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    The History of Linguistics

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    AND LITERATURE (PHD PROGRAM) LINGUISTICS DR VEYSEL KILIÇ ESMA ŞENEL Y1112.620021 HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language. The history of linguistics is a branch of intellectual history‚ for it deals with history of ideas- ideas about language- and not directly with language itself (Law‚ 2003‚ p.2). Many histories of linguistics have been written over the last two

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    Contrastive Linguistics

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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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    Contrastive Linguistics

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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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    Linguistics and Language

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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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    Structuralism in Linguistics

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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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    Applied Linguistics

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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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    Thinking Mathematically Short Essay: Understanding Mathematics and Linguistics How is Mathematics and Linguistics related with each other? Linguistics is the science of language. Linguists seek to understand the proper uses of natural human language. How languages are structured‚ how and why they vary and change‚ how they are acquired‚ and how people‚ in communicating use them. Mathematics on the other hand is the language of science. It is used to understand

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    Cognitive Linguistics

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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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    Linguistics and Language

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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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    cognitive linguistics

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    The topic of seminar:   The main trends of Cognitive Linguistics in works of foreign (American and European) scientists Problem task: What principles of cognitive linguistics did G. Lakoff pay much attention at ?  Describe his idea. Describe the study of spatial relationships and types of movement in the conceptualization of language‚ the concept of imaginative schemes and types of schemes. Describe the study of body based consciousness and language of humans. The idea of ​​the concept of embodiment

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