Bermudez E., Miyares L. (eds.) Linguistics in the Twenty First Century

Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006. — X, 422 p.Selection of the best papers written in English that were presented at the 9th International Symposium on Social Communication. This especial volume published by Cambridge Scholar Press, in cooperation with the Centre for Applied Linguistics, includes 34 papers subdivided in eight sections: General Linguistics (8), Phonetics (5), Lexicology (3), Corpus Linguistics (2), Natural Language Processing (9), Foreign Languages (3), Mass Media (2) and Art, Ethnology and Folklore (2).These articles sum up interesting and up-to-date research results from scholars of different universities and scientific institutions hailing from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Greek, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and United States.It is important to highlight the presence in this book of papers by some of the worlds leading researchers in linguistics, including Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, from Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands; Prof. Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, director of the prestigious Institute of Computational Linguistics of Pisa, Italy; Prof. Dr. Michael Zock, from the Scientific Research Center of France; Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute of Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria; Prof Dr. Gloria Corpas Pastor from the University of Malaga, Spain; and the doctors Iñaki Alegria, Xabier Arregi and Xabier Artola, from the IXA Group of the Basque Country University.