Small Corpus Studies and Elt: Theory and Practice (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Mohsen Ghadessy, Alex Henry, Robert L. Roseberry
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:419
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110354
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110350
Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature
By Austin E. Quiqley
* Publisher:Yale University Press
* Number Of Pages:288
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:030010166X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780300101669
Product Description:
In the aftermath of debate about the death of literary theory, Austin E. Quigley asks whether theory has failed us or we have failed literary theory. Theory can thrive, he argues, only if we understand how it can be strategically deployed to reveal what it does not presuppose. This involves the repositioning of theoretical inquiry relative to historical and critical inquiry and the repositioning of theories relative to each other. What follows is a thought-provoking reexamination of the controversial claims of pluralism in literary studies. The book explores the related roles of literary history, criticism, and theory by tracing the fascinating history of linguistics as an intellectual problem in the twentieth century. Quigley's approach clarifies the pluralistic nature of literary inquiry, the viability and life cycles of theories, the controversial status of canonicity, and the polemical nature of the culture wars by positioning them all in the context of recurring debates about language that have their earliest exemplifications in classical times.
Reanimated Voices: Speech Reporting in a Historical-pragmatic Perspective (Pragmatics&Beyond New)
By Daniel F. Collins
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:369
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027251045
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027251046
Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23) G鰐eborg 22-26 May 2002 (Language and Computers 49)
By Bengt Altenberg, Karin Aijmer
* Publisher:Rodopi
* Number Of Pages:429
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9042017414
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789042017412
Applied Corpus Linguistics: A Multidimensional Perspective (Language and Computers 52) (Language & Computers)
By Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton
* Publisher:Rodopi
* Number Of Pages:289
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9042019220
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789042019225
Product Description:
This book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the application of corpus linguistic techniques to language study and instruction. This volume includes selected papers from the Fourth North American Symposium, held in Indianapolis and hosted by the Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI) in November, 2002. These papers – from authors representing eight countries including the U.S., Belgium, China, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain – provide a wide range of views of and approaches to corpus linguistic. Topics range from theory and analysis to classroom application, and include the study of oral discourse as well as the study of written discourse, including internet-based discourse. Consequently, this volume is divided into two sections. The first section focuses on the use of corpus linguistics in the analysis of spoken and written discourse; the second section focuses on the direct pedagogical application of corpus linguistics, reflecting the applied foundation of this branch of linguistics.
Towards New Ways of Terminology Description: The Sociocognitive-Approach (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice)
By Rita Temmerman
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:258
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556197721
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556197727
Terminology and Language Planning: An Alternative Framework of Practice and Discourse (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice)
By Bassey Edem Antia
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:264
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556197713
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556197710
Reconstructing Grammar: Comparative Linguistics and Grammaticalization (Typological Studies in Language)
By Spike Gildea
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:267
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:155619658X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556196584
Product Description:
Comparative linguistics and grammaticalization theory both belong to the broader category of historical linguistics, yet few linguists practice both. The methods and goals of each group seem largely distinct: comparative linguists have by and large avoided reconstructing grammar, while grammaticalization theoreticians have either focused on explaining attested historical change or used internal reconstruction to formulate hypotheses about processes of change. In this collection, some of the leading voices in grammaticalization theory apply their methods to comparative data (largely drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas), showing not only that grammar can be reconstructed, but that the process of reconstructing grammar can yield interesting theoretical and typological insights. Contributions by: Alexandra A. Aikhenvald; Wallace Chafe; Spike Gildea; T. Givn; Joseph H. Greenberg; Bernd Heine; Srgio Meira; Marianne Mithun.
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
By Daniel Long, Dennis R. Preston
(January 2003)
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:398
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556197578
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556197574
Product Description:
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or "folk linguistics." Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something. Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology: -- a historical survey; -- a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States; -- a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed; -- an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts; -- a comprehensive bibliography. The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.
Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A Practical Approach to Critical Analysis of Quantitative Research (Language Learning and Language Teaching, V. 3)
By Graeme Keith Porte
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:267
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588112543
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588112545
Product Description:
Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and support to those wishing to learn how to approach the critical analysis of a research paper. It seeks to answer a current need in the literature for a set of procedures that can be applied to the independent reading of quantitative research. In an authoritative and accessible text, Porte examines the key components of a research paper in this field, highlighting those features demanding rigorous critical attention from the enquiring reader. Innovative features of the workbook include awareness-raising reading tasks and guided exercises to help develop and practise the critical skills required to appraise papers independently. Through informed and constructive appraisal of others' work, readers themselves are shown how to become more research literate, to discover new areas for investigation, and to organise and present their own work more effectively for publication and peer evaluation.
Summary: Recent reviews by faculty
Rating: 4
"Many students and teachers in the fields of applied linguistics and TEFL are intimidated, and even frightened, by quantitative research. This book, which provides the reader with analytical tools for reading quantitative research in a critical and informed manner, is designed to dispel this fear. In it, the reader is introduced, in an accessible, though non-trivial manner, to all of the elements in a research paper, from the introduction, through methods and procedures, and results to discussion and conclusion. Particularly appealing are the clear examples, and the frequent questions interpolated into the text which invite the reader to interact with the content as it is developed."
David Nunan,Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
"Statistics and research design no longer have to be foreign languages in the language teaching community. Professor Graeme Porte acts as a native-informant to these areas by providing systematic and clear explanations of essential research concepts. Even readers with no research background will feel more confident approaching the growing empirical literature in language education."
Elaine K. Horwitz, The University of Texas at Austin
"Dr. Graeme Porte offers language teachers, students of applied linguistics and education, and even experienced researchers a fine book that leads them step-by-step through procedures that lead to a critical understanding of research in our field. Many people are turned off by research because they do not know how to comprehend or evaluate it. Conversely, others accept whatever is in print without questioning the research methodology. This book helps readers gain the tools to be good critics of research and to become stronger researchers in their own right. It is a practical, very useful book."
Rebecca Oxford
"This new volume by Graeme Porte provides students of applied linguistics with an innovative and readable treatment of how to understand research papers. In this impressively thorough effort, Porte not only demonstrates his command of the available literature on the writing of research papers, but goes significantly beyond it. The volume includes not only a helpful glossary, but also a useful set of workbook activities to help students get an experiential sense of both how to critically analyze a research paper and by extension how to prepare their own."
Andrew Cohen, University of Minnesota
Pragmatic Markers and Sociolinguistic Variation: A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to the Language of Adolescents (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Gisle Andersen
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:352
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110184
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110183
Pattern Grammar: A Corpus-Driven Approach to the Lexical Grammar of English (Studies in Corpus Linguistics, Vol. 4)
By Susan Hunston, Gill Francis
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:288
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556193998
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556193996
Product Description:
This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the two books in the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns series (1996; 1998). This volume describes the research that led to these publications, and explores the theoretical and practical implications of the research. The first chapter sets the work in the context of work on phraseology. The next two chapters give several examples of patterns and how they are identified. Chapters 4 and 5 discuss and exemplify the association of pattern and meaning. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 relate the concept of pattern to traditional approaches to grammar and to discourse. Chapter 9 summarizes the book and adds to the theoretical discussion, as well as indicating the applications of this approach to language teaching. The volume is intended to contribute to the current debate concerning how corpora challenge existing linguistic theories, and as such will be of interest to researchers in the fields of grammar, lexis, discourse and corpus linguistics. It is written in an accessible style, however, and will be equally suitable for students taking courses in those areas.
Garner's Modern American Usage
By Bryan A. Garner
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:928
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195161912
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195161915
Product Description:
The first edition of Garner's Modern American Usage established Bryan Garner as "an American equivalent of Fowler" (Library Journal). With more than 23,500 copies sold, this witty, accessible, and engaging book has become the new classic reference work praised by professional copyeditors as well as the general public looking for clear advice on how to write more effectively. In 1999, Choice magazine named it an Outstanding Academic Book and the American Library Association dubbed it an Outstanding Reference Source. With thousands of succinct entries, longer essays on key issues and problematic areas, and up-to-the-minute judgments on everything from trendy words to the debate over personal pronouns, GMAU is approachable yet authoritative. Since the book first appeared in 1998, Bryan Garner has diligently continued tracking how we use our language. The second edition includes hundreds of new entries ranging from Dubya to weaponize (coined in 1984 but used extensively since 9/11) to foot-and-mouth, plethora (a "highfalutin equivalent of too many"), Slang, Standard English, and Dialects. It also updates hundreds of existing entries. Meanwhile, Garner has written a major essay on the great grammar debate between descriptivists and prescriptivists. Painstakingly researched with copious citations from books and newspapers and newsmagazines, this new edition furthers Garner's mission to help everyone become a better writer, and to enjoy it in the process.
