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The Dynamic Interlanguage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

The Dynamic Interlanguage

Recent work in applied linguistics has expanded our understanding of the rule governed nature of language. The concept of an idealized speaker -hearer whose linguistic competence is abstract and separate from reality has been enriched by the notion of an actual interlocutor who possesses communicative compe tence, a knowledge of language which accounts for its use in real-world con texts. Areas of variation previously relegated to idiosyncratic differences in performance have been found to be dynamic yet consistent and lend themselves to study and systematic description. Because language acquisition involves the development of communicative competence, by its very nature it incorporates vari...

New Vistas in Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

New Vistas in Grammar

The papers in this volume reflect the renewed interest in the semantics of grammatical categories and the issues of invariance and variation in grammar. In particular, this collection presents the current understanding of invariance of grammar with respect to the synchronic and diachronic analyses of specific languages, and as realized in work on typology and universals.The book is divided into five sections: The Question of Invariance; Invariance and Grammatical Categories; Grammar and Discourse; Grammar and Pragmatics; Typology and Universals.

The Semantics of Prepositions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

The Semantics of Prepositions

A reconsideration of the semantics of a lexical category--prepositions--that has recently witnessed a plethora of investigations. The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Handbuch Interkulturelle Pädagogik
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 610

Handbuch Interkulturelle Pädagogik

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-19
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  • Publisher: UTB

Grundlagenliteratur für Forschung und Praxis der Interkulturellen Pädagogik Dieses Handbuch zur Interkulturellen Pädagogik wendet sich an alle, die sich im Studium, in der Praxis und in der Forschung mit den Folgen von sprachlicher, kultureller und sozialer Diversität für Erziehung und Bildung befassen. Ein Grundlagenwerk nicht nur für Studierende der Lehrämter und aller erziehungs- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Studiengänge, sondern auch für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in den relevanten Disziplinen und Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen.

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 708

Syntax - Theory and Analysis. Volume 3

This Handbook represents the development of research and the current level of knowledge in the fields of syntactic theory and syntax analysis. Syntax can look back to a long tradition. Especially in the last 50 years, however, the interaction between syntactic theory and syntactic analysis has led to a rapid increase in analyses and theoretical suggestions. This second edition of the Handbook on Syntax adopts a unifying perspective and therefore does not place the division of syntactic theory into several schools to the fore, but the increase in knowledge resulting from the fruitful argumentations between syntactic analysis and syntactic theory. It uses selected phenomena of individual langu...

Handbuch des fach- und berufsbezogenen Deutschunterrichts DaF, DaZ, CLIL
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 714

Handbuch des fach- und berufsbezogenen Deutschunterrichts DaF, DaZ, CLIL

Das Handbuch des fach- und berufsbezogenen Deutschunterrichts vermittelt das Grundwissen, über das jeder verfügen sollte, der sich mit fachbezogenem Sprachunterricht in DaF, DaZ und Sachfachunterricht in Deutsch befasst, sei es als Studierender, Lehrkraft oder Aus- und Fortbilder. Es bietet: eine Übersicht über die didaktisch und methodisch relevanten Merkmale natur-, ingenieur- und wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachsprachen sowie technisch und wirtschaftlich orientierter Berufssprachen,eine Übersicht über interkulturelle Faktoren in der entsprechenden Fachkommunikation,die Technik der Kursplanung und -erstellung,eine Konzeption von fachbezogenem Unterricht, in der die Rolle von Lehrer...

Ecolinguistics Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Ecolinguistics Reader

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-05-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named Ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and using a multitude of methods and approaches. In addition to the original ecolinguistic topics of language interrelation, language endangerment and language pressure, Ecolinguistics Reader also gives due consideration to the themes of biological and linguistic diversity as well as the ecocritical aspect.

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1632

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) is a constraint-based or declarative approach to linguistic knowledge, which analyses all descriptive levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics) with feature value pairs, structure sharing, and relational constraints. In syntax it assumes that expressions have a single relatively simple constituent structure. This volume provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the framework. Various chapters discuss basic assumptions and formal foundations, describe the evolution of the framework, and go into the details of the main syntactic phenomena. Further chapters are devoted to non-syntactic levels of description. The book also considers related fields and research areas (gesture, sign languages, computational linguistics) and includes chapters comparing HPSG with other frameworks (Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Construction Grammar, Dependency Grammar, and Minimalism).

Valency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 407

Valency

In recent years, research on valency has led to important insights into the nature of language. Some of these findings are published in this volume for the first time with up-to-date accounts of language description and new reflections on language, above all for English and German. The volume also presents examples of contrastive analysis, which are of use for all those who deal professionally with these two languages. Furthermore, the articles in the psycholinguistic and computational linguistics section demonstrate the applicability and value of valency theory for these approaches and shed light on a fruitful cooperation between theoretical and descriptive linguistics and applied disciplin...

A Companion to Plautus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 512

A Companion to Plautus

An important addition to contemporary scholarship on Plautus and Plautine comedy, provides new essays and fresh insights from leading scholars A Companion to Plautus is a collection of original essays on the celebrated Old Latin period playwright. A brilliant comic poet, Plautus moved beyond writing Latin versions of Greek plays to create a uniquely Roman cultural experience worthy of contemporary scholarship. Contributions by a team of international scholars explore the theatrical background of Roman comedy, the theory and practice of Plautus’ dramatic composition, the relation of Plautus’ works to Roman social history, and his influence on later dramatists through the centuries. Respon...