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The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction
by Andreea S. CaludeThis accessible textbook introduces concepts and frameworks from linguistics and uses them in the analysis of language on social media. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics and with examples drawn from 12 different social media platforms, including TikTok, Twitter (the book was written prior to the X rebrand), Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction provides the tools to unpick how language is used to portray a particular identity, to persuade, to inform, to amuse and entertain, to vent and to complain. Analysing the language of social media highlights the strategies which operate in the messages and posts found on such platforms. Together, these strategies involve a wide variety of language registers, creativity and language play and a wealth of linguistic innovation. By evidencing the many nuanced ways in which people are engaging with social media, this book demonstrates how users of social media are linguistically savvy, strategic and skilled in navigating different genres and registers online. The book is divided into ten chapters, each comprising two parts: Part 1 introduces key linguistic theory and Part 2 consists of case studies with examples from different social media platforms to demonstrate a particular discourse purpose. Each chapter ends with a summary, references, suggested further readings and ideas for activities and discussions. There are multiple-choice questions and a glossary available online as support material. This is the essential textbook for all courses on language and social media, linguistics and language and communication courses.
The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction
by Andreea S. CaludeThis accessible textbook introduces concepts and frameworks from linguistics and uses them in the analysis of language on social media. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics and with examples drawn from 12 different social media platforms, including TikTok, Twitter (the book was written prior to the X rebrand), Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, The Linguistics of Social Media: An Introduction provides the tools to unpick how language is used to portray a particular identity, to persuade, to inform, to amuse and entertain, to vent and to complain.Analysing the language of social media highlights the strategies which operate in the messages and posts found on such platforms. Together, these strategies involve a wide variety of language registers, creativity and language play and a wealth of linguistic innovation. By evidencing the many nuanced ways in which people are engaging with social media, this book demonstrates how users of social media are linguistically savvy, strategic and skilled in navigating different genres and registers online.The book is divided into ten chapters, each comprising two parts: Part 1 introduces key linguistic theory and Part 2 consists of case studies with examples from different social media platforms to demonstrate a particular discourse purpose. Each chapter ends with a summary, references, suggested further readings and ideas for activities and discussions. There are multiple-choice questions and a glossary available online as support material. This is the essential textbook for all courses on language and social media, linguistics and language and communication courses.
The Linguistics of Spoken Communication in Early Modern English Writing: Exploring Bess Of Hardwick's Manuscript Letters (New Approaches To English Historical Linguistics Ser.)
by Imogen MarcusThis book uses a corpus of manuscript letters from Bess of Hardwick to investigate how linguistic features characteristic of spoken communication function within early modern epistolary prose. Using these letters as a primary data source with reference to other epistolary materials from the early modern period (1500-1750), the author examines them in a unique and systematic way. The book is the first of its kind to combine a replicable scribal profiling technique, used to identify holograph and scribal handwriting within the letters, with innovative analyses of the language they contain. Furthermore, by adopting a discourse-analytic approach to the language and making reference to the socio-historical context of language use, the book provides an alternative perspective to the one often presented in traditional historical accounts of English. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern English and historical linguistics.
The Linguistics of the History of English
by Remco KnooihuizenThis textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective. The book provides a brief chronological overview describing the way in which the English language has changed over time from Old English to Modern English, while subsequent parts adopt a theoretical focus that is thematically organised to deal with the question of how and why English changed in the way it did, including a part addressing some specific contact-induced changes and key topics such as English as a Lingua Franca. Supported throughout with information boxes with empirical studies, the examples given are all drawn from English, but boxes with examples from other languages tie the development of the English language into changes in other contexts and settings. This book is an ideal resource for undergraduate students of the English Language and historical linguistics.
The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and The Battle Over Deep Structure
by Randy Allen HarrisThis book tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen Harris portrays the extraordinary personalities that were central to the dispute and its aftermath, alongside the data, technical developments, and social currents that fueled the unfolding and expanding schism. This new edition, updated to cover the more than twenty-five years since its original publication and to trace the impact of that schism on the shape of linguistics in the twenty-first century, is essential reading for all those interested in the study of language, the making of knowledge, and some of the most brilliant minds of our era.
