Describing Language
Author | : David Graddol |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Graddol |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joanna Channell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
This is a major descriptive study of linguistic vagueness. It argues that strategies for being vague constitute a key aspect of the communicative competence of the native speaker of English.
Author | : Dilin Liu |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1136199330 |
Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute an important part of their knowledge. This book provides a balanced treatment of both theory and practice. It focuses on some of the most important and challenging grammar and vocabulary usage questions. Using these questions as examples, it shows how theory can inform practice and how grammar and vocabulary description and explanation can be made more effective and engaging. Part I describes and evaluates the key linguistic theories on language description and teaching. Part II discusses and gives specific examples of how challenging grammar and vocabulary issues can be more effectively described and explained; each chapter focuses on one or more specific grammar and vocabulary. An annotated list of useful free online resources (online corpora and websites) for grammar and vocabulary learning and teaching, and a glossary provide helpful information.
Author | : Thomas E. Payne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1997-10-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521588058 |
Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.
Author | : Almerindo E. Ojeda |
Publisher | : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Computational linguistics |
ISBN | : 9781575866598 |
In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing developing computer programs that will assign particular sounds to particular meanings and, conversely, particular meanings to particular sounds. Since these assignments are to operate efficiently over unbounded domains of sound and sense, they can begin to model the two fundamental modalities of human language--speaking and hearing. The computational approach adopted in this book is motivated by our struggle with one of the key problems of contemporary linguistics--figuring out how it is that language emerges from the brain.
Author | : Charles W. Kreidler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2002-03-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 113474708X |
Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology. Charles Kreidler describes the principal varieties of English in the world today. Whilst concentrating on the phonological elements they share, the author sets out specific differences as minor variations on a theme. Although theoretically orientated towards generative phonology, theory is minimal and the book is clear, comprehensive and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and English Language. Numerous exercises are included to encourage further study.
Author | : Stephen Gilmore |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1447102878 |
A feature is a small modification or extension of a system which can be seen as having a self-contained functional role, such as Call Forwarding, Automatic Call back and Voice Mail in telephone services, to which users can subscribe. Feature interaction happens when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another, and this problem has received a great deal of attention from industry and academics, especially in the field of telecommunications, where new services are constantly being developed and deployed. This volume contains refereed papers resulting from the ESPRIT FIREworks working group. The papers focus on the language constructs which have been developed describing features, and advocate a feature-oriented approach to software design including requirements specification languages and verifications logics.
Author | : Ruqaiya Hasan |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Functionalism (Linguistics) |
ISBN | : 9781904768418 |
Using the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics, the chapters of this book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning and society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis.
Author | : Ruqaiya Hasan |
Publisher | : Equinox Publishing (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Functionalism (Linguistics) |
ISBN | : 9781904768425 |
Using the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics, the chapters of this book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning and society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis.
Author | : Dr. Martin Concoyle |
Publisher | : Trafford Publishing |
Total Pages | : 831 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1490723706 |
The issue which the new ideas of these new books really raise with our culture, is not about whether they are true, since these new ideas identify a valid context for physical description, and whereas the current context for math and physics (2014) cannot do that, ie they cannot describe the stable properties of a general many-(but-few)-body system. Whereas the new ideas about math and physics can be used to solve the most fundamental problems about the physical world, in regard to understanding physical stability, a problem which the current descriptive context of math and physics (2014) cannot solve. That is, "what now, in 2014, passes for math and physics knowledge are delusions."* Yet these delusions are the ideas expressed in our propaganda-education system about math and physics. Rather The real issue, which these new ideas present to our culture, is about our cultural relation to "what is beyond the material world." That is, it is about our cultural representation of religion, or the spirit. In particular, in relation to the "previous knowledge humans needed to possess" in order to make Gobekli-tepe, Puma Punku, Stonehenge, etc, ie simply to be able to lift and position such large stones, as well as the understanding which is needed to go beyond the context of the material world, and into the context of all the ancient mythologies in regard to the ancient religious stories, etc etc *The current paradigm (in 2014) describes a general state of indefi nable randomness in which there is always "a chaotic transitioning process" which exists as random elementary-particle collisions, and which, supposedly, is perpetually occurring. Thus, their description of the wide range of the generally stable states of the many-(but-few)-body systems..., into which this "forever chaotically transitioning" process supposedly settles but explicit descriptions of this process do not exist. Instead their answer is that "such stable, many-(but-few)-body systems are too complicated to describe."