Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative acts.

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment.

A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.

Drawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation.

Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading.

This engaging volume on English as an Additional Language (EAL), argues persuasively for the importance of critical participatory pedagogies that embrace multilingualism and multimodality in the field of TESOL.

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

The book provides an account of English inversion, a construction that displays perplexing idiosyncrasies at the level of semantics, phonology, syntax, and pragmatics.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for business or workplace communication and covers both spoken and written English.

Today's growing mobility in European urban regions results in a more widespread language diversity, which is increasingly challenging current language policies.

The advances in neuroimaging technologies have led to substantial progress in understanding the neural mechanisms of cognitive functions.

This book is a collection of innovative studies on language contact.

This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them.

For most native speakers of English, the meanings of ordinary words like "e;blue,"e; "e;cup,"e; "e;stumble,"e; and "e;carve"e; seem quite natural and self-evident.

Die 2020 veröffentlichten ersten Befunde der aktuellen LEO-Studie beleuchten nur einige Aspekte und waren häufig deskriptiver Natur.

Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language.

Researchers working at the intersections of language and education reflect on how their life experiences have informed their research.

The concept of semantic roles has been central to linguistic theory for many decades.

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic theory of translation, with numerous examples and exercises.

This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place.

From K-pop to kimchi, Korean culture is becoming increasingly popular on the world stage.

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the brain to demonstrate how language is processed.

Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words?

This book makes a fundamental contribution to phonology, linguistic typology, and the nature of the human language faculty.

From Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the world.

Language Development Over the Lifespan is a reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process, and a supplementary textbook for courses in applied linguistics/bilingualism programs that focus on language attrition/aging and adult literacy development in second languages.

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond.

In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse, there is speech.

A comprehensive yet concise survey of Japanese linguistics, from leading scholars in the field.

Mimetic words, also known as 'sound-symbolic words', 'ideophones' or more popularly as 'onomatopoeia', constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages.

Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction.

The (dis)empowerment of languages through language policy in multilingual postcolonial communities often shapes speakers' identification with these languages, their attitude towards other languages in the community, and their choices in interpersonal and intergroup communication.

Literary style is something many people talk about, but few could define.

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures.

A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.

The relationship between language and conceptualization remains one of the major puzzles in language research.

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.

Teaching through Peer Interaction prepares teachers to use peer communication in the classroom.

This language study's primary purpose is to use aphasic performance to understand language, rather than to use linguistic analysis to understand aphasia.

Das Buch wendet sich an Lateinlehrkräfte, die "Latine loqui" zu verschiedenen didaktischen Zwecken in ihrem eigenen Unterricht einsetzen möchten oder die bereits erste Erfahrungen damit gemacht haben und die Methode weiter optimieren möchten.

Originally published in 1988, this is a fully revised second edition of the successful introductory textbook on developmental and educational psychology.

This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness.

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