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Linguistic construction of ethnic borders
This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borde…
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- 9783653982565
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- 264p. : ill. ; 22 cm
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- 306.44089 LIN l
Close reading with computers : textual scholarship, computational formalism, …
Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.
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- 9781503609372
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- xv, 251p. : ill.
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- 823.914 EVE c
Modeling information structure in a cross-linguistic perspective
This study makes substantial contributions to both the theoretical and computational treatment of information structure, with a specific focus on creating natural language processing applications such as multilingual machine translation systems. The present study first provides cross-linguistic findings in regards to information structure meanings and markings. Building upon such findings, the …
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- 9783946234906
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- XIII, 309 p.
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- Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
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- 400 SON m
Voices and practices in applied linguistics : diversifying a discipline
"Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics comprises a selection of original applied linguistics-based research on the theme of the diversity of Applied Linguistics and in Applied Linguistics. It is a unique collection of reflections and cutting-edge research relating to academic, policy and professional fields of Applied Linguistics, featuring chapters written by founders of the field, e…
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- 9781912482177
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- VI, 286 p.
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- 418 VOI v
Online hate speech in the European Union : a discourse-analytic perspective
Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal and policy documents, there is no universally accepted definition, which in itself warrants research into how hatred is both expressed and perceived. The research project synthesises discourse analytic and corpus linguistics techniques, and presents its key findings here. The focus is especially on online comments posted in reaction to n…
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- 9783319726045
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- VIII, 90 p.
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- SpringerBriefs in Linguistics
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- 323.443094 ASS o
Aspects of Linguistic Variation
This volume brings together papers on linguistic variation. It takes a broad perspective, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation, and examines phenomena ranging from negation and TAM over connectives and the lexicon to definite articles and comparative concepts in well- and lesser-known languages. The collection thus contributes to o…
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- 9783110607963
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- 278 p.
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- 415 VAN a
Sites of translation : what multilinguals can teach us about digital writing …
Winner of the 2016 Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Book Prize Sites of Translation illustrates the intricate rhetorical work that multilingual communicators engage in as they translate information for their communities. Blending ethnographic and empirical methods from multiple disciplines, Laura Gonzales provides methodological examples of how linguistic diversity can be studied in pra…
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- 9780472124343
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- XVI, 135 p.
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- 418.02 GON s
Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-c…
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper …
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- 9789027269577
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- xiii, 426p. : ill.
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- 306.44 RUT l
Elements of structural syntax
This volume is now finally available in English, sixty years after the death of its author, Lucien Tesnière. It has been translated from the French original into German, Spanish, Italian, and Russian, and now at long last into English as well. The volume contains a comprehensive approach to the syntax of natural languages, an approach that is foundational for an entire stream in the modern stu…
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- 9789027212122
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- lxxxii, 698p. : ill.
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- 415 TES e
Connecting grammaticalisation
This monograph presents a view on grammaticalisation radically different from standard views centering around the cline of grammaticality. Grammar is seen as a complex sign system, and, as a consequence, grammatical change always comprises semantic change. What unites morphology, word order, constructional syntax and other grammatical subsystems is their paradigmatic organisation. The tradition…
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- 9789027284136
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- xiii, 347p. : ill.
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- 415 NOR c
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