Search results for “[subject: language]”

• Author(s): Maria del Pilar Garcia Mayo • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralThis book presents research on the learning of foreign language...

• Author(s): Norman Berdichevsky • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Linguistics - Sociolinguistics This study evaluates the importance of language in achieving a sense of national solidarity...

• Author(s): Allyson Jule • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insight in...

• Author(s): Mark Forsyth • Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Berkley Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - EtymologyThis perfect gift for readers, writers, and literature majors alike unearths the quirks of the English l...

• Author(s): S. -Y Kuroda • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralGenerative phonology, a comparatively recent development on the linguistic front, has stimulated a reconsideration of the conceptual sch...

• Author(s): Philip Baldi • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: LatinThis volume provides an up-to-date account of the linguistic evolution of Latin, from its origins in the Proto-Indo-European ancestral l...

• Author(s): James Pustejovsky • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThe first formally elaborated theory of a generative approach to word meaning, The Generative Lexicon lays the foundation...

• Author(s): Anne Cutler • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralAn argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.Understanding speec...

• Author(s): Maria Teresa Guasti • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Books • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory....

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Luce Irigaray | Sylvere Lotringer • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Gender StudiesA collection of interviews that deal explicitly with the relationship between daughter and mother, t...

• Author(s): Dedre Gentner | Susan Goldin-Meadow • Publisher: MIT Press (MA) • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press (MA) • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe idea that the language we speak influences the way we think has evoked perennial fascination and in...

• Author(s): Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater | Peter W. Culicover • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Psycholinguistics - GeneralA work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisiti...

• Author(s): John McWhorter • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsA love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct gramm...

• Author(s): Ezequiel A. Di Paolo | Elena Clare Cuffari | Hanne de Jaegher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionA novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational appr...

• Author(s): Harold V. Cordry • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Quotations All cultures have proverbs that capsulize subjects simply and effectively. Many of these are cross-cultural. For e...

• Author(s): Walter J. Ong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeLanguage in all its modes--oral, written, print, electronic--claims the central role...

• Author(s): Joanna Rokita-Jaśkow | Melanie Ellis • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited • Publisher Imprint: Multilingual Matters Limited • BISAC: Study & TeachingThis book examines which factors lead to success in foreign language learni...

• Author(s): Saúl Sibirsky | Martin C. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Translating & Interpreting Language into Language, conceived as both a theoretical and a practical source...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Bever | John M. Carroll | Lance A. Miller • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThese essays by some of the most prominent figures in linguistics, artificial intelligence, and p...

• Author(s): Luce Irigaray | Alison Martin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Movements - HumanismIn this book, one of the foremost contemporary scholars in the fields of feminist thought and linguistics, explores the ...

• Author(s): Roman Jakobson | Gunnar Fant | Morris Halle • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis work attempts to describes the ultimate discrete components of language, their specific structure, a...

• Author(s): Benjamin Lee Whorf • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsWritings by a pioneering linguist, including his famous work on the Hopi language, general reflections on language and m...

• Author(s): Stanislas Dehaene • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Neuropsychology"Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliv...

• Author(s): Frank I. Luntz • Publisher: Hachette • Publisher Imprint: Hachette • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: SkillsThe nation's premier communications expert shares his wisdom on how the words we choose can change the course of busines...

• Author(s): James F. Kavanagh | Ignatius G. Mattingly • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralA collection of papers exploring why children acquire speech easily yet bog down when it comes to learning ...

• Author(s): June Casagrande • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs Having already made a name ...

• Author(s): Michael Studdert-Kennedy • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: NeuroscienceWhat is language? Can we distinguish language from general cognition? Is language an isolable, biologically coherent system? Does the...

• Author(s): David W. Lightfoot • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralOver the past decade, generative grammarians have viewed language acquisition as a process of fixing option points or parameters d...

• Author(s): Anne-Emmanuelle Berger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFor decades the superimposition of languages in Algeria has had growing cultural and po...

• Author(s): Susumu Kuno • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: JapaneseConventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Man...

• Author(s): Christopher S. Wood • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: History - GeneralAn English-language introduction to the writings of the so-called New Vienna School of art ...