A Linguistics Workbook (4th edition)
by Ann K. FarmerIt is extremely important that students become familiar with the structural properties of languages other than English. In A Linguistics Workbook, therefore, we have provided exercises based on a wide variety of the world's languages.
Linguistik: Eine Einführung (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten
by Ralf Klabunde Wiltrud MihatschDieses Buch führt Sie in die Welt der Linguistik ein. Anhand des Deutschen sowie mit Bezügen zu den Sprachen Spanisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Englisch lernen Sie, wie in der Linguistik methodisch vorgegangen wird, wie Sprachen lautlich und grammatisch strukturiert sind, sowie welche Bedeutungsphänomene auftreten. In weiteren Kapiteln lernen Sie regionale sowie soziale Variationen einer Sprache kennen, die historische Entwicklung von Sprachen, die Analyse von Texten sowie die Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Schrift. Über ihre Sprache(n) haben Menschen schon immer nachgedacht. Man versteht die Methodik und Ziele der heutigen Linguistik besser, wenn die geschichtliche Entwicklung dieser Disziplin in Grundzügen bekannt ist. Im letzten Kapitel lernen Sie daher anhand von Biographien ausgewählter Koryphäen der Linguistik, welche Entwicklungen die Linguistik geprägt haben. In jedem Kapitel befinden sich Selbstfragen sowie Übungsaufgaben, mit denen Sie die gelernten Inhalte einüben und vertiefen können.
Linguistik: Eine Einführung (nicht Nur) Für Germanisten, Romanisten Und Anglisten
by Wiltrud Mihatsch Ralf Klabunde Stefanie DipperDieses Buch führt Sie in die Welt der Linguistik ein. Anhand des Deutschen sowie mit Bezügen zu den Sprachen Spanisch, Französisch, Italienisch und Englisch lernen Sie, wie in der Linguistik methodisch vorgegangen wird, wie Sprachen lautlich und grammatisch strukturiert sind, sowie welche Bedeutungsphänomene auftreten. In weiteren Kapiteln lernen Sie regionale sowie soziale Variationen einer Sprache kennen, die historische Entwicklung von Sprachen, die Analyse von Texten sowie die Beziehung zwischen Sprache und Schrift. Über ihre Sprache(n) haben Menschen schon immer nachgedacht. Man versteht die Methodik und Ziele der heutigen Linguistik besser, wenn die geschichtliche Entwicklung dieser Disziplin in Grundzügen bekannt ist. Im letzten Kapitel lernen Sie daher anhand von Biographien ausgewählter Koryphäen der Linguistik, welche Entwicklungen die Linguistik geprägt haben. In jedem Kapitel befinden sich Selbstfragen sowie Übungsaufgaben, mit denen Sie die gelernten Inhalte einüben und vertiefen können.
