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Modern Theories of Language

Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher : Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 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 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.

Modern Theories of Language

Author : Philip W. Davis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 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:

Language, Sense and Nonsense

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631135197
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 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:

Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Author : María del Pilar García Mayo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272220
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition by : María del Pilar García Mayo

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.

Language, Sense and Nonsense

Author : Gordon P. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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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:

Limiting the Arbitrary

Author : John Earl Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781556197499
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Limiting the Arbitrary written by John Earl Joseph and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 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.

A Modern Theory of Language Evolution

Author : Carl J. Becker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595327109
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 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.

Emergentist Approaches to Language

Author : Brian MacWhinney
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889744833
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Emergentist Approaches to Language written by Brian MacWhinney and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metaphor and Thought

Author : Andrew Ortony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521405614
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 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: Examines the nature and function of metaphor in language and thought.

Classical vs. Modern theory in cognitive linguistics

Author : Aleksandra Pendarovska
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638298523
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Classical vs. Modern theory in cognitive linguistics by : Aleksandra Pendarovska

Download or read book Classical vs. Modern theory in cognitive linguistics written by Aleksandra Pendarovska and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2004-08-06 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2+ (B), University of Cologne (English Seminar), language: English, abstract: Language, in general, has always been an intricate matter for research. In the course of development of the linguistics as a field of studies particularly dedicated to the task of exploring the language faculty and its features a lot of breakthrough discoveries have been made. With respect to the particular point of research, there are several subcategories of linguistics that are the direct result of the interactive research on a particular phenomenon. The cognitive linguistics is, doubtlessly, one of the few such linguistic branches, that is composed of the research fields of sciences such as: psychology, anthropology, philosophy and computer science. However, cognitive linguistics does not focus on particular features of language or particular parts of the grammar, but attempts to discover its interplay with perception of the world, that is, the reality that surrounds the human beings. In its characterisation of the language as part of the cognitive system and not an independent feature, the cognitive linguistics is in opposition to the generative linguistics and the Chomskyan postulation that language faculty is inborn. Moreover, Chomsky claims that language is “modular”, that is, it exists individually from the other cognitive faculties. The main aim of the cognitive linguistics is to discover the laws of structure of natural language categorisation as well as the intricate connection between language and thought. Terry Regier defines its function in the following manner: “In the domain of semantics in particular, cognitive linguistics seeks to ground meaning not directly in the world, but in mental and perceptual representations of the world“. (1996: 27) As the methodology and historical development of this field of studies are quite extensive, this paper will rather focus on the analysis of the main division of classical, also known as Aristotelian and modern theory. In the analysis of these two juxtaposed theories the pioneer work of the linguist William Labov and the psychologist Elisabeth Rosch would be taken into consideration. An emphasis would be put on Eleanor Rosch ́s findings with respect to the extent of her contribution to the new ways of understanding categorisation of entities and clarification of certain aspects. Furthermore, some critical approaches of her findings would be regarded.

Limiting the Arbitrary

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027283729
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 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.

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110867567
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Issues in Linguistic Theory by : Noam Chomsky

Download or read book Current Issues in Linguistic Theory written by Noam Chomsky and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper,(1) I will restrict the term ""linguistic theory"" to systems of hypotheses concerning the general features of human language put forth in an attempt to account for a certain range of linguistic phenomena. I will not be concerned with systems of terminology or methods of investigation (analytic procedures). The central fact to which any significant linguistic theory must address itself is this: a mature speaker can produce a new sentence of his language on the appropriate occasion, and other speakers can understand it immediately, though it is equally new to them. Most of our li.

Ideology and Linguistic Theory

Author : John A. Goldsmith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136159908
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Ideology and Linguistic Theory written by John A. Goldsmith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ideological Structure of Linguistic Theory Geoffrey J. Huck and John A. Goldsmith provide a revisionist account of the development of ideas about semantics in modern theories of language, focusing particularly on Chomsky's very public rift with the Generative Semanticists about the concept of Deep Structure.

The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory

Author : E.F.K. Koerner
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281599
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Book Synopsis The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory by : E.F.K. Koerner

Download or read book The Transformational-Generative Paradigm and Modern Linguistic Theory written by E.F.K. Koerner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reflects the fact that the possibilities in theory construction allow for a much wider spectrum than students of linguistics have perhaps been led to believe. It consists of articles by scholars of differing generations and widely varying academic persuasions: some have received their initiation to the trade within the framework of transformational-generative grammar, some in one or the other structuralist mould, yet others in the philology and linguistics of particular languages and language families. They all share, however, some doubts concerning characteristic attitudes and procedures of present-day ‘mainstream linguistics’. All want, not a uniformity of ideological stance, but a union of individualists working towards the advancement of theory and empirical accountability.

Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment

Author : Charlotte Ann Melin
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603293957
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment written by Charlotte Ann Melin and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when environmental humanities and sustainability studies are creating new opportunities for curricular innovation, this volume examines factors key to successful implementation of cross-curricular initiatives in language programs. Contributors discuss theoretical issues pertinent to combining sustainability studies with foreign languages, describe curricular models transferable to a range of instructional contexts, and introduce program structures supportive of teaching cultures and languages across the curriculum. Exploring the intersection of ecocritical theory, second language acquisition research, and disciplinary fields, these essays demonstrate ways in which progressive language departments are being reconceived as relevant and viable programs of cross-disciplinary studies. They provide an introduction to teaching sustainability and environmental humanities topics in language, literature, and culture courses as well as a wide range of resources for teachers and diverse stakeholders in areas related to foreign language education.

Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I)

Author : Anna Bondaruk
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443879851
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I) written by Anna Bondaruk and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume in a series of three books called Within Language, Beyond Theories, which focuses on current linguistic research surpassing the limits of contemporary theoretical frameworks in order to gain new insights into the structure of the language system and to offer more explanatorily adequate accounts of linguistic phenomena from a number of the world's languages. This volume brings together twenty-five papers pertaining to theoretical linguistics, and consists of three par ...

Modern Theories of Performance

Author : Jane Milling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230629156
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Modern Theories of Performance written by Jane Milling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of key modern practitioners from Stanlislavski to Boal. Designed to be read alongside primary source material, each chapter offers not only a summary and exposition of these theories, but a critical commentary on their composition as discourses. Close scrutiny of the cultural context and figurative language of these important, and sometimes difficult, texts yields fresh insight into the ideas of these practitioners.