Category: Linguistics

This in-depth learn of using pragmatic markers by means of Spanish and English young ones deals perception into the at the moment under-investigated sector of juvenile speak during the research of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk.

This up to date and revised variation of Hamers and Blanc's winning textbook offers cutting-edge wisdom approximately languages in touch from person bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism. it truly is either multi- and interdisciplinary in process, and analyses bilingualism at person, interpersonal, and societal degrees. Linguistic, cognitive and sociocultural points of bilingual improvement are explored, as are difficulties equivalent to bilingual reminiscence and polyglot aphasia. Hamers and Blanc examine the connection among tradition, id, and language behaviour in multicultural settings, in addition to the verbal exchange recommendations in interpersonal and intergroup relatives. in addition they suggest theoretical types of language processing and improvement, that are then utilized to bilingual behaviour. different issues reviewed comprise language shift, pidgins and creoles, language making plans and bilingual schooling. This e-book may be necessary to scholars, lecturers and students drawn to languages in touch in a variety of disciplines together with psycholinguistics, linguistics, the social sciences, schooling and language planning.

Lanfranc of Pavia used to be archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, and so for nineteen severe years within the heritage of the Anglo-Norman church and country after the Norman conquest of 1066. He got here to Canterbury with lengthy event of highbrow and ecclesiastical currents, together with reforming currents, in mid-eleventh-century western Europe. at the start involved in the liberal arts, after migrating to Normandy he became to sacred learn; he commented upon the
Pauline Epistles and engaged Berengar of excursions in eucharistic controversy. He turned renowned within the fourishing monastic lifetime of Normandy at Bec and as abbot of Duke William's beginning of Saint-Etienne at Caen. At Canterbury, he used to be King William's unswerving and powerful collaborator in renewing and
reordering church lifestyles, utilizing councils as a primary means.

By no capacity a 'court-prelate', Lanfranc might be most sensible characterised as a monk-archbishop, a job during which he was once strengthened via being ex-officio abbot of a cathedral monastery at Canterbury. Canterbury's status and pursuits have been a huge crisis; Lanfranc claimed for the see a primacy over the total British Isles. in the direction of the nice pope of his day, Gregory VII (1073-85), he was once strangely cool.

This is the 1st complete scholarly research of Lanfranc for thirty years. It reconsiders his occupation and extraordinary achievements in all significant points, concentrating on his traits of knowledge, diligence, and statesmanship. it's an clever and thought of old biography which brings Lanfranc out from the shadow of his successor, St Anselm, and divulges him as one of the very maximum of the archbishops of Canterbury.

This white paper is a part of a sequence that promotes wisdom approximately language expertise and its power. It addresses educators, newshounds, politicians, language groups and others. the supply and use of language know-how in Europe varies among languages. for that reason, the activities which are required to additional aid study and improvement of language applied sciences additionally range for every language. the mandatory activities depend upon many components, similar to the complexity of a given language and the scale of its group. META-NET, a community of Excellence funded by means of the eu fee, has performed an research of present language assets and applied sciences. This research involved in the 23 reputable eu languages in addition to different very important nationwide and nearby languages in Europe. the result of this research recommend that there are lots of major learn gaps for every language.A extra exact professional research and evaluate of the present state of affairs might help maximise the impression of extra learn and reduce any dangers. META-NET comprises fifty four examine centres from 33 international locations which are operating with stakeholders from advertisement companies, govt organizations, undefined, study corporations, software program businesses, know-how services and eu universities. jointly, they're making a universal expertise imaginative and prescient whereas constructing a strategic study time table that indicates how language expertise purposes can tackle any examine gaps by way of 2020.

Rapanui, the language of Easter Island, is at risk of extinction. A Polynesian language, heavily concerning Maori, it really is spoken by way of under 2000 humans. This description, according to recordings made within the Eighties and on info supplied through the islanders, represents Veronica De Feu's decision to recored the language sooner than it dies out.
All linguistic facets are coated; the syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon of the language. simply as importantly, it's been based in this kind of approach as to facilitate cross-language comparisons. There are over 800 illustrative sentences, each one observed through interlinear grammatical research and translation. It additionally encompasses a Rapanui people story; in either the unique and English.
This descriptive grammar presents a brand new examine the entire constitution of Rapanui. As a resource of vocabulary it is going past any formerly to be had dictionaries.

this can be the 1st accomplished remedy of the thoughts hired within the world's languages to precise predicative ownership, as in "the boy has a bat". It offers the result of the author's fifteen-year examine undertaking at the topic. Predicative ownership is the resource of many grammaticalization paths - as within the English excellent demanding shaped from to have - and its typology is a vital key to realizing the structural number of the world's languages and the way they alter. Drawing on info from a few four hundred languages representing the entire world's language households, so much of which lack a detailed such as the verb to have, Professor Stassen goals (a) to set up a typology of 4 uncomplicated different types of predicative ownership, (b) to find and describe the techniques wherein ordinary buildings could be transformed, and (c) to discover hyperlinks among the typology of predicative ownership and different typologies so as to display styles of interdependence. He exhibits, for instance, that the parameter of simultaneous sequencing - the best way a language officially encodes a series like "John sang and Mary danced" - correlates with how it encodes predicative ownership. via this and different hyperlinks the writer units up a unmarried common version so as to account for all morphosyntactic version in predicative ownership present in the languages of the realm, together with styles of version over the years.

