Individuality in Language Change

Individuality in Language Change
Author: Lynn Anthonissen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110725711

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.

Individuality in Language Change

Individuality in Language Change
Author: Lynn Anthonissen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110725940

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate within the minds of individual language users. Drawing on lifespan data from 50 authors and the intriguing case of the special passives in the history of English, this study addresses three fundamental issues relating to individuality in language change: (i) how variation and change at the individual level interact with change at the community level; (ii) how much innovation and change is possible across the adult lifespan; (iii) and to what extent related linguistic patterns are associated in individual cognition. As one of the first large-scale empirical studies to systematically link individual- and community-based perspectives in language change, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of language as a complex adaptive system.

A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis

A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis
Author: Andrea Nini
Publisher: Elements in Forensic Linguisti
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2023-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108971385

Introduces a formal theory of linguistic individuality, a perspective-changing framework moving the field towards more cognitively realistic methods of authorship analysis.

Individual Learner Differences in SLA

Individual Learner Differences in SLA
Author: Janusz Arabski
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847694365

Beginning from the conflict between individual learner differences and the institutionalized, often inflexible character of formal language instruction, Individual Learner Differences in SLA addresses the fact that despite this apparent conflict, ultimate success in learning a language is widespread. Starting with theoretically-based chapters, the book follows the thread of learner differences through sections devoted to learner autonomy; differentiated application of learning strategies; diagnostic studies of experienced learners’ management of the learning process; and reports on phonological attainment and development of language skills. Rather than providing an overview of all individual variables, the book reveals how some of them shape and affect the processes of language acquisition and use in particular settings.

Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality

Capitalizing on Language Learners' Individuality
Author: Tammy Gregersen
Publisher: Second Language Acquisition
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Individualized education programs
ISBN: 9781783091195

This book closes the gap between theory and practice for teachers and researchers wishing to capitalize on learners' individuality in second or foreign language learning. Issues of content are targeted through a description of the variables of anxiety, beliefs, cognitive abilities, motivation, strategies, styles and willingness to communicate.

Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior

Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior
Author: Charles J Fillmore
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1483263207

Individual Differences in Language Ability and Language Behavior is a collection of papers that discusses differences at the center of the study of language, specifically, on the various dimensions of linguistic ability and behavior along which individuals can differ from each other. Papers also review the development of techniques that measure these dimensions in relation to biological, psychological, and cultural parameters. Some papers review individual differences in language study in terms of different perspectives: that of a psychometrician's, of an individualistic's vantage point, and of a psycholinguistic's. Other papers discuss how each individual accesses, uses, and judges his language through fluency, biases, spatial principles, or a linguistic-phonetic mode. Several papers examine individual differences in language acquisition, such as "profile analysis," strategies in acquisition of sounds, second language learning, and duplication of adult language system. A group of papers addresses the biological aspects of language variation. These biological aspects include selective disorders of syntax (agrammatism), selective disorders of lexical retrieval (anomia), and cerebral lateralization effects in language processing. Certain papers explain individual differences in languages using sociolinguistic analysis. The collection is well suited for linguists, ethnologists, psychologists, and researchers whose works involve linguistics, learning, communications, and syntax.

Letter Writing and Language Change

Letter Writing and Language Change
Author: Anita Auer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2015-07-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1107018641

This book draws on a range of informal letter corpora and outlines the historical sociolinguistic value of letter analysis.

Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance

Manual of Discourse Traditions in Romance
Author: Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 846
Release: 2022-11-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110668637

Discourse Traditions are a key concept of diachronic Romance linguistics. The present manual aims to establish this approach at an international level by assembling contributions that introduce its theoretical foundations, discuss connections with alternative approaches of text and discourse analysis, show the relevance of Discourse Traditions for the history of Romance languages, and explore possibilities for future applications of the concept.

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion

The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
Author: Marc David Baer
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195338529

This handbook offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of religious conversion, which for centuries has profoundly shaped societies, cultures, and individuals throughout the world.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World

Wilhelm Von Humboldt and Transcultural Communication in a Multicultural World
Author: John Walker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022
Genre: Intercultural communication
ISBN: 1571139753

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) is the progenitor of modern linguistics and the originator of the modern teaching and research university. However, his work has received remarkably little attention in the English-speaking world. Humboldt conceives language as the source of cognition as well as communication, both rooted in the possibility of human dialogue. In the same way, his idea of the university posits the free encounter between radically different personalities as the source of education for freedom. For Humboldt, both linguistic and intellectual communication are predicated firstly on dialogue between persons, which is the prerequisite for all intercultural understanding. Linking Humboldt's concept of dialogue to his idea of translation between languages, persons, and cultures, this book shows how Humboldt's thought is of great contemporary relevance. Humboldt shows a way beyond the false alternatives of "culturalism" (the demand that a plurality of cultural and faith-based traditions be recognized as sources of ethical and political legitimacy in the modern world) and "universalism" (the assertion of the primacy of a universal culture of human rights and the renewal of the European Enlightenment project). John Walker explains how Humboldt's work emerges from the intellectual conflicts of his time and yet directly addresses the concerns of our own post-secular and multicultural age.