How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in developmental psychology, anthropology and sociology, to explore the processes behind child language acquisition to the preschool period.
How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics. This book draws on a wide range of research, including work in develo...
This text provides a comprehensive description of expressions in conversation, such as apologizing, thanking, accepting and refusing, drawing upon original research data from the London-Lund Corpus of Spoken English.
This text provides a comprehensive description of expressions in conversation, such as apologizing, thanking, accepting and refusing, drawing upon ori...
Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the structure of spoken texts, and it is the first text on discourse intonation to explore a wide variety of naturally-occurring spoken data.
Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the struc...
A study of the career of St Ambrose (339-397), who was a key figure in the transition of the later Roman Empire into its mediaeval successor, Western Christendom. The text sets Ambrose's life in its full historical and theological context.
A study of the career of St Ambrose (339-397), who was a key figure in the transition of the later Roman Empire into its mediaeval successor, Western ...
This work provides an introduction to the field of corpus-based research into learner language. It provides the reader with an overview of the field, explaining its links with corpus and applied linguistics, second language acquisition and ELT.
This work provides an introduction to the field of corpus-based research into learner language. It provides the reader with an overview of the field, ...
How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? This book seeks to answer these kind of questions. It begins by introducing basic notions and terminology, moving onto early research methods and approaches, developments and applications and then future directions.
How do we understand who the pronouns 'they' and 'them' refer to? And how do we teach computers to solve this kind of problem? This book seeks to answ...
The use of large, computerized bodies of text for linguistic analysis and description has emerged in recent years as one of the most significant and rapidly-developing fields of activity in the study of language. This book provides a comprehensive introduction and guide to Corpus Linguistics. All aspects of the field are explored, from the various types of electronic corpora that are available to instructions on how to design and compile a corpus. Graeme Kennedy surveys the development of corpora for use in linguistic research, looking back to the pre-electronic age as well as to the massive...
The use of large, computerized bodies of text for linguistic analysis and description has emerged in recent years as one of the most significant and r...
Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thomas, School of English and Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor Broad-ranging and authoritative, Studies in Language and Linguistics is an occasional series incorporating major new work in all areas of linguistics.
Variation in English- Multi-Dimensional Studies provides both a comprehensive view into a relatively new technique for studying language, and a diverse, exciting collection of studies of variation in English....
Studies in Language and Linguistics General Editors- Geoffrey Leech, Department of Modern English Language, Lancaster University and Jenny Thoma...
It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, paragraphs, headings and sub-headings, all of which help the reader to understand how the words are organised into sentences, and sentences are organised into a coherent text. In a spoken text, this typographical information is necessarily absent. So how do readers and speakers provide equivalent information to the listener? Intonation in Text and Discourse describes the way in which speech melody, or intonation, is used to signal the...
It is clear that a printed text provides the reader with more information than the words alone. This includes punctuation marks, capitalisation, pa...
