Language in the Real World (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Linguistics
Redaktion: Behrens, Susan J.; Parker, Judith A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This resource book will introduce college students from other disciplines to the world of linguistics via the real world applications of the field. Students will engage with all the traditional areas of linguistics in an inductive, illustrative, and interactive way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136887253
• Artikelnr.: 43073656

Autorenporträt

Susan J. Behrens is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Marymount Manhattan College, New York City, USA. Judith A. Parker is Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Language, Education and Cultural Change 1. Language Variation:
Students and Teachers Reflect on Accents and Dialects 2. Speech
Communities: Language as a Mediator of Messages and Perceptions 3. Teaching
Pronunciation: Using Phonology in the ESL and Foreign Language Classroom
Section II: Literature, Translation and Computers 4. Lexicography: What
Dictionaries Reveal about Language and Lexicographers 5. Text Translation:
Approaching Otherness 6. Machine Translation: The Challenge of Ambiguity 7.
Transgressive Language: The 'N- word' and the 'F- word' in Popular Culture
and all that Jazz Section III: Language and Identity 8. Telling and
Listening to Difficult Narratives 9. Gender, Language and Power: Surname or
Sirname? 10. Forensic Linguistics Section IV: Forms of Language and
Communication 11. First Language Acquisition: Developing Native Linguistic
Competence 12. ASL: A Visual Language 13. Animal Communication: The
"Language" of Honey Bees Section V: Language and Communication Science 14.
Communication Disorders: A Personal Perspective 15. Analyzing Narratives:
An Example of Cross Cultural Research Methods 16. Neurolinguistics and
Psycholinguistics: Contributions to Understanding Healthy Aging and
Dementia 17. Autism and Language: The Two Worlds Underlying Verbal
Communication