Linguistik im Sprachvergleich: Germanistik – Romanistik – Anglistik
by Ralf Klabunde Wiltrud Mihatsch Stefanie Dipper Gerald Bernhard Frank Kügler Björn RothsteinDieses Lehrbuch führt aus einer komparatistischen Perspektive in die linguistische Beschreibung und Analyse des Deutschen, Englischen, Französischen, Italienischen und Spanischen ein. Die charakteristischen Lauteigenschaften, Flexionsmerkmale und Wortbildungsprozesse sowie der diesen Sprachen eigene Satzbau werden vorgestellt. Eigene Kapitel widmen sich den historischen Entwicklungen dieser Sprachen sowie den sozial und geographisch geprägten Varietäten, so dass eine umfassende Darstellung dieser fünf Sprachen, ihrer Strukturen, ihres Gebrauchs und ihrer historischen Entwicklung entsteht. Zwei Kapitel zur Semantik und Pragmatik, die universelle Aspekte der Bedeutungsanalyse bzw. der Prinzipien des Sprachgebrauchs erläutern, runden das Bild ab. – Im zweifarbigen Layout mit Definitionen, Vertiefungen und Übungsaufgaben. Goethe formulierte: „Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen“. Prägnanter kann man den Nutzen einer komparatistischen Darstellung nicht formulieren. Um die Besonderheiten des Deutschen klar zu erkennen, ist die Gegenüberstellung mit der dominanten Weltsprache Englisch sowie den romanischen Sprachen Französisch, Italienisch und Spanisch von großem Nutzen. Für Studierende des Englischen und romanischer Sprachen erlaubt die komparatistische Perspektive einen besonders reflektierten Zugang zur Linguistik der studierten Fremdsprache. Dieses Buch setzt auf Basiswissen zur Linguistik auf, das im Rahmen eines B.A.-Studiums z.B. in Einführungskursen vermittelt wird. Das 2018 im Springer-Verlag erschienene Lehrbuch „Linguistik. Eine Einführung (nicht nur) für Germanisten, Romanisten und Anglisten“ führt in das notwendige Basiswissen ein und verwendet hierfür dieselben didaktischen Mittel, die auch in diesem Buch verwendet werden. In jedem Kapitel befinden sich Selbstfragen, mit denen die gelernten Inhalte eingeübt und vertieft werden können. Die Antworten auf die Selbstfragen werden zur Kontrolle am Ende der Kapitel angegeben.
Linguistische Diskursanalyse: neue Perspektiven
by Dietrich Busse Wolfgang TeubertSpätestens seit dem Erscheinen von Dietrich Busses und Wolfgang Teuberts Aufsatz ,,Ist Diskurs ein sprachwissenschaftliches Objekt?" (1994) hat die Linguistische Diskursanalyse (manchmal mit dem Zusatz versehen ,,nach Foucault") ein vielfältiges Echo in und außerhalb der Sprachwissenschaft gefunden. Insbesondere Sozialwissenschaftler sind mit dieser Forschungsrichtung in einen interdisziplinären Dialog eingetreten, der in den verschiedensten Foren und Forschungsverbünden bis heute anhält. Diesem Dialog soll im vorliegenden Band ebenso nachgegangen werden wie den Veränderungen in der Perspektive auf eine sprachwissenschaftlich fundierte Diskursanalyse, die sich durch teilweise auseinanderstrebende jüngere Auffassungen der beiden Herausgeber ergeben haben.
Linked Noun Groups: Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers
by Michael Pace-SiggeThis book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'. Crucially, the occurrence pattern of such pairs is dependent on genre, and this book aims to document the structural distribution of some key Linked Noun Groups (LNGs). The author looks at the usage patterns found in a range of poetry and fiction dating from the 17th to 20th century, and also highlights the important role such binomials play in academic English, while acknowledging that they are far less common in casual spoken English. His findings will be highly relevant to students and scholars working in language teaching, stylistics, and language technology (including AI).
Linking Discourse Studies to Professional Practice
by Lubie Grujicic-AlatristeThis book examines how discourse analysts could best disseminate their research findings in real world settings. Each chapter presents a study of spoken or written discourse with authors putting forward a plan for how to engage professional practice in their work, using this volume's Framework for Application. Techniques used include Conversation Analysis in combination with other methods, Genre Analysis in combination with other methods, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Contributions are loosely grouped by setting and include the following: workplace and business settings; education settings; private and public settings; and government and media settings. The volume aims to link the end of research and the onset of praxis by helping analysts to move forward with ideas for dissemination, collaboration and even intervention. The book will be of interest to all researchers conducting discourse analysis in professional settings.
Linking Families, Learning, and Schooling: Parent–Researcher Perspectives
by Bobbie Kabuto Prisca MartensParents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars. In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children’s learning in the home and at school. Readers are given a window into learning in the home context and how all family members organize or engage in that learning. Working on two levels, the book develops scholarly discussions about learning in the home (how is it organized, who the participants are, and what children are learning), and it illustrates the impacts that outside institutions, in particular schools, have on families It is unique in showcasing parent-research as a type of research paradigm with particular aspects and challenges. Both teachers and researchers can learn from these studies as they show the impact that schooling has on families and how institutional discourses and beliefs can both positively and negatively affect the dynamics of any family.