Predicative Possession will curiosity students and complex scholars of language typology, diachronic linguistics, morphology and syntax.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft / Sprachforschung (fachübergreifend), notice: 1,0, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung) (Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation), Veranstaltung: Modellbildung in der Fachkommunikationsforschung, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Das in dieser Arbeit vorgestellte Schreibprozessmodell wurde von Susanne Göpferich im Rahmen ihrer im Jahr 2002 veröffentlichten Habilitationsschrift entwickelt. Ihr Ziel battle es, den Schreibprozess in seine einzelnen Phasen zu zerlegen und die individuellen Prozesse dann auf potentielle Mängel zu untersuchen, um Textproduktionsschwächen abbauen zu können. Hierzu erarbeitete sie ihr Didaktik-orientiertes Schreibprozessmodell, das auf die fachbezogene Textproduktion im Zeitalter der Globalisierung ausgerichtet ist. Das grundlegende Modell zum Schreibprozess stammt von Hayes und Flower (1980), welches auch Göpferich in ihr Modell einbezieht. Göpferichs disziplinenunabhängige Fragestellung lautet:
„Welche Bausteine muss ein didaktisches Konzept aufweisen, mit dem sich die Textproduktionskompetenz auf möglichst allen für die erfolgreiche interfachliche und fachexterne Kommunikation relevanten Ebenen optimieren lässt?“ (Göpferich 2002: 14)
Diese Frage versucht sie in ihrem Modell zu beantworten, indem sie zunächst eine Zweiteilung in die Bereiche „Individuum“ und „Schreibumgebung“ vornimmt und dann innerhalb dieser Bereiche weiter differenziert. Auf diese Weise entstand ein sehr komplexes Modell, das ich nach einem Einblick in den beruflichen Werdegang Göpferichs und einer Einführung in das Thema im Vergleich zum Modell von Hayes/Flower (1980) bzw. Hayes (1996) beschreiben werde. Anschließend werde ich die Utilität ihres Modells für die technische Redaktion prüfen und die Anwendbarkeit unter Berücksichtigung dieses speziellen Berufsfeldes in den Vordergrund der Betrachtung rücken.

This e-book unites a number of techniques to the gathering and digitization of numerous language corpora. Its particular concentration is on top practices pointed out within the exploitation of those assets in landmark effect tasks throughout diversified elements of the globe. the improvement of more and more available electronic corpora has coincided with advancements within the criteria governing the gathering, encoding and archiving of ‘Big Data’. much less realization has been paid to the significance of constructing criteria for enriching and conserving different kinds of corpus facts, resembling that which captures the nuances of nearby dialects, for instance. This ebook takes those top practices one other breakthrough by means of addressing leading edge equipment for reinforcing and exploiting really expert corpora in order that they turn into obtainable to wider audiences past the academy.

during this ebook i attempt to supply a coherent and constant evaluate of what an ecological method of language studying may appear like. this isn't an absolutely fledged grand idea that goals to supply a proof of every little thing, yet an try to supply a cause for taking an ecological international view and utilizing it to language schooling, which I regard as essentially the most very important of all human actions. Goethe as soon as acknowledged that every little thing has been considered earlier than, yet that the trouble is to consider it back. an analogous definitely is right of the current attempt. If it has any leading edge rules to supply, those lie in a singular mix of ideas and concepts which were round for a protracted, very long time. The reader will stumble upon impacts that variety from Spinoza to Bakhtin and from Vygotsky to Halliday. The scope of the paintings is deliberately extensive, protecting all significant topics which are a part of the language studying method and the language instructing occupation. those subject matters contain language, conception and motion, self, studying, severe pedagogy and learn. whilst i've got tried to examine either the macro and the micro facets of the ecological coin, and tackle concerns from either a theoretical and a pragmatic point of view. This, then, goals to be a booklet that may be learn via practitioners and theoreticians alike, and the most concept is that it's going to be readable and hard on the comparable time.

This e-book examines while, how and why internationalization impacts nationwide fiscal associations. It confronts questions on the middle of debates in political financial system and comparative politics: What does internationalization of markets suggest? who're its vendors in family arenas? wherein mechanisms does it impact judgements approximately nationwide institutional reform? What are institutional results within the face of internationalization?

The publication responds to its questions through key monetary associations in 5 strategic sectors: securities buying and selling, telecommunications, electrical energy, airways, and postal providers. It compares throughout 4 international locations that characterize various 'varieties of capitalism', specifically Britain, France, Germany and Italy, over the interval among 1965 and 2005. hence it combines cross-national, ancient and cross-sectoral comparisons.

The writer distinguishes technological and monetary varieties of internationalization from coverage kinds, significantly judgements in robust in a foreign country countries and supranational legislation. He argues that, opposite to expectancies, the 1st used to be met with institutional inertia. by contrast, coverage kinds of internationalization, specifically reforms within the US and ecu Union legislation, performed major roles in undermining long-standing nationwide associations. The ebook explores the mechanisms wherein coverage types of internationalization have been influential via taking a look at the thoughts, coalitions and assets of key actors in nationwide arenas. It additionally indicates that institutional results have been striking: all 4 international locations, albeit via assorted routes, followed more and more related reforms of monetary institutions--privatization, the finishing of monopolies and delegation to autonomous regulatory organisations.

The ebook rejects the view that technological and monetary sorts of internationalization force institutional swap. It means that coverage kinds of internationalization are extra very important simply because they turn into a part of family determination making and relief the reform of well-established nationwide institutions.