Yugoslav General Linguistics
Yugoslav General Linguistics

Author: Milorad Radovanovi?

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9027215316

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This volume is the first anthology of readings in Yugoslav general linguistics in English. It contains twenty contributions by outstanding Yugoslav scholars in such areas as comparative typology and contact linguistics, sociolinguistics (including such topics as bilingualism, multilingualism, diglossia, language planning, language policy, translation theory, etc.), psycholinguistics, structural/generative linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), text linguistics, pragmatics, linguistic semiotics, and the philosophy of language science. The collection should appeal to linguists of all persuasions and specializations.

History and Perspectives of Language Study
History and Perspectives of Language Study

Author: Olga Mišeska Tomi?

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-08-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9027299633

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Each of the contributions in this volume expresses in some way the hope that it is possible to achieve an integrity of linguistics, understood as a science of man, in its psychological, sociological, pragmatic and cultural context. The first section focuses on the history of language study, the second section on the integrative description of facets of language, and the last section on the need for the study of language in context.

Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations
Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations

Author: Francesc Domínguez

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 9027219516

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This directory gives guidance in the complicated world of sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, giving structural information on regional, national, provincial and community level, both public and private. Each entry gives full details, including full addresses, phone/fax numbers, Director's name, and information on the organization s activities, programs, publications, work in progress and plans for the future.

Language International World Directory of Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations
Language International World Directory of Sociolinguistic and Language Planning Organizations

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1995-10-16

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9027276420

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This directory gives guidance in the complicated world of sociolinguistic and language planning organizations, giving structural information on regional, national, provincial and community level, both public and private. Each entry gives full details, including full addresses, phone/fax numbers, Director's name, and information on the organization’s activities, programs, publications, work in progress and plans for the future.

Language and Identity in the Balkans
Language and Identity in the Balkans

Author: Robert D. Greenberg

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2004-03-25

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0191514551

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Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the drama and emotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It also provides a uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.

Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics
Dictionary of the Prague School of Linguistics

Author: Josef Vachek

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9789027215598

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This is the first English version of a text out of print for more than 40 years, summarising the positions and key concepts of an influential stream of linguistic thought. Using quotations as entries, J. Vachek (1909-1997), a leading advocate of the Prague School, employed more than 160 sources, papers and monographs, by well over 30 representatives of the school (Mathesius, Trnka, Skalicka, Daneš, Dokulil, Mukarovský, Jakobson, Trubetzkoy, Isachenko, and others). The dictionary both captures the pioneering efforts and achievements of the school from its foundation in 1926, and provides a framework for assessing the current state of affairs, attesting to its originality and serving as a preventive to treading paths already explored. The headword concepts are provided with French, German and Czech equivalents and Vachek's original preface is supplemented by a foreword which traces the development of the school up to the present date and puts it into perspective.

Historical Linguistics
Historical Linguistics

Author: Charles Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1317899008

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The contributors to this volume cover the international range of scholarship in the field of Historical Linguistics, as well as some of its major themes. The work and ideas they discuss are relevant not only to other aspects of Historical Linguistics but also to more general developments in linguistic theory. Along with Professor Jones' Introduction, their comments provide a major overview of Historical Linguistics that will be the reference point for its development for many years to come and form an important contribution to general theories of linguistic behaviour.

Language and Function
Language and Function

Author: Josef Hladký

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2003-04-17

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9027296731

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The present volume, originally prepared to celebrate Jan Firbas' 80th birthday, unfortunately is presented only belatedly, to commemorate one of the most outstanding personalities of functional and structural linguistics. Its contributors have been inspired by the richness and penetrating invention of Firbas, contained in his analysis of functional sentence perspective and of many other aspects of sentence and discourse.