ENG 3360 - Introduction to Language Studies

Language studies cover a large variety of situations as language is embedded in every aspect of our lives. Finding a book that would study all the possible topics related to language is impossible. Therefore, with our UTRGV librarians, we have assembled a free book that covers the basic linguistics concepts you need to know for this course and other linguistics courses. Linguistics concepts such as phonology or language acquisition are not subject to last minute discoveries and the principles remain the same. We hope you enjoy learning more about linguistics thanks to this free resource.https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/oer/1001/thumbnail.jp

Basics of Language for Language Learners

Second editionTools and Strategies for Language Learning -- Sounding Like a Native Speaker -- Thinking Like a Native Speaker -- Acting Like a Native SpeakerItem not openly available

Gothic lyricism

Considerable academic debate exists regarding the primacy of opposed tensions, which are commonly represented within Gothic literature (Hogle 2002, pp. 12-14). These paradoxical tensions support conservative values, and also work as a counterforce of representation driving towards revolutionary notions (Hogle 2002, p. 13). I have long been fascinated by Gothic literature’s capacity, via lyrical prose and verse, to relate terrible happenings with beautiful language, imagery, and/or structural innovation. This is a practice-led research thesis with a two-part structure, employing a work of prose/poetry novella along with an exegetical dissertation. Via dissertational inquiry, focus is given to a history of The Gothic—its politico-cultural roots and effects in literature and architecture. Much attention is given to a single binary of the Gothic genre, via the novella component. This dichotomy is the often-beautiful musicality of Gothic writing as it expresses ideas of debasement and death. Variations of this binary and its disjunctions between lyrical exquisiteness and expressions of horror are in high fidelity to life as it sometimes terrorises personhood. The ‘beauty/horror’ binaries of Gothicism echo somewhat the dislocation between the existential encounter of barbarism or death and the cognitive acceptance of these ‘Gothic happenings’ as relative truths. Each of the project’s rhetorical components espouse against some academic concession that Gothic binaries, via representational imbalances of power sustain patriarchal establishments. In contrast, this thesis finds Gothicism and its historical representations, textual and architectural, largely egalitarian or potently in favour of equalitarian revolution

The Victorian Naturalist

v.44 (1927-1928

A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases

Glosario. -- Berkshireshire. -- Pertenece a la colección Varia 1800-1950 de The Salamanca Corpus. -- Barzillai Lowsley, 1840-1905. -- A Glossary of Berkshire Words and Phrases. -- 1888.[ES] Glossary of the Berkshire dialect. [EN] Glosario del dialecto de Berkshire

7.1 10th Anniversary – Part One

Rampike Vol. 7 / No. 1 (10th Anniversary issue – Part One): Pierre-Andre Arcand, Shaunt Basmajian, Linda Hutcheon, Ann Noel, Robert Kroetsch, Jurgen O. Olbrich, Paul Auster, David Donnell, La Society de Conservation du Present, Raymond Federman, Arvids Ulme, Ruta Gravlejs, Steve McCaffery, Paul Dutton, Marina de Bellagente La Palma, Wolfgang Luh, Constance Rooke, Ann Noel, Cody & Luoma, Dick Higgins, Jim Francis, Wolfgang Hainke, Andrew James Paterson, Misha, William A. Reid, Susan Parker, Robert Priest, David McFadden, Kirby Olson, R.I. Pravdin, Claude Beausoleil, Guillermo Deisler, Jean-Paul Daoust, Alicia Borinsky, Cola Franzen, Saul Yurkievich, Ken Norris, Karen MacCormack, John Oughton, Gary Barwin, bill bissett, James Gray, Richard Truhlar, Joan Chevalier, Maureen Paxton, Mark Miller, Carl Leggo, Robert Dassonowsky-Harris, Neal Anderson, Axel Gallun, Dave Robertson, Rupert Wondolowski, Mari-Lou Rowley, Kenneth Emberly, Steve Stanton, Margaret Christakos, Mike Miskowski, Marilyn Rosenberg, David Cole, Christopher Dewdney. Cover Art: William Burroughs

'Take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by English language learners

The present study is an empirical corpus based analysis of the use of four lexical bundles or strings by ESL students at a higher education centre in Ireland. The overall aim was to ascertain if students at both ends of the language learning spectrum used the following multi-word items in their speaking and writing: 1) Multi-word verbs 2) Delexical verbs 3) Collocations and 4) Idiomatic expressions. There are two levels of learners who took part in this study: A2 and C1. The learner’s use of language was analysed over a period of twelve weeks. Recorded interactions and oral presentations in class were analysed as well as written homework and assignments. Integral to this study is corpus linguistics and the researcher’s created Adult Corpus of English (ACE). This corpus-based methodology enabled the identification of the frequency and number of the four lexical strings used by the language learners. Overall, twenty four students agreed to take part in the research and as a result the corpus amounts to 170,000 words: 20,000 written and 150,000 spoken. The use of WordSmith Tools (2016) and manual sifting of the corpus identified that both cohorts clearly use the four lexical strings in their speaking and writing. Multi-word verbs such as come back and put in, delexical verbs such as make an effort and do your homework, collocations for example spend time and write a letter and idiomatic expressions such as the grass is always greener and black and blue were recorded, identified and tagged. It is argued that though the classroom is not the most natural of contexts the majority of language used is produced by the learner without prompting or explicit teaching. Overall, the C1 cohort was found to use the majority of opaque lexical structures while the A2 cohort used less and transparent strings.N