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    1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks

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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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    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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    Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valery BrusovPaper Corpus Linguistics‚ Lexicology and Translation Subject- Lexicology Faculty- IC Year - II Group - III Lecturer - K. SoghikyanStudent – Mane Nersisyan1586865360044Yerevan 2013 0Yerevan 2013 Introduction This paper includes information about corpus linguistics‚ its connection with lexicology and translation. The latter is the most important one and I am keen on finding and introducing something which is mainly connected with my

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    Contrastive Linguistics: Theories and Methods Volker Gast 1 Introduction: The subject matter of contrastive linguistics Narrowly defined‚ contrastive linguistics can be regarded as a branch of comparative linguistics that is concerned with pairs of languages which are ‘socio-culturally linked’. Two languages can be said to be socio-culturally linked when (i) they are used by a considerable number of bi- or multilingual speakers‚ and/or (ii) a substantial amount of ‘linguistic output’ (text‚ discourse)

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    STRUCTURALISM IN LINGUISTICS Introduction It is not my purpose here to give a historical treatment of linguistic ideas‚ nor it to distinguish and analyze the various approaches and schools of thought generally subsumed under the heading of Structuralism. Rather‚ I propose to look at the general features characterizing structuralism as seen and treated by structuralists and further to see how it has come to be viewed by Chomsky and other transformationalists. Structuralism in linguistics has come to

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    Chapter 4: Linguistic Typology Chapter 4 Linguistic typology 4.1 Introduction Simply speaking‚ the study of universals is concerned with what human languages have in common‚ while the study of typology deals with ways in which languages differ from each other. This contrast‚ however‚ is not sharp. When languages differ from each other‚ the variation is not random‚ but subject to limitations. Linguistic typology is not only concerned with variation‚ but also with the limitations on the degree

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    What is psycholinguistics? http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/~pfoltz/psy301/overheadsfirstthird.html The three primary processes investigated in psycholinguistics •Language Comprehension •Language Production •Language Acquisition   Psycholinguistics is a branch of cognitive science     What will be covered in this class? • How do we produce and recognize speech? • How do we perceive words‚ letters‚ and sentences? • How do we learn and recall information from texts? • How can we improve

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    IFL A4.2 (2011-2012) Chapter 1: What is Language? - - .b lo gs po t.c om - Language can be viewed as a social fact‚ as a psychological state (mental dictionary)‚ as a set of structures (a grammatical system: a system to what orders the words have to come in if they are to make sense)‚ or as a collection of outputs (utterances/sentences: spoken or written). Language can be viewed as a set of choices (different ways of saying a sentence)‚ a set of contrasts (an inversion

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    Intro to Linguistics

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    10.2011 What is Linguistics? The study of human languages; including the influence of one language on another; how language and words are formed and change within time; the rules of the language- how words are formed‚ the structure of sentences and words; relationship between culture and language; how language is acquired- the process of language acquisition (foreigner verses mother tongue language). There are two approaches/types of linguistics: 1. Traditional Linguistics- the only field

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