Download or read book Anglistics in Lithuania written by Jonė Grigaliūnienė and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers offers diverse yet highly professional accounts of multiple cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of English studies in Lithuania. It is valuable for the wide variety of empirical data presented, for the insights into both English and Lithuanian, which, when studied individually, sometimes cannot escape a narrower treatment. Most of the essays in this volume deal with semantics, pragmatics and grammar, while others focus on phonetics and language pedagogy. The collection is also notable for its use of various different methodologies, including triple CL – corpus linguistic, cognitive linguistic and contrastive linguistic – principles of investigation. A particular strength of the book is its focus on the contrastive aspect of study. Further, many of the contributions included here have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
Download or read book New Trends on Metadiscourse written by Begoña Bellés-Fortuño and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book gives an updated overview of methods of analysis of academic and non-academic genres in a digital era. The advent of digital and social media has deeply transformed academic and non-academic communication practices in the past two decades. The linguistic landscape is now a multilayered one; multicultural issues and cross-linguistic aspects are addressed in a way to understand how linguistically and culturally diverse identities try to find pathways. The communicative immediacy of digital media and the spectrum of genres/hybridized forms now available has inevitably influenced the way we communicate and the way we create meaning-making in a multimodal environment. The book contains nine chapters divided into two main sections corresponding to academic and non-academic texts where written, spoken and digital genres are examined from different perspectives. Cross-linguistic studies, multilingual approaches or disciplinary variations are analyzed in detail. This book provides and up-to-date and innovative view of Metadiscourse research and develops new research methodologies, drawing on visual research methods and combinations of qualitative and quantitative approaches from fields including Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, and Genre Analysis.
Download or read book Railway Discourse written by Esterino Adami and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks. Situated within the “Discourse, Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics” collection, the book critically engages with significant areas such as discourse and narrative structure. Interpreting the railway as a powerful cultural and imaginary site in the English-speaking world that traverses a range of creative domains, this study explores the ways in which the train and its structures, symbols and metaphors are textually rendered and the type of stylistic effects they generate in readers. It introduces, frames and discusses the idea of railway discourse and focuses on specific case studies (The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, the graphic novel Snowpiercer and Monisha Rajesh’s Around India in 80 Trains). In particular, it considers how a compartment window can constrain, and shape, the point of view of a narrator, the way in which science fiction trains are conceptually imagined, and the intercultural implications of rail travel writing in India today. To analyse the role and meaning of the railway in these texts, and compare them with others, this work adopts and adapts analytical tools and critical concepts from the integration of different fields, such as stylistics and linguistics, postcolonial criticism and literary studies.
Download or read book Who is who in Lithuania written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Modern Lithuanian written by Leonardas Dambriūnas and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beginner s Lithuanian written by Leonardas Dambriūnas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes 40 lessons, a complete grammar section, conversation sections, etc.
Download or read book Introduction to Modern Lithuanian written by Leonardas Dambriunas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indo Europeanization of Northern Europe written by Karlene Jones-Bley and published by Study of Man. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANTHROPOLOGY:The Indo-European Homeland Problem?A Matter of TimeThe Indo-European Question in a Norwegian PerspectiveThe Narva Culture and the Origin of Baltic CultureThe Pan-European Corded Ware Horizon (A-Horizon) and the Pamari? (Baltic Coastal) CultureBurial of the West and East Balts in the Bronze and Early Iron AgesSome Remarks about Northern Europeans in the Forming of the BaltsThe ?Vistulian-Dnieper Community of the Sub-Neolithic CulturesCeramics and Age?A Correlation in Early European Pottery.LINGUISTICS:Meillet?s Northwest Indo-European RevisitedThe Ancient Relationship of the Baltic and Germanic Languages from the Standpoint of Word Formation?Seeworter? and Substratum in Germanic, Baltic and Baltic Finno-Ugrian LanguagesIndo-European Architectural Terms and the Pre-Indo-EuropeansThe Pre-Germanic Substrata and Germanic Maritime Vocabulary.CULTURE AND MYTHOLOGY:Marija Gimbutas?the Investigator of Baltic MythologyConcepts of Sacrifice in Later Prehistoric EuropeCustoms of the Ancient Prussians in GermanReligious Authenticity at the Holy Wells of Ireland?A Methodological ProblemDawn-Maid and Sun-Maid?Celestial Goddesses among the Proto-Indo-EuropeansIndo-European Implications of an Old English DocumentAncient Baltic According to Ethnoinstrumentological Data.PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Anthropological Substratum of the Balts in Prussia and LithuaniaThe Odontological Characteristics of Lithuanian Balts and their RootsMulti-Ethnicity in Pre-Indo-European Northeast Europe?Theoretical and Empirical Constraints on the Interpretation of Human BiodiversityChanges of Population Biological Status during the Indo-Europeanization of LithuaniaThe Light Eye and Hair Cline?Implications for Indo-European Migrations to Northern Europe.
