Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Title Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) PDF eBook
Author Hayley G. Davis
Publisher Routledge
Pages 184
Release 2014-02-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 113474286X

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The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain why a redefinition is needed, and how it should proceed. In the case of linguistics the subject is also the subject matter. Many linguists have ignored the problem of definition, simply regarding linguistics as the ‘science of language itself’. What, though, is ‘language itself’? Is it a language, ie English, Swahili? Or, language in a more general sense? The primary goal of a redefinition of linguistics should be to demonstrate that language is not an objective matter. Linguistics is, and should be, the study of whatever is linguistically pertinent. A linguistics redefined would look at how we interpret and construct our day-to-day communication acts, what views of language are shared by and opposed by societies, and the source and roles that these views play in our living and learning experience. These papers argue the case for such a redefinition more explicitly than has ever been done before in modern linguistic theory. Such a redefined perspective, precisely because it is a perspective, subject to ‘outside’ influence, and in constant dialogue with the perspective of the other human sciences, must be endlessly redefined.

Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Title Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) PDF eBook
Author John E. Joseph
Publisher Routledge
Pages 235
Release 2014-02-03
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1134741464

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Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with claims of scientific objectivity and explanatory autonomy. Ideologies of Language counters these claims and assumptions by demonstrating not only their descriptive inaccuracy but also their conceptual incoherence.

Standardising English

Standardising English
Title Standardising English PDF eBook
Author Linda Pillière
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 299
Release 2018-03-15
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 110812609X

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This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues that the way norms are established and enforced is the result of a complex network of social factors and cannot be explained simply by appeals to power and hegemony. It brings together insights from leading researchers to re-centre the discussion on linguistic communities and language users. It examines the philosophy underlying the urge to standardise language, and takes a closer look at both well-known and lesser-known historical dictionaries, grammars and usage guides, demonstrating that they cannot be simply labelled as 'prescriptivist'. Drawing on rich empirical data and case studies, it shows how the norm continues to function in society, influencing and affecting language users even today.

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Mini-set A General Linguistics

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Mini-set A General Linguistics
Title Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Mini-set A General Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Various
Publisher Routledge
Pages 3859
Release 2021-08-05
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1134750005

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RLE: Linguistics Mini-set A focuses on the field of General Linguistics, and collects classic titles from imprints such as Garland, Allen & Unwin, and Croom Helm. A variety of important international linguists are featured. The titles are: The Chomsky Update. The Conceptual Basis of Language. Foundations of General Linguistics. Ideologies of Language. Learning about Linguisics. Lexical Phonology and Morphology. The Linguistic Description of Opaque Contexts. Linguistic Meaning. Redefining Linguistics. A Theory of Stylistic Rules in English. Universal Grammar

The Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)

The Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics)
Title The Conceptual Basis of Language (RLE Linguistics A: General Linguistics) PDF eBook
Author David McNeill
Publisher Routledge
Pages 325
Release 2014-01-10
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1134740972

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In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic thinking, the author offers us one of the truly serious efforts since Vygotsky to deal with this question. A unifying theme is the organization of action, and speech is seen as growing out of sensory-motor representations that are simultaneously part of meaning and part of action.

Empirical Linguistics

Empirical Linguistics
Title Empirical Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Sampson
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 238
Release 2002-09-12
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1847144314

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Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as "Is there one English language or many Englishes?" and "Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes?" Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step "recipe-book" method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.

Coordination: Its Implications for the Theory of General Linguistics

Coordination: Its Implications for the Theory of General Linguistics
Title Coordination: Its Implications for the Theory of General Linguistics PDF eBook
Author Simon C. Dik
Publisher
Pages 664
Release 1968
Genre Grammar, Comparative and general
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