Author(s): Ronald W. Langacker Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2008 ISBN: 0195331958,9780195331950 Description: This book fills a longstanding need for a basic introduction to Cognitive Grammar that is current, authoritative, comprehensive, and approachable. It presents a synthesis that draws together and refines the descriptive and theoretical notions developed...
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Author(s): Urs Egli, Peter E. Pause, Christoph Schwarze, Arnim von Stechow, Götz Wienold (Eds.) Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 114 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Year: 1995 ISBN: 9027236178,9789027236173 Description: This book contains a selection of the papers given at an international conference at the University of...
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Author(s): Antoine Culioli Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 112 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Year: 1995 ISBN: 9027236151,9789027236159 Description: The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of...
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Author(s): William Pagliuca (Ed.) Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 109 Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Year: 1994 ISBN: 9027236127,9789027236128 Description: This is the second of two volumes deriving from papers presented at the Nineteenth Annual UWM linguistics Symposium held in Milwaukee in 1990. It focuses on the...
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Author(s): Edward L. Keenan Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 1975 ISBN: 0521206979,9780521206976 Description: A volume of studies in natural language semantics which brings together work by philosophers, logicians and linguists. The main topics treated are: quantification and reference in natural language; the relations between formal logic, programming languages...
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Author(s): Paul Warren Series: Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2013 ISBN: 0521113636,9780521113632 Description: Psycholinguistics is the study of how humans produce and understand language. This textbook provides a clear introduction to the subject for students with a basic knowledge of linguistics. It...
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Author(s): Deirdre Wilson, Dan Sperber Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2012 ISBN: 052176677X,9780521766777,9780521747486 Description: When people speak, their words never fully encode what they mean, and the context is always compatible with a variety of interpretations. How can comprehension ever be achieved? Wilson and Sperber argue that comprehension...
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Author(s): Beyza Björkman Series: Developments in English As a Lingua Franca Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton, Year: 2013 ISBN: 3110279142,9783110279146 Description: As a result of globalization, higher education institutions throughout the world are adopting English for parts of their education. Higher education is becoming increasingly international and thus linguistically...
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Author(s): Tej K. Bhatia (editor), William C. Ritchie (editor) Series: Blackwell handbooks in linguistics Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Year: 2012 ISBN: 1444334905,9781444334906 Description: Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism. Includes the addition of ten new authors...
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