Linking Form and Meaning: Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English
by Juhani RudankoThis book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation.
Linking Language: Simple Language and Literacy Activities Throughout the Curriculum
by Debra Hoge Bill Searcy Robert RockwellFilled with practical, everyday activities that build language development and early literacy into your daily schedule. Use circle time, snack time, dramatic play or any other time throughout the day to develop children's language skills. The authors discuss both expressive language (talking), and receptive language (listening), as well as the beginnings of reading and writing. Each cross-curricular activity includes ways to enhance children's vocabulary, questions to help the teacher evaluate the children's progress, an annotated list of books that relate to the activity, and age-appropriate suggestions for writing experiences.
Linking Language, Trade and Migration: Economic Partnership Agreements as Language Policy in Japan (Language Policy #33)
by Ruriko OtomoThis book examines the effect of trade policy on language which represents an underrecognized area in the field of language policy and planning. It argues that trade policies like Japan’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) have important consequences for national language (education) policies and for discourses about language and nation. Since 2008, Japan has signed the EPAs with Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to recruit migrant nurses and eldercare workers and manage their mobility by means of pre-employment language training and the Japanese-medium licensure examinations. Through the analysis of these language management devices, this book demonstrates that the EPAs are a manifestation and representation of contemporary language issues intertwined particularly with pressing issues of Japan’s social aging and demographic change. As the EPAs are intertwined with welfare, economy, social cohesion, and international political and economic relations and competitiveness, the book presents a far more complex picture of and a richer potential of language policy.
Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction: An Application Worktext for Elementary Classroom Teachers
by Arleen Shearer Mariotti Susan P. HomanNow in its Fifth Edition, this text applies current theory to classroom practice by providing, in each chapter, a brief explanation of major concepts followed by guided practical experience in administering, scoring, and interpreting reading assessment techniques. The Fifth Edition is revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field. New activities are included throughout. A Companion Website for instructors and students, a value-added feature, is new for this edition. Like previous editions of this popular text, this edition Emphasizes the use of assessment and diagnosis for instructional decision making Stresses the use of informal assessment techniques - reflecting the current emphasis in educational assessment theories - but also includes usage of standardized test scores Provides numerous classroom-tested, hands-on activities, giving students step-by-step experiences in administering, scoring, and interpreting assessment techniques This text covers assessment/diagnosis in all five critical reading areas: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It is designed for undergraduate and graduate courses in reading diagnosis, reading methods that include a diagnostic component, and for in-service courses on reading/literacy development and diagnosis. http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415802093/
Lion Spies a Tiger (Bright Owl Books)
by Molly CoxeLion has pride in his sight. But at night? His eyes aren't fine. This fun photographic easy-to-read story features the long "i" vowel sound. Kane Press's new series of super simple easy-to-reads, Bright Owl Books, adds Molly Coxe's five fun photographic long vowel stories, which are each only around 100–200 words. Molly Coxe's stories help kids learn to read by teaching the basic building blocks of reading—vowel sounds. With a note to parents and teachers at the beginning and story starters at the end, these books give kids the perfect start on educational success. Bright Owl Books make bright owl readers!
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by C.S. Lewis Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women (Voices from Asia #9)
by Susan Fulop KepnerKepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexuality, spousal abuse, gender oppression. Others display a scintillating sense of humor. They touch on many themes—injustice, the heartlessness of society, loneliness, the difficult choices that life presents. Susan Kepner's lyrical, faithful translations preserve the tenor and resonances of these voices, many of which will be heard for the first time by English-speaking readers.
The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
by Susie LinfieldA lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political, the book includes philosophers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Hannah Arendt, Arthur Koestler, I. F. Stone, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century’s most crucial political dilemmas: socialism, nationalism, democracy, colonialism, terrorism, and anti-Semitism. In other words, in probing Zionism, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti-Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward.
