Speech Sounds (Language Workbooks)
By Patricia Ashby
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:120
* Publication Date:1995-12-21
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415085713
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415085717
Product Description:
Speech Sounds is an accessible and helpful guide to basic phonetic theory. Explaining the fundamental skills of the phonetician, the text investigates the different angles involved in the production of sound and uses data-based material to reinforce each new concept. Speech Sounds includes examples from a wide range of languages, dozens of exercises with solutions and full cross-references.
Bilingualism (Routledge Applied Linguistics)
By Chin. Wiggleswo
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:384
* Publication Date:2007-08-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415343860
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415343862
Product Description:
Bilingualism:
* introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
* uses tasks and examples to equip the reader with the necessary skills and insights to assess and interpret research drawn from bilingual populations
* incorporates case studies drawn from a range of countries such as the United States, South Africa, the Netherlands, Morocco and the People's Republic of China
* gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Fred Genesee, Richard Bourhis, Elizabeth Peal, Wallace Lambert, Merrill Swain , Jim Cummins, and Ellen Bialystok.
Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field, Bilingualism is an essential resource for students and researchers of Applied Linguistics.
Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings))
By Heidi Byrnes, Heather, D Weger-Guntharp, Katherine Sprang
* Publisher:Georgetown University Press
* Number Of Pages:220
* Publication Date:2006-10-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:158901118X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781589011182
Product Description:
This volume considers fundamental issues in advanced language learning, from the definition of "advancedness," through descriptive and instructional considerations in advanced learning, to the role of assessment. It presents both general insights and also language-specific considerations in classrooms at the college level, spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. The authors take a cognitive-semantic approach (as opposed to the cognitive-psycholinguistic processing orientation) and find that grammaticized concepts are the biggest obstacle impeding advanced levels of proficiency. The theoretical and data-based findings make clear that learners need the capacity to make choices from across the entire language system, from morphology, syntax, and discourse features, which suggests that a less compartmentalized approach to understanding language use is needed within the field of linguistics . This book also explores curricular and instructional approaches to the centrality of narrative, vocabulary expansion, the demands on instructed programs for efficiency and effectiveness, and the ability to function in a professional context. Finally, it probes the dual role and nature--the what and how--of assessment--as a measurement tool for both researching language learning and for assessing learners as an essential component of their instruction.
Semantics versus Pragmatics
By Zoltan Gendler Szabo
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:476
* Publication Date:2005-02-24
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199251525
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199251520
* Hardcover: 476 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 24, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0199251517
* ISBN-13: 978-0199251513
Product Description:
Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Anyone engaged with this issue in either discipline will find much to reward their attention here. Contributors: Kent Bach, Herman Cappelen, Michael Glanzberg, Jeffrey C. King, Ernie Lepore, Stephen Neale, F. Recanati, Nathan Salmon, Mandy Simons, Scott Soames, Robert J. Stainton, Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo
Table of Contents
1Context ex Machina15
2Radical and moderate pragmatics : does meaning determine truth conditions?45
3Focus : a case study on the semantics-pragmatics boundary72
4Semantics, pragmatics, and the role of semantic content111
5Pragmatism and binding165
6Deixis and anaphora286
7Two conceptions of semantics317
8Presupposition and relevance329
9Naming and asserting356
10In defense of non-sentential assertion383
Language in Context: Selected Essays
By Jason Stanley
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:256
* Publication Date:2007-08-23
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199225923
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199225927
* Paperback: 256 pages
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (August 23, 2007)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0199225931
* ISBN-13: 9780199225934
Product Description:
Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as "She is a mathematician", where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun "she". But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals.
Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defense of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Summary: Immensely stimulating
Rating: 5
This is an immensely stimulating book, and I can do nothing better than to echo Ostertag's assessment in the editorial review. The richness and complexity - and the ingenuity of some of the approaches - of this book makes it required reading for anyone working on the topics covered - or topics related to the ones covered - in this book.
Part of what makes this book so refreshing is Stanley's defense of a systematic approach to semantic content, i.e. "there is no gap between the linguistically determined content of a sentence, relative to a context, and the proposition it intuitively seems to express", in opposition to the currently popular free enrichment or anti-systemtaticity-friendly approaches of radical contextualists such as relevance theorists on the one hand and semantic minimalists on the other (both of which could somewhat derogatively but not entirely unjustifiably be accused of "goddidit" approaches to the determination of content).
