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English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various
regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats.
Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with
other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and
its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the
geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and
non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to
considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This
analysis includes the role and impact of American English in
mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic
properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical
development, English used in specific domains, language policies
and concludes with the future of English and future challenges.
This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various
roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the
transformation of entire language habitats, including the major
national and regional languages that participate in this process.
It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting
identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally
and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields
of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language
contact, policy and planning.
English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various
regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language habitats.
Addressing the history, developmental stages and contacts with
other languages, it provides in-depth information on the region and
its political organization. In doing so, it analyzes the
geo-political division of the region between former Anglophone and
non-Anglophone colonies and shows that this distinction has led to
considerable differences in the status and texture of English. This
analysis includes the role and impact of American English in
mainland and maritime Southeast Asia to highlight the linguistic
properties of English and its linguistic and sociopolitical
development, English used in specific domains, language policies
and concludes with the future of English and future challenges.
This book therefore provides an integrative survey of the various
roles of English in ASEAN member states and studies the
transformation of entire language habitats, including the major
national and regional languages that participate in this process.
It also explains how new societies emerge with their conflicting
identities and their aspirations to act regionally or even globally
and is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields
of World Englishes, Asian Studies and those interested in language
contact, policy and planning.
This book presents a selection of papers from the industrial track
of ISMIS 2020. The selection emphasizes broad applicability of
artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in various industrial
fields. The aim of the book is to fertilize preliminary ideas of
readers on the application of AI by means of already successfully
implemented application examples. Furthermore, the development of
new ideas and concepts shall be motivated by the variety of
different application examples. The spectrum of the presented
contributions ranges from education and training, industrial
applications in production and logistics to the development of new
approaches in basic research, which will further expand the
possibilities of future applications of AI in industrial settings.
This broad spectrum gives readers working in the industrial as well
as the academic field a good overview of the state of the art in
the field of methodologies for intelligent systems.
This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart
homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with
complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures,
the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or
smartness) the wise home puts technology in the background and
supports explicit (enhanced user-experience) as well as implicit
(artificial intelligence) interaction adequate to the end-user's
needs. The theoretical basis of the wise home is explored and
examples for its application for future living are presented based
on empirical studies and field work carried out by the author.
Principles of HCI and the meaning of the home from differing
scientific perspective are discussed and a research model (based on
the concept of user experience (UX)) and iterations is introduced.
This has resulted in field deployment guides being produced through
a systematic development process. The Future Home is Wise, not
Smart will be essential reading to home system developers,
designers and researchers, responsible for smart home deployment or
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) who will get insights on how to
follow a novel approach in developing and adapting smart home
systems to their users' needs. Students with an interest in
software design for pervasive systems will benefit by receiving
information on how to develop and customise systems for the
specific needs of living environments.
This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart
homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with
complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures,
the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or
smartness) the wise home puts technology in the background and
supports explicit (enhanced user-experience) as well as implicit
(artificial intelligence) interaction adequate to the end-user's
needs. The theoretical basis of the wise home is explored and
examples for its application for future living are presented based
on empirical studies and field work carried out by the author.
Principles of HCI and the meaning of the home from differing
scientific perspective are discussed and a research model (based on
the concept of user experience (UX)) and iterations is introduced.
This has resulted in field deployment guides being produced through
a systematic development process. The Future Home is Wise, not
Smart will be essential reading to home system developers,
designers and researchers, responsible for smart home deployment or
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) who will get insights on how to
follow a novel approach in developing and adapting smart home
systems to their users' needs. Students with an interest in
software design for pervasive systems will benefit by receiving
information on how to develop and customise systems for the
specific needs of living environments.
The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a
considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse
fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social
history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a
variety of issues to do with Aboriginal Australian languages and
the social contexts in which they are used. There is, however, no
integrative reader that is easily accessible to the non-specialist
in any of the areas concerned. The collection edited by Leitner and
Malcolm fills this gap. Looking at Aborigines and Torres Strait
Islanders and their changing habitats from pre-colonial times to
the present, the book covers languages from a structural and
functional linguistic perspective, moves on to the issue of
cultural maintenance and then turns to language policy, planning
and the educational and legal dimensions. Among the many themes
discussed are: the social and linguistic history of language
contact after 1788 (including the Macassans); the demographic base
of indigenous languages; traditional indigenous languages; results
of language contact such as the modification of traditional
languages and the rise of contact languages (pidgins, creoles, esp.
Kriol, Torres Strait Creole, and Aboriginal English); the impact of
the Aboriginal languages on mainstream Australian English;
maintenance, shift, revival and documentation of indigenous and
contact languages; language planning; language in education;
language in the media; language in the law courts. The contributors
are leading experts in their fields. The book can serve as a reader
for university courses but also as a state-of-the-art work and
resource for specialists like applied linguists or educational
planners.
