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

Forschungen zu Deutsch als Zweitsprache und Mehrsprachigkeit umfassen ein weites Spektrum an Themen und Fragestellungen, die von unterschiedlichen Disziplinen untersucht werden. Forschungsmethodische Entscheidungen sind dabei abhangig von Forschungsfragen und theoretischen Rahmenbedingungen. Entsprechend der Vielfalt der Fragestellungen und Ansatze ergibt sich fur Untersuchungen zum Zweitspracherwerb ein weites Feld an methodischen Verfahren. Der vorliegende Band thematisiert sehr unterschiedliche empirische Methoden, deren Vorteile und Grenzen von den Autoren in Zusammenhang mit konkreten...

Functionalism, as characterized by Allen, (2007:254) "holds that linguistic structures can only be understood and explained with reference to the semantic and communicative functions of language, whose primary function is to be a vehicle for social interaction among human beings." Since the 1970s, inspired by the work of Jespersen, Bolinger, Dik, Halliday, and Chafe, functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory and to various subfields within linguistics, such as syntax, discourse, language acquisition, cognitive...

The claim that crosslinguistic disparities foster differences in nonlinguistic thought, often referred to as 'linguistic relativity', has for some time been the subject of intense debate. For much of that time the debate was not informed by much experimental work. Recently, however, there has been an explosion of research on linguistic relativity, carried out by numerous scholars interested in the interaction between language and nonlinguistic cognition. This book surveys the rapidly accruing research on this topic, much of it carried out in the last decade. Structured so as to be...

This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese. It shows that the contrast between count and mass is not binary. Instead, there are two independently attested features: Numerability, the ability of a noun to combine with a numeral directly, and Delimitability, the ability of a noun to be modified by a delimitive modifier, such as size, shape, or boundary modifier. Although all nouns in Chinese are non-count nouns, there is still a mass/non-mass contrast, with mass nouns selected...

-- Noah Webster

What makes American English American? In 1800, irascible patriot Noah Webster set out to answer this question by tirelessly recording the vocabulary of a novel breed -- the American citizen. Though he was a political conservative, his "American Dictionary of the English Language" was born out of his deeply held and profoundly democratic conviction that language was by and for the people. A word's popularity, no matter how lowly its origins, was its criterion for inclusion. Webster's...