Lexical Conflict combines theoretical and applied linguistic perspectives to explore the lexical richness of over 100 world languages. The text systematises cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences and then formulates strategies of lexic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Feb-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262537087)
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being—from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch—can enrich our emotional understanding and experience....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262525718)
The twenty chapters in this book show both sides of the interaction between logic and language: how logical systems are designed and modified in response to linguistic needs, and how mathematical theory arises out of this process and affects su...Loe edasi...
Sari: European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631675946)
This book focuses on Muslim–Christian cultural relations across a number of centuries. As for the methodology, the book represents an intersection of religious studies, linguistics and translations studies. The bases of research are a Tatar tefsir...Loe edasi...
Abied Alsulaiman, Ahmed Allaithy, Kara Warburton, Tegnougui Karima
Sari: Handbook of Terminology
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027201980)
The current volume represents a revival of Arabic translation and terminology studies. These disciplines have been dominated by Western scholarship in recent decades, but in truth their historical tradition as a whole owes a great debt to Arabic scho...Loe edasi...
Andrzej Katny, Izabela Olszewska, Aleksandra Twardowska
Sari: Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631749876)
The book presents issues connected with languages of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews: Judeo-Spanish, Yiddish, and co-territorial languages. It contains linguistic and sociolinguistic descriptions, the presentation of languages in literary works an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521839327)
An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. The Lexicon can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and includes a range of exercises and in-class activities designed...Loe edasi...
An accessible introduction to lexical structure and design, and the relation of the lexicon to grammar as a whole. The Lexicon can be used for introductory and advanced courses, and includes a range of exercises and in-class activities designed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, ISBN-13: 9781869144043)
Constitutes a significant source of information on the folklore of the Xhosa-speaking peoples and the state of their language in the early decades of the twentieth century, explored through the notes and writing of Robert Godfrey....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2018, Paperback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262535731)
A new edition of a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of language, substantially updated and reorganized.The philosophy of language aims to answer a broad range of questions about the nature of language, including “what is...Loe edasi...
Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I, specific examples from global linguistic corpora are used to discuss the is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, ISBN-13: 9783034329408)
Reflecting current understanding of vocabulary as a multifaceted construct, this edited volume presents a collection of qualitative and quantitative studies which shed light on key theoretical concepts associated with learning and using vocabul...Loe edasi...
This volume provides concise, authoritative accounts of the approaches and methodologies of modern lexicography and of the aims and qualities of its end products. Leading scholars and professional lexicographers, from all over the world and represent...Loe edasi...
Sari: IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: John Benjamins Publishing Co, ISBN-13: 9789027202253)
In all languages, humans frequently use linguistic combinations called phraseological units (PUs) in communicative acts. These PUs are characterized by their institutionalized fixation and, in many cases, by their opacity. Traditionally, the work on...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631747582)
The study provides a comprehensive description of ‹general nouns› from a micro- and macro-linguistic perspective. A corpus of different spoken and written genres is the basis for a detailed quantitative and qualitative analysis, which shows that ‘...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319927152)
This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners’ awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can en...Loe edasi...
This book looks at the range of Johnsons writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. It casts new light on Johnsons life in language provides a convincing reassessment of his impact on English culture, the maki...Loe edasi...
Sebastian Hoffmann, Andrea Sand, Sabine Arndt-Lappe, Lisa Marie Dillmann
Sari: Language and Computers
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Sep-2018, Mixed media product, Kirjastus: Brill, ISBN-13: 9789004361140)
This collection of research articles provides state-of-the-art research in corpus linguistics on lexis and lexico-grammar, focussing on major corpus resources (both corpora and software tools), their theoretical implications and the pedagogical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107187702)
This wide-ranging history of womens contributions to lexicography is aimed at readers interested in womens roles in writing, the history of English, or the practices of dictionary making. It establishes the importance of women as dictionary p...Loe edasi...