Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society
Title | Cultural-Linguistic Explorations into Spirituality, Emotionality, and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Hans-Georg Wolf |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027259704 |
This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts, such as South Africa, Hungary, India, Nigeria, China, Romania, Iran, and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were, thus far, under-researched from a cultural linguistic perspective – spirituality, emotionality, and society. The analytical tools provided by Cultural Linguistics, such as cultural conceptualizations and cultural metaphors, are not only applied to various corpora and types of texts but also recalibrated and renegotiated. As a result, the studies in this collective volume showcase a rich body of work that contributes to the manifestation of Cultural Linguistics as an indispensable paradigm in modern language studies. Being a testament to the inseparability of language and culture, this book will enlighten academics, professionals and students working in the fields of Cultural Linguistics, sociology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies.
Explorations in Linguistic Relativity
Title | Explorations in Linguistic Relativity PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Pütz |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2000-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027283753 |
About a century after the year Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941) was born, his theory complex is still the object of keen interest to linguists. Rencently, scholars have argued that it was not his theory complex itself, but an over-simplified, reduced section taken out of context that has become known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis that has met with so much resistance among linguists over the last few decades. Not only did Whorf present his views much more subtly than most people would believe, but he also dealt with a great number of other issues in his work. Taking Whorf’s own notion of linguistic relativity as a starting point, this volume explores the relation between language, mind and experience through its historical development, Whorf’s own writing, its misinterpretations, various theoretical and methodological issues and a closer look at a few specific issues in his work.
Explorations of Language Transfer
Title | Explorations of Language Transfer PDF eBook |
Author | Terence Odlin |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2022-05-13 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 178892956X |
When learners of a new language draw on their native language (or on any other that they may know), this earlier acquired linguistic knowledge may influence their success. Such cross-linguistic influence, also known as language transfer, has long raised questions about what linguists can predict about success in the new language and about what processes are involved in using prior knowledge. This book lucidly brings together many insights on transfer: e.g. on the relation between translation and transfer, the relation between comprehension and production, and the problem of how complete any predictions of difficulty may ever be. The discussions also explore implications for future research and for classroom practice. The book will thus serve as a reliable guide for teachers, researchers, translators, interpreters, and students curious about language contact.
Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies
Title | Cognitive Linguistic Explorations in Biblical Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Bonnie Howe |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2014-10-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110350130 |
Writing, reading, and interpretation are acts of human minds, requiring complex cognition at every point. A relatively new field of studies, cognitive linguistics, focuses on how language and cognition are interconnected: Linguistic structures both shape cognitive patterns and are shaped by them. The Cognitive Linguistics in Biblical Interpretation section of the Society of Biblical Literature gathers scholars interested in applying cognitive linguistics to biblical studies, focusing on how language makes meaning, how texts evoke authority, and how contemporary readers interact with ancient texts. This collection of essays represents first fruits from the first six years (2006–2012) of that effort, drawing on cognitive metaphor study, mental spaces and conceptual blending, narrative theory, and cognitive grammar. Contributors include Eve Sweetser, Ellen van Wolde, Hugo Lundhaug and Jesper T. Nielsen.
Programming Language Explorations
Title | Programming Language Explorations PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Toal |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2017-08-09 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1315314312 |
Programming Language Explorations is a tour of several modern programming languages in use today. The book teaches fundamental language concepts using a language-by-language approach. As each language is presented, the authors introduce new concepts as they appear, and revisit familiar ones, comparing their implementation with those from languages seen in prior chapters. The goal is to present and explain common theoretical concepts of language design and usage, illustrated in the context of practical language overviews. Twelve languages have been carefully chosen to illustrate a wide range of programming styles and paradigms. The book introduces each language with a common trio of example programs, and continues with a brief tour of its basic elements, type system, functional forms, scoping rules, concurrency patterns, and sometimes, metaprogramming facilities. Each language chapter ends with a summary, pointers to open source projects, references to materials for further study, and a collection of exercises, designed as further explorations. Following the twelve featured language chapters, the authors provide a brief tour of over two dozen additional languages, and a summary chapter bringing together many of the questions explored throughout the text. Targeted to both professionals and advanced college undergraduates looking to expand the range of languages and programming patterns they can apply in their work and studies, the book pays attention to modern programming practice, covers cutting-edge languages and patterns, and provides many runnable examples, all of which can be found in an online GitHub repository. The exploration style places this book between a tutorial and a reference, with a focus on the concepts and practices underlying programming language design and usage. Instructors looking for material to supplement a programming languages or software engineering course may find the approach unconventional, but hopefully, a lot more fun.
Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
Title | Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Tope Omoniyi |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027227101 |
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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics
Title | Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | René Dirven |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2004-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027295417 |
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics. In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts. This Second Revised Edition is corrected, updated and expanded. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is clearly presented and organized after having been tested in several courses in various countries. Includes exercises (solutions to be found on the Internet).