Date: 16-Nov-2007 From: Jasper de Vaal <jasper.devaalspringer.com> Subject: Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Grzybek (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Contributions to the Science of Text and Language
Subtitle: Word Length Studies and Related Issues
Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology
Published: 2008
Publisher: Springer
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This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editors preface. The books first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies.
The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
Linguistic Field(s):
General Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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