Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book brings together chapters from investigators on the leading edge on this new research area to explore on the leading edge on this new research area to explore common theoretical issues, empirical findings, technical problems, and outstanding questions.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting.

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing.

Language as Cultural Practice:Mexicanos en el Norte offers a vivid ethnographic account of language socialization practices within Mexican-background families residing in California and Texas.

Colleges and universities increasingly recruit international students yet may lack the systems to foster these students' academic success and identity as valued members of the campus community.

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CTC) on second language (L2) performance.

A critical and accessible text, this book provides a foundation for translanguaging theory and practice with educating emergent bilingual students.

The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in second language teaching.

This text demonstrates how collective reflection can function as a central part of effective teacher preparation for work in inclusive bilingual environments.

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned.

First published in 1987.

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use.

Within the scope of today's globalisation, linguistic diversity is a given fact of the world we live in.

An international team of experts provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of working memory and language in this Handbook.

This revised edition of Bilingualism in Schools and Society is an accessible introduction to the sociolinguistic and educational aspects of and the political issues surrounding bilingualism, including code-switching in popular music, advertising, and online social spaces.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages?

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour.

Why has English language proficiency in Japan remained so low in comparison to other Asian countries?

This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts.

The tenth volume in the TIRF-Routledge series, this book features research on the teaching and learning of English in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education.

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume's authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential.

Im Prozess der Sprachproduktion organisieren Sprecher Inhalte, die zum Ausdruck gebracht werden, indem sie Informationen auswählen, eine Perspektive einnehmen sowie Vorder- und Hintergrund voneinander abgrenzen.

When we speak, we often spontaneously produce gestures.

Das Buch von Barbara Zollinger erweitert und vertieft die Themen, welche sie in ihren erfolgreichen Büchern "Spracherwerbsstörungen" und "Die Entdeckung der Sprache" vorgestellt hat.

Language, Literacy, and Power in Schooling brings critical ethnographic perspectives to bear on language, literacy, and power in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts, showing how literacy and schooling are negotiated by children and adults and how schooling becomes a key site of struggle over whose knowledge, discourses, and literacy practices "e;count.

The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) is a definitive guide at the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and education.

How do "e;illegal aliens"e; chart the speech sounds of colloquial English?

Recent studies in psycho linguistics have ranged through a variety of languages.

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist's perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China.

A new approach to linguistic meaning and grammatical constructions based on simple geometric principles.

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides a linguistic perspective on second language acquisition.

Will sits and watches the world go by, feeling all alone.

Sprechen und Denken - ein schwieriges Verhältnis.

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).

Communicating Conflict brings together a collection of multilingual case studies drawn from the international media.

This book provides a practical and extensive guide for the International Corpus Network of Asian Learners of English (ICNALE), a unique dataset including more than 15,000 samples of Asian learners' L2 English speeches and essays.

Language and Culture at Work provides an overview of the complex role that culture plays in workplace contexts.

Teaching English to Second Language Learners in Academic Contexts: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking provides the fundamental knowledge that ESL and EFL teachers need to teach the four language skills.

Shortlisted for the Nasen Book that supports SEN and Disability Issues Award 2008Are children who are exposed to more than one language from birth at an advantage or a disadvantage when starting school?

Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river, but he has a problem - Mr.

This book is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, esthetics and dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East-West exchanges and cultural dialogues.