Articles liés à Empirical Linguistics
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Synopsis
For many years, linguistics developed on the basis of the speaker's intuitive knowledge of their native language. The result was often abstruse theorizing, remote from observable realities. Now linguists are studying the language used in real life, rather than a hypothetical mental competence. This text offers a series of case studies drawn from the author's work, which show how the new approach is leading to new insights into the nature of English and of human language in general. Sometimes, beliefs about language which have passed as axiomatic for decades are overturned immediately they are confronted with concrete evidence. Truths are emerging, for example about the structural unity of English across its diverse genres, which could not be expressed within the intuitionist paradigm. This title focuses on concepts and concrete discoveries, rather than on the technical details of computer processing. It seeks to provide a clear, accessible introduction to the kinds of thing that are happening with the new linguistics.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy intuitions about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples (corpora). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as Is there one English language or many Englishes? and Do different social groups use characteristically elaborated or restricted language codes? Sampson shows readers how to use some of the new techniques for themselves, giving a step-by-step recipe-book method for applying a quantitative technique that was invented by Alan Turing in the World War II code-breaking work at Bletchley Park and has been rediscovered and widely applied in linguistics fifty years later.
Biographie de l'auteur
Geoffrey Sampson is a former Professor of Natural Language Computing at the School of Informatics, University of Sussex. He is now a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa.
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