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Author | : Lars M. Blöhdorn |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783631583876 |
This study investigates three different postmodifying adjective constructions in the English language. While English adjectives generally precede the entities they modify, they may also occur in postmodifying position. This study assumes that the different postmodifying constructions are a positional variation of attributive premodification. The support for this claim is derived from a detailed analysis of the general syntax and semantics of adjectives as well as a cross-check of previous theories with a wide range of actual language examples taken from computerized corpora. An approach from the Prague School 'Functional Sentence Perspective' enables this study to accomplish an integrated view of adjectival postmodification.
Author | : Douglas Biber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110700926X |
Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.
Author | : F. G. A. M. Aarts |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9401749841 |
Author | : Douglas Biber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316462404 |
Grammatical Complexity in Academic English uses corpus-based analyses to challenge a number of dominant stereotypes and assumptions within linguistics. Biber and Gray tackle the nature of grammatical complexity, demonstrating that embedded phrasal structures are as important as embedded dependent clauses. The authors also overturn ingrained assumptions about linguistic change, showing that grammatical change occurs in writing as well as speech. This work establishes that academic writing is structurally compressed (rather than elaborated); that it is often not explicit in the expression of meaning; and that scientific academic writing has been the locus of some of the most important grammatical changes in English over the past 200 years (rather than being conservative and resistant to change). Supported throughout with textual evidence, this work is essential reading for discourse analysts, sociolinguists, and applied linguists, as well as descriptive linguists and historical linguists.
Author | : Peter Fenn |
Publisher | : UTB |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2022-06-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 382528784X |
Whatever kind of high-level language user you are – college or university student, serving language teacher, or advanced school learner – A Student’s Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE) offers you support, information, and further training. SAGE is a reference work as well as a programmed refresher course with exercises on the accompanying website, and a structured teaching aid. It serves as a spot-check in specific cases of uncertainty. But it also answers broader queries and provides comprehensive insights into the major structural areas of English. Its concern is not simply grammar, but above all usage. SAGE is easy to comprehend and non-specialist in method. All grammatical terminology is explained in a simple and straightforward manner. On the other hand, SAGE takes account of current research in language studies. In catering especially for the user with a native German background, SAGE treats many areas of English from a contrastive point of view, highlighting those phenomena which cause typical problems in a German-based learning context. The second edition has been thoroughly revised.
Author | : Gabriela Saldanha |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317641167 |
As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at postgraduate level or more experienced researchers who want to familiarize themselves with methods outside their current field of expertise. The book promotes a discerning and critical approach to scholarly investigation by providing the reader not only with the know-how but also with insights into how new questions can be fruitfully explored through the coherent integration of different methods of research. Understanding core principles of reliability, validity and ethics is essential for any researcher no matter what methodology they adopt, and a whole chapter is therefore devoted to these issues. Research Methodologies in Translation Studies is divided into four different chapters, according to whether the research focuses on the translation product, the process of translation, the participants involved or the context in which translation takes place. An introductory chapter discusses issues of reliability, credibility, validity and ethics. The impact of our research depends not only on its quality but also on successful dissemination, and the final chapter therefore deals with what is also generally the final stage of the research process: producing a research report.
Author | : Élise Louviot |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1843844346 |
A new examination of the little-studied phenomena of Direct Speech in Old English poetry. Some of the most celebrated passages of Old English poetry are speeches: Beowulf and Unferth's verbal contest, Hrothgar's words of advice, Satan's laments, Juliana's words of defiance, etc. Yet Direct Speech, as a stylistic device, has remained largely under-examined and under-theorized in studies of the corpus. As a consequence, many analyses are unduly influenced by anachronistic conceptions of Direct Speech, leading to problematic interpretations, not least concerning irony and implicit characterisation. This book uses linguistic theories to reassess the role of Direct Speech in Old English narrative poetry. Beowulf is given a great deal of attention, because it is amajor poem and because it is the focus of much of the existing scholarship on this subject, but it is examined in a broader poetic context: the poem belongs to a wider tradition and thus needs to be understood in that context. The texts examined include several major Old English narrative poems, in particular the two Genesis, Christ and Satan, Andreas, Elene, Juliana and Guthlac A. Elise Louviot is a Lecturer at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) and a specialist of Old English poetry. Her research interests include orality, tradition, formulas and the linguistic expression of subjectivity.
Author | : Lise-Lotte Hjulmand |
Publisher | : Samfundslitteratur |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Engelsk grammatik |
ISBN | : 9788759316641 |
Author | : Alireza Jalilifar |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2024-01-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1527562344 |
This book provides a comprehensive overview of approaches to problems of language learning, aimed at graduate students and researchers interested in English for academic purposes. Its primary focus is the complexity and nuances of academic writing such as phraseology, nominalization, thematicity, and phrasal complexity features. The book will clarify the issue of how language is used to communicate discipline-related content, viewed through the lens of linguistics as one of the human sciences. Each chapter concludes with several tasks that enable users to substantiate what has been presented in that chapter. The book primarily addresses non-native speakers of English who are studying for master’s and PhD qualifications through the medium of English; however, non-native researchers may also find some chapters of the book useful for their underlying focus on academic writing and publishing.
Author | : Marjolyn Verspoor |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027225664 |
This book "is a 10-week course for student sof English language and literature, linguistics or other related language studies. The course and the practice program on CD-ROM provide all the background information and practice facilities you need to become proficient in sentence analysis at sentence, clause and phrase level, making you familiar with the terms and concepts of English syntax." - back cover.