Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier (Continental by Hugh J. Silverman

Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (Routledge Leading Linguists)

Professor Howard Lasnik is among the world's top theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and critical paintings in components akin to syntactic idea, logical shape, and learnability. This selection of essays attracts jointly a few of his top paintings from his titanic contribution to linguistic thought.

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Opposed to a backdrop of the ethnic strife within the Balkans and the cave in of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro got here into being and indicates how their genesis displays ethnic, non secular, and political identification. His first-hand observations ahead of and after Communism supply insights into the character of language switch and the relation among language and identification.

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills: Autobiographical Reflexive Approach to Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language: 8 (Educational Linguistics)

Studying Languages, studying lifestyles abilities deals an autobiographical reflexive method of international language schooling. The orientation of the booklet is useful, containing wealthy descriptions of language studying events together with genuine language use and scholar tales. educating, together with making plans, equipment, lecture room paintings and evaluate, and case experiences of 'good' language studying and the way discussion according to reminiscing can be utilized to advertise scholars’ health and wellbeing within the language school room are defined intimately.

The Welsh Language in the Digital Age (White Paper Series)

This white paper is a part of a sequence that promotes wisdom approximately language expertise and its capability. It addresses educators, newshounds, politicians, language groups and others. the provision and use of language expertise in Europe varies among languages. accordingly, the activities which are required to additional aid study and improvement of language applied sciences additionally range for every language.