General Linguistics broadens and deepens your training in a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to language structure and language in use. Special emphasis is put on linguistic ...

Linguistics is the science of language. It is the subject whose practitioners devote their energy to understanding why human language is the way it is. They study the history, acquisition, structure, ...

The structure of a text is how it is organised and how its parts fit together. Writers structure their texts deliberately to have an effect on the reader. Exam questions ask you to comment on how ...

Project-based learning can help English language learners master language and content skills at the same time.

This book is an introduction to the history and structure of the English lexicon using linguistic concepts. Or, it is an introduction to linguistics through the medium of the English lexicon. Or, it ...

Exam questions may ask you to comment on how writers use language to make an impression on the reader. simile A comparison using 'like' or 'as' to create a vivid image. As big as a whale ...

The amount of structure built at each word, quantified via incremental node count, is reflected in the dynamics of the network, which lead to a neural signal measurable with magnetoencephalography ...

Wild bonobos – our closest living relatives – communicate using vocal calls organized in compositionally complex semantic structures that mirror key ...