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The Role and Status of Linguistic Markers in the System of Symbols
This article focuses on the semiotic aspect of linguistics, which describes the characteristics, types, classifications, relationships, and the specific status of linguistic characteristics of human beings and other creatures, their consciousness, their thinking and communication. Linguists, who are the followers of the theory of linguistic theory, have their relation to the theory of evolution and determine the factors of further development of this theory. As you know, Ferdinand de Saussure, one of the founders of the theory of language, said that language was a semiotic phenomenon at the time, and that linguistics should be regarded as a component of semiotics (cognac). It is also recognized by other theoretical scholars that language performs as a symbol of language, immanent, fundamental character of the sign language. At the present time, the definition of Ferdinand de Saussure as a system of conditional symbols is accepted without any objection. Nevertheless, the semiotics, semiotics, and semiotics of linguistics, the semiotics of each national, in particular, of the Uzbek language, are the specific and general aspects of linguistics, linguistics, semiotics, linguistics, the position of which is not well-researched. Frankly speaking, the fundamental and fundamental character of the language is characterized by general (thesis) in the theory of language theory. However, without a comprehensive and profound study of the semiotic nature of special languages, without the generalization of these, it is impossible to establish a general theory of the nature of the language.Keywords: character, language, semiotics, linguistics, symbols, word, motivation
EXAMINING THE ROLE OF LINGUISTICS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AS EFL AT HIGHER INSTITUTION: THE CASE OF METTU UNIVERSITY
This paper was aimed at examining the role of linguistics in English language teaching as a EFL at higher education. The participants of the study were summer students of English Language and literature department of Mettu University. Accordingly, all participants were selected through purposive sampling techniques for the questionnaire and interview. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. Thus, this study employed a mixed approach. The findings of the study revealed that all participants have reached on mutual understanding and well noted that linguistics and language teaching have the same subject matter to deal with the role of linguistics to play in the process of language teaching. Therefore it can be said that language is the fundamental unit of the branch of linguistics. Without languages the subject of linguistics cannot be there. In other words languages pave the way for the growth of the field of linguistics. A language is a mental phenomenon and a way of expression of thought by means of articulate sounds. On the other hand linguistics is a branch of study that deals with languages. Finally, the findings have significant implications for adoption of linguistics in teaching language. This is the reason why the role of linguistics in English language teaching is needed for language learners.Keywords: Linguistics, Language, Language Teaching, Teaching, Role Of Linguistic
Topically Driven Neural Language Model
Language models are typically applied at the sentence level, without access
to the broader document context. We present a neural language model that
incorporates document context in the form of a topic model-like architecture,
thus providing a succinct representation of the broader document context
outside of the current sentence. Experiments over a range of datasets
demonstrate that our model outperforms a pure sentence-based model in terms of
language model perplexity, and leads to topics that are potentially more
coherent than those produced by a standard LDA topic model. Our model also has
the ability to generate related sentences for a topic, providing another way to
interpret topics.Comment: 11 pages, Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) (to appear
Preface: Language Change and the New Millennium
All linguists, at some time in their studies, run headlong into fundamental issues associated with language change, and I could not celebrate the ESJ 12th anniversary without investigating the English Language of the New Millennium. Change in languages over time seems to be an inevitable constant. All languages have undergone and, if not dead, are undergoing change. As Ferdinand de Saussure put it more than a century ago, “the linguistic river never stops flowing” (Course in General Linguistics, 1916:110). The English language has been no exception and continues to be widely discussed from different areas or branches of linguistics, such as generative, historical, variationist or corpus linguistics. There is, however, much that still needs to be investigated
In Defence of Context-sensitive Semantics and Context-sensitive Linguistics in Pragmatics
Kinneavy (1971:23) states that “since pragmatics is viewed as the study of complete discourse, it does not include semantics as such or syntactic as such. These two constitute linguistics, and linguistic analysis is not discourse analysis, though, of course, it can contribute to the understanding of discourse, consequently, syntactic and semantics are beyond the borders of discourse study”. Cook (1990:12) also separates linguistics from discourse analysis. Linguistics is said to be without context or context-free. He further says that semantics is context-free. This paper is to argue that both sentence linguistics and semantics are context sensitive. From the point of view of language acquisition, the syntactic structures word meaning, sentence meaning and knowledge of the world that an informant later uses to produce language, are all based on context and are derived from context. Accordingly, sentence linguistics and semantics are context-sensitive.
Key Words: pragmatics, linguistics semantics, context-sensitiv
Bridging Literature and Linguistics
Two majors linguistics and literature in the schools of letters both in the state and private universities throughout Indonesia are commonly separated sharply. Courses of literature in the Department of Linguistics are offered minimally, such that the students of linguistics are not given a conducive atmosphere to express their literary appreciation. Likewise, courses of linguistics in the Department of Literature are very restricted, so that the students of literature are unable to analyze literary works from the points of linguistic view. This paper tries to bridge linguistics and literature. The attempt to bridge linguistics and literature is based on three postulates: (I) literature consists of linguistic objects designed with an artistic end, (2) linguistic objects are formal objects, and (3) a formal account of linguistic object designed with an artistic end approximates a formal account of that artistic design. Two major directions in the approaches and emphases will be presented in the paper exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous approach tries to search for adequate description of (1) poetic language as contrasted with ordinary language, (2) language of a particular author contrasted with that of other authors, and (3) a particular literary work contrasted with other works of the same author. This part touches upon three areas of exogenous approach isolation, description, and characterization. Endogenous, on the hand, is based upon an assumption that a writer exhibits, probably without realizing it, certain systematic preferences for particular aspects of linguistic patterns. Planning a bridge between linguistics and literature is by no means without problems. Therefore, this paper also presents some possible solutions
IN DEFENCE OF CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SEMANTICS AND CONTEXT-SENSITIVE LINGUISTICS IN PRAGMATICS
Kinneavy (1971:23) states that “since pragmatics is viewed as the study of complete discourse, it does not include semantics as such or syntactic as such. These two constitute linguistics, and linguistic analysis is not discourse analysis, though, of course, it can contribute to the understanding of discourse, consequently, syntactic and semantics are beyond the borders of discourse study”. Cook (1990:12) also separates linguistics from discourse analysis. Linguistics is said to be without context or context-free. He further says that semantics is context-free. This paper is to argue that both sentence linguistics and semantics are context sensitive. From the point of view of language acquisition, the syntactic structures word meaning, sentence meaning and knowledge of the world that an informant later uses to produce language, are all based on context and are derived from context. Accordingly, sentence linguistics and semantics are context-sensitive.
Key Words: pragmatics, linguistics semantics, context-sensitiv
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