Modern Theories Of Language

Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher : Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Theories of Language written by Mortéza Mahmoudian and published by Sound and Meaning: The Roman J. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Mortéza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal explanatory power and specific, limited linguistic models. Arguing that at various levels of linguistic analysis different theories offer more or less explanatory power, Mahmoudian makes a persuasive case for an integrated approach incorporating the strengths of both methods. The author begins with the identification of principles which, despite differences in terminology, are held in common by most twentieth-century linguists. He shows the implications, merits, and shortcomings of the major schools of linguistic thought, as well as the techniques one can use in gathering data. Ranging over a wide variety of international linguistic thinking, Mahmoudian takes up the question of what he calls experimentation, or the extent to which the application of certain linguistic theories have validity in constucting models. Simultaneously a survey of the current state of linguistic theory and a case for the necessity of empirical verification in linguistics, Modern Theories of Language builds a bridge across the gulf between many long-standing conflicts in the theory of language. Accessibly written, this provocative work predicts future theorerical and epistemological developments and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, as well as specialists in cognitive psychology and Romance languages.

Author : Philip W. Davis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Theories of Language written by Philip W. Davis and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Theories of Language written by Mortéza Mahmoudian and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Mortéza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal explanatory power and specific, limited linguistic models. Arguing that at various levels of linguistic analysis different theories offer more or less explanatory power, Mahmoudian makes a persuasive case for an integrated approach incorporating the strengths of both methods. The author begins with the identification of principles which, despite differences in terminology, are held in common by most twentieth-century linguists. He shows the implications, merits, and shortcomings of the major schools of linguistic thought, as well as the techniques one can use in gathering data. Ranging over a wide variety of international linguistic thinking, Mahmoudian takes up the question of what he calls experimentation, or the extent to which the application of certain linguistic theories have validity in constucting models. Simultaneously a survey of the current state of linguistic theory and a case for the necessity of empirical verification in linguistics, Modern Theories of Language builds a bridge across the gulf between many long-standing conflicts in the theory of language. Accessibly written, this provocative work predicts future theorerical and epistemological developments and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, as well as specialists in cognitive psychology and Romance languages.

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631135197
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Sense and Nonsense written by Gordon P. Baker and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Language, Sense and Nonsense written by Gordon P. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283729
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limiting the Arbitrary written by John E. Joseph and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-10-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on regular and irregular morphology and the brain, and the markedness-based constraints of Optimality Theory. This book traces the heritage of this linguistic naturalism back to its locus classicus, Plato’s dialogue Cratylus. The first half of the book is a detailed examination of the linguistic arguments in the Cratylus. The second half follows three of the dialogue’s naturalistic themes through subsequent linguistic history — natural grammar and conventional words, from Aristotle to Pinker; natural dialect and artificial language, from Varro to Chomsky; and invisible hierarchies, from Jakobson to Optimality Theory — in search of a way forward beyond these seductive yet spurious and limiting dichotomies.

Author : Jonathan Johtdon
Publisher : Pencil
ISBN 13 : 9356677573
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Linguistics From the Origins of Language to Modern Theories and Applications written by Jonathan Johtdon and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring Linguistics From the Origins of Language to Modern Theories and Applications" is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of linguistics. The book covers the history of language and its origins, as well as the different subfields of linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is suitable for students and anyone interested in exploring the fascinating field of linguistics. It provides a comprehensive overview of the field, from its origins to modern theories and practical applications, and highlights the exciting avenues of research that lie ahead.

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272220
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition written by María del Pilar García Mayo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data produced by young and older learners in different settings. The main goal of this volume is to provide the reader with updated reviews of the major contemporary approaches to SLA, the research carried out within them and, wherever appropriate, the implications and/or applications for theory, research and pedagogy that might derive from the available empirical evidence. The book is intended for SLA researchers as well as for graduate (MA, Ph.D.) students in SLA research, applied linguistics and linguistics, as the different chapters will be a guide in their research within the approaches presented. The volume will also be of interest to professionals from other fields interested in the SLA process and the different explanations that have been put forward to account for it.

Author : Carl J. Becker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595327109
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modern Theory of Language Evolution written by Carl J. Becker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discipline of linguistics is a perfect example of the limitations of the modern academy. The combination of social taboos that make certain subject matter unfit for general knowledge and discovery, and the ever-narrowing specialization of scientists leaves us with an intellectual institution that can no longer do anything but apply, repair, and justify the dogma of Victorian Cosmology that is the rule all must follow. Linguistics should be one of the most interesting subjects, considering it is the study of our most valuable and revealing cultural asset, language. However, recent publications from the linguistic department for public consumption have been some of the most trivial and boring intellectual expositions that have ever been put between two covers. Using the entire database of science, we look at the acquisition of language and how it forms our cultural perspective on life, including theories of language evolution. We develop the theory of the evolution of language from song, one of the few suppositions that Charles Darwin actually got right. From this basis we move on to the roots of Proto-Indo-European, which we call Bhear Tongue. Bhear Tongue is essentially the Eurasian language family dimly perceived by one of the greatest linguists of the twentieth century, Joseph Greenberg. From this perspective we can now retell the tribal stories from Iberia to Siberia, showing a common origin and motivation for human science and religion.

Author : Andrew Ortony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521405614
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Thought written by Andrew Ortony and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor and Thought, first published in 1979, reflects the surge of interest in and research into the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought. In this revised and expanded second edition, the editor has invited the contributors to update their original essays to reflect any changes in their thinking. Reorganised to accommodate the shifts in central theoretical issues, the volume also includes six new chapters that present important and influential fresh ideas about metaphor that have appeared in such fields as the philosophy of language and the philosophy of science, linguistics, cognitive and clinical psychology, education and artificial intelligence.