Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings ≥ Cognitive Linguistics Research 34 Editors Dirk Geeraerts ´ Rene Dirven John R. Taylor Honorary editor Ronald W. Langacker Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Cognitive Linguistics: Basic Readings Edited by Dirk Geeraerts Mouton de Gruyter Berlin · New York Mouton de Gruyter (formerly Mouton‚ The Hague) is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG‚ Berlin Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI
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thorough research for scientists of various fields‚ mixing languages had been‚ until the last few decades‚ cast aside as its defective by-product. However‚ recent linguistic studies show that intermingling languages should not be considered an ill-conceived overlapping tendency that implies carelessness and a improper use of language‚ but a linguistic phenomenon with its own intricate rules and purposes. The addition of objectivity towards this subject has enabled linguists to describe in length the downsides
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Slovenski jezik – Slovene Linguistic Studies 7 (2009): 153–168 Biljana Božinovski Ljubljanska borza‚ d. d.‚ Ljubljana The Language of the Stock Exchange – A Contrastive Analysis of the Lexis V članku je podana analiza jezika borze s stališča slovensko-angleške protistave. Izrazje (samostalniške zveze) obeh jezikov smo protistavili tako v strukturnem kot v semantičnem smislu‚ pri čemer se je razkrilo več protistavnih značilnosti‚ med drugim različni načini ubeseditve istega pojma‚ terminološke
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The Linguistic imperialism of Robert Phillipson 1. Linguistic Imperialism 1.1 The spread of English The stated aim of Phillipson’s 1992 book Linguistic Imperialism was to set out how English became so dominant and why‚ and to examine the role ELT pedagogy had in contributing to it becoming “the international language par excellence in which the fate of most of the worlds millions is decided.” (Phillipson 1992 p.6) While many writers had tackled the question before no one had done so from
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In his selection titled‚ “Introduction: Partial Truths‚” James Clifford asserts that ethnographies present “Partial truths” and‚ as such‚ are not entirely valid. According to Clifford‚ “Even the best ethnographic texts - serious‚ true fictions - are systems‚ or economies‚ of truth. Power and history work through them‚ in ways their authors cannot fully control” (p. 7). Due to these historical constraints‚ it is impossible for anthropologists to assert the ‘full’ truths about a culture and confidently
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Mr.1. Introduction 1.1. Approaching the issue The task of setting out (to use a neutral word) the goals of a human activity may be approached in a variety of ways depending on conditions such as who is involved in the activity and who has the power to determine the goals. In the case of the goals of a scientific discipline‚ the question may‚ in principle‚ be approached by established scientific methods: * Deductive approach: The highest and most general goal is taken as an axiom‚ more specific
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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1.Discourse Studies in Modern Linguistics 1.1Discourse .Discourse has been defined by different linguists ‚and each one gives specific definition to it ‚and we will go through all of them . In other words discourse is a buzzword and used in many different ways. The term discourse refers “both to what a text producer meant by a text and what a text means to the receiver” (Widdowson 2007: 7). As Widdowson claims‚ “people produce texts to get a message across‚ to express ideas and beliefs‚ to explain
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Period 3 15 November‚ 2014 Paul Revere’s True Midnight Ride On the evening of April 18‚ 1775‚ Paul Revere was sent for by Dr. Joseph Warren and instructed to ride to Lexington‚ Massachusetts‚ to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them. By now‚ most of the Massachusetts Patriot leaders had taken refuge in outlying communities‚ fearing arrest by British officials. Paul Revere‚ a trusted messenger‚
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REFERENCE Bloch‚ Bernard; & Trager‚ George L. (1942)‚ Outline of linguistic analysis. Special publications of the Linguistic Society of America. Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America. Corder‚ S. P. (1981)‚ Error analysis and interlanguage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chomsky‚ Noam and Morris Halle. (1968)‚ The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper and Row. Crystal‚ David. (1985)‚ A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics. 2nd edition. New York: Basil Blackwell. Crystal D. (2005)
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