Language Usage And Language Structure
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Author | : Kasper Boye |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110219174 |
Addresses an issue hotly debated in the linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure
Author | : Rik De Busser |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027268738 |
Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.
Author | : Douglas Biber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998-04-23 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780521499576 |
An investigation into the way people use language in speech and writing, this volume introduces the corpus-based approach, which is based on analysis of large databases of real language examples stored on computer.
Author | : Emma L. Pavey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2010-08-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139488694 |
Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces the analysis of language structure, combining both description and theory within a single, practical text. It begins by examining words and parts of words, and then looks at how words work together to form sentences that communicate meaning. Sentence patterns across languages are also studied, looking at the similarities and the differences we find in how languages communicate meaning. The book also discusses how context can affect how we structure our sentences: the context of a particular language and its structures, the context of old and new information for us and our addressee(s), and the context of our culture.
Author | : Lars Heltoft |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2019-06-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027262632 |
This volume centers on three important theoretical concepts for the study of language change and the ways in which language structure emerges and turns into new structure: reanalysis, actualization, and indexicality. Reanalysis is a part of ongoing everyday language use, a process through which language is reproduced and changed. Actualization refers to the processes through which a reanalyzed structure spreads throughout single communities and society. Indexicality covers the way in which parts of a linguistic system can point to other parts of the system, both syntagmatically and paradigmatically. The inclusion of indexicality leads to fine-grained analysis in morphology, word order, and constructional syntax.
Author | : Kasper Boye |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110219182 |
During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory. The dominant view, propagated in particular by generative grammar, was that there are structural facts and usage facts, and that in principle the former are independent of, and can be described in complete isolation from, the latter. With the appearance of functional-cognitive approaches on the scene, this view has been challenged. The view of structure as usage-based has had two consequences that make time ripe for a focused study of the interaction between usage and structure. Within the generative camp it has inspired a more explicit and precise description of the status of usage. Within the functional-cognitive camp it has blurred the status of structure. Perhaps because functionalists and cognitivists have had to position themselves in relation to generative grammar, some have emphasized the role of usage facts to the extent that structure is largely ignored. Accounts of language usage, language acquisition and language change are impossible without an assumption about what it is that is being used, acquired, or subjected to change. And more moderate functionalists and cognitive functionalists recognize both structural facts and usage facts as genuine facts central to the understanding of language. Still, the linguistic literature that shares this position does not abound with explicit, precise characterizations of the relationship between usage and structure. The present volume brings together scholars from different theoretical positions to address theoretical and methodological aspects of the relation between language usage and structure. The contributors differ with respect to how they conceive of this relation and, more basically, with respect to how they conceive of linguistic structure. What they have in common, however, is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena and take seriously the challenge to describe the relation between them.
Author | : Wallace L. Chafe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Jae Jung Song |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2006-02 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 1134335903 |
Provides a good overview of the Korean language in a readable way, without neglecting any important structural aspects of the language.
Author | : Holger Diessel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2019-08-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108498817 |
Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.
Author | : Noam Chomsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-05-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3112316002 |
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