Linguistics in the twenty first century / edited by Eloina Miyares Bermudez and Leonel Ruiz Miyares.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Symposium on Social Communication, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Miyares Bermúdez, Eloína, 1928-

Ruiz Miyares, Leonel.

Conference Name:

International Symposium on Social Communication (9th : 2005 : Santiago de Cuba, Cuba)

International Symposium on Social Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Congresses.

Linguistics.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press ; Santiago de Cuba, Cuba : Centro de Lingustica Aplicada, 2006.

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Press in cooperation with Centro de Linguistica Aplicada de Cuba, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the result of the cooperation between Cambridge Scholars Press and the Centre for Applied Linguistics of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment of Santiago de Cuba. The present volume is a peer-reviewed selection from the papers written in English that were presented at the 9th International Symposium on Social Communication (Santiago de Cuba, January 24-28, 2005). The symposia are held by the Santiago-based institution every two years. Since their inception in ...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; GENERAL LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE POLICY AND LANGUAGE PRACTICE IN OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATIONS IN 19TH CENTURY FLANDERS; EVALUATIVE ACTION AND THE NARRATIVIZATION OF MORALITY IN THE COMMUNITY OF BULLFIGHT AFICIONADOS; REPRESENTATIONS OF ENGLISH IN HONG KONG'S POSTCOLONIAL LANGUAGE PLANNING AND SOCIETAL ATTITUDES; CAUSING ONESELF TO DO SOMETHING; TRANSLATION QUALITY STANDARDS IN EUROPE; SIGN LANGUAGES; METONYMIC AND METAPHORICAL USES OF PROPER NAMES; 'AGENT DISGUISING CONSTRUCTIONS'; PHONETICS; ITALIAN TV SPEECH; INTRINSIC METHODS IN VOWEL NORMALIZATION

AN ANALYSIS ON THE VOWEL DURATION IN THE BASQUE SPOKEN IN LEGORRETA POTENTIAL ASPECT AND THE ROLE OF TONE IN TWO VARIANTS OF ZAPOTEC; DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION OF BROADCAST NEWS IN BASQUE AND SPANISH; LEXICOLOGY; NEEDLES IN A HAYSTACK AND HOW TO FIND THEM? THE CASE OF LEXICAL ACCESS; SPECIALISED MULTILINGUAL DATABASES; THE ITALIAN MARITIME LEXICON AND THE ITALWORDNET SEMANTIC DATABASE; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM AN ARGUMENT CORPUS; RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF CORPORA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

HUMAN AND VIRTUAL AGENTS INTERACTING IN THE VIRTUALITY CONTINUUM LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND CONTENT INTEROPERABILITY; MULTILINGUAL TOPIC SEGMENTATION; SEMANTIC WEB POWERED PORTAL INFRASTRUCTURE; SYSTEMIC LINGUISTICS WITH APPLICATIONS; DIFFERENT ISSUES IN THE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELECTRONIC CUBAN BASIC SCHOOL DICTIONARY; INCREASING THE SYNTACTICAL PARSE EFFICIENCY USING "STRONG RULES"; PRONOMINAL CLITIC COMPOSITION AND SUBSUMPTION IN SPANISH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL IN HOMOGENEOUS DOCUMENT SETS USING SYNTACTICAL PARSE INFORMATION; FOREIGN LANGUAGES

WRITING ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE AS MUCH CONCERNED WITH PROCESS AS WITH PRODUCT APPLIED LITERACY AND INQUIRY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION; LEARNERS' PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY AND INTERACTION PATTERNS IN SYNCHRONOUS COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; MASS MEDIA; JIMMY CARTER'S TRIP TO CUBA; INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A MULTILINGUAL SUBTITLE GENERATION SYSTEM; ART, ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE; TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S VERBAL FOLKLORE; TOWARDS BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF COMMON PURPOSE IN A RESEARCH PROGRAMME EXPLORING THE LITERACY AND EMPLOYMENT NEXUS

TENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONAL PHABETIC INDEX OF THE MAIN AUTHORS

Notes:

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

"... selection of the best papers written in English that were presented at the 9th International Symposium on Social Communication (Santiago de Cuba, January 24-28, 2005)."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-03584-3

9786612035845

1-4438-0411-8

OCLC:

830168343