Author: Jean Aitchison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795357
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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This is a lucid and up-to-date overview of language change. It discusses where our evidence about language change comes from, how and why changes happen, and how languages begin and end. It considers both changes which occurred long ago, and those currently in progress. It does this within the framework of one central question - is language change a symptom of progress or decay? It concludes that language is neither progressing nor decaying, but that an understanding of the factors surrounding change is essential for anyone concerned about language alteration. For this substantially revised third edition, Jean Aitchison has included two new chapters on change of meaning and grammaticalization. Sections on new methods of reconstruction and ongoing chain shifts in Britain and America have also been added as well as over 150 new references. The work remains non-technical in style and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.
Author: Guy Deutscher
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805080124
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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"Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language"--
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ISBN: 019929643X
Category : Context (Linguistics)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Gunilla M. Anderman
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853597879
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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In and out of English: For Better, For Worse? is concerned with the impact of English as the lingua franca of today's world, in particular its relationship with the languages of Europe. Within this framework a number of themes are explored, including linguistic imperialism, change as the result of language contact, the concept of the English native speaker, and the increasing need in an enlarged Europe for translation into as well as out of English.
Author: Megan Perigoe Stitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198184423
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This book examines three major nineteenth-century writers in the context of the models of progress emerging from contemporary studies in geology and language. The deployment of varieties of speech in their novels throws light on how different genres--fictional and scientific--affected the century's use of metaphor and its often contradictory theories of progress.
Author: John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Publisher: W.J. Gage
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Author: Kate Burridge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315463008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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2 Changes to the lexicon -- Introduction -- 2.1 Gaining words - lexical addition -- 2.1.1 Compounding -- 2.1.2 Affixation -- 2.1.3 Backformation -- 2.1.4 Conversion -- 2.1.5 Abbreviation -- 2.1.6 Acronyms -- 2.1.7 Blending -- 2.1.8 Commonization -- 2.1.9 Reduplication -- 2.1.10 Borrowing -- 2.1.11 Sound symbolism -- 2.1.12 A final word on the processes -- 2.2 Losing words - lexical mortality -- 2.2.1 Obsolescence -- 2.2.2 "Verbicide"--2.2.3 Reduction -- 2.2.4 Intolerable homonymy -- 2.3 Etymology - study of the origin of words -- Summary -- Further reading -- Exercises
Author: James Edward Murdoch
Publisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
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Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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