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Cultures and traditions of wordplay and wordplay research
This volume focuses on realisations of wordplay in different cultures and social and historical contexts, and brings together various research traditions of approaching wordplay. Together with the volume DWP 7, it assembles selected papers presented at the interdisciplinary conference The Dynamics of Wordplay / La dynamique du jeu de mots (Trier, 2016) and stresses the inherent dynamicity of wo…
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- 9783110586374
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- VI, 294 p.
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- The Dynamics of Wordplay, 6
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- 401.41 CUL c
The Domain of language
This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their various favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as…
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- 9788772897066
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- 392 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 FOR d
Toward a cognitive classical linguistics : he embodied basis of constructions…
This volume gathers a series of papers that bring the study of grammatical and syntactic constructions in Greek and Latin under the perspective of theories of embodied meaning developed in cognitive linguistics. Building on the momentum currently enjoyed by cognitive-functional approaches to language within the field of Classics, its contributors adopt, in particular, a ‘constructional’ app…
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- 9783110616347
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- VIII, 273 p.
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- 480 MOC t
The linguistic worldview : ethnolinguistics, cognition, and culture
the book is concerned with the linguistic worldview broadly understood, but it focuses on one particular variant of the idea, its sources, extensions, its critical assessment, and inspirations for related research. This approach is the ethnolinguistic linguistic worldview (LWV) program pursued in Lublin, Poland, and initiated and headed by Jerzy Bartminski. In its basic design, the volume emerg…
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- 9788376560748
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- 492 p.
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- 306.44 GLA l
African linguistics on the prairie: selected papers from the 45th Annual Conf…
African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla. The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives …
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- 9783961100378
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- 496 KAN a
Diversification of Mexican Spanish : a tridimensional study in new world soci…
This book offers a diversification model of transplanted languages that facilitates the exploration of external factors and internal changes. The general context is the New World and the variety that unfolded in the Central Highlands and the Gulf of Mexico, herein identified as Mexican Colonial Spanish (MCS). Linguistic corpora provide the evidence of (re)transmission, diffusion, metalinguistic…
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- 9781501504532
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- XIV, 424 p.
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- Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL], 111
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- 467.972 HID d
Reconstructing syntax
During several decades, syntactic reconstruction has been more or less regarded as a bootless and an unsuccessful venture, not least due to the heavy criticism in the 1970s from scholars like Watkins, Jeffers, Lightfoot, etc. This fallacious view culminated in Lightfoot’s (2002: 625) conclusion: “[i]f somebody thinks that they can reconstruct grammars more successfully and in more widesprea…
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- 9789004392007
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- xii, 378p. : ill.
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- 415 REC r
Representation learning for natural language processing
This open access book provides an overview of the recent advances in representation learning theory, algorithms and applications for natural language processing (NLP). It is divided into three parts. Part I presents the representation learning techniques for multiple language entries, including words, phrases, sentences and documents. Part II then introduces the representation techniques for th…
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- 9789811555732
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- xxiv, 334p.: ill.
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- 006.35 LIU r
Rhetorical agency: mind, meshwork, materiality, mobility
In recent accounts of rhetoric’s storied productivity, commentators have implied, along systematically Kantian lines, albeit with the occasional protestation, that agency must be coextensive with subjectivity. But is that all there is (to 2,500 years’ worth of hypothesizing about the ways in which communication might promote social change)? Les Belikian’s answer, drawing not only on tradi…
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- 9781947447240
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- 206 p.; 22 cm.
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- 410 BEL r
Corpora and discourse studies : integrating discourse and corpora
This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.
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- 9781137431738
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- 401.41 COR c
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