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 20th Century written by Richard Giedroyc and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a byproduct of the author's research into his family's history. Due to the placement of people at either the right or the wrong place at a moment in history, the accounts of their experiences help recount events. What is unusual about this book is that sufficient eyewitness or secondary accounts involving people with this surname have survived. No other history book has ever used such a far-flung surname to illustrate history. The author tries to be careful not to over-emphasize the importance of this family, yet presents a personal side to historic events. This is a general history book meant to explain major events of the 20th century and how they impacted most of the world. The book concentrates on nations that dominated the political landscape, also using two nations heavily impacted by the activities of their larger neighbor for supporting information. For this reason the United States, Russia (and Soviet Union), Lithuania, and Poland are the major thrust of the story.
Download or read book The Changing Academic Profession written by Ulrich Teichler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information on their working situation, their views and activities. The study “The Changing Academic Profession” is the second major study of its kind, and changes of views and activities are presented through a comparison of the findings with those of the earlier study undertaken in the early 1990s. Major themes are the academics’ perception of their societal and institutional environments, the views on the major tasks of teaching, research and services, their professional preferences and actual activities, their career, their perceived influence and their overall job satisfaction. Emphasis is placed on the influence of recent changes in higher education: the internationalisation and globalisation, the increasing expectation to provide evidence of the relevance of academic work, and finally the growing power of management at higher education institutions. Overall, the academics surveyed show that worldwide discourses and trends in higher education put their mark on the academic profession, but differences by country continue to be noteworthy. Academics consider themselves to be more strongly exposed to mechanism of regulations, incentives and sanctions as well as various assessments than in the past; yet their own freedom, and responsibilities and influence shape their identity more strongly and are reflected in widespread professional satisfaction.
Download or read book Researching and Applying Metaphor written by Graham Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how metaphor needs to be researched using multiple methods of investigation.
Download or read book Metaphor in Legal Discourse written by Inesa Šeškauskienė and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges’ argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from six different countries to investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon accessible through language and, more specifically, through actual linguistic contexts of use.
Download or read book Spatial Prepositions written by Claude Vandeloise and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relationships. Most previous analyses of spatial prepositions have assumed that their semantic properties can be adequately explained by familiar logical and geometrical concepts. Thus, the standard view of the preposition "in" as it appears in the sentence "the ball is in the bag" postulates that it refers to the geometrical relation of inclusion. This paradigm, however, falters when faced with the contrast in acceptability between sentences such as "the bulb is in the socket" and "the bottle is in the cap." The force exerted by the "landmark" (a conceptually fixed object) on the "target" (a moveable object) is crucial in this difference: the functional notion of containment seems more operational in the use of the preposition "in" than inclusion. That is, what are taken to be the landmark and the target depend greatly on the functions these objects serve in the human scheme. This offers important clues to otherwise problematic linguistic quirks, such as why one sleeps in one's bed, while one is said to lie on one's deathbed. While many of the examples apply in English as well as French, there are some noteworthy differences—in French one sits on a chair, but in a couch. Vandeloise convincingly argues that it is precisely this subjective element which makes a standard geometrical account unfeasible.
Download or read book From Corpus to Classroom written by Anne O'Keeffe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarises and makes accessible recent work in corpus research, focusing on spoken data and on the place of lexis in grammar and discourse.
Download or read book Idioms and Idiomaticity written by Chitra Fernando and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series will provide much-needed descriptions of modern English which take the revelations of recent research into account. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of idioms and idiomaticity from a functional perspective. It examines the use of idioms in discourse to combine the novel and the conventional, to convey representations of the world, evaluate people and situations, signal conviviality or conflict, andcreate coherent, cohesive texts. The book goes on to consider implications for language learning and development.
Download or read book Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
