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Author: George Yule
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Published: 1985-10-24
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook provides a straightforward and comprehensive survey of the basic issues and topics involved in the study of language. Written in a clear and lively style, with frequent examples from English and other languages, this textbook is designed to introduce the non-specialist reader to issues that fascinate and sometimes frustrate linguists.
Author: Leonard Bloomfield
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 356
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ellen Thompson
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781797723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKprovides an accessible and up-to-date invitation to key concepts of modern language study.
Author: George Yule
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-04
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1139486764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language.
Author: Lindsay Stern
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 052555744X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." —Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly wound philosophy professor whose reverence for logic and order governs not only his academic interests, but also his closest relationships. His wife, Prue, is quite the opposite: a pioneer in the emerging field of biolinguistics, she is bold and vibrant, full of life and feeling. Thus far, they have managed to weather their differences. But lately, an odd distance has settled in between them. Might it have something to do with the arrival of the college's dashing but insufferable new writer-in-residence, whose novel Prue always seems to be reading? Into this delicate moment barrels Ivan's unstable father-in-law, Frank, in town to hear Prue deliver a lecture on birdsong that is set to cement her tenure application. But the talk doesn't go as planned, unleashing a series of crises that force Ivan to finally confront the problems in his marriage, and to begin to fight - at last - for what he holds dear. A dazzlingly insightful and entertaining novel about the limitations of language, the fragility of love, and the ways we misunderstand each other and ourselves, The Study of Animal Languages marks the debut of a brilliant new voice in fiction.
Author: William Dwight Whitney
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Published: 1867
Total Pages: 516
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vivian Salmon
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9027245355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a number of papers by Vivian Salmon, previously published in various journals and collections that are unfamiliar, and perhaps even inaccessible, to historians of the study of language. The central theme of the volume is the study of language in England in the 17th century. Papers in the first section treat aspects of the history of language teaching. The second section consists of three articles on the history of grammatical theory. The papers in the third and final section deal with the search for the universal language .
Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1968-06
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780521095105
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Author: Leonard Bloomfield
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph F. Kess
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9027277486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have investigated the learning, production, comprehension, storage and recall of natural languages. Also detailed are those research topics that have captured the interests of psycholinguists over the past few decades. Some current topics included are modularity vs interactionism, the role of parsing strategies in sentence comprehension, and accessing the mental lexicon in word recognition. Earlier topics that have attracted considerable energy not so long ago, such as sound symbolism and linguistic relativity, are also investigated in some detail. Psycholinguistics is an enquiry into the psychology of language, but the facts of language are what generate theories about why language is learned, produced and processed the way it is. Thus there is a wide array of examples from the languages of the world, intended to provide a feeling for what the nature and range of human language are like.