Summary: Easy to use & understand - even for a non-professional
Rating: 5
After 20 years developing software, I switched to product marketing - with a related but wholly different set of skill requirements. I got this book after struggling through months of frustrating collateral reviews. I will never be a good copy editor, but with the help of this easy to use reference book I won't struggle quite as often.
Summary: Brilliant, essential; a masterpiece
Rating: 5
I have purchased several of Mr. Garner's books and this one, like all the others, is a masterpiece. Mr. Garner's command and understanding of the English language, combined with his concise, crisp descriptions, make this work an essential addition to anyone's library. I applaud Mr. Garner for his extraordinary efforts and I thank him for sharing his genius with the rest of us.
Summary: Bryan Garner I Worship You
Rating: 5
Garner's Usage is likely the single most useful and entertaining book on the topic. Little else needs to be said about it.
Summary: Professor Garner
Rating: 5
Garner's Modern American Usage My daughter attends law school at SMU in Dallas where Garner is adjuct professor. She says he is a great teacher. We ordered two copies. Yes, it's indispensible as a reference, but it also makes great bedside reading for us wordsmiths.
Summary: Indispensable
Rating: 5
I ordered this reference based on an essay I read by David Foster Wallace titled "Authority and American Usage." In it, Wallace dissects the ongoing debate between the Prescriptivists (those claiming to defend the King's English) and the Descriptivists (those who claim language rules should reflect current practice rather than old rules), and he does so in the context of, essentially, a long-winded review of Garner's Modern American Usage.
The big problem with Prescriptivism is one of authority, or "why" their rules are what they are. The problem with Descriptivism is one of, well, spinelessness in the sense that rules cannot be based simply on "what everybody else is doing."
Garner, however, deftly walks the line between these two perspectives. He acknowledges common, accepted usage, but still has the guts to make "rules" where necessary. And when he does so, he resolves the "authority" question by logically and fairly arguing his case, rather than simply "that's how it is done."
In my limited reading of Garner's reference so far, I've found it to be amazingly thorough in its examination of everything from common errors to idioms to punctuation, and surprisingly down to earth for a linguistic reference.
Personally, I think everybody should have books like this. But if you write for a living or simply have an interest in language and grammar, this book is essential to your collection.
Language
By Leonard Bloomfield
* Publisher:George Allen & Unwin LTD.
* Number Of Pages:566
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0044000162
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780044000167
Product Description:
Perhaps the single most influential work of general linguistics published in this century, Leonard Bloomfield's Language is both a masterpiece of textbook writing and a classic of scholarship. Intended as an introduction to the field of linguistics, it revolutionized the field when it appeared in 1933 and became the major text of the American descriptivist school.
Summary: A timeless (well, nearly) classic
Rating: 5
So what if it was published in 1935? Bloomfield's "Language" was perhaps the first work of linguistics I ever read, and the principles laid down in it are good and enduring. For linguistics, it's even relatively easy to read, which is saying quite a bit. The emphasis on Amerindian languages may date the text for some readers. I've read the book a number of times, and never without marveling at the treasure house of knowledge it contains. If you have even a passing interest in languages and their development, you should read at least some of Bloomfield.
A Theory of Syntax: Minimal Operations and Universal Grammar
By Norbert Hornstein
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:204
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521449707
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521449700
Product Description:
Human language seems to have arisen roughly within the last 50-100,000 years. In evolutionary terms, this is the mere blink of an eye. If this is correct, then much of what we consider distinctive to language must in fact involve operations available in pre-linguistic cognitive domains. In this book Norbert Hornstein, one of the most influential linguists working on syntax, discusses a topical set of issues in syntactic theory, including a number of original proposals at the cutting edge of research in this area. He provides a theory of the basic grammatical operations and suggests that there is only one that is distinctive to language. If this theory is correct then this narrows the evolutionary gap between verbal and non-verbal primates, thus facilitating the rapid evolutionary emergence of our linguistic capacity.
