The article represents the outlook of modern methods psycholinguistic analysis dialogue semantics, semantic vector being most prospective in discourse linguistics. experimental psycholinguistics are rather new, and our research is an attempt to apply them study suggest some new methods. Psycholinguistic reveals numerous interdisciplinary links interpreting human speech behavior: with cognitive ...

■ Abstract The consequences of early agricultural development in several regions of the Old and New Worlds included population growth, the spread of new material cultures and of food-producing economies, the expansions of language families, and in many cases the geographical expansions of the early farming populations themselves into territories previously occupied by hunters and gatherers. Thi...

This essay focuses on the heterogeneous missionary contexts connected to Portuguese Empire, in hemisphere assigned Portugal by Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) and Zaragoza (1529), ranging from Brasil, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, Vietnam, China Japan. In these plural contexts, between ca. 1540 1650, was used, mostly Jesuits their more numerous local native mediators, as translational language for se...

Developing a technical product for a foreign market or a target group with a different cultural background always brings with it the challenge and the need of adaptation. One has to deal in this case with four different levels: a technical level including issues of technical standards (e.g. electricity systems, video norms, cell phone standards), a linguistic level including the translation of ...

the literature has already been a basic component in teaching foreign / second languages curriculum in comparing with other materials, therefore, this forces instructors to use literature for two purposes: first, teaching literature for literature and second , use of literature as a linguistic resource in order to improving language skill of learners, and this is important issue in applied ling...

The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major such as Amharic Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo Nuer are dealt with. Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in history linguistics, two chapters dedicated studies Sig...

Abstract Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive Linguistics. This introductory paper provides overview of some major lines research this field, starting with the inherently panchronic approach that characterizes most flavors usage-based theory from Grammar to complex adaptive systems approaches. In particular, “constructionist turn” and “quantitative L...

conclusions the number of linguistic studies on language and speech therapy is more than that of the studies in which clinical data are used to study the theories and hypotheses. therefore, it is necessary to consider this area seriously and guide the studies toward the theories proposed in the related disorders. thus, attention must be paid to pragmatic and semantic domains of the disorder whi...