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Multilingual Development

English in a Global Context

By: Peter Siemund

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Multilingual Development

English in a Global Context

By: Peter Siemund

English as a global lingua franca interacts with other languages across a wide range of multilingual contexts. Combining insights from linguistics, education studies, and psychology, this book addresses the role of English within the current linguistic dynamics of globalization. It takes Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai as case studies to illustrate the use of English in different multilingual urban areas, arguing that these are places where competing historical assessments, and ideological conceptions of monolingualism and multilingualism, are being acted out most forcefully. It critically appraises the controversial concept of multilingual advantages, and studies multilingual cross-linguistic influence in relation to learning English in bilingual heritage contexts. It also scrutinises multilingual language policies in their impact on attitudes, identities, and investment into languages. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and advanced students of bi- and multilingualism, globalization, linguistic diversity, World Englishes, sociolinguistics, and second/third language acquisition.

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Cambridge University Press

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110891313X

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Varieties of English

A Typological Approach

By: Peter Siemund

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Varieties of English

A Typological Approach

By: Peter Siemund

English is a highly diversified language that appears in a multitude of different varieties across the globe. These varieties may differ extensively in their structural properties. This coursebook is an introduction to the fascinating range of regional and social varieties encountered around the world. Comparing grammatical phenomena, the book analyses the varieties in depth, identifying patterns and limits of variation, and providing clear explanations. Using comparisons with other languages, the book identifies universal as well as language-specific aspects of variation in English. This book is specially designed to meet the needs of students, each chapter contains useful exercises targeted at three different ability levels and succinct summaries and practical lists of key words help students to review and identify important facts.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244277

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Speech Acts and Clause Types

English in a Cross-linguistic Context

By: Peter Siemund

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Speech Acts and Clause Types

English in a Cross-linguistic Context

By: Peter Siemund

This book is an introduction to the relationship between the morphosyntactic properties of sentences and their associated illocutionary forces or force potentials. The volume begins with several chapters dedicated to important theoretical and methodological issues, such as sentence and utterance meaning, illocutionary force, clause types, and cross-linguistic comparison. The bulk of the book is then composed of chapter-length case studies that systematically investigate typologically prominent clause types and their forces, such as declaratives and assertions, interrogatives and questions, and imperatives and commands. These case studies begin with an overview of the necessary theoretical foundations, followed by a discussion of the grammatical structures of English, and an assessment of the relevant cross-linguistic facts. Each chapter ends with a succinct summary of the most important findings, practice exercises, and recommendations for further reading and research. Overall, the book works towards developing a gradient model of clause types that goes substantially beyond the traditional distinction between major and minor clause types. It draws on insights from linguistics, philosophy, and sociology, and may be used as a textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses in semantics, pragmatics, and morphosyntax.

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Oxford University Press

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0198718136

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The Amazing World of Englishes

A Practical Introduction

By: Peter Siemund,Julia Davydova,Georg Maier

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The Amazing World of Englishes

A Practical Introduction

By: Peter Siemund,Julia Davydova,Georg Maier

This textbook invites you on a trip around the globe, uncovering layer by layer the complex, yet intriguing facets of English spoken world-wide. The busy streets of London, the scorched vistas of Australia, the colourful and noisy landscapes of New Delhi – English can be heard everywhere. But what are the specific features of these Englishes? What cultural and sociolinguistic realities underlie their use? This textbook brings this exciting and ever-changing world of Englishes right to your door!

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110266466

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Language Change, Variation, and Universals

By: Peter W. Culicover

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Language Change, Variation, and Universals

By: Peter W. Culicover

This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all: why do we not all speak the same language? Moreover, while there is considerable variation, in some ways grammars do show consistent patterns: why are languages similar in those respects, and why are those particular patterns preferred? Peter Culicover proposes that the solution to these puzzles is a constructional one. Grammars consist of constructions that carry out the function of expressing universal conceptual structure. While there are in principle many different ways of accomplishing this task, languages are under press to reduce constructional complexity. The result is that there is constructional change in the direction of less complexity, and grammatical patterns emerge that more efficiently reflect conceptual universals. The volume is divided into three parts: the first establishes the theoretical foundations; the second explores variation in argument structure, grammatical functions, and A-bar constructions, drawing on data from a variety of languages including English and Plains Cree; and the third examines constructional change, focusing primarily on Germanic. The study ends with observations and speculations on parameter theory, analogy, the origins of typological patterns, and Greenbergian 'universals'.

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Oxford University Press

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0198865392

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Pronominal Gender in English

A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-linguistic Perspective

By: Peter Siemund

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Pronominal Gender in English

A Study of English Varieties from a Cross-linguistic Perspective

By: Peter Siemund

This book investigates the use of English third person pronouns (he, she, it) across different varieties of English, where we frequently find he and she used for inanimate objects (the tree – he, the house – he, the bucket – he, but the water – it). It is the first book-length study of this subject. Varieties of English are discussed in the context of Germanic and Romance languages and dialects as well as a small sample of additional languages. The analysis is conducted within the framework set out by functional typology. The book's straightforward and illuminating generalization in terms of the well known hierarchy of individuation provides a systematic link between pronominal usage in Standard English and its varieties.

