Tag: Linguistic

Free Download Cliff Goddard, "Cross-Linguistic Semantics"
English | 2008 | pages: 377 | ISBN: 9027205698 | PDF | 3,4 mb
Cross-linguistic semantics – investigating how languages package and express meanings differently – is central to the linguistic quest to understand the nature of human language. This set of studies explores and demonstrates cross-linguistic semantics as practised in the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) framework, originated by Anna Wierzbicka. The opening chapters give a state-of-the-art overview of the NSM model, propose several theoretical innovations and advance a number of original analyses in connection with names and naming, clefts and other specificational sentences, and discourse anaphora. Subsequent chapters describe and analyse diverse phenomena in ten languages from multiple families, geographical locations, and cultural settings around the globe. Three substantial studies document how the metalanguage of NSM semantic primes can be realised in languages of widely differing types: Amharic (Ethiopia), Korean, and East Cree. Each constitutes a lexicogrammatical portrait in miniature of the language concerned. Other chapters probe topics such as inalienable possession in Koromu (Papua New Guinea), epistemic verbs in Swedish, hyperpolysemy in Bunuba (Australia), the expression of "momentariness" in Berber, ethnogeometry in Makasai (East Timor), value concepts in Russian, and "virtuous emotions" in Japanese. This book will be valuable for linguists working on language description, lexical semantics, or the semantics of grammar, for advanced students of linguistics, and for others interested in language universals and language diversity.

Free Download Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach By Mara Sophia Zanotto (ed.), Lynne Cameron (ed.), Marilda C. Cavalcanti (ed.)
2008 | 315 Pages | ISBN: 9027254176 | PDF | 4 MB
It is timely for researchers to approach metaphor as social and situated, as a matter of language and discourse, and not just as a matter of thought. Over the last twenty five years, scholars have come to appreciate in depth the cognitive, motivated and embodied nature of metaphor, but have tended to background the linguistic form of metaphor and have largely ignored how this connects to its role in the discourses in which our lives are constructed and lived. This book brings language and social dimensions into the picture, offering snapshots of metaphor use in real language and in real lives across the very different cultures of Europe and Brazil and contributing to the theorizing of metaphor in discourse.

Free Download Granularities-Driven Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Decision Making by Yuanhang Zheng , Zeshui Xu
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 201 Pages | ISBN : 3031603494 | 29.6 MB
This book introduces a state-of-the-art extension of fuzzy sets that is hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets with granularity levels, and based on the fuzzy technique, several granularities-driven hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision-making methods are introduced to provide powerful tools to solve actual problems. Motivated from the idea of granular computing, the technique of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets with granularity levels is constructed, which not only brings flexibility and individuality for the linguistic model, but also provides a possibility to process a large amount of linguistic information in group decision-making efficiently and accurately. Thus, the researches on granularities-driven hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making, can provide an effective way to solve practical decision-making problems based on complex linguistic information, and enrich the research system of decision-making and granular computing in theory and practice.

Free Download Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) In Special Education
Published 6/2024
Created by Victoria Wilson-Woko (M. Ed, Early Childhood & Special Education)
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 7 Lectures ( 1h 49m ) | Size: 1.31 GB

Free Download Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines "
English | ISBN: 0197509924 | 2021 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 33 MB + 31 MB
The Last Language on Earth is an ethnographic history of the disputed Eskayan language, spoken today by an isolated upland community living on the island of Bohol in the southern Philippines. After Eskaya people were first ‘discovered’ in 1980, visitors described the group as a lost tribe preserving a unique language and writing system. Others argued that the Eskaya were merely members of a utopian rural cult who had invented their own language and script. Rather than adjudicating outsider polemics, this book engages directly with the language itself as well as the direct perspectives of those who use it today.

Free Download Don Ihde, "Material Hermeneutics: Reversing the Linguistic Turn "
English | ISBN: 0367720353 | 2023 | 136 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1479 KB + 7 MB
Material Hermeneutics explores the ways in which new imaging technologies and scientific instruments have changed our notions about ancient history. From the first lunar calendar to the black hole image, and from an ancient mummy in the Italian Alps to the irrigated valleys of Mesopotamia, this book demonstrates how revolutions in science have taught us far more than we imagined. Written by a leading philosopher of technology and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, this book has implications for many fields, including philosophy, history, science, and technology. It will appeal to scholars and students of the humanities, as well as anthropologists and archaeologists.

Free Download Łukasz Pakuła, "Linguistic Perspectives on Sexuality in Education: Representations, Constructions and Negotiations "
English | ISBN: 3030640299 | 2021 | 466 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality and education, consolidating recent developments and moving the field forward in a contemporary context. This unique and timely volume captures current themes, debates, theories and methods in the field, and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working around the world in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Education, Sociology and Discourse Studies.

Free Download Vladimir Feshchenko, "Russian and American Poetry of Experiment: The Linguistic Avant-Garde "
English | ISBN: 9004526250 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 30 MB

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Free Download Form and Function in Greek Grammar: Linguistic Contributions to the Study of Greek Literature
by Albert Rijksbaron, Rutger J. Allan
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9004385770 | 448 Pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB

Free Download Historical syntax in cross-linguistic perspective By Alice C. Harris; Lyle Campbell
1995 | 488 Pages | ISBN: 0521478812 | PDF | 27 MB
This study utilizes a cross-linguistic approach to establish a general framework for the investigation of syntactic change. It reveals shared properties of changes across languages, determines what mechanisms lie behind them, and how they correlate to the overall explanation of syntactic change.