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Author: Maryann Overstreet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-09-02
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108837239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.
Author: Karin Aijmer
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-04-22
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0748635513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original study of pragmatic markers in a corpus of spoken English, with a focus on the functions performed by the markers in different types of text.
Author: Nicholas Groom
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9027267901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCorpus linguistics has had a revolutionary impact on grammar and discourse research. Not only has it opened up entirely new theoretical perspectives and methodological possibilities for both fields, but it has also to a considerable extent erased the boundaries that have traditionally been drawn between them. This book showcases a variety of current corpus-based approaches to the study of grammar and discourse, and makes a case for seeing grammar and discourse as fundamentally inter-related phenomena. The book features contributions from leading experts in cognitive linguistics, construction grammar, critical discourse studies, genre and register analysis, phraseology, language learning and teaching, languages for specific purposes, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, systemic functional linguistics and text linguistics. An essential reference point for future research, Corpora, Grammar and Discourse has been edited in honour of Susan Hunston, whose own work has consistently pushed at the boundaries of corpus-based research on grammar and discourse for over three decades.
Author: Begoña Crespo García
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9042023414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo understand the characteristics of present-day English language and culture we must have some understanding of the earlier stages of language use. Bells Chiming from the Past investigates the early development of English and covers different aspects of English medieval studies, from traditional philological concerns, to the most recent perspectives of modern linguistics applied to early English texts. Most of the papers are based on empirical research in English Historical Linguistics, and will contribute substantially to our theoretical and descriptive understanding of English varieties, both written and spoken. The book focuses on the relationship and interaction of language and culture during the Middle English period. Some of the articles are clearly linguistically-oriented, but most could be included under a wider philological perspective since they study both language and the cultural milieu in which linguistic events took place. Bells Chiming from the Past is aimed at an international readership and makes a desirable addition to the field of Historical Linguistics, featuring as it does contributions from an array of well-known professionals from different academic and scientific institutions.
Author: Grace Qiao Zhang
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-18
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108842399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on Chinese and English online data, this book discusses elasticity in health communication from a cross-cultural perspective.
Author: Ursula Lenker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9027248427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women's mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex. The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.
Author: Peyman G.P. Sabet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1137486384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comparative study of vague language based on naturally occurring data of L1 and L2 speakers in academic settings. It explores how L2 learners have diverse and culturally specific needs for vague language compared with L1s, and are generally vaguer.
Author: Jesús Romero-Trillo
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 3319060074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and Pragmatics have traditionally represented two paths of scientific thought, parallel but often mutually exclusive and excluding. Corpus Linguistics can offer a meticulous methodology based on mathematics and statistics, while Pragmatics is characterized by its effort in the interpretation of intended meaning in real language. This series will give readers insight into how pragmatics can be used to explain real corpus data and also, how corpora can illustrate pragmatic intuitions. The present volume, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014: New Empirical and Theoretical Paradigms in Corpus Pragmatics, proposes innovative research models in the liaison between pragmatics and corpus linguistics to explain language in current cultural and social contexts.
Author: Lidewij van Gils
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-01-20
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 3110678292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese volumes assemble contributions presented at the XIX International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics in Munich (2017). They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: The volumes contain chapters on Latin lexicography, etymology, morphology, phonology, Greek-Latin language contact, Latin syntax, semantics, and discourse-pragmatics.
Author: Matthias Eitelmann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9027257957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking extra-vagans literally (Lat. ‘wandering outside, out of bounds’), this volume comprises nine case studies on extravagant morphology ranging from pattern-extending derivational processes via theory-challenging compounding processes to interface-straddling morphosyntactic phenomena. As a heuristic approach, morphological extravagance captures word-formation processes characterised by constraint violations, interface phenomena as well as borderline phenomena not easily reconcilable with traditional postulates of morphological accounts. In this regard, the notion of extravagance allows for an exploration of rule-bending language use both empirically and theoretically. The volume makes a valuable contribution to studies on morphological variation, which has only recently seen a renewed and growing interest in morphological phenomena that challenge morphological frameworks. The volume is of interest to all researchers who seek to gain a broader understanding of the mechanisms and factors at work in morphological variation and who are interested in the reassessment of morphological theorising in light of empirical data.
