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Singapore English: A grammatical description provides a vivid account of current contemporary Singapore English complementing older seminal accounts of this variety. Drawing primarily on the Grammar of Spoken Singapore English Corpus which comprises naturally-occurring conversational speech the contributions in this volume not only provide comprehensive and systematic descriptions of the structural features characterising colloquial Singapore English of the young native speaker of today but also propose the likely substrate sources of these features through insightful linguistic and historical examination. Clearly illustrating the particular rules of grammar that characterise Singapore English as a variety in its own right this volume presents its evolution as a perfectly natural linguistic phenomenon which is best understood within the multiethnic and multilingual society that Singapore is and has been for the past two centuries. Theoretical linguists sociolinguists dialectologists variationists typologists and creolists as well as those involved in education and policy-making should find this description relevant and vital.

Until now Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally Chernov’s major work originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation) and widely considered a classic in interpretation theory is now available in English as well. Adopting a psycholinguistic approach to professional SI Chernov defines it as a task performed in a single pass concurrently with the source language speech under extreme perception and production conditions in which only a limited amount of information can be processed at any given time.

Being both a researcher and a practitioner Chernov drew from a rich interpreting corpus to create the first comprehensive model of simultaneous interpretation. His model draws on semantics pragmatics Russian Activity Theory and the SI communicative situation to formulate the principles of objective and subjective redundancy and identify probability prediction as the enabling mechanism of SI. Edited with notes and a critical foreword by two active SI researchers Robin Setton and Adelina Hild this book will be useful to practicing interpreters in providing a theoretical basis for appreciating the syntactic and other devices that can be used by both students and experienced interpreters in fine-tuning their performance in the booth.

This book examines new forms of communication that have emerged through the interactive capabilities of the Internet in particular online advertising and web advertisements. It develops a new model of online communication incorporating mass communication and interpersonal communication. Interactive mass communication redefines the roles of online communication partners who are confronted with a higher degree of complexity in terms of hypertextual information units. In web advertising this new aspect of interactivity is linguistically reflected in different types of personal address forms directives and "trigger words". This study also analyzes the different strategies of persuasion with which web ads try to initiate their activation.Web Advertising provides essential information on the language of web advertisements for academics researchers and students in the fields of hypertext-linguistics advertising communication and media studies.

This volume sign posts several paths of multimodality research and theory-building today. The chapters represent a cross-section of current perspectives on multimodal discourse with a special focus on theoretical and methodological issues (mode hierarchies modelling semiotic resources as multiple semiotic systems multimodal corpus annotation). In addition it discusses a wide range of applications for multimodal description in fields like mathematics entertainment education museum design medicine and translation.

In a world of increasing migration and technological progress multilingual communication has become the rule rather than the exception. This book reflects the growing interest in understanding communication between members of different linguistic groups and contains a collection of original papers by members of the German Science Foundation’s research center on multilingualism at Hamburg University and by international experts offering an overview of the most important research fields in multilingual communication. The book is divided into four sections dealing with interpreting and translation code-switching in various institutional contexts two important strands of multilingual communication: rapport and politeness and contrastive studies of Japanese and German grammar and discourse. The editors’ preface presents the relevant theoretical and methodological background to the issues discussed in this book and points to useful directions for future research.

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative grammar: nominal and verbal inflectional morphology subject and object pronouns complex structures involving movement (topicalizations questions relative clauses) and aspects of verb meaning that have consequences for syntax. The book argues that Universal Grammar constrains all instances of language acquisition and that there is a fundamental continuity between monolingual bilingual child and adult early grammatical systems. While stressing their similarities with respect to linguistic representations and processes the book also considers important differences between these three acquisition situations with respect to the outcome of acquisition. It is also shown that many linguistic properties of Spanish are acquired earlier than in English and other languages. This book is a must read for those interested in the acquisition of Spanish from different theoretical perspectives as well as those working on the acquisition of other languages in different contexts.

This volume is the product of a Columbia School Linguistics Conference held at Rutgers University in October 1999 where the plenary speaker was Ronald W. Langacker a founder of Cognitive Linguistics. The goal of the book is to promote two kinds of dialogue. First dialogue between Cognitive Grammar and the particular sign-based approach to language known as the Columbia School. While they share certain basic assumptions the “maximalist” CG and the “minimalist” CS differ both theoretically and methodologically. Given that philosophers from Mill to Kuhn to Feyerabend have stressed the importance to any discipline of dialogue between opposing views the dialogue begun here cannot fail to bear fruit. The second kind of dialogue is that among several sign-based approaches themselves and also between them and two competitors: grammaticalization theory and generic functionalism. Topics range from phonology to discourse. Analytical problems are taken from a wide range of languages including English German Guarani Hebrew Hualapai Japanese Korean Macedonian Mandarin Polish Russian Serbian Spanish Urdu and Yaqui.

This volume brings together revised versions of a selection of papers presented at the 2003 International Conference on “Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing”. A wide range of topics is covered in the volume: semantics dialogue summarization anaphora resolution shallow parsing morphology part-of-speech tagging named entity question answering word sense disambiguation information extraction. Various ‘state-of-the-art’ techniques are explored: finite state processing machine learning (support vector machines maximum entropy decision trees memory-based learning inductive logic programming transformation-based learning perceptions) latent semantic analysis constraint programming. The papers address different languages (Arabic English German Slavic languages) and use different linguistic frameworks (HPSG LFG constraint-based DCG).<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This book will be of interest to those who work in computational linguistics corpus linguistics human language technology translation studies cognitive science psycholinguistics artificial intelligence and informatics.

This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics psycholinguistics developmental psychology education and language pathology. As such the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the study of “later language development”. Incorporating insights from prior language acquisition research it goes beyond preschool age to consider both isolated utterances and extended discourse conversational interactions and monologic text construction and both written and spoken language use from early school-age across adolescence. Data from French Hebrew Spanish and Swedish as well as English cover varied domains: morphology and lexicon syntax and verb–argument structure as well as peer interaction spelling processing of on-line writing and reading poetry. The epilogue suggests explanations for the findings documented. Across the book the authors show how cognitive and social maturation combines with increased literacy in the path taken by schoolchildren and adolescents towards the flexible deployment of a growing repertoire of lexical elements in varied morpho-syntactic constructions and different discourse contexts that constitutes the hallmark of maturely proficient language use.

This book explores the structure and use of academic and professional discourse through the lens of corpus linguistics. The goal of this book is to show how insights from corpus linguistic analyses can help us better understand how we use academic and professional language and help us find ways to better train newcomers to the genres used in various professional contexts. The contributions to this book show that specialized corpora of specific genres from a variety of fields allow us to make more relevant observations about the function and use of language for particular purposes. The specialized corpora examined include written and spoken academic genres written and spoken business and legal genres and written philanthropic genres. The book showcases a variety of approaches to analyzing the discourse of specialized corpora and each chapter concludes with a reflection on the practical and pedagogical implications of the analysis.