The Lions Whiskers: An Ethiopian Story (Comprehension Power Readers)
by Jan MikeIn this tale from the Amhara people of Ethiopia, a patient Woman uses her experience with a Wild Lion to win the love of her New Stepson.
Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America (Early American Studies)
by Michele Currie NavakasIn Florida, land and water frequently change places with little warning, dissolving homes and communities along with the very concepts of boundaries themselves. While Florida's landscape of saturated swamps, shifting shorelines, coral reefs, and tiny keys initially impeded familiar strategies of early U.S. settlement, such as the establishment of fixed dwellings, sturdy fences, and cultivated fields, over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans learned to inhabit Florida's liquid landscape in unconventional but no less transformative ways.In Liquid Landscape, Michele Currie Navakas analyzes the history of Florida's incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters. From early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys, early American culture turned repeatedly to Florida's shifting lands and waters, as well as to its itinerant enclaves of Native Americans, Spaniards, pirates, and runaway slaves.This preoccupation with Floridian terrain and populations, argues Navakas, reveals a deep American concern with the challenges of settling a region so exceptional in topography, geography, and demography. Navakas reads a vast archive of popular, literary, and reference texts spanning Revolution to Reconstruction, including works by William Bartram, James Fenimore Cooper, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, to uncover an alternative history of American possession, one that did not descend exclusively, or even primarily, from the more familiar legal, political, and philosophical conceptions of American land as enduring, solid, and divisible. The shifting southern edge of early America produced a new language of settlement, belonging, territory, and sovereignty, and that language would ultimately transform how people all across the rapidly changing continent imagined the making of U.S. nation and empire.
Lire la communication-monde au XXIe siècle (Hors collection)
by Professeur Bertrand CabedocheHallowed in course titles and leveraged in the nomenclature of international organizations, yet unfit to bring any clarification or synthesis that actually provides structure, the objectifying expression communication internationale has no scientific value, except as a research object. Yet, the expression bears meanings that must urgently be put into perspective, since it lends itself to discursive construct which often varies greatly according to the crossed—and often masked—interests of an ever-increasing number of actors on a global scale and based on the political-cultural fields where these tactical productions are disseminated. The first option for an enlightening approach is through the thread of an academically recognized discipline. More specifically, the introduction of information-communication science in France in 1978 opens up a corpus of theoretical approaches and epistemological questionings that are already meaningful, although they are limited to a single country. Taking notice of the multiple and sometimes competing scientific productions and collaborations that extend this time to whole continents, the crossed questioning reveals epistemological, theoretical, conceptual, and methodological inflections that support a provisional state of the research. Then, the concept of communication-monde, sketched by Armand Mattelart and elevated to the rank of structuring concept in the book, enables us to read the global stakes of communication as we step into the third millennium and acts as a decentring force against the permanent risks of ethnocentric thinking.
Lire le monde: Les littératies multiples et l’éducation dans les communautés francophones (Collection Questions en éducation)
by Diana MasnyLe mot littératie désigne l'ensemble des connaissances nécessaires à la lecture et à l'écriture. Nouveau en éducation, le concept des littératies multiples reflète notre ère de la mondialisation, où lire et écrire ne sont plus confinés à l'imprimé. Il s'agit de parler, de lire, d'écrire et de valoriser les réalités de la vie dans la multiplicité et la complexité, c'est-à-dire lire, se lire et lire le monde tout en tenant compte du visuel, de l'oral, de l'écrit, du tactile et de l'hypermédiatique. Ce recueil remet en question la culture de l'écrit et aborde les diverses dimensions des littératies multiples par rapport aux mathématiques, à la musique, aux sciences et à la santé, et ce, pour les enfants, les adolescents et les adultes en milieu minoritaire. Il s'adresse aux chercheurs, aux praticiens, aux intervenants et aux organismes gouvernementaux et communautaires qui doivent comprendre comment les minorités linguistiques lisent au 21e siècle.Publié en français