ilość książek w kategorii: 3474
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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles
ISBN: 9780521584609 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic concepts, it surveys the new languages that developed as a result of the European expansion to the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Long misunderstood as "bad" versions of European languages, today such varieties as Jamaican Creole English, Haitian Creole French and New Guinea Pidgin are recognized as distinct languages in their own right.
This textbook is a clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being. Starting with an overview of the field's basic co...
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485,91 zł |
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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
ISBN: 9780521591911 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology...
The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken lan...
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333,72 zł |
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Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
ISBN: 9780521597890 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken language. The book discusses key approaches to stylistic variation, including such issues as attention paid to speech, audience design, identity construction, the corpus study of register, genre, distinctiveness and the anthropological study of style. Rigorous and engaging, this book will become the standard work on stylistic variation. It will be welcomed by students and academics in sociolinguistics, English language, dialectology, anthropology...
The volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to create a broad perspective on the study of style and variation in spoken lan...
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199,98 zł |
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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form
ISBN: 9780521781572 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this topic, particularly from a standpoint in theoretical linguistics. It is suitable for students of human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology and general linguistics. It is the outcome of a major international conference on the evolution of language and includes contributions from many of the best known figures in this field. Very few truly interdisciplinary volumes on this topic have previously been published.
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this ...
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490,52 zł |
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The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form
ISBN: 9780521786966 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Evolutionary Emergence of Language covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this topic, particularly from a standpoint in theoretical linguistics. It is suitable for students of human evolution, evolutionary psychology, linguistic anthropology and general linguistics. It is the outcome of a major international conference on the evolution of language and includes contributions from many of the best known figures in this field. Very few truly interdisciplinary volumes on this topic have previously been published.
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language covers the origins and early evolution of language. Its main purpose is to synthesize current thinking on this ...
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241,49 zł |
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Motives for Language Change
ISBN: 9780521793032 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offers an insight into the nature of language itself, its internal organization, and how it is acquired and used. Accordingly, the phenomenon of language change has been approached from a variety of perspectives by linguists of many different orientations. This book brings together leading figures from different areas of linguistics to re-examine some of the central issues in this field.
This volume considers the processes involved in language change and the issues of how they can be modelled and studied. The way languages change offer...
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485,91 zł |
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The Ecology of Language Evolution
ISBN: 9780521794756 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for genetic linguistics. Written by an internationally renowned linguist, the book surveys a wide range of examples of changes in the structure, function and vitality of languages, and suggests that similar ecologies have played the same kinds of roles in all cases of language evolution. The Ecology of Language Evolution will be welcomed by students and researchers in sociolinguistics, creolistics, theoretical linguistics and theories of evolution.
This major new work explores the development of creoles and other new languages, focusing on the conceptual and methodological issues they raise for g...
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190,76 zł |
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The History of the English Language: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780582312630 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive guide to the English language was first published in 1992. It features carefully chosen extracts that illustrate the development of English, examining particularly the stylistic variety of the language.
This comprehensive guide to the English language was first published in 1992. It features carefully chosen extracts that illustrate the development of...
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243,34 zł |
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Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush
ISBN: 9780618443741 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents have spoken to the American public and how the American public has wanted its presidents to speak.
Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Metcalf shows what contemporaries have said about the chief speakers in the White House. He explores the distinctive words that our presidents favored (and in many cases coined), along with the regional accents that livened the Oval Office. In addition, he uncovers the hidden influence of speechwriters and the... Perhaps more than anyone else, politicians are what they say and how they say it. In Presidential Voices, Metcalf examines both how the presidents hav...
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84,50 zł |
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The Handbook of Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 9780631195719 / Angielski / Twarda / 904 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work in historical linguistics, the area of linguistics most directly concerned with language change as well as past language states.
The Handbook of Historical Linguistics provides a detailed account of the numerous issues, methods, and results that characterize current work ...
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968,18 zł |
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Historical Linguistics: Theory and Method
ISBN: 9780631196617 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental concepts in historical linguistics.
This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental conc...
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563,39 zł |
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Historical Linguistics
ISBN: 9780631196624 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental concepts in historical linguistics.
This book goes beyond the boundaries of a standard text, using controversial and compelling ideas to explore the relationship between fundamental conc...
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189,34 zł |
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Western Linquistics
ISBN: 9780631208914 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and semantics, including logic) from Plato till today.
The volume concentrates on those issues that are of central concern to present-day theoretical linguistics, but also draws attention to episodes and issues that have unjustifiably slid into oblivion, such as the 18th century French grammarians or the great subject-predicate debate between 1850 and 1930. An effort has also been made to interpret events and developments in linguistic... This book provides a vital student resource - a single-volume critical survey of the complete history of Western theoretical linguistics (grammar and ...
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296,94 zł |
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The Mongolic Languages
ISBN: 9780700711338 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of a series designed as a reference for a particular linguistic community and for linguists working on typology and syntax, the data in this text is arranged according to the natural system of classification: phonology; morphology; syntax; lexis; semantics; dialectology and sociolinguistics.
Part of a series designed as a reference for a particular linguistic community and for linguists working on typology and syntax, the data in this text...
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1703,73 zł |
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Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data: An Atlas by the Numbers
ISBN: 9780761901129 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The chapters in this innovative book introduce the quantitative analysis of linguistic survey data with specific reference to the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS).
The chapters in this innovative book introduce the quantitative analysis of linguistic survey data with specific reference to the Linguistic Atlas of ...
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554,93 zł |
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Ferdinand de Saussure
ISBN: 9780801493898 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,84 zł |
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A Guide to the World's Languages: Volume I, Classification
ISBN: 9780804712507 / Angielski / Twarda / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes no background in linguistics. A postscript prepared for this paperback edition takes research data to 1990. The book is illustrated with 21 maps.
This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The...
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423,50 zł |
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The Indo-European Dialects
ISBN: 9780817353193 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work translates Meillet s classic philological study from the original 1908 French edition and the author s 1922 introduction to a new printing. Indexes, missing from the French editions, have been added by the translator for the convenience of the reader, as have bibliographical references to salient works from the half-century after original composition.
" This work translates Meillet s classic philological study from the original 1908 French edition and the author s 1922 introduction to a new printing. ...
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126,51 zł |
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From Syntax to Discourse: Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language
ISBN: 9781402004391 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the original model of past tense acquisition, Plunkett and Marchman (1993), Nakisa, Plunkett and Hahn (1996) and Elman et al. (1996) for developments and extensions to other morphological processes, and Marcus et al. (1992) and Pinker and Prince (1988) for criticism. One line of investigation supporting the view of language as a genetic endowment is closely linked to traditional research on language acquisition and argues as follows: If language is...
claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the origi...
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605,23 zł |
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From Syntax to Discourse: Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language
ISBN: 9781402004407 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the original model of past tense acquisition, Plunkett and Marchman (1993), Nakisa, Plunkett and Hahn (1996) and Elman et al. (1996) for developments and extensions to other morphological processes, and Marcus et al. (1992) and Pinker and Prince (1988) for criticism. One line of investigation supporting the view of language as a genetic endowment is closely linked to traditional research on language acquisition and argues as follows: If language is...
claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the origi...
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605,23 zł |