/Chapter 16. High Short u, /ú/Chapter 17. Low Short u, /u/Chapter 18. Long a, /a/Chapter 19. Long e, /e/Chapter 20. Long i, /i/Chapter 21. Long o, /o/Chapter 22. The Simple Long u, /u/Chapter 23. The Complex Long u, /yu/Chapter 24. The Diphthongs, /òi/ and /aú/Chapter 25. Vowels before /r/Chapter 26. The Front Stops: /b/, /p/, /d/, and /t/Chapter 27. The Velar Stops, /g/ and /k/Chapter 28. The Simple Fricatives /v/, /f/, /th/, /th/, and /h/Chapter 29. The Simple Fricatives /z/ and /s/Chapter 30. The Palatal Sibilants: /sh/, /ch/, /j/, and /zh/Chapter 31. The Nasals: /m/, /n/, and /n/Chapter 32. The Liquids, /l/ and /r/Chapter 33. The Semivowels, /w/ and /y/Chapter 34. ConclusionBibliographyIndex of WordsGeneral Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Origins of English Words
Book SynopsisAnecdotal, eclectic, and always enthusiastic, The Origins of English Words is a diverting expedition beyond linguistics into literature, history, folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and science.Trade ReviewHats off to Joseph Shipley. -- William Safire New York Times A dictionary as invaluable to the philologist as it is a wellspring of delight for any inquisitive person. Perihelion A word-loving browser's delight. Atlantic Monthly The title promises a discursive voyage, and Shipley is as good as his word. He's a scholarly, humorous, rambling fellow, and his 636-page itinerary is filled with the excitement of chance encounters with long-lost cousins in distant lands. Newsday Not since the late Frank H. Vizetelly has there been an etymologist of the stature and erudition of Joseph T. Shipley, whose 26 books on various aspects of the English language are not only illuminating but a joy to read. Now, with The Origins of English Words, Dr. Shipley has outdone himself. West Coast Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionFrequent Word Forms and TransformationsNotes on UsageBibliographyList of AbbreviationsChapter 1. Indo-European rootsIndex of English Words
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