In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between groups is linked to modifications in the status of their language. The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning. This comprehensive analysis of the Quebec language issue exposes the material and symbolic causes of these legislative measures and assesses their effects. This detailed appraisal also provides answers to more general questions of the nature of language laws and the...
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; change in power relations between ...
Il y a plus d un siecle, Michel Breal institua l analyse du sens dans le langage. A partir de la, le developpement de la semantique repose sur des paradigmes, qui constituent de veritables metaphores de la nature generale du langage. Cet ouvrage montre que, hors des modeles logiques, la semantique s est historiquement developpee a travers quatre paradigmes. Le sens linguistique releve de la vie mentale des individus pour le paradigme psychologiste qui reunit Breal, Brunot, Damourette et Pichon, Guillaume et Bally. La nature incertaine de cette vie mentale porte le structuralisme de...
Il y a plus d un siecle, Michel Breal institua l analyse du sens dans le langage. A partir de la, le developpement de la semantique repose sur des par...
La notion de contradiction traverse l organisation du langage. Elle structure le lexique, motive des constructions syntaxiques et est un mode d organisation du discours. C est ce que demontrent les etudes reunies dans cet ouvrage eclairant des cas jusqu ici peu etudies, dans un ensemble de langues proches et plus eloignees, anciennes et modernes. Ces etudes suggerent la recurrence d une meme notion a differents niveaux de structuration, de la langue au discours, permettant l integration de dimensions heterogenes. Se trouve ainsi affirmee l idee que les tensions entre contrariete et...
La notion de contradiction traverse l organisation du langage. Elle structure le lexique, motive des constructions syntaxiques et est un mode d organi...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing onhow negation is marked andhow negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume.Leading specialists in the field presentnovel ideas by employing variousexperimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French,...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing...
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a case in point of the relation between social change and language planning.
In a multilingual society, the role of each language is parallel to the importance of the community that speaks it; The Quebec language laws provide a...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing onhow negation is marked andhow negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and neg-raising are also explored in the volume.Leading specialists in the field presentnovel ideas by employing variousexperimental methods in felicity judgments, eye tracking, self-paced readings, prosody and ERP. Particular attention is given to extensive crosslinguistc data from French,...
This volume offers insights on experimental andempirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing...
