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Code Switching, the alternating use of two or more languages ation, has become an increasingly topical and important field of research. Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed. It addresses not only the structure and the function, but also the ideological values of such bilingual behaviour. The contributors question many views of code switching on the empirical basis of many European and non European contexts. By bringing together linguistics, anthropological and socio-psychological research, they move towards a more realistic conception of bilingual conversation action.
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Code-switching, the alternating use of two or more languages within
conversation, has become an increasingly topical field of research.
This volume brings together contributions from a wide variety of
sociolinguistic settings in which this phenomenon of
"conversational code-switching" is observed. It addresses the
structure, function and ideological value of such bilingual
behaviour. The contributors question many views of code-switching
on the empirical basis of many European and non-European contexts.
By bringing together linguistic, anthropological and
socio-psychological research, they aim to move towards a more
realistic conception of bilingual conversational action. The
international contributors include: Mark Sebba, Li Wei, Melissa
Moyer, Yael Mashler, Ben Rampton and Jan Blommaert. This text
should be of interest to students of bilingualism, sociolinguistics
and psycholinguistics.
This book, situated within the framework of Comparative
Interactional Linguistics, explores a family of fourteen discourse
markers across the languages of Europe and beyond (Yiddish, Hebrew,
Russian, Polish, Romani, Estonian, Finnish, Upper Saxonian and
Standard German, Dutch, Icelandic, and Swedish), arguing that they
go back to one, possibly two, particles: NU/NA. Each chapter
analyzes the use of one of the NU/NA family members in a particular
language, usually on the basis of conversational data, feeding into
a comprehensive chapter on the structure, function, and history of
these particles. The approach taken in this volume broadens the
functional linguistic concept of 'structure' to include the
sequential positioning of the particles and their composition, and
the concept of 'function' to include the conversational actions
performed in interaction. Employing conversation analytic
methodology thus enables a study of the ways these particles
acquire meaning within certain sequential and action environments
-- both cross-linguistically and with regard to the
grammaticization of the particles. All this sheds light on the
borrowing patterns of NU/NA across the languages. With
contributions by Peter Auer, Galina B. Bolden, Gonen Dori-Hacohen,
Andrea Golato, Harrie Mazeland, Auli Hakulinen, Helga Hilmisdottir,
Leelo Keevallik, Hanna Lehti-Eklund, Anna Lindstroem, Yael
Maschler, Yaron Matras, Gertrud Reershemius, Mirja Saari, Lea
Sawicki, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Heidi Vepsalainen and Matylda
Weidner.
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Algorithmic Learning Theory - 25th International Conference, ALT 2014, Bled, Slovenia, October 8-10, 2014, Proceedings (Paperback, 2014 ed.)
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International
Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2014, held in Bled,
Slovenia, in October 2014, and co-located with the 17th
International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2014. The 21
papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
selected from 50 submissions. In addition the book contains 4 full
papers summarizing the invited talks. The papers are organized in
topical sections named: inductive inference; exact learning from
queries; reinforcement learning; online learning and learning with
bandit information; statistical learning theory; privacy,
clustering, MDL, and Kolmogorov complexity.
This volume embarks on an exploration of the processual and dynamic
character of grammatical constructions in emergence, both from an
'emergent' and an 'emerging' perspective. 'Emerging' constructions
develop out of their discourse contexts. Talking of emerging
constructions is compatible with a view of grammar as a stable
system of rules and structures which may 'emerge' (i.e., come into
existence) out of a pool of previously unordered elements.
'Emergent' constructions on the contrary are due to the on-line
production of grammar in time. The term 'emergent' emphasises the
fact that a grammatical structure is always temporary and
ephemeral. In both senses, grammar is modelled as a highly adaptive
resource for interaction. On the basis of empirical studies on
spoken English, German, Hebrew, Swedish and French, the volume
addresses the following questions: How can what initially appears
to be construction x end up being construction y in on-line syntax?
What are the local interactional needs which such processes respond
to in the process of their emergence? Does the on-line
(re-)modelling of a construction concern its syntactic or semantic
side - or both? And finally: Should emergent grammatical structures
as they unfold in real time be seen as stages in the emerging of
grammar?
This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic
variability that takes into account the construction of social
identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It
shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between
single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning,
i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating
forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are
focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a
narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics
patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical
practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and
preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music,
etc.). These various features of expression are connected to
multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from
discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in
the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen
proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under
the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.
Why do languages allow us to say 'the same thing' in so many
different ways? One of the answers is that in saying what we want
to say, we always position ourselves in social space as well, by
speaking differently from relevant other social actors or groups.
This volume explores how variability in language is exploited (and
maintained) in order to perform this social identity work in
interaction. It shows that variable features cluster together in
socially meaningful ways when considered as social (communicative)
styles linked to social identities.
This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism
and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in
international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a
problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism
and multilingualism in society, including the question of language
acquisition versus maintenance of bilingualism. Key features:
provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the
context of multilingualism and multilingual communication presents
a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field, offers
solutions of everyday language-related problems international
handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field
This volume contains papers presented at the Eighteenth Annual
Conference on Learning Theory (previously known as the Conference
on Computational Learning Theory) held in Bertinoro, Italy from
June 27 to 30, 2005. The technical program contained 45 papers
selected from 120 submissions, 3 open problems selected from among
5 contributed, and 2 invited lectures. The invited lectures were
given by Sergiu Hart on "Uncoupled Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium",
and by Satinder Singh on "Rethinking State, Action, and Reward in
Reinforcement Learning". These papers were not included in this
volume. The Mark Fulk Award is presented annually for the best
paper co-authored by a student. The student selected this year was
Hadi Salmasian for the paper titled "The Spectral Method for
General Mixture Models" co-authored with Ravindran Kannan and
Santosh Vempala. The number of papers submitted to COLT this year
was exceptionally high. In addition to the classical COLT topics,
we found an increase in the number of submissions related to novel
classi?cation scenarios such as ranking. This - crease re?ects a
healthy shift towards more structured classi?cation problems, which
are becoming increasingly relevant to practitioners.
