Describing Language

Author : David Graddol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing Language written by David Graddol and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student introduction to descriptive linguistics, Describing Language is essentially practical in its orientation. It is useful for anyone who wishes to refer to technical literature involving linguistic description, who requires a basic conceptual framework and technical vocabulary with which to discuss language, and who needs to make elementary but principled descriptions and analyses of real data (such as classroom interaction or counselling sessions). Topics covered include phonetics, prosody, word structure, syntax, text and discourse structure, word and utterance meaning, and non-verbal behaviour.Includes an accessible introduction to both Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Halliday's Systemic Grammar. It is an invaluable textbook for students across the social sciences.

Author : Luc Bouquiaux
Publisher : Sil International, Global Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studying and Describing Unwritten Languages written by Luc Bouquiaux and published by Sil International, Global Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-volume English translation of a three-volume French work with techniques for gathering and processing data from unwritten languages.

Author : David Graddol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing Language written by David Graddol and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Almerindo E. Ojeda
Publisher : Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
ISBN 13 : 9781575866598
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Computational Introduction to Linguistics written by Almerindo E. Ojeda and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Almerindo E. Ojeda offers a unique perspective on linguistics by discussing developing computer programs that will assign particular sounds to particular meanings and, conversely, particular meanings to particular sounds. Since these assignments are to operate efficiently over unbounded domains of sound and sense, they can begin to model the two fundamental modalities of human language--speaking and hearing. The computational approach adopted in this book is motivated by our struggle with one of the key problems of contemporary linguistics--figuring out how it is that language emerges from the brain.

Author : Dilin Liu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136199330
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing and Explaining Grammar and Vocabulary in ELT written by Dilin Liu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how. A good understanding of language description is vital for language teachers and material writers and should constitute an important part of their knowledge. This book provides a balanced treatment of both theory and practice. It focuses on some of the most important and challenging grammar and vocabulary usage questions. Using these questions as examples, it shows how theory can inform practice and how grammar and vocabulary description and explanation can be made more effective and engaging. Part I describes and evaluates the key linguistic theories on language description and teaching. Part II discusses and gives specific examples of how challenging grammar and vocabulary issues can be more effectively described and explained; each chapter focuses on one or more specific grammar and vocabulary. An annotated list of useful free online resources (online corpora and websites) for grammar and vocabulary learning and teaching, and a glossary provide helpful information.

Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588058
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing Morphosyntax written by Thomas E. Payne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-10-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the 6000 languages now spoken throughout the world around 3000 may become extinct during the next century. This guide gives linguists the tools to describe them, syntactically and grammatically, for future reference.

Author : Stephen Gilmore
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447102878
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Constructs for Describing Features written by Stephen Gilmore and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feature is a small modification or extension of a system which can be seen as having a self-contained functional role, such as Call Forwarding, Automatic Call back and Voice Mail in telephone services, to which users can subscribe. Feature interaction happens when one feature modifies or subverts the operation of another, and this problem has received a great deal of attention from industry and academics, especially in the field of telecommunications, where new services are constantly being developed and deployed. This volume contains refereed papers resulting from the ESPRIT FIREworks working group. The papers focus on the language constructs which have been developed describing features, and advocate a feature-oriented approach to software design including requirements specification languages and verifications logics.

Author : Charles W. Kreidler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113474708X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing Spoken English written by Charles W. Kreidler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing Spoken English provides a practical and descriptive introduction to the pronunciation of contemporary English. It presumes no prior knowledge of phonetics and phonology. Charles Kreidler describes the principal varieties of English in the world today. Whilst concentrating on the phonological elements they share, the author sets out specific differences as minor variations on a theme. Although theoretically orientated towards generative phonology, theory is minimal and the book is clear, comprehensive and accessible to undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and English Language. Numerous exercises are included to encourage further study.

Author : Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781904768425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing Language written by Ruqaiya Hasan and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics, the chapters of this book explore the nature of language, the relations of meaning and society, of form and meaning, and of grammar and lexis.

Author : Dr. Martin Concoyle
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490723706
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Describing the Dynamics of "Free" Material Components in Higher-Dimensions written by Dr. Martin Concoyle and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue which the new ideas of these new books really raise with our culture, is not about whether they are true, since these new ideas identify a valid context for physical description, and whereas the current context for math and physics (2014) cannot do that, ie they cannot describe the stable properties of a general many-(but-few)-body system. Whereas the new ideas about math and physics can be used to solve the most fundamental problems about the physical world, in regard to understanding physical stability, a problem which the current descriptive context of math and physics (2014) cannot solve. That is, "what now, in 2014, passes for math and physics knowledge are delusions."* Yet these delusions are the ideas expressed in our propaganda-education system about math and physics. Rather The real issue, which these new ideas present to our culture, is about our cultural relation to "what is beyond the material world." That is, it is about our cultural representation of religion, or the spirit. In particular, in relation to the "previous knowledge humans needed to possess" in order to make Gobekli-tepe, Puma Punku, Stonehenge, etc, ie simply to be able to lift and position such large stones, as well as the understanding which is needed to go beyond the context of the material world, and into the context of all the ancient mythologies in regard to the ancient religious stories, etc etc *The current paradigm (in 2014) describes a general state of indefi nable randomness in which there is always "a chaotic transitioning process" which exists as random elementary-particle collisions, and which, supposedly, is perpetually occurring. Thus, their description of the wide range of the generally stable states of the many-(but-few)-body systems..., into which this "forever chaotically transitioning" process supposedly settles but explicit descriptions of this process do not exist. Instead their answer is that "such stable, many-(but-few)-body systems are too complicated to describe."