Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - General

Future technical systems will be companion systems, competent assistants that function in a completely individualized way, adapting to the user's capabilities, preferences, requirements, and emotional state. The chapters in this edited book present an enabling technology for such systems, divided into sections on planning and decision-making, interaction and dialogue, and situation and emotion. The book is suitable for researchers in artificial intelligence.

Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...

herausgegeben von
Wolfgang G. Stock (Dusseldorf)

in enger Zusammenarbeit mit
Ronald E. Day (Bloomington, Indiana, USA),
Richard J. Hartley (Manchester, Grobritannien),
Robert M. Hayes (Los Angeles, California, USA),
Peter Ingwersen (Kopenhagen, Danemark),
Michel J. Menou (Les Rosiers sur Loire, Frankreich, and London, Grobritannien),
Stefano Mizzaro (Udine, Italien),
Christian Schlogl (Graz, Osterreich),
Sirje Virkus (Tallinn, Estland)

Mitherausgeberin
Katsiaryna S. Baran (Dusseldorf)

ISSN 1868-842X

Knowledge and...

This collection examines the urban multilingual realities of inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula in the early 21st century from the perspectives of learners, teachers and researchers. Focusing on both public and private spheres, it considers the importance of both English and immigrants' languages in a context of rapid socioeconomic development. Extending beyond English-Arabic societal bilingualism, the language practices of the Peninsula's citizens and residents serve multiple purposes in their daily lived realities. Chapters on home and heritage languages, identity, ELT, commercial...

Modern Chinese Grammar provides a comprehensive coverage of Chinese grammar through the clause-pivot theory and the double triangle approach, first proposed by Fuyi Xing in 1996.

Translated into English for the first time, the book is widely regarded by linguists as a seminal text, and ground-breaking in linguistics research. The book contains discussion of the topics which are essential to Chinese grammar, from words and phrases, to complex sentences and sentence groups. It addresses such controversial issues as word class identification, the distinction between...

For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible - if not, perhaps, comprehensible - to other communities.

Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust Studies in order to show what a critical understanding of translation in practice and context...

The emergence of intelligent technologies, sophisticated natural language processing methodologies and huge textual repositories, invites a new approach for the challenge of automatically identifying personality dimensions through the analysis of textual data. This short book aims to (1) introduce the challenge of computational personality analysis, (2) present a unique approach to personality analysis and (3) illustrate this approach through case studies and worked-out examples.

This book is of special relevance to psychologists, especially those interested in the new insights...

This is a subject of particular importance and difficulty in common law systems because of the changeable nature of equitable proprietary interests, and this book provides a clear and structured explanation of the current state of the law, with detailed reference to case law...

This integrated and cutting‐edge overview of codeswitching from sociolinguistic, linguistic, and educational perspectives examines language mixing in teaching and learning contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The focus is on classroom settings-- the pedagogical consequences of codeswitching for teaching and learning of language and content in one‐way and two‐way bilingual classrooms. The theme of the book responds to a recent surge of interest in pedagogical applications of bilingual language mixing, and engages related topics from theoretical,...

From the middle of the twentieth century, dozens of medievalists and other performers have recorded early English. Many educational institutions already own sound recordings of English before 1500, or may wish to purchase the most useful ones available. This discography aims to assist teachers, administrators and librarians to make the best use of their resources.