One nitpick stems from the fact that the book consists, in part, of already published essays, and unfortunately the exact account of the nominal restriction theory (that quantifier domain restrictions are signaled by covert elements) argued for in the early chapters has, apparently, been modified since - unfortunate in the sense that the claim that the restrictor co-habits a node with the nominal, which is argued for in the earlier chapters, is apparently rejected in favor of an account where the restrictor occupies a separate node. But then it is unclear how this view avoids the explicit counterarguments considered in those earlier chapters. It is particularly unfortunate since the nominal restriction theory is the basis for many of the solutions to problems discussed later on.
Despite that, this is a stunningly resourceful book, and a pleasure to read. Strongly recommended (One further nitpick: the cover design utilizes the common trick of being based on a selection from the text - it is unfortunate, then, that the cover was designed (apparently) before the main text was proofread; although I guess only pedants would notice).
First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues (Studies in Bilingualism)
By Monika S. Schmid
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:377
* Publication Date:2004-08-31
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115496
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115492
English Language Learning and Technology: Lectures on Applied Linguistics in the Age of Information and Communication Technology (Language Learning & Language Teaching, 7)
By Carol A. Chapelle
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:199
* Publication Date:2003-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588114481
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588114488
Framing and Perspectivising in Discourse (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Titus Ensink, Christoph Sauer
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:214
* Publication Date:2003-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588113655
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588113658
Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English
By Tim William Machan
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:312
* Publication Date:2009-02-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199232121
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199232123
Product Description:
This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety about language has sometimes allowed us to avoid the issues we really find disturbing: when speakers of English worry over grammar, sounds, or words the real source of their anxiety is often not language at all but issues like immigration or social instability.
Drawing on an array of evidence from archives, literature, history, polemics, and the press, as well as centuries of legislation, Tim Machan uncovers the perennial nature of concerns about the poverty and purity of English. There has never been a time, he shows, when we weren't worried about the corruption of language and its apparent connections with educational standards, the morality of youth, the integrity of society, and the identity of our nations. This is a fascinating story, told here in consummate fashion, combining insight and anecdote, and learning with wit - a book for everyone interested in languages and the people who speak them.
Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax And Semantics: Negation, Tense, And Clausal Architecture (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings))
By GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ROUND TABLE ON LAN, Raffaella Zanuttini
* Publisher:Georgetown University Press
* Number Of Pages:247
* Publication Date:2006-06-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1589010809
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781589010802
"This book contains truly fundamental contributions concerning the functional makeup of the sentence by some of the very best specialists around the world."—Guglielmo Cinque, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio, Universita' Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
"This collection's many outstanding contributions make it a volume that syntacticians and semanticists will want to study carefully."—Richard S. Kayne, professor, Department of Linguistics, New York University
"This is an illuminating and rich book where comparison is pursued very seriously; different languages are considered and analyzed with sophisticated theoretical tools in different domains of syntax and semantics. Its impact will be both on current research and on the formation of advanced students in linguistics."—Adriana Belletti, professor of linguistics, University of Siena
Presenting cutting-edge research in syntax and semantics, this important volume furthers theoretical claims in generative linguistics and represents a significant addition to present scholarship in the field. Leading scholars present crosslinguistic studies dealing with clausal architecture, negation, and tense and aspect, and the issue of whether a statistical model can by itself capture the richness of human linguistic abilities. Taken together, these contributions elegantly show how theoretical tools can propel our understanding of language beyond pretheoretical descriptions, especially when combined with the insight and skills of linguists who can analyze difficult and complex data.
Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics covers a range of topics currently at the center of lively debate in the linguistic literature, such as the structure of the left periphery of the clause, the proper treatment of negative polarity items, and the role of statistical learning in building a model of linguistic competence. The ten original contributions offer an excellent balance of novel empirical description and theoretical analysis, applied to a wide range of languages, including Dutch, German, Irish English, Italian, Malagasy, Malay, and a number of medieval Romance languages. Scholars and students of semantics, syntax, and linguistic theory will find it to be a valuable resource for ongoing scholarship and advanced study.
Raffaella Zanuttini is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is the author of Negation and Clausal Structure and coeditor of Paths Towards Universal Grammar.
Héctor Campos is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. He is the author of De la Oracion Simple a la Oracion compuesta and coeditor of Evolution and Revolution in Linguistic Theory.
Elena Herburger is an associate professor in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. She is the author of What Counts.
Paul H. Portner is an associate professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. He is the author of What Is Meaning? and a coeditor of Formal Semantics and the second edition of the Handbook of Semantics.
