This book is concerned with articulatory phonetics, meaning that the main purpose of this book is to teach the reader how to recognize, record, and reproduce the sounds of any language.
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings' Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawak, Cantonese, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Inuit and Erdu amongst a host of others we have enriched our modern language with such words as tulip, slogan, doolally, avocado, moccasin, ketchup and ukulele.
This is an excellent book on Linguistics. It gives a brief introduction on the related topics.
For several years, this book has proved lo be useful to students who wanted an introduction to Linguistics. Grammar and Semantics. The requirement of the students was. and is, for a book that familiarizes them with a new subject and creates interest in studying it further... One more new chapter (Chapter 11) on Supra-sentential Grammar covering rules of cohesion and linkage, which is a must for the study of linguistics today, has been added..
Introducing NLP Nero-Linguistic Programming (Revised Edition) Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is an approach to psychotherapy and organizational change that is popular among people who want to live a fuller, more fulfilling, and more fulfilling life. Whether you are a salesman wanting to close more business or a teacher wishing to inspire his students,...
This book proposes a socio-pragmatic exploration of the discursive practices used to construe and dynamically negotiate positions in news interviews. It starts with a discursive interpretation of ‘positioning’, ‘role’ and ‘challenge’, puts forward the relevance of a distinction between social and interactional roles, demonstrates how challenges bring to the fore the relevant roles and role-components of the participants, and shows that in news interviews speakers constantly position and re-position themselves and....
