Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Historical & Comparative

In "Between East and West/Word and Image," Geng Youzhuang, one of China s leading intellectuals, offers an original and sophisticated analysis of both Western cultural and literary theory and contemporary Chinese thought. In this fascinating exploration of the respective intellectual traditions within China and the West, Geng shows how the dynamics at work between word and image become a parable for understanding the larger relationship between Chinese and Western ideas.

Geng first surveys influential Western thinkers and their ideas, with a special focus on the relations between words...

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, theoretical biology, genetics, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this book offers a collection of chapters situating the enterprise conceptually, highlighting both the promises and challenges of the field, and chapters focusing on the challenges and prospects of taking interdisciplinarity seriously. It provides concrete illustrations of some of the cutting-edge research in biolinguistics and piques the interest of undergraduate students...

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing. To date, most longitudinal research has been conducted on the basis of trend studies, such as replications of cross-sectional studies, or comparisons between present-day cross-sectional data and 'legacy' data. While the past few years have seen an increasing interest in panel research, much of this work has been published in a variety of formats and languages and is thus not easily accessible. This edited volume brings together the major researchers in the field of panel research,...

Por que? 101 Questions about Spanish is for anyone who wants to understand how Spanish really works. Standard textbooks and grammars describe the "what" of Spanish - its vocabulary, grammar, spelling, and pronunciation - but Por que? explains the "why."

Judy Hochberg draws on linguistic principles, Hispanic culture, and language history to answer questions such as:

Why are so many Spanish verbs irregular? - Why does Spanish have different ways to say "you"? - Why is h silent? - Why doesn't Spanish use apostrophes? - Why does Castilian Spanish have the...

Anabel Ternes setzt sich kritisch mit den Theorien der Intertextualitat auseinander und diskutiert dabei die Forschung, hier unter anderem Bachtin, Kristeva, Foucault, de Saussure, Genette sowie Lachmann. Das Hauptziel der Autorin liegt darin, eine Semiotik der Intertextualitat zu entwickeln. Denn Worter verandern ihre Bedeutung, tragen aber immer Traditionen der Verwendung in sich. Zusammengesetzt zu Texten ergibt sich ein Mosaik, eine Collage. Dazu diskutiert die Autorin vier Dimensionen von Intertextualitat.

Die Studie betrachtet die deutschen Perfektkonstruktionen HABEN + V-PP und SEIN + V-PP aus gebrauchsbasierter Perspektive. Dazu nimmt sie eine detailliert Untersuchung in zwei Zeitschnitten vor: Zum einen werden alle Perfektformen in den groeren fruhalthochdeutschen und altsachsischen Textdenkmalern analysiert und ihr Grammatikalisierungsgrad verglichen. Dabei stehen Frequenz, Funktion und Distribution der Hilfsverbkonstruktionen im Vordergrund. Es zeigt sich, dass beide Konstruktionen bereits seit den fruhesten Belegen grammatikalisiert sind und Perfektfunktion erfullen....