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041554307X

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Meaning in Mind and Society

A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics

By: Peter Harder

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Meaning in Mind and Society

A Functional Contribution to the Social Turn in Cognitive Linguistics

By: Peter Harder

Meaning is embodied - but it is also social. If Cognitive Linguistics is to be a complete theory of language in use, it must cover the whole spectrum from grounded cognition to discourse struggles and bullshit. This book tries to show how. Cognitive Linguistics knocked down the wall between language and the experiential content of the human mind. Frame semantics, embodiment, conceptual construal, figure-ground organization, metaphorical mapping, and mental spaces are among the results of this breakthrough, which at the same time provided cognitive science as a whole with an essential human dimension. A new phase began when Cognitive Linguistics started to see itself as part of the wider movement of 'usage-based' linguistics. Bringing about an alliance between mind and discourse, it complemented the conceptual dimension that had been dominant until then with a 'use' dimension - thereby living up to the explicit 'experiential' commitment of Cognitive Linguistics. This outward expansion is continuing: The focus on 'meaning construction', which began with the theory of blending, highlights emergent, online effects rather than underlying mappings. Cognitive Linguistics is integrating the evolutionary perspective, which links up individual and population-based features of language. The empirical obligations incurred by this expansion have led to greatly increased attention to corpus and experimental methods, especially in relation to sociolinguistic and language acquisition research. The book describes this development and goes on to discuss the foundational challenge that it creates for Cognitive Linguistics as it begins to cover issues that are also central to types of discourse analysis focusing on social processes of determination. The book argues for a synthesis based on a renewed Cognitive Linguistics, which can accommodate everything from bodily grounding to deconstructible floating signifiers in an integrated complete picture, which also covers the roles of arbitrariness and structure.

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3110216051

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Propositional Content

By: Peter Hanks

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Propositional Content

By: Peter Hanks

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. Hanks abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth-conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this traditional conception is the problem of the unity of the proposition, the problem of explaining how propositions have truth conditions and other representational properties. The new theory developed here, in its place, explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.

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Context & Content

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0199684898

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Sociolinguistic Typology

Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity

By: Peter Trudgill

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Sociolinguistic Typology

Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity

By: Peter Trudgill

This book considers how far social factors explain why human societies produce different kinds of language at different times and places and why some languages and dialects get simpler while others get more complex. It does so in the context of a wide range of languages and societies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199604347

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Millennia of Language Change

Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

By: Peter Trudgill

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Millennia of Language Change

Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics

By: Peter Trudgill

Were Stone-Age languages really more complex than their modern counterparts? Was Basque actually once spoken over all of Western Europe? Were Welsh-speaking slaves truly responsible for the loss of English morphology? This latest collection of Peter Trudgill's most seminal articles explores these questions and more. Focused around the theme of sociolinguistics and language change across deep historical millennia (the Palaeolithic era to the Early Middle Ages), the essays explore topics in historical linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, language change, linguistic typology, geolinguistics, and language contact phenomena. Each paper is fully updated for this volume, and includes linking commentaries and summaries, for easy cross-reference. This collection will be indispensable to academic specialists and graduate students with an interest in the sociolinguistic aspects of historical linguistics.

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1108853803

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Multilingual Development

By: Peter Siemund

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Multilingual Development

By: Peter Siemund

Explores the multilingual upbringing and development of individuals in their respective societies, focusing on English as a global language.

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1108844022

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The Amazing World of Englishes

A Practical Introduction

By: Peter Siemund,Julia Davydova,Georg Maier

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The Amazing World of Englishes

A Practical Introduction

By: Peter Siemund,Julia Davydova,Georg Maier

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Intensifiers in English and German

A Comparison

By: Peter Siemund

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Intensifiers in English and German

A Comparison

By: Peter Siemund

This book deals with expressions like English myself, yourself, himself and so on, and German selbst from a perspective of language comparison. It is the first book-length study of intensifiers ever written. The study investigates the syntax and semantics of these expressions and provides a thorough account of a much neglected grammatical domain. Given that the approach is both descriptive and analytic, the book will be of interest to linguists, grammar writers and teachers of English and German alike.

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Psychology Press

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041521713X

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Book's by Peter Siemund

Multilingual Development

Multilingual Development

Varieties of English

Varieties of English

Speech Acts and Clause Types

Speech Acts and Clause Types

The Amazing World of Englishes

The Amazing World of Englishes

Language Change, Variation, and Universals

Language Change, Variation, and Universals

Pronominal Gender in English

Pronominal Gender in English

Meaning in Mind and Society

Meaning in Mind and Society

Propositional Content

Propositional Content

Sociolinguistic Typology

Sociolinguistic Typology

Millennia of Language Change

Millennia of Language Change

Multilingual Development

Multilingual Development

The Amazing World of Englishes

The Amazing World of Englishes

Intensifiers in English and German

Intensifiers in English and German

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