Contributors:
Paola Benincà, Università di Padova
Rajesh Bhatt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marcel den Dikken, CUNY Graduate Center
Liliane Haegeman, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille III
James McCloskey, University of California, Santa Cruz
Alice G.B. ter Meulen, University of Groningen
Toshiyuki Ogihara, University of Washington
Colin Phillips, University of Maryland, College Park
Bernhard Schwartz, McGill University
Henri雝te de Swart, Universiteit Utrecht
Lisa deMena Travis, McGill University
Discussing Conversational Analysis: The Workd of Emanuel A. Schegloff
By Carlo L. Prevignano, Paul J. Thibault
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:181
* Publication Date:2003-05
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:158811354X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588113542
Product Description:
"Discussing Conversation Analysis: The work of Emanual A. Schegloff" presents an in-depth view on Schegloff's complex and stimulating work in Conversation Analysis (CA) and offers clear insights into how it has and may be developed further as a research tool in social psychology, social science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics. What is the status of fine-grained empirical studies of human interaction in CA and how does CA relate to other approaches to linguistic interaction? What is Schegloff's contribution to CA and how does his work relate to that of Goffman, Garfinkel, and Sacks? How does CA distinguish its own analytical tools and terms from the categories of the participants in talk? What can CA reveal about human-computer interaction? What can CA contribute to the neurosciences in the study, diagnosis, and treatment of linguistically impaired individuals? How does CA account for the socio-historical dimension of the material and semiotic resources that participants co-deploy in talk? By addressing these and other questions this volume proposes a critical guide to CA and its applications with an extraordinary interview with Emanuel A. Schegloff, and new contributions towards a debate on his work by six commentators - conversation analysts (John Heritage and Charles Goodwin), critics (Rick Iedema and Par Segerdahl) and appliers of CA in the study of human-computer interaction (Pirkko Raudaskoski) and language disorders (Ruth Lesser). Schegloff's Response and a closing discussion with the editors conclude the volume, which also features a comprehensive bibliography of his work edited by Susan Eerdmans.
Intercultural Conversation (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Winnie Cheng
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:262
* Publication Date:2004-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588114651
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588114655
Description
This innovative study of naturally-occurring English conversations between Hong Kong Chinese and their native English friends and colleagues makes a worthwhile contribution to the research literature on intercultural conversation. Through analyzing dyadic intercultural conversations, the study investigates the ways in which culturally divergent conversationalists manage their organizational and interpersonal aspects of the unfolding conversations. The study focuses on five features of conversational interaction — disagreements, compliments and compliment responses, simultaneous talk, discourse topic management and discourse information structure — where cultural values and attitudes are particularly evident. For each of the features, hypotheses are formulated and tested through the detailed analysis of twenty-five intercultural conversations. This quantitative analysis is then followed by qualitative analysis of excerpts from the conversations to show the ways in which conversational interaction is performed and negotiated. The study shows in very revealing ways that intercultural conversations involve a complex, interactive and collaborative process of communication between the participants.
Power Without Domination: Dialogism And The Empowering Property Of Communication (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture)
By Eric Grillo
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:246
* Publication Date:2005-04-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588116085
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588116086
The Effective Literacy Coach (Language and Literacy)
By Adrian Rodgers, Emily Rodgers
* Publisher:Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
* Number Of Pages:192
* Publication Date:2007-06-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0807748013
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780807748015
Product Description:
This innovative book moves beyond the day-to-day matters of coaching to a deeper examination of how literacy coaching can improve instructional practice. The authors offer research-based strategies that can be used to create the professional and dynamic relationships needed for successful teacher-coach collaborations. Readers will hear the voices of coaches as they analyze their own efforts to scaffold adult learning, guide collaborative inquiry, and support teacher reflection.
Summary: Enthusiastically recommended for remedial reading teachers
Rating: 5
Assistant Professor Adrian Rodgers and Associate Professor Emily M. Rodgers present The Effective Literacy Coach: Using Inquiry To Support Teaching and Learning, a guide that goes a step beyond the nuts and bolts of day-to-day coaching in the search to understand how literacy coaching can breathe renewed life into instructional practice. Offering research-based strategies to improve the teacher-coach connection, The Effective Literacy Coach discusses how to guide group discussions, the art of asking the right question, how to get the most out of one-on-one coaching, and much more. Enthusiastically recommended for remedial reading teachers, whether they work with children, teens, or adults.
