Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Lernerfolg im schulischen Fachunterricht hängt davon ab, dass Lernende Fachinhalte auch auf sprachlicher Ebene verstehen, prozessieren und selbst darstellen können.

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields.

"e;I can't even speak my own language,"e; were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book.

This collection explicates one of the core ideas underpinning Minimalist theory - explanation via simplification - and its role in shaping some of the latest developments within this framework, specifically the simplest Merge hypothesis and the reduction of syntactic phenomena to third factor considerations.

Teaching Black Speculative Fiction: Equity, Justice, and Antiracism edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Michele Chandler offers innovative approaches to teaching Black speculative fiction (e.

First published in 1982.

The Bloomsbury Companion to Cognitive Linguistics is a comprehensive and accessible reference resource to research in contemporary cognitive linguistics.

This edited book uses case studies to offer a comprehensive picture of the feedback practices and perceptions pertinent to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in the Arab world.

English is the most widely taught and learned language in the world and is used for communication among speakers from different language backgrounds.

What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution?

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.

Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

The papers in this volume are concerned with the question of how a speaker’s intended referent is interpreted by the addressee.

Gus loves to gulp yoghurt, but he is not the only one.

A comprehensive introduction to second language learning for newcomers to the field, with frequent summaries and supporting activities.

Writing allows people to convey information to others who are remote in time and space, vastly increasing the range over which people can cooperate and the amount they can learn.

First published in 1967, this seminal volume by Ulric Neisser was the first attempt at a comprehensive and accessible survey of Cognitive Psychology; as such, it provided the field with its first true textbook.

In this volume, scholars, researchers, and teacher educators from across the United States present their latest findings regarding teacher education to develop meaningful learning experiences and meet the sociocultural, linguistic, and academic needs of Latino ELLs.

This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers' agency, peers' agency and parents' agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes.

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly the tensions between the demands of globalization and local identity.

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching.

This book addresses translingual identities through an innovative multimodal analysis of the language learning histories of a class of advanced learners of English in Japan who grew up between two or more languages.

This comprehensive textbook prepares early childhood educators to effectively work with and support young children (ages 0-8) with diverse languages, cultures, and learning needs.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

Information structure deals with the linguistic forms and techniques that support the integration of what is said into the current informational and attentional state of the addressee.

Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning.

Doing a Master's Dissertation in TESOL and Applied Linguistics is a practical guide for master's students tackling research and research writing for the first time.

English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions.

Focuses for the first time on materials development and applications of current research and theory for the main areas of applied linguistics (e.

This volume explores why Americans are among the least likely in the world to speak another language and how this U.

This book brings together research from six different countries across three continents where teacher educators and policy makers are addressing the under-preparation of content teachers to work effectively with multilingual learners.

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).