Sluit deze tekst wel aan bij de gestelde doelen? Hoe samenhangend is de tekst? Welke overtuigingsmiddelen worden ingezet? Is de argumentatie wel aanvaardbaar? Wanneer wordt informatie een verhaal? Hoe conventioneel is deze tekst? Al dit soort vragen komen aan bod in Tekstanalyse.

Dit handboek behandelt zes methoden waarmee teksten geanalyseerd en geëvalueerd kunnen worden: functionele analyse, coherentieanalyse, retorische analyse, argumentatieanalyse, narratieve analyse en genreanalyse. Dez...

Hoe ontstond het Nederlands uit het Indo-Europees? Hoe belangrijk was het contact met sprekers van andere talen, dialecten of groepstalen? Waarom leren we op school dat hij vindt met dt moet, maar ik vind met een d? 15 eeuwen Nederlandse taal beschrijft de evolutie van de Nederlandse taal. Ieder hoofdstuk begint met een korte beschrijving

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Vijftig taalkundige problemen, van Nederland tot Australië, uit dode en levende talen, op het gebied van schrift, klanken, grammatica en woordenschat.Dit boekje bevat 50 taalkundige puzzels die in de afgelopen jaren gebruikt zijn bij de Nederlandse Taalkunde-Olympiade. Taal is niet moeilijk te doorgronden. Al met een beperkt aantal puzzelstukjes kun je gaan kijken, vergelijken en nadenken. Heb je er ooit over nagedacht wat ver- in Nederlandse werkwoorden betekent? Of hoe een Japanner het mee...

This handbook provides a critical state-of-the-art overview of work in linguistic typology. It examines the directions and challenges of current research and shows how these reflect and inform work on the development of linguistic theory. It describes what typologists have revealed about language in general and discovered (and continue to discover) about the richly various ways in which meaning and expression are achieved in the world's languages.

Typological research extends across all branc...

This book provides an introduction to compositional semantics and to the syntax/semantics interface. It is rooted within the tradition of model theoretic semantics, and develops an explicit fragment of both the syntax and semantics of a rich portion of English. Professor Jacobson adopts a Direct Compositionality approach, whereby the syntax builds the expressions while the semantics simultaneously assigns each a model-theoretic interpretation.

Alongside this approach, the author also presents...

Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition is a comprehensive textbook that bridges the gap between the fields of sociolinguistics and second language acquisition, exploring the variety of ways in which social context influences the acquisition of a second language. It reviews basic principles of sociolinguistics, provides a unified account of the multiple theoretical approaches to social factors in second languages, summarizes the growing body of empirical research, including examples ...

Media Literacy teaches students how to navigate through the overwhelming flood of information found in today's media-saturated world. Author W. James Potter presents examples and facts to help students understand how the media operate, how they attract attention, and how they influence the public.

Now in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of English. Fully updated and expanded, with a fresh redesigned layout, and over sixty audio resources to bring language extracts to life, it covers all aspects of the English language including the history of English, with new pages on Shakespeare's vocabulary and pronunciation, updated statistics on global English use that now cove...

Get to the heart of fake news and brush up on your media literacy skills as you explore the media landscape of today, and where it all came from, using the current and relevant research found in Media & Culture.

Introduction to Pragmatics guides students through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication. Offers students an accessible introduction and an up-to-date survey of the field, encompassing both established and new approaches to pragmatics. Addresses the traditional range of topics - such as implicature, reference, presupposition, and speech acts - as we...