Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers.

This practical guide to doing classroom discourse research provides a comprehensive overview of the research process.

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.

Trotz einer neuen Aufmerksamkeit im Zuge des ‚spatial turn‘ hat man sich in der Narratologie bisher nicht systematisch mit den basalen Fragen der Beschreibung von Raum in Erzähltexten beschäftigt.

Originally published in 1990.

This book examines how foreign language speakers establish and maintain social and transactional relationships in their target language, and how pedagogic intervention can help learners implement practices that will allow them to participate and react in both socially acceptable and individualistically empowering ways.

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a global language in an interconnected world.

Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English.

Der Sammelband bündelt aktuelle Arbeiten zu Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrkulturalität aus fremdsprachendidaktischer Perspektive.

El libro Humor de género.

This interdisciplinary synthesis of the social psychological aspects of language use provides an integrative and timely review of language as social action.

This volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.

Digital World Englishes aims to be an introduction to and exposition of the universe of world Englishes as represented in online spaces.

This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students' academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside of schools; and social, cultural, and linguistic complications in their academic lives across diverse settings, homes, and communities.

This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA.

Current progress in linguistic theorizing is more and more informed by cross-linguistic (including cross-modal) investigation.

Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education is possible and desirable.

This book presents the theory of output-driven maps and provides fresh perspectives in an accessible way for students and researchers.

Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, participants often struggle to bridge the gap between SLA theories and their many applications in the classroom.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of attentional and visual processes involved in language comprehension.

Second language acquisition has an identity problem.

This Element shows how people from different cultures explain emotion-colour associations and why such associations vary across cultures.

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging.

Case studies are a powerful pedagogical tool for illuminating constructs and models in real-life contexts.

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.

This book presents the learning and teaching of phonological decoding in Chinese EFL primary classrooms.

An updated and extended version of this authoritative one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development.

How to Do Discourse Analysis provides a comprehensive toolkit for conducting discourse analysis, offering 26 practical tools to examine how language is used to construct meaning, enact identities, and shape social realities.

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping.

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments -- familial, local community, and broader cultural voices.

This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research.

This book covers crucial knowledge and skill sets for developing language tests and setting assessments.

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.

Offering a unique, reflexive framework for Critical Discourse Analysis focused on discourses of hope, transformation, and liberation, this book showcases a variety of powerful literacies in action.

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language.

Drawing a line, and then another, and another.

Sprechen und sich verstandlich ausdrucken lernen ohne Hemmungen und dabei Spa in der Gruppe und im Alltag haben - das ist das Motto, und genau danach entstand das etablierte und gleichzeitig aktuelle Lehrwerk fur Junggebliebene aus dem bel Verlag "e;Autumn Years- Englisch fur Senioren"e;.