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Language and mediation: usage, perception and interpretation

‘Internet Relay Chat’ (IRC), created in 1988 was one of the first forms of synchronous Computer-Mediated communication (CMC) where people could ‘chat’ in real time by typing their contributions. Since then, it has been growing rapidly in popularity with the Internet’s general rise in influence during the 1990s.

An extensive lexicon of linguistic terminoplogy from the Utrecht institute of Linguistics.

LinguaLinks Library is a collection of electronic reference materials designed to support language fieldwork. The Library takes advantage of the multimedia capabilities of your computer to provide information, instructions, training, and advice in a "show-and-tell" mode. The material is organized into "bookshelves" according to discipline

TheLinguist's Search Engine, a new linguist-friendly tool that makes it possible to retrieve naturally occurring sentences from the World Wide Web on the basis of lexical content and syntactic structure.

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) was founded in 1924 to advance the scientific study of language. LSA plays a critical role in supporting and disseminating linguistic scholarship both to professional linguists and to the general public.

Short forms of words used in SMS and email communication.

Mobspeak is a language that grows out of secrecy, and who can be more secret than the Mafia? The anti-social nature of the Mob is the perfect breeding ground for an "Antilanguage," which is, according to M. A. K. Halliday, a language that develops out of an antisociety which stands as a mode of resistance' to the society within which it exists (Butler 1).

A paper presented on the question of what is nonlinguistic communication. Reasons for studying nonlinguistic communication are presented. Language and communication are defined and examined in relation to each other. Examples of nonlinguistic communication are given and discussed.

Welcome to Jaume Masip´s Nonverbal Behavior page of links in the Department of Social Psychology and Anthropology at the University of Salamanca (Spain).

This paper reviews plan-based models of dialogue. The original model is thoroughly presented. Important developments of the original model are also presented. Finally, benefits and drawbacks of plan-based approaches to dialogue modelling are discussed.

In this paper, an attempt is made to shed some light on the problems regarding definitions and distinctions within the field of prosody and paralinguistic phonetics.

The Psycholinguistic Database project makes various Linguistic and Psychology data sets more widely available to Language and Knowledge Engineering researchers.

Nonstandard dialects often use the same form for past tense and past participle of irregular verbs for which the standard language has distinct forms. One possible reason would be that some speakers have a nonstandard system of verb qualifiers (tense, mood, and aspect markers) in which the past tense/past participle distinction is functionally redundant.

A Glossary of language terms.

This dissertation investigates the semantics of spatial deixis from a cross-linguistic point of view. Other researchers collected some parameters in their typological studies of demonstratives. I have expanded the language samples to more than 400 languages and added additional parameters that have not been pointed out in previous studies.

Deixis deals with the words and expressions whose reference relies entirely on the circumstances of the utterance. For that reason these special expressions and their meaning in discourse can only be understood in light of these circumstances. The term deictic centre underlines that the deictic term has to relate to the situation exactly at the point where the utterance is made or the text is written.

Previous research has mainly focused on the acquisition of linear order represented by temporal notions such as after and before. Less attention has been paid to the temporal notion at the same time referring to simultaneity of (at least) two situations. In discourse, native speakers usually do not overtly mark simultaneity at all. Rather, they infer more relevant information from other sources than from overt elements specifying the temporal relationship of a sentence (implicit interpretation).

SLA is a theoretical and experimental field of study which, like first language acquisition studies, looks at the phenomenon of language development, in this case the acquisition of second languages.

A look at culture, society, individual and code.

An extensive site, with links to abstracts of over 20,000 linguistic dissertations.

It is common practice in many current second language coursebooks to introduce words in semantic groups. These are often presented as a set of words (semantic clusters) and share a common superordinate (headword). There seems to be a pervasive belief among coursebook writers that doing so will aid vocabulary building and lexical associations in particular. This belief appears to be founded in methodology rather than on research.

The relationship between language and emotions can be viewed from two angles. First, language, in a broad sense, can be viewed as being done [performed] "emotive". 2 This can take place extralinguistically (e.g. by facial expressions, body postures, proximity, and the like), in terms of suprasegmentational and prosodic features, and in terms of linguistic (lexical and syntactic) forms.

A society is generally as lax as its language.

The definition of equitable linguistic rights cannot be dependent on the political or administrative status of languages or on irrelevant or insufficiently objective criteria such as their level of codification or number of speakers