A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of the Role of Morphology in Reading Development

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-148
Author(s):  
Lynne G. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Development ◽  
Linguistic Analysis

Defaults in linguistics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolas Gisborne ◽  
Andrew Hippisley
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Language And Cognition ◽  
The Right

The notion of default and override can serve linguistic analysis in different ways. In the lexicon defaults are used for the resolution of rule competition, to capture lexical blocking, to select the right stem where there are choices, and when used in inheritance systems to provide for instances that do not meet every characteristic of their class allowing exceptionality to be expressed as semi-regularity. Defaults in syntax and semantics play a more organizational, ontological role, expressing markedness in lists of features and their possible values and resolving conflicts that may arise when two sub-systems intersect. The chapters discuss how defaults and overrides can address specific linguistic phenomena, suggest an architecture of the grammar, and assess the role of morphology in language and cognition.

scholarly journals Experiencer as quasi-agent: «from meaning to the linguistic form»

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 112-136
Author(s):  
М.А. Fomina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Conceptual Category ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Linguistic Form ◽  
Grammatical Subject

The paper focuses on the category of semantic subject within the framework of a functional approach to linguistics. The variety of roles subject may have in a sentence accounts for the radially structured category of subject. With the agent subject being the center of the category, other members – Possessor, Experiencer, Neutral, etc. – appear to be scattered within the syntactical category of subject being more central or peripheral. The paper deals with the Experiencer subject. The author stresses the key role of a well-elaborated metalanguage in linguistic analysis and assumes that a thorough analysis of the relevant conceptual category, its structure and content, should precede the stage of developing a metalanguage. The paper 1) differentiates between similar though not interchangeable notions such as semantic subject, grammatical subject, and the bearer of predicative feature, 2) features the peripheral status of the Experiencer within the category of semantic subject, 3) reveals the means of its linguistic representation, 4) makes a structural and semantic analysis of the models with the Experiencer.

scholarly journals Branding in Urban Discourse Space: Region’s Identity as Attraction Factor

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01066
Author(s):  
Elina Novikova ◽  
Vera Mityagina ◽  
Anna Gureeva ◽  
Tatyana Makhortova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representation ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Branding Strategies ◽  
Communicative Process ◽  
Urban Discourse ◽  
Text Content

The research is focused on branding as a communicative process and aimed at defining the region’s identity role in provision of its tourist attraction. Linguistic analysis of the branding process is concentrated on optimization of language means and urban semiosis quality. City’s identity is viewed as a complex of exterior and other markers, building its complex image and playing an initial role in city’s branding. The aim of territory’ branding is to present the uniqueness of a certain region and its competitiveness. A city is a complicated multilayer communicative formation that creates a special type of discourse around itself – urban discourse. The space of this discourse is determined by such textual phenomena as a text-city, an urban text and a text about a city. The authors outline the role of naming in city branding and consider a great importance of a city’s identity in creating a text content aimed at increasing attraction of a city as a tourist object. City’s identity allows one to understand its uniqueness and mental representation by a representative of its “own” and “foreign” cultures and optimize branding strategies with the aim to fix positive images of a city and attractive image of a global-centred and locally original territory.

scholarly journals Editorial: The Role of Letter-Speech Sound Integration in Normal and Abnormal Reading Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurgen Tijms ◽  
Gorka Fraga-González ◽  
Iliana I. Karipidis ◽  
Silvia Brem
Keyword(s):  
Reading Development ◽  
Speech Sound

scholarly journals Learning to Read in Multiple Languages: A Study Exploring Allophone Students’ Reading Development in French Immersion

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 10-28
Author(s):  
Renée Bourgoin ◽  
Joseph Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Reading Development ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
French Immersion ◽  
Third Language ◽  
English Reading ◽  
French And English ◽  
Reading Measures ◽  
Multiple Languages

This article describes a two-year study of the French and English reading development of seven elementary French immersion (FI) students who spoke a home language that is neither English nor French. Given the critical role of literacy in school success and the growing number of third language (L3) learners entering FI, this study focused on L3 learners’ reading experiences. Standardized reading measures were administered in English and in French and think-aloud protocols and interviews were conducted with students. Results suggest that L3 students are similar to, if not stronger than, their bilingual peers with respect to English and French reading ability. They also relied on their knowledge of other languages to support French reading development and evidence of metalinguistic and metacognitive insights is presented. A number of classroom implications for teaching reading in diverse FI classrooms are included.

scholarly journals Enhancing the critical apparatus for understanding metanarration: discourse deixis refined

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Macrae
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

AbstractThis article explores the deictic functioning of metanarrative expressions in fiction. Current theoretical approaches to metanarration are reviewed, and classifying terminology revised. This critique enables the development of a more nuanced typology of metanarration, exposes the lack of linguistic analysis of the functioning of metanarrative expressions, and indicates the deictic contribution to this functioning. The role of deixis within metanarration is then further explicated. The category of discourse deixis is investigated and refined, and various subtypes of discourse deixis correlated with subtypes of metanarrative expressions. The analytical value of this approach is demonstrated through the study of discourse deixis in metanarrative extracts from Beckett's (Pan Books, 1979 [1959])

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