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Science of language (Linguistics)

  • 'You Know'by Jan-Ola Östman

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 102.00

    The basic function the expression you know serves in conversational discourse is said to be that of a pragmatic particle used when the speaker wants the addressee to accept as mutual knowledge (or at least be cooperative with respect to) the propositional content of his utterance. The fact that you know is even used when the addressee is assumed... more...

  • 25 Language Phrasebookby MobileReference

    MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 9.99

    Advanced 25 Language Phrasebook: German, French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Croatian, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay, and Thai. more...

  • Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguisticsby Karin Aijmer; Bengt Altenberg

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 143.00

    This paper describes the thematic variation observed in two newspaper genres – news reports and commentaries – in English and Spanish and studies the influence of genre-specific and language-specific constraints on the observed variation. The study is based on the contrastive analysis of certain clausal and discourse-thematic features... more...

  • Advances in Functional Linguisticsby Joseph Davis; Radmila J. Gorup; Nancy Stern

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00

    This collection carries the functionalist Columbia School of linguistics forward with contributions on linguistic theory, semiotics, phonology, grammar, lexicon, and anthropology. Columbia School linguistics views language as a symbolic tool whose structure is shaped both by its communicative function and by the characteristics of its users, and considers... more...

  • Analyzing Grammarby Paul R. Kroeger

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 42.00

    Analyzing Grammar is a clear introductory textbook on grammatical analysis, designed to equip students with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules are shown, and a range of problem sets and exercises are provided. more...

  • Analyzing Linguistic Databy Harald Baayen

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 38.00

    A straightforward introduction to the statistical analysis of language data, designed for students with a non-mathematical background. more...

  • Andersschreibenby Britt-Marie Schuster; Doris Tophinke

    Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 64.49

    Hauptbeschreibung Der vorliegende Band versammelt 22 Beiträge, die Schriftlichkeit in einer neuen Perspektive in den Blick nehmen: Im Fokus stehen Formen des Andersschreibens, d.h. Schreibweisen, die als "anders" auffallen oder sich als "anders" präsentieren. Andersschreiben findet sich in weiten Teilen der öffentlichen Schriftlichkeit, so etwa... more...

  • Anomalie sintatiche e construtti marcati: l'anacoluto in Eschiloby Stefano Novelli

    Narr Francke Attempto 2012; US$ 62.55

    Hauptbeschreibung Il volume è introdotto da un ampio capitolo che ripercorre la storia del concetto di 'anacoluto' nelle teorie linguistiche e retoriche, dai sofisti di V secolo a. C. fino ai grammatici latini di età imperiale. Superando l'oscurità di talune definizioni, viene messo in luce come, oltre il fervore catalogico e descrittivo delle prime... more...

  • Appliable Linguisticsby Ahmar Mahboob; Naomi K. Knight

    Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00

    This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics takes everyday real-life language-related problems – both theoretical and practical – in diverse social, professional and academic contexts as its starting point. It then uses and contributes to a theoretical model of language... more...

  • Applied Linguistics & Communities of Practiceby Srikant Sarangi

    Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 130.00

    The papers in this volume demonstrate the strides applied linguists have taken, in 'pure' or 'impure' form, since the classic volume of Corder's Introducing Applied Linguistics speculated about the discipline's possible frontiers. With a judicious combination of empirical, theoretical and policy-oriented studies, the volume... more...