Young Christopher, Gloning Thomas. A History of the German Language through Texts

формат pdf
размер 24.06 МБ
добавлен 03 августа 2011 г.

Pages: 414
Publisher: Routledge (2004)
Quality: good: scanned book

A History of the German Language through Texts examines the evolution of German, from the Early Medieval period to the present day. The book offers an alteative to traditional histories of the German language by focusing on the evidence provided in primary sources. Written in a lively and accessible style, it provides commentaries on over forty German texts. Each text is translated, set firmly in its sociolinguistic context and analysed in terms of its key linguistic features. Texts range from eighth century translations of the Lord's Prayer, through medieval medical texts and early mode cookbooks to mode scientific texts and inteet chatroom messages posted on September 11, 2001. The book also includes a glossary of technical terms and abbreviations, a summary of the main changes in each historical period, a guide to reference material and suggestions for further reading. A History of the German Language through Texts is essential reading for students of German, Linguistics or Philology.

ISBN 0-415-18331-6

Похожие разделы

Смотрите также

Chomsky Noam Cartesian Linguistics (a chapter in the history of rationalist thought)

формат pdf
размер 1.33 МБ
добавлен 12 марта 2010 г.

In this profound work Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind science. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualizing the work for the 21st century. All the French and German in the original edition has been translated, and the notes and bibliography have been brought up to date.

Fairclough N. Analysing Discourse. Textual Analysis for Social Research

формат pdf
размер 1.09 МБ
добавлен 30 мая 2011 г.

L. : Routledge, 2003. – 270 p. Analysing Discourse is an accessible introduction to text and discourse analysis for all students and researchers seeking to use and investigate real language data. Students and researchers in the social sciences, as well as language specialists, often discover that they cannot get as much from texts, conversations or research interviews as they would like because they are unsure exactly how to analyze these langu...

Filppula M., Klemola J., Palander M., Penttila E. (editors) Dialects Across Borders

формат pdf
размер 3.5 МБ
добавлен 20 августа 2011 г.

Jоhn Bеnjamins Pub Co, 2005. - 291 pages. Selected papers from the 11th international conference on methods in dialectology (Joensuu, august, 2002). Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical compone...

Gillen Julia. The Language of Children (Intertext)

формат pdf
размер 2.5 МБ
добавлен 06 сентября 2010 г.

First published 2003 by Routledge, London. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004. ISBN: 0415286212 The Language of Children: - focuses on the language produced by children, and includes a wide variety of authentic data, from records of children’s first words to emails; - introduces the student to ways of analysing data, from multimodal texts to transcripts of talk during play; - explores the language of children from...

Jacob Wackernagel. Lectures on Syntax

формат pdf
размер 7.2 МБ
добавлен 10 июня 2010 г.

Lectures on Syntax with special reference to Greek, Latin, and Germanic. This book is an English version of two series of highly acclaimed introductory lectures given by the great Swiss linguist and classical philologist Jacob Wackernagel (1853-1938) at the University of Basle in 1918-19 on aspects of Greek, Latin, and German as languages. Out of print in German since 1996, these lectures remain the best available introduction, in any language, n...

Mesthrie Rajend. Language in South Africa

формат pdf
размер 2.27 МБ
добавлен 04 августа 2011 г.

Pages: 505 Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2004) Quality: good: pdf This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging guide to language and society in South Africa. The book surveys the most important language groupings in the region in terms of pre-colonial and colonial history; contact between the different language varieties (leading to language loss, pidginization, creolization and new mixed varieties). It examines language and public policy i...

Morris Michael. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

формат pdf
размер 1.15 МБ
добавлен 23 августа 2011 г.

Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy Pages: 338 Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2007) Quality: good: pdf In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts...

Rajend Mesthrie (Ed.). Concise Encyclopaedia of Sociolinguistics

формат pdf
размер 96.09 МБ
добавлен 20 июня 2011 г.

– Amsterdam – New York – Oxford – Shannon – Singapore – Tokyo: Elsevier, 2001. – 1031 p. In Concise Encyclopaedia of Sociolinguistics various sociolinguistic problems are viewed, such as sociolinguistics (history and overview); foundations of society and language; language and interaction; language variation: style, situation, function; language variation and change: dialects and social groups; language contact, language, power and inequality; l...

Variation and Change in English

формат pdf
размер 858.8 КБ
добавлен 10 декабря 2011 г.

Четыре главы книги по лингвистике - 177 стр. на английском языке Chapter 1 - language, dialect, accent, variety and standard English A brief history of the standardisation of English in England A brief history of the standardisation of English in the USA Linguistic variation Social variation etc. Chapter 2 - Pragmatics and Discourse Language, meaning and communication Language in context Language as action Speech Act Theory The co-operative prin...

Woods Christopher. Visible Language Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond

формат pdf
размер 9.93 МБ
добавлен 24 августа 2011 г.

Pages: 241 Publisher: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (2010) Quality: good: pdf Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is one of humanity's greatest inventions. This book presents current perspectives on the origins and development of writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt, providing an overview of each writing system and its uses. Essays on writing in China and Mesoamerica complete coverage of the four "prist...