Perturbed Speech
By Jana Brunner
* Publisher:Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften AG
* Number Of Pages:196
* Publication Date:2009-01-19
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3838102681
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783838102689
Product Description:
When speakers produce sounds they need to have an "image" of a sound before they can produce it: They need to know what the sound they are going to produce shall be like. This "image" of the sound could consist of articulatory and/or acoustic components. For a sound such as /f/, for example, speakers could have an articulatory representation such as "constriction between lower lip and upper incisors". However, they could also have an acoustic representation such as "noise with a diffuse spectrum". This study investigates whether in perturbed speech speakers compensate with the aim to produce the same articulatory configuration as in unperturbed speech or the same acoustic output. If speakers adapt towards the same articulatory configuration this would support articulatory images of sounds. If speakers head towards a certain acoustic output one could assume that they have acoustic images of sounds. The results of this EMA-study show that during early compensatory attempts speakers use articulatory images, later, however, they change the articulation while focusing on the acoustic output. Final compensation efforts are directed towards an optimization of the movement.
Language Typology: A Functional Perspective (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
By Alice Caffarel, J. R. Martin, Christian M. I. M. Matthiessen
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:700
* Publication Date:2004-12-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115593
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115591
Description
This book is intended as a systemic functional contribution to language typology both for those who would like to understand and describe particular languages against the background of generalizations about a wide range of languages and also for those who would like to develop typological accounts that are based on and embody descriptions of the systems of particular languages (rather than isolated constructions). The book is a unique contribution in at least two respects. On the one hand, it is the first book based on systemic functional theory that is specifically concerned with language typology. On the other hand, the book combines the particular with the general in the description of languages: it presents comparable sketches of particular languages while at the same time identifying generalizations based on the languages described here as well as on other languages.
The volume explores eight languages, covering seven language families: French, German, Pitjantjatjara, Tagalog, Telugu, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Japanese.
Table of contents
List of contributors
ix
Foreword
xi
1. Introduction: Systemic functional typology
Alice Caffarel, J.R. Martin and Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
1–76
2. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of French
Alice Caffarel
77–137
3. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of German
Erich Steiner and Elke Teich
139–184
4. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Japanese
Kazuhiro Teruya
185–254
5. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Tagalog
J.R. Martin
255–304
6. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Chinese
M.A.K. Halliday and Edward McDonald
305–396
7. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Vietnamese
Minh Duc Thai
397–431
8. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Telugu
V. Prakasam
433–478
9. Metafunctional profile of the grammar of Pitjantjatjara
David Rose
479–536
10. Descriptive motifs and generalizations
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen
537–673
Index
675–700
Historical Linguistics 2003: International Conference On Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History ... IV: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
By Erik jens Mogensen, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HISTORICAL L
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:315
* Publication Date:2005-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115860
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115867
A Derivational Syntax for Information Structure (Studies in Theoretical Linguistics)
By Luis Lopez
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:256
* Publication Date:2009-05-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0199557403
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780199557400
Product Description:
In this volume, Luis Lopez sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions such as 'topic' and 'focus', as usually defined, yield no predictions and proposes instead a feature system based on the notions 'discourse anaphor' and 'contrast'. He presents a detailed model of syntax---information-structure interaction and argues that this interaction takes place at the phase level, with a privileged role for the edge of the phase. Further, he investigates phenomena concerning the syntax of objects in Romance and Germanic - accusative A, p-movement, clitic doubling, scrambling, object shift - and shows that there are cross-linguistic correlations between syntactic configuration and specificity, independent of discourse connectedness. The volume ends with an extended analysis of the syntax of dislocations in Romance.
Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik: An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society/Ein Internationales Handbuch Zur Wissenschaft Von Sprache ... Wissenschaft) (German Edition)
By et al Ulrich Ammon (Editor)
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:892
* Publication Date:2005-09-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110171481
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110171488
Product Description:
In the course of the last 15 years, sociolinguistics (or the sociology of language) has established itself as a academic subject in many countries. The discipline promises to be of benefit in solving practical problems in such areas as language planning and standardization, language policy, and language teaching and therapy. Both research projects and publications and university teaching programmes in sociolinguistics now span such a wide field that it is hardly possible even for the experts to review the whole scope of the subject. A number of specialist periodicals and introductions and surveys of the subject do exist, but to date there has been no comprehensive and internationally representative account of the subject. It is the intention of the handbook to provide this account.
Language and the Cognitive Construal of the World (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs)
By John R. Taylor , Robert MacLaury
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:406
* Publication Date:1995-07
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110143011
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110143010
Table of Contents
Preface: Linguistic and anthropological approaches to cognition
Introduction: On construing the world1
Seeing it in more than one way23
Possession and possessive constructions51
What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation81
The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions95
Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction119
Metaphors of anger in Japanese137
Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns153
Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence181
The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation"197
Vantage theory231
The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person"277
Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction331
Genus, species, and vantages365
On construing the world of language377
Index of names391
Subject index396
Contributors407