Australia is host to many languages - English, indigenous, migrant,
and contact. Its multilingualism, the sociopolitical changes that
have been impacting upon them, and its wide-ranging language policy
efforts are well-known. What has been missing so far is a
comprehensive, integrative study of the entire 'habitat' of
languages - the contacts and interactions that have been taking
place from the beginning of colonization to the present day with
their linguistic outcomes. This book and its companion, Australia's
Many Voices. Australian English - The National Language, develop
and apply such an approach. The present book deals with
non-mainstream varieties of English, indigenous, migrant, and
contact languages. Based on census and other data to 2003, it
addresses themes such as language demographics, language shift, and
socio-psychological factors that bear upon it. Language change is
discussed from the angle of the uprooting of indigenous languages
from their original context, of transplantation, and of contact
with English. Pidgins and creoles are located inside the Pacific
context of the nineteenth century. This study provides an analysis
of language and language-education policies to 2003 and connects
this theme with the role of Australian English, the national
language. It suggests that Australia's habitat is reaching a new
stage of plurilingual tolerance. The book is of interest for
specialists from a wide range of language and policy disciplines.
Its discursive, non-technical style makes it accessible to
non-specialists with no background in linguistics.
Australia's English raises many questions among experts and the
general public. What is it like? How has English changed by being
transplanted to other parts of the world? Does the rise of AusE and
other varieties endanger the role of English as a world language?
Past studies have often been selective, focusing on the esoteric
and non-typical, and ignoring the contact situation in which
Australian English has developed. This book and its companion,
Australia's Many Voices. Ethnic Englishes, Indigenous and Migrant
Languages. Policy and Education, develop and apply a comprehensive
andintegrative approach that anchors English in the entire
'habitat' of Australia's languages that it both upset and
transformed. Based on a wide range of data and on the assumption
that all manifestations of Australian English must cohere as a
system, this book retraces the social, psycholinguistic and
linguistic history of the language. It locates the contact with
indigenous and migrant languages and with American English in the
appropriate sociohistorical context and shows how several layers of
migration have shaped it. As it stratified, it was gradually
accepted and developed into a fully-fledged national variety or
epicentre of English that could be raised to the status of national
language. Implications on educational policy and attempts to reach
out into the Asia-Pacific region have followed logically from
national status. The study is of interest for specialists of
English and Australian Studiesas well as a range of other
disciplines. Its discursive, non-technical style and presentation
makes it accessible to non-specialists with no background in
linguistics.
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of
Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which
integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical
linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the
other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting
new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that
contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further
outstanding research in English linguistics.
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten
[Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a
significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory
both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to
deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight
of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new
knowledge about human languages both synchronically and
diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical
analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality
linguistic studies from all the central areas of general
linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which
address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the
development of linguistic theory.
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Foundations of Intelligent Systems - 25th International Symposium, ISMIS 2020, Graz, Austria, September 23-25, 2020, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Denis Helic, Gerhard Leitner, Martin Stettinger, Alexander Felfernig, Zbigniew W. Ras
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International
Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2020, held
in Graz, Austria, in October 2020. The conference was held
virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 35 full and 8 short
papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 79 submissions. Included is also one invited talk.
The papers deal with topics such as natural language processing;
deep learning and embeddings; digital signal processing; modelling
and reasoning; and machine learning applications.
This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction
between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart
home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred
communication. State of the art smart homes, like other "smart"
technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself
to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred,
truly intuitive system has long proven to be beyond the grasp of
current technology. When humans speak with one another, we are
multimodal. Our speech is supplemented with gestures, which serve
as a parallel stream of information, reinforcing the meaning of our
words. Drawing on well-established protocols in engineering and
psychology, and with no small amount of inspiration from a
particular nonsense poem, we have successfully concluded that hunt.
This book describes the efforts, undertaken over several years, to
design, implement, and test a model of interaction that allows
untrained individuals to intuitively control a complex series of
networked and embedded systems. The theoretical concepts are
supported by a series of experimental studies, showing the
advantages of the novel approach, and pointing towards future work
that would facilitate the deployment of this concept in the real
world.
Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of
leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central
Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and
Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a
number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and
illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local
dynamics affecting languages in contact and cultural links of
languages are dealt with, such as educational-political issues and
tensions between conflicting norms. In today's global world, where
the continent is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to
explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through
English and other languages. This important new study will be of
interest to students and researchers working in the fields of
regional studies, English as a global language, Asian languages and
cultural studies.
Communicating with Asia brings together an international team of
leading researchers to discuss South, South-East, East and Central
Asia, and explore Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi-Urdu, Malay, and
Russian as major languages. The volume locates English inside a
number of national, regional or lingua franca contexts and
illustrates the way it develops in such contact situations. Local
dynamics affecting languages in contact and cultural links of
languages are dealt with, such as educational-political issues and
tensions between conflicting norms. In today's global world, where
the continent is an increasing area of focus, it is vital to
explore what it means to 'understand' Asian cultures through
English and other languages. This important new study will be of
interest to students and researchers working in the fields of
regional studies, English as a global language, Asian languages and
cultural studies.
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