The Real World Linguist

Author : Susan J. Behrens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136887253
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language in the Real World written by Susan J. Behrens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language in the Real World challenges traditional approaches to linguistics to provide an innovative introduction to the subject. By first examining the real world applications of core areas of linguistics and then addressing the theory behind these applications, this text offers an inductive, illustrative, and interactive overview for students. Key areas covered include animal communication, phonology, language variation, gender and power, lexicography, translation, forensic linguistics, language acquisition, ASL, and language disorders. Each chapter, written by an expert in the field, is introduced by boxed notes listing the key points covered and features an author’s note to readers that situates the chapter in its real world context. Activities and pointers for further study and reading are also integrated into the chapters and an end of text glossary is provided to aid study. Professors and students will benefit from the interactive Companion Website that includes a student section featuring comments and hints on the chapter exercises within the book, a series of flash cards to test knowledge and further reading and links to key resources. Material for professors includes essay and multiple choice questions based on each chapter and additional general discussion topics. Language in the Real World shows that linguistics can be appreciated, studied, and enjoyed by actively engaging real world applications of linguistic knowledge and principles and will be essential reading for students with an interest in language. Visit the Companion Website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/languagerealworld

Author : Peter C. Bjarkman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real-World Linguist written by Peter C. Bjarkman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1986 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 15 articles on applictions of linguistics to various adjacent academic and professional fields all authored by practicing theoretical linguists. Data, methods, and/or theories developed within linguistics are used to solve problems from different areas of study in which language science is needed. The applications range from more recognizable ones such as second language learning and animal communication to novel and unprecedented ones such as humor research, rhetoric and composition, lexicography, politics, American sign language, and undocumented history.

Author : Patricia Friedrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429627106
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Applied Linguistics in the Real World written by Patricia Friedrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applied Linguistics in the Real World introduces readers to situations in which applied linguistics can be and is used. Presenting a panoramic view of the interdisciplinary area of applied linguistics and highlighting the diverse range of twenty-first century occupations that have linguistics at their center, this book: Describes, discusses, and furthers the idea that linguistic knowledge is useful everywhere—from forensic investigations to diplomatic talks; from disability studies to creative writing; and from translation studies to machine learning; Breaks new ground, expanding beyond well-established areas of applied-linguistic interest in its inclusion of disability studies, peace studies and the new literature; Provides readers with original research questions and practical applications for them to expand their own research portfolios. Written in an accessible, direct style, Applied Linguistics in the Real World will be essential reading for all students of applied linguistics and is an important addition to the library of anyone who feels passionate and inspired by language matters.

Author : George William Grace
Publisher : George Grace
ISBN 13 : 9780709938866
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Linguistic Construction of Reality written by George William Grace and published by George Grace. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gretchen McCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735210942
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because Internet written by Gretchen McCulloch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Author : Alan Davies
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756756
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Applied Linguistics written by Alan Davies and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Applied Linguistics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Provides a comprehensive and current picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems. Valuable resource for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition. Presents applied linguistics as an independent discipline that unifies practical experience and theoretical understanding of language development and language in use.

Author : Kees de Bot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317590104
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Applied Linguistics written by Kees de Bot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides one perspective on how Applied Linguistics has been defined and how the field of Applied Linguistics has developed over the last 30 years. The author addresses themes like why formal linguistic theories lost so much ground and how the interest in more socially oriented approaches grew? He also addresses the impact of Applied Linguistics on language teaching. Adopting a theme-based approach, the structure of this book is largely defined by the topics covered in interviews with 40 leading international figures selected by the author including Rod Ellis, Diane Larsen-Freeman, Susan Gass, Henry Widdowson, Suresh Canagarajah and Claire Kramsch. These data are supplemented by questionnaires from a further fifty applied linguists, also selected by the author. This will be of interest to anyone studying or researching Applied Linguistics and will also be relevant to those in the related area of English Language Teaching.

Author : Victor Yngve
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847140882
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard-Science Linguistics written by Victor Yngve and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996. Hard-science (human) linguistics is the scientific study of how people communicate. It studies people and also communicative energy flow and other relevant parts of the physical environment. It studies the real world, not the world of language, and it develops theories testable against real-world evidence as is standard in the hard sciences. Hard-science linguistics takes its rightful place connecting the humanities and social sciences to biology, chemistry and physics. Thus linguistics becomes a natural science and contributes to the unity of science. This unity is clearly evident in the research reported here by these fifteen pioneering authors from diverse areas as they work to reconstitute linguistics as a true hard science.

Author : James D. McCawley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226556116
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything that Linguists Have Always Wanted to Know about Logic . . . But Were Ashamed to Ask written by James D. McCawley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCawley supplements his earlier book—which covers such topics as presuppositional logic, the logic of mass terms and nonstandard quantifiers, and fuzzy logic—with new material on the logic of conditional sentences, linguistic applications of type theory, Anil Gupta's work on principles of identity, and the generalized quantifier approach to the logical properties of determiners.

Author : Радислав Мильруд
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 504076703X
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Введение в лингвистику. Introduction to Linguistics. Учебное пособие для студентов педагогических вузов written by Радислав Мильруд and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-03-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Пособие знакомит с основными направлениями лингвистической науки и способами исследования языка. Данное пособие можно с успехом использовать как в системе высшего образования, так и для повышения квалификации учителей английского языка.