Cognitive approaches to specialist languages /
Specialist languages, such as the languages of law, business, aviation, football, and politics, can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific, and predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best charact...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2017
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Specialist languages, such as the languages of law, business, aviation, football, and politics, can be perceived as highly conventionalized, semi-natural and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific, and predominantly formal, situations. A large number of them can be best characterized by subject matter and semantic content, but the most important distinctive element in their make-up is the frame of context in which they are embedded. This volume discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with the very broad phenomenon of specialist languages by means of. |
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| Item Description: | "Many of the contributions to the this volume were originally presented during a theme session 'Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages' organized at the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association 2015 Conference in Lublin."--Page viii |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 457 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443892209 1443892203 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
