Language Arts & Disciplines

This book closes the gap for beginners who want to study the Amharic language and had difficulties in finding the right grammar for this purpose: The first grammar of Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, was published by Hiob Ludolf in 1698. The Amharic...

This volume introduces the reader to the wide range of methods that digital humanities employ, and offers a practical guide to the study, interpretation, and presentation of cultural material and practices. In this instance, the editors consider digital humanities to include both the use...

This book asks how we--as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers--can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers,...

Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of academic research exploring the definition, status, practices and implications of podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens. By bringing together research from experienced and early career academics alongside audio...

Author: Francis I. AndersenPublisher: Walter de GruyterPublished: 04/01/1974Pages: 209Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50dISBN: 9783111000381

Die Studie untersucht Adverbialstrukturen im gesprochenen Französisch, die drei oder mehr Diskursabschnitte in komplexer Weise miteinander verbinden. Diese Strukturen werden als Makrokonstruktionen im Sinne der Konstruktionsgrammatik modelliert und anhand eines umfangreichen Korpus hinsichtlich ihrer lokalen Emergenz in der Interaktion und ihrer Sedimentierung analysiert. Dabei...

The Egyptian language, with its written documentation spreading from the Early Bronze Age (Ancient Egyptian) to Christian times (Coptic), has rarely been the object of typological studies, grammatical analysis mainly serving philological purposes. This volume offers now a detailed analysis and a diachronic discussion...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary...

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive-linguistic, usage-based and complex-adaptive models of language, linguists today are utilizing approaches and insights from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology,...

Discover vital research on the lexical and cognitive meanings of words. In this exciting book from a team of world-class researchers, in-depth articles explain a wide range of topics, including thematic roles, sense relation, ambiguity and comparison. The authors focus on the cognitive and...

Library design in the 21st century has one common theme: collaboration is at the heart of innovation. Designing modern libraries is a complex process involving many stakeholders and participants. Libraries of all types work with an almost limitless range of constituent groups for input,...

This volume explores various aspects of "Applied Construction Grammar" through a collection of studies that apply Construction Grammar (CxG) and CxG-inspired approaches to issues in L2 acquisition and teaching. Relying on empirical data and covering a range of constructions and languages, the chapters show...

Der Band versammelt Beiträge renommierter Vertreter unterschiedlicher Disziplinen zu der Frage, ob wir tatsächlich einen Zugang zur Wirklichkeit haben oder lediglich von unseren eigenen Konstruktionen der Wirklichkeit umgeben sind. In der Debatte kommt der Sprache eine zentrale Rolle zu. Konstruktivistische Positionen gehen davon aus,...

This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs to be a concern. Readers learn via use cases how to approach any multimodal situation and to derive their...

Welche Fremdwörter gibt es im heutigen Deutsch, wo kommen sie her und wie verhalten sie sich innerhalb des Gesamtwortschatzes unserer Sprache? Mit diesem Buch wird zum ersten Mal der Versuch unternommen, einen wichtigen, vielseitigen und seit Jahrhunderten wachsenden Teil des deutschen Wortschatzes systematisch und...

Culture and Explosion, now appearing in English for the very first time, is the final book written by the legendary semiotician Juri Lotman. Originally published in Russian in 1992, a year before Lotman's death, the volume puts forth a fundamental theory: the semiotics of...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary...

This volume focuses on specialist translation - one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with lesser researched...

Cet ouvrage est une introduction la th orie syntaxique bas e sur le programme minimaliste, une version r cente de la grammaire g n rative. Il se veut accessible tant aux linguistes d butants qu' ceux, d j familiaris s avec la grammaire g...

This book offers a long overdue, extensive study of one of the most beloved television shows: Friends. Why has this sitcom become the seminal success that it is? And how does it continue to engage viewers around the world a quarter century after its...