A Corpus-driven Study of Discourse Intonation
(Prosodic) (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Winnie Cheng, Chris Greaves, Martin Warren
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:325
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027223068
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223067
* Published: 2008
Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics (AILA Applied Linguistics Series)
By John Gibbons, M. Teresa Turell
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:316
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027205213
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027205216
* Published: 2008
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar
By David Lebeaux
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:277
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556198582
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556198588
isbn Hardbound –
978 90 272 2565 8
978 1 55619 858 8
ebook isbn
978 90 272 9845 4
published 2000
Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language acquisition. Challenging the conventional division between language acquisition and syntax, this influential work constructs a new understanding of phrase structure, bringing syntactic data to bear on phrase structure composition. Two new phrase structure composition operations are proposed, Adjoin-α, which adjoins adjuncts into the structure, and Project-α, which fuses open class and closed class structures. The author also introduces the novel concept of subgrammars, successively larger grammars that take the child from the initial state to the adult grammar. This work will be of interest to those in the areas of syntax, language acquisition, learnability, and cognitive science in general.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
1. A Re-Definition of the Problem
7
2. Project-α, Argument-Linking, and Telegraphic Speech
31
3. Adjoin-α and Relative Clauses
91
4. Agreement and Merger
145
5. The Abrogation of DS Functions: Dislocated Constituents and Indexing Relations
183
References
259
Index
273
“A recognized classic in the field since its appearance as a doctoral dissertation, a fount of highly productive ideas and insights that has inspired very important work. That it will be available as a book is very welcome news for anyone working in the wide range of fields that Lebeaux explored in this really outstanding contribution.”
Noam Chomsky, MIT
“[...] a watershed in acquisition theory. No other work has so elegantly used acquisition data to bring clarity to intuitional data, and thereby to revise core aspects of linguistic theory. [...] In addition offers an important perspective on how lexical structure develops into syntactic structure, and how we should refashion the concept of learnability. It is a model of how acquisition theory and linguistic theory can advance together.”
Tom Roeper, UMASS, Amherst
“Lebeaux’s core ideas [...] are now central to the Minimalist Program. His elaboration of these ideas, however, provides a challenge to current theories of Minimalist phrase structure.”
Margaret Speas, UMASS, Amherst
“Given the pole position (in both formal approaches to language acquisition and the refining of grammatical theory) that K's dissertation has held since the late 1980s, this book is a welcome publication, finally making this fine piece of work easily accessible to a wider audience.”
Kleanthes K. Grohmann, University of Cyprus, in Language Vol. 79:4 (2003)
Subject classification Linguistics Generative linguistics
Language acquisition
Syntax
Non-Canonical Marking of Subjects and Objects (Typological Studies in Language)
By A. Iu Aikhenvald, Robert M. W. Dixon, Masayuki Onishi
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:362
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110435
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110435
* Published: 2001
Trends in Bilingual Acquisition (Trends in Language Acquistion Research)
By International Association for the Study of Child Language, Jasone Cenoz, Fred Genesee
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:288
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110990
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110992
* Published: 2001
Product Description:
The theme of this volume was inspired by the theme of the VIIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language which was held in San Sebastian, Spain, in July 1999. The chapters in this volume are based on papers that were presented at that meeting. They provide a snapshot of the current state of research on bilingual acquisition and reflect the diversity of issues, methodologies, and language combinations that can be found in contemporary work in the field. Topics include: the simultaneous acquisition of two first languages - early differentiation and subsequent development of grammars; the emergence of verbal morphology and the lead-lag pattern issue in bilingual acquisition; early language differentiation in bilingual infants; language differentiation in bilingual infants - evidence from babbling; and past tense verb forms, discourse context and input features in bilingual and monolingual acquisition of Basque and Spanish.