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Showing posts with label Linguistics. Show all posts
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 14-Volume Set (2nd Ed.)
Elsevier Science | ISBN 0080442994 | 2 edition (December 27, 2005) | 12.000 pages | PDF | 165 Mb
The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics.
Metaphor and Metonymy in Comparison and Contrast
Llh | 605 Pages | 2004-07 | ISBN: 3110173743 | PDF | 31 MB
The book elaborates one of Roman Jakobson's many iant ideas, i.e. his insight that the two cognitive strategies of the metaphoric and the metonymic are the end-points on a continuum of conceptualization processes. This elaboration is achieved on the background of Lakoff and Johnson's two-domain approach, i.e. the mapping of a source onto a target domain of conceptualization.
Discourse and Identity (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521834023 | 2006-07-24 | File type: PDF | 476 pages | 1.19 mb
The relationship between language, discourse and identity has always been a major area of sociolinguistic investigation. In more recent times, the field has been revolutionized as previous models - which assumed our identities to be based on stable relationships between linguistic and social variables - have been challenged by pioneering new approaches to the topic.
Language and Identity: An introduction
Cambridge University Press | 328 Pages | 2009-10-30 | ISBN: 0521873819 |
PDF | 1,6 MB
The language we use forms an important part of our sense of who we are - of our identity. This book outlines the relationship between our identity as members of groups - ethnic, national, religious and gender - and the language varieties important to each group.
Structural Linguistics
University of Chicago / University of Toronto | 384 Pages | 1986 | ISBN 0226317722 | DJVU 7 MB
The purpose of this book is to organize the whole field of descriptive linguistics into a single body of theory and practice, presenting a unitary approach to linguistic analysis.
Register, Genre, and Style
Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521860601 | 2009-11-23 | PDF | 354 pages | 1.12 Mb
This book describes the most important kinds of texts in English and introduces the methodological techniques used to analyse them. Three analytical approaches are introduced and compared, describing a wide range of texts from the perspectives of register, genre and style.