Using Hamburg as an example, this book shows that the Turkish
language is well-established today in Germany's large cities and
has become an integral part of everyday communication - not only
for citizens of Turkish decent. In fact, teenagers and young adults
of German and other heritages are learning Turkish fragmentarily or
completely and using it in everyday life. The book examines the
process of and social-symbolic motivation for learning Turkish, the
structure of the Turkish being acquired, as well as its application
in conversation.
This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism
and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in
international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a
problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism
and multilingualism in society, including the question of language
acquisition versus maintenance of bilingualism. Key features:
provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the
context of multilingualism and multilingual communication presents
a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field, offers
solutions for everyday language-related problems international
handbook with contributions from renowned experts in the field
Das Phanomen Sprache und seine aktuelle Erforschung.
Sprachwissenschaft umfasst mehr als nur Grundlegendes wie Laute,
Woerter und Satze. Daher greift das Lehrbuch uber die grammatischen
Disziplinen hinaus zahlreiche Themen auf, die das Interesse fur das
Fach Linguistik wecken: sprachliche Interaktion, Variation und
Wandel, Sprachkontakt und Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprache und Kultur,
Ursprung der Sprache u. a. Das grosse Format und das zweifarbige
Layout erleichtern den UEberblick. Umfassend und kompakt ideal fur
BA-Studierende.
This volume introduces students to the subject matter, methods and
findings of conversation analysis. One of the main focal points of
applied linguistics, conversation analysis deals with all
situations of every-day communication (e.g. doctor-patient,
lawyer-client, buyer-vendor etc.). The Introduction to Conversation
Analysis provides a basis for all BA-/MA study programmes in which
the methods of conversation analysis have a role to play, e.g.
linguistics, sociology, psychology, communication science,
ethnology and anthropology. Written by leading German philologists
from the field of linguistic conversation and interaction analysis
at the cutting edge of current research clear, comprehensible and
concise replaces the successful introduction by Henne/Rehbock
(Sammlung GAschen, 1982, 4th edition 2001)
Proceeding from 22 authorsand 22 different concepts, the book
provides an overview of the essential present-day knowledge of the
analysis of linguistic interaction. The authors selected include
not only linguists, but also major sociologists,
culturalscientists, and language philosophers, as well as some
recent authors of rank.
Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in
more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it
difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a native of
London, or a native of Bonn from a native of Cologne. This
comprehensive study brings together a team of leading scholars to
explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect
convergence and divergence. Drawing on examples from a wide range
of European countries - as well as areas where European languages
have been transplanted - they examine a range of issues relating to
dialect contact and isolation, and show how sociolinguistic
conditions differ hugely between and within European countries.
Each specially commissioned chapter is based on original research,
giving an overview of work on that particular area and presenting
case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. Dialect Change
will be welcomed by all those interested in sociolinguistics,
dialectology, the relevance of language variation to formal
linguistic theories, and European languages.
This collection of articles deals with phonetic and phonological
aspects of the prosodic concepts 'syllable cut' and 'tonal accent'.
Syllable cut refers to the way in which a vowel is modified ('cut')
by the consonant following it. As such, the concept of syllable cut
is a prosodic approach representing a viable alternative to more
segmentally defined concepts like vowel quantity or quality. Tonal
accents establish lexical/phonological contrasts at word level with
the help of contrasting intonation curves. The volume presents new
findings on syllable cut and tonal accents from the following
research fields: historical phonology and graphemics, dialectology,
auto-segmental phonology, acoustical phonetics, language typology.
In the linguistic research on the Wende undertaken so far,
phenomena like vocabulary change and political language usage have
been in the forefront of interest. This has involved a high degree
of neglect for broad areas of everyday and spoken language and
their socio-cultural moorings. The present volume sees itself as an
empirical contribution to rectifying that situation. There are
three main subjects: >EastWest
The authors here promote the reintroduction of temporality into the
description and analysis of spoken interaction. They argue that
spoken words are, in fact, temporal objects and that unless
linguists consider how they are delivered within the context of
time, they will not capture the full meaning of situated language
use. Their approach is rigorously empirical, with analyses of
English, German, and Italian rhythm, all grounded in sequences of
actual talk-in-interaction.
Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in
more recent years, European dialects have 'levelled', making it
difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a native of
London, or a native of Bonn from a native of Cologne. This
comprehensive study brings together a team of leading scholars to
explore all aspects of recent dialect change, in particular dialect
convergence and divergence. Drawing on examples from a wide range
of European countries - as well as areas where European languages
have been transplanted - they examine a range of issues relating to
dialect contact and isolation, and show how sociolinguistic
conditions differ hugely between and within European countries.
Each specially commissioned chapter is based on original research,
giving an overview of work on that particular area and presenting
case studies to illustrate the issues discussed. Dialect Change
will be welcomed by all those interested in sociolinguistics,
dialectology, the relevance of language variation to formal
linguistic theories, and European languages.
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