Scientific And Humanistic Dimensions Of Language
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Author | : Kurt R. Jankowsky |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 1985-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027220131 |
A collection of papers on: Language teaching; Bilingualism; Language testing; Contrastive analysis; Language acquisition and performance; Language, thought, and meaning;Linguistic and literary analysis; Lexical and terminological studies; Language policy and language planning.
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781853591211 |
This book is about the theory and practice of assistance to speech-communities whose native languages are threatened because their intergenerational continuity is proceeding negatively, with fewer and fewer speakers (or readers, writers and even understanders) every generation.
Author | : Lobke Ghesquière |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2014-10-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110395266 |
The book investigates pathways of (inter)subjectification followed by prenominal elements in the English Noun Phrase, by tracing the development of identifying, noun-intensifying and subjective compound uses. By means of in-depth corpus study, the assumed unidirectionality of (inter)subjectification in the NP is verified and refined.
Author | : Zeinab Ibrahim |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443804371 |
Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic presents several aspects concerning Modern Standard Arabic. It analyzes the different forms of lexical variation, and the causes for these variations. This starting point led to many other vital issues related to the present state of the Arabic Language such as language planning, native speakers' identity and fears and most importantly the relationship between the different Arabic varieties: Classical, Modern Standard, and dialects. The book analyzes lexical variation comprehensively and provides deep insights on the present state of the language with some speculations on its future.
Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110128062 |
Author | : Kerstin Knopf |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9042028831 |
This is the first book that comprehensively examines Indigenous filmmaking in North America, as it analyzes in detail a variety of representative films by Canadian and US-American Indigenous filmmakers: two films that contextualize the oral tradition, three short films, and four dramatic films. The book explores how members of colonized groups use the medium of film as a means for cultural and political expression and thus enter the dominant colonial film discourse and create an answering discourse. The theoretical framework is developed as an interdisciplinary approach, combining postcolonialism, Indigenous studies, and film studies. As Indigenous people are gradually taking control over the imagemaking process in the area of film and video, they cease being studied and described objects and become subjects who create self-controlled images of Indigenous cultures. The book explores the translatability of Indigenous oral tradition into film, touching upon the changes the cultural knowledge is subject to in this process, including statements of Indigenous filmmakers on this issue. It also asks whether or not there is a definite Indigenous film practice and whether filmmakers tend to dissociate their work from dominant classical filmmaking, adapt to it, or create new film forms and styles through converging classical film conventions and their conscious violation. This approach presupposes that Indigenous filmmakers are constantly in some state of reaction to Western ethnographic filmmaking and to classical narrative filmmaking and its epitome, the Hollywood narrative cinema. The films analyzed are The Road Allowance People by Maria Campbell, Itam Hakim, Hopiit by Victor Masayesva, Talker by Lloyd Martell, Tenacity and Smoke Signals by Chris Eyre, Overweight With Crooked Teeth and Honey Moccasin by Shelley Niro, Big Bear by Gil Cardinal, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner by Zacharias Kunuk.
Author | : Rosina Márquez Reiter |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2000-12-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027298939 |
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their choice of (in)directness levels, head-act modifications, and the politeness types of males and females in both cultures. Reference to an extensive bibliography and the thorough discussion of methodological issues concerning speech act studies deserve the attention of students of pragmatics as well as readers interested in cultural matters.
Author | : Braj Kachru |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1441157786 |
Professor Braj Kachru (b. 1932) has pioneered, shaped and defined the scholarly field of world Englishes. He is the founder and co-editor of World Englishes, the associate editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language and contributor to the Cambridge History of the English Language. His research on world Englishes, the Kashmiri language and literature, and theoretical and applied studies on language and society has resulted in more than 25 authored and edited volumes and more than 100 research papers, review articles, and reviews. The third volume of these Collected Works details Kachru's key studies from the 19070s to 1990s in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism and language contact, including some of his work on language in India and South Asia.
Author | : Muriel Saville-Troike |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0470758228 |
The Ethnography of Communication presents the terms and concepts which are essential for discussing how and why language is used and how its use varies in different cultures. Presents the essential terms and concepts introduced and developed by Dell Hymes and others and surveys the most important findings and applications of their work. Draws on insights from social anthropology and psycholinguistics in investigating the patterning of communicative behavior in specific cultural settings. Includes two completely new chapters on contrasts in patterns of communication and on politeness, power, and politics. Incorporates a broad range of examples and illustrations from many languages and cultures for analyzing patterns of communicative phenomena.
Author | : Dieter Kastovsky |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1596 |
Release | : 2011-06-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110856131 |
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.