Fromkin V., Rodman R., Hyams N. An Introduction to Language

Pages: 235 Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press (2004) Quality: good: pdf Language can be studied from several angles. The focus on the relation between language, thought and culture is known as anthropological linguistics (AL). This text constitutes a basic introduction to the subject matter and techniques of AL. Traditionally, anthropological linguists have aimed to document and study the languages of indigenous cultures, especially North Americ...

This book is the first to focus on the African origins of human language. It explores the origins of language and culture 250,000-150,000 years ago when modern humans evolved in Africa. Scholars from around the world address the fossil, genetic, and archaeological evidence and critically examine the ways it has been interpreted. The book also considers parellel developments among Europe's Neanderthals and the contrasting outcomes for the two spec...

L. : Routledge, 2003. – 270 p. Analysing Discourse is an accessible introduction to text and discourse analysis for all students and researchers seeking to use and investigate real language data. Students and researchers in the social sciences, as well as language specialists, often discover that they cannot get as much from texts, conversations or research interviews as they would like because they are unsure exactly how to analyze these langu...

Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English - or Modern British and American English - stil...

Publisher: Prentice Hall. Publication date: September 1982. Number of pages: 160. Format / Quality: PDF. Analyzing English: An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics (Language Courses). "Lexicology deals not only with simple words in all their aspects but also with complex and compound words, the meaningful units of language. Since these units must be analysed in respect of both their form and their meaning, lexicology relies on information deri...

Fundamentals of Philosophy Pages: 412 Publisher: Routledge, Second Edition (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007.) Quality: good: pdf This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches t...

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy Pages: 338 Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2007) Quality: good: pdf In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts...

Cambridge University Press, 2009, 320 pages, File type: PDF, Size: 1,4 mb Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects and styles. Some of these choices are the result of management, reflecting conscious and explicit efforts by language managers to control the choices. This is the first book to present a speci...

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press. Number Of Pages: 320. Publication Date: 2001. Format / Quality: pdf. Language contact is everywhere: many nations have more than one official language, and quite possibly most people in the world speak two or more languages. What happens to different peoples and to their languages when they come into contact? In this survey of the social, political and linguistic consequences of language contact, Sarah G. Th...

Publisher: Routledge. Publication date: 2 edition (July 16, 2007). Number of pages: 392. Format / Quality: PDF. A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include: terms used in grammatical analysis. branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics. approaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguistics....