Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information.
This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.
Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use.
Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.
Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.
Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.
An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.
This book takes the reader on a journey through the structure of everyday spoken English, providing a fresh look at the relation between language and the mind.
Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.
This study explores the contradictory character of African nationalism as it unfolded over decades of Tanzanian history in conflicts over public policies.
Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president.
One of the most paradoxical aspects of Cuban history is the coexistence of national myths of racial harmony with lived experiences of racial inequality.
Mexico's National Indigenist Institute (INI) was at the vanguard of hemispheric indigenismo from 1951 through the mid-1970s, thanks to the innovative development projects that were first introduced at its pilot Tseltal-Tsotsil Coordinating Center in highland Chiapas.
The conquest and colonization of the Americas imposed new social, legal, and cultural categories upon vast and varied populations of indigenous people.
For more than one hundred years, the Conquest of the Desert (18781885) has marked Argentina's historical passage between eras, standing at the gateway to the nation's ';Golden Age' of progress, modernity, andmost contentiouslynational whiteness and the ';invisibilization' of Indigenous peoples.
This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest.
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.