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Exploring Linguistic Science: Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction / Allison Burkette
Titre : Exploring Linguistic Science: Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Allison Burkette, Auteur Editeur : USA : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2018 Importance : 240 P Format : 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.7 inches ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-108-44095-0 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 410 Résumé : Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introductions to the study of language, such as phonetics, morphology and grammar. The authors maintain a narrative thread throughout the book of 'interaction and emergence', both of which are key terms from the study of complex systems, a new science currently useful in physics, genetics, evolutionary biology, and economics, but also a perfect fit for the humanities. The application of complexity to language highlights the fact that language is an ever-changing, ever-varied product of human behavior. Exploring Linguistic Science: Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction [texte imprimé] / Allison Burkette, Auteur . - USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018 . - 240 P ; 7.4 x 0.6 x 9.7 inches.
ISBN : 978-1-108-44095-0
Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng)
Index. décimale : 410 Résumé : Exploring Linguistic Science introduces students to the basic principles of complexity theory and then applies these principles to the scientific study of language. It demonstrates how, at every level of linguistic study, we find evidence of language as a complex system. Designed for undergraduate courses in language and linguistics, this essential textbook brings cutting-edge concepts to bear on the traditional components of general introductions to the study of language, such as phonetics, morphology and grammar. The authors maintain a narrative thread throughout the book of 'interaction and emergence', both of which are key terms from the study of complex systems, a new science currently useful in physics, genetics, evolutionary biology, and economics, but also a perfect fit for the humanities. The application of complexity to language highlights the fact that language is an ever-changing, ever-varied product of human behavior. Réservation
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Titre : Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Rashauna Johnson, Auteur Editeur : USA : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2016 Importance : 236 P Format : 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-107-59116-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Langues originales : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : 976 Résumé : New Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded, in the early nineteenth century, slaves made up one third of the urban population. In contrast to our typical understanding of rural, localized, isolated bondage in the emergent Deep South, daily experiences of slavery in New Orleans were global, interconnected, and transient. Slavery's Metropolis uses slave circulations through New Orleans between 1791 and 1825 to map the social and cultural history of enslaved men and women and the rapidly shifting city, nation, and world in which they lived. Investigating emigration from the Caribbean to Louisiana during the Haitian Revolution, commodity flows across urban-rural divides, multiracial amusement places, the local jail, and freedom-seeking migrations to Trinidad following the War of 1812, it remaps the history of slavery in modern urban society. Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora) [texte imprimé] / Rashauna Johnson, Auteur . - USA : Cambridge University Press, 2016 . - 236 P ; 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches.
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