Author: Greg Niedt
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811936633
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
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This collection brings together contributions from a new wave of research into language, space, and place, at the intersection of various disciplines, from geography to sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. The authors investigate the myriad ways that people conceive of—and thereby describe—the world around them, studying the impact these ideas have on their identities, and highlighting the tension between conflicting ontologies of space. It is a timely and invaluable new resource for researchers and students in linguistics, geography, anthropology and communication.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441407X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at a roundtable on “New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later,” held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors.
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030024376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work includes chapters and sections related to language origins, diffusion, conflicts, policies, education/instruction, representation, technology, regions, and mapping. Also addressed is the mapping of languages and linguistic diversity, on language in the context of politics, on the relevance of language to cultural identity, on language minorities and endangered languages, and also on language and the arts and non-human language and communication. This reference work looks at the subject matter and contributors to the disciplines and programs in the social sciences and humanities, and the dearth of materials on languages and linguistics. The topics covered are not only discipline-centered, but in the cutting-edge fields that intersect several disciplines and also cut across the social sciences and humanities. These include gender studies, sustainability and development, technology and social media impacts, law and human rights, climate change, public health and epidemiology, architecture, religion, visual representation and mapping. These new and emerging research directions and other intersecting fields are not traditionally discipline-bounded, but cut across numerous fields. The volumes will appeal to those within existing fields and disciplines and those working the intersections at local, regional and global scales.
Author: Felix K. Ameka
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Category : Akan language
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Essays in honour of Florence Abena Dolphyne, M.E. Kropp Dakubu, and Alan Stewart Duthie, the "3Ds" prominently responsible for the development of Linguistics as a discipline in the University of Ghana.
Author: Martin Pütz
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1788922174
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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This book provides a forum for theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to research on language(s), multimodality and public space, which will advance new ways of understanding the sociocultural, ideological and historical role of communication practices and experienced lives in a globalised world. Linguistic Landscape is viewed as a metaphor and expanded to include a wide variety of discursive modalities: imagery, non-verbal communication, silence, tactile and aural communication, graffiti, smell, etc. The chapters in this book cover a range of geographical locations, and capture the history, motives, uses, causes, ideologies, communication practices and conflicts of diverse forms of languages as they may be observed in public spaces of the physical environment. The book is anchored in a variety of theories, methodologies and frameworks, from economics, politics and sociology to linguistics and applied linguistics, literacy and education, cultural geography and human rights.
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Languages : en
Pages : 269
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Author: Christina Gitsaki
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443836044
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The field of applied linguistics covers a diverse range of research and practice, and has developed somewhat differently in various parts of the world due to variations in local socio-cultural conditions, needs and issues. However, this local diversity does not reflect a field that is incoherent, but rather one which has a broad, shared international agenda which is invigorated by the diversity brought to the field by local perspectives. The papers in this volume represent some of the major global directions that research in applied linguistics is taking and shed light on how language is used to affect practice. The aim of this volume is to explore some of the key methods and issues which are guiding applied linguistics into the future through an examination of these issues in local contexts, thereby providing a basis for understanding the global directions the field is taking. These directions follow two historically defined paths: those related to educational studies and language teaching, and those related to social issues involving language. In the volume, half the papers focus on the former, examining issues of language teaching, language teacher education and second language acquisition, while the other half examine social issues related to language use, bilingualism and multilingualism, and language policy and planning. The collection of papers presented in this book illustrates how these traditional themes are influenced by the rising forces of globalisation and the use of technology, thus exemplifying both the new and old ways in which the study of language is realised.
Author: Erin H. Fouberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470382589
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Taking us from our hominid ancestors to the megacities of today, 'Human Geography' brings a new emphasis to the political and economic issues of human geography.
Author: Peter Trudgill
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521202640
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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This 1979 volume was the first to apply the principles of social linguistics within a British urban community, specifically Norwich.
Author: D.M. Mark
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401126062
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 509
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This book contains twenty-eight papers by participants in the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on "Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space," held in Las Navas del Maxques, Spain, July 8-20, 1990. The NATO ASI marked a stage in a two-year research project at the U. S. National Center for Geographic Infonnation and Analysis (NCOIA). In 1987, the U. S. National Science Foundation issued a solicitation for proposals to establish the NCGIA-and one element of that solicitation was a call for research on a "fundamental theory of spatial relations". We felt that such a fundamental theory could be searched for in mathematics (geometry, topology) or in cognitive science, but that a simultaneous search in these two seemingly disparate research areas might produce novel results. Thus, as part of the NCGIA proposal from a consortium consisting of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Maine, we proposed that the second major Research Initiative (two year, multidisciplinary research project) of the NCOIA would address these issues, and would be called "Languages of Spatial Relations" The grant to establish the NCOIA was awarded to our consortium late in 1988.
