Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning

This volume brings together a number of researchers working on generative syntax and semantics, language acquisition and phonology to explore various theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative grammar and formal semantics to more descriptive approaches. The contributions gathered here investigate various aspects in the syntax, semantics, phonology and acquisition of Romanian in comparison with other (mainly Romance) languages. The book will be of interest to linguists who are keen on keeping up with the latest advances in the field of Romance studies, as well as those whose research bears on languages such as Hungarian, German, and Maltese, among others.

Investigating Language as Social (Inter-)Action
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Investigating Language as Social (Inter-)Action

This volume consists of papers presented during the 15th Conference on British and American Studies, held at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. It reflects the work conducted by senior and junior researchers on a range of interesting topics falling into the wider scope of cognitive linguistics, language contact, translation and lexicography. The investigations reported here are streamlined into three chapters. The first, “Native Language Explorations and Acquisition”, has Romanian as its central theme. The second chapter, “Aspects of English – Insights into its Impact, Structure, and Descriptive Potential”, centres around the English language considered both as an object of academic inquiry in its own right, and against a larger cultural backdrop. The final chapter, “Translatability of Language, Translatability of Culture”, looks into matters concerning intra- and inter-linguistic translation, and their impact on intercultural communication.

Language Sustainability in a Changing World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Language Sustainability in a Changing World

This volume includes thirteen papers presented at the 16th Conference on British and American Studies held at Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania. It consists of three main parts, the first of which includes contributions falling within the scope of communication and meaning-making. The articles gathered here consider issues such as social identity and the construction of gender both in and through language, and the rendition of cultural content across languages. The second section takes a closer look at language in context: the contributions included here approach language as a means to encode and decode the reality around us, whether in media discourse, academic contexts, fictional literature or bilingual dictionaries. The research strand in the third part of the volume relates to the lexico-grammatical specificities of natural languages. The focus of attention here is Romanian, with some of its structural particularities set against those present in other languages.

13th Conference on British and American Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

13th Conference on British and American Studies

This volume brings together a selection of papers in linguistics presented at the 13th edition of the Conference on British and American Studies. Structured into three chapters, the studies included here are illustrative for the different perspectives, methodologies, and research traditions in the investigation of language-related phenomena. The first chapter, “Language Change and Cross-Linguistic Analysis”, is mainly concerned with the external and internal catalysts for language change, and with a number of morphosyntactic and semantic particularities of Romanian, set in contrast with other languages. Aspects related to first or second language learning and language as an instrument of thought form the content of the second chapter, “Language Acquisition, Teaching and Processing”. The focus of the final chapter, “Pragmatics, Translation, and the Negotiation of Meaning”, is language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.

10th Conference on British and American Studies - Crossing Boundaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

10th Conference on British and American Studies - Crossing Boundaries

This book consists of a collection of papers on specific issues centred around three broad areas of scholarly interest: native language analysis, foreign language acquisition and training, and cultural and literary studies. It provides a concise snapshot of the multiplicity of vantage points from which language, literature and culture-related phenomena can be studied and accounted for. The unifying principle behind the variety of issues and approaches illustrated here is the overarching notion of Englishness treated as an object of intellectual inquiry (with a focus on the English-speaking communities, their cultures, English-based creole languages) and as a repository of methodological blueprints applicable in explorations of other languages and cultures. The authors of the articles included in this volume are academics and junior researchers who, on the occasion of the 10th Conference on British and American Studies, convened to share their ideas and pave the way for further work in intersecting research areas subsumed under linguistics, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies.

On the syntax of deverbal nominalizations in English and Romanian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

On the syntax of deverbal nominalizations in English and Romanian

The book offers a syntactic and semantic perspective on the nominalization system in both English and Romanian. The three main types of deverbal nominalizations analysed here are complex event nominalizations (CENs), simple event nominals (SENs) and result nominals (RNs), according to the well-known distinction made by Grimshaw (1990). The hypothesis furthered in the present book is that in both languages deverbal nominalizations form a squish (see Ross 1972), i.e. an implicational hierarchy which is built on two dimensions, a syntactic dimension, i.e., the presence or absence of a complete VP, including some functional structure (AspP), and a semantic dimension, i.e., whether or not the nom...

Exploring Language Variation, Diversity and Change
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Exploring Language Variation, Diversity and Change

While communication is becoming increasingly multimodal, verbal language and its use in different communicative situations still hold centre-stage in many research circles. The articles in this book explore native and second languages from three vantage points: syntactic structure, their uses in professional settings, and second/foreign language pedagogy. Using different methods and methodologies, the contributions here draw on both theoretical and empirical data in order to investigate a series of language-internal and language-external factors that both account for the structural peculiarities of Romanian and English, and have a bearing on its translatability and learnability by students of English as a second language. Featuring the hands-on experience of teachers and learners in the Romanian context, this volume provides useful insights and illustrative examples of relevance to theorists and practitioners in language and communication-related fields.

Azi despre ieri
  • Language: ro

Azi despre ieri

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2019
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

New Insights Into Linguistic Communicative Behaviour
  • Language: en

New Insights Into Linguistic Communicative Behaviour

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2022-12
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume investigates a wide variety of topics at the forefront of linguistic research, with a specific focus on generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. It compares English and Romanian linguistic data to those of Romance and other European and non-European languages. The volume also includes valuable contributions discussing the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.

Sintaxa construcţiilor coordonate în limba română
  • Language: ro
  • Pages: 318

Sintaxa construcţiilor coordonate în limba română

Monografia de față constituie o analiză detaliată a principalelor aspecte problematice pe care le ridică studiul construcţiilor coordonate în limba română, în lumina cercetărilor recente dedicate coordonării. Lucrarea de față este structurată în patru mari capitole, fiecare dezbătând câte un aspect problematic. Primul capitol delimitează domeniul empiric al coordonării, insistând pe dihotomia coordonare vs. subordonare: sunt propuse teste distinctive ce permit delimitarea celor două relații sintactice, pentru ca mai apoi să fie discutate tipurile sintactice ale coordonării, precum şi inventarul conjuncțiilor coordonatoare din limba română. Al doilea capitol trat...