Linguistics in Western Europe. Part 1

Linguistics in Western Europe. Part 1
Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111561925

No detailed description available for "LINGUISTICS WEST. EUROPE (HAUGEN) SEBCTL 9,1 E-BOOK".

Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia

Minority Languages from Western Europe and Russia
Author: Svetlana Moskvitcheva
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2019-11-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030243400

This book offers a comparative approach within a general framework of studies on minority languages of Western Europe and Russia and former Soviet space, focusing on linguistic, legal and categorization aspects. It is connected to a comparative study of the semantic contents of the terms referring to the different categories of these languages. The volume features multidisciplinary approaches, first linguistic (sociolinguistic and semantic) and legal, and investigates the limits of country-to-country comparisons, mirroring cases from France, Spain, and China with their counterparts from Soviet and later Russian configurations. Special examples, from a region as Ingria and a country as Tajikistan, help to contextualize this approach. In addition, the notion of migration languages, also minority languages, is studied in bilingual contexts, both from external (German, Greek, Chinese ...) and internal origins (Chuvash), linked to the urbanization in contemporary societies that has fostered the presence of these languages in major cities.

Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology

Linguistic Reconstruction and Typology
Author: Jacek Fisiak
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2011-07-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110816504

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

The History of Linguistics in Europe

The History of Linguistics in Europe
Author: Vivien Law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2003-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521565325

This authoritative and wide-ranging book, first published in 2003, examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. Some of today's burning questions about language date back a long way: in 1400 BC Plato was asking how words relate to reality. Other questions go back just a few generations, such as our interest in the mechanisms of language change, or in the social factors that shape the way we speak. Vivien Law explores how ideas about language over the centuries have changed to reflect changing modes of thinking. A survey chapter brings the coverage of the book up to the present day. Classified bibliographies and chapters on research resources and the qualities the historian of linguistics needs to develop, provide the reader with the tools to go further.

Tamil lexicography

Tamil lexicography
Author: Gregory James
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-12-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111592006

Lexicographica. Series Maior features monographs and edited volumes on the topics of lexicography and meta-lexicography. Works from the broader domain of lexicology are also included, provided they strengthen the theoretical, methodological and empirical basis of lexicography and meta-lexicography. The almost 150 books published in the series since its founding in 1984 clearly reflect the main themes and developments of the field. The publications focus on aspects of lexicography such as micro- and macrostructure, typology, history of the discipline, and application-oriented lexicographical documentation.

Western Histories of Linguistic Thought

Western Histories of Linguistic Thought
Author: E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027281327

The present bibliography suggests that there has been a constant flow of publications which survey the discipline of linguistics in its various stages of development. It attempts to offer a comprehensive coverage of general accounts of the history of linguistic thought in the western world over the last 150 years.

Saussure's Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology

Saussure's Philosophy of Language as Phenomenology
Author: Beata Stawarska
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190213027

This book draws on recent developments in research on Ferdinand de Saussure's general linguistics to challenge the structuralist doctrine associated with the posthumous Course in General Linguistics (1916) and to develop a new philosophical interpretation of Saussure's conception of language based solely on authentic source materials. This project follows two new editorial paradigms: 1. a critical re-examination of the 1916 Course in light of the relevant sources and 2. a reclamation of the historically authentic materials from Saussure's Nachlass, some of them recently discovered. In Stawarska's book, this editorial paradigm shift serves to expose the difficulties surrounding the official Saussurean doctrine with its sets of oppositional pairings: the signifier and the signified; la langue and la parole; synchrony and diachrony. The book therefore puts pressure not only on the validity of the posthumous editorial redaction of Saussure's course in general linguistics in the Course, but also on its structuralist and post-structuralist legacy within the works of Levi-Strauss, Lacan, and Derrida. Its constructive contribution consists in reclaiming the writings from Saussure's Nachlass in the service of a linguistic phenomenology, which intersects individual expression in the present with historically sedimented social conventions. Stawarska develops such a conception of language by engaging Saussure's own reflections with relevant writings by Hegel, Husserl, Roman Jakobson, and Merleau-Ponty. Finally, she enriches her philosophical critique with a detailed historical account of the material and institutional processes that led to the ghostwriting and legitimizing the Course as official Saussurean doctrine.

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics

The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics
Author: Robert Bayley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 913
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0190233745

This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.