Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Based on ethnographic research in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, this book presents a novel approach to studying Muslim militant activism.

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 book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency.

This original volume examines forms and limits of human inquiry from a largely sceptical point of view.

This textbook provides a succinct, contemporary introduction to intercultural communication with a focus on actual language use.

This book presents an empirical study to develop and validate a proficiency scale of business English writing in the Chinese tertiary context.

Das bilinguale mentale Lexikon weist eine komplexe netzwerkartige Struktur auf, die in diesem Buch theoretisch ergründet und empirisch untersucht wird.

This book focuses on historical and current data to examine racism in Australia.

This book is the second in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

This volume addresses the underlying intersections of race, class, and gender on immigrant girls' experiences living in the US.

This book is intended to introduce novice student researchers to second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment.

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.

Reading is one of the most sophisticated demonstrations of human pattern recognition and symbolic processing skill.

Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers' professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including Asia, South America, Europe, and North America, and traces that development both over time and within the broader cultural, historical and institutional settings and circumstances of teachers' work.

This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique.

Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for pre-service and practicing teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages.

How does a person learn a second language?

Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends.

Language is an essential part of what makes us human.

A must-have collection of folktales for anyone interested in Korean literature and culture!

Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing's 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech.

Within cognitive and functional approaches to language structure and grammaticality, analogy and contrast represent two fundamental human cognitive capacities, which, up to now, have mostly been examined separately.

We can heal our communities--one friendship at a time.

This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus.

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.

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

This volume highlights unique features of L2 teachers' motivation, autonomy and career development in Far East counties (including Japan, South Korea and China), using diverse methodological research approaches incorporating both quantitative and qualitative paradigms.

This edited book brings together contributions from scholars in different international and educational contexts to take a critical look at the design and implementation of second language Study Abroad Research (SAR).

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

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-based language assessment (TBLA) in English as a second language (ESL) context.

This book includes interviews with fourteen internationally-acclaimed leading figures in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), who speak on seminal issues in the field as well as their own contributions to SLA scholarship.

This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework.

This is the first longitudinal study of the language used by the British press to talk about rape.

When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create shared meaning?

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is an increasingly popular educational approach given its dual focus on enabling learners to acquire subject-matter through an additional language, while learning this second language in tandem with content.

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is an increasingly popular educational approach given its dual focus on enabling learners to acquire subject-matter through an additional language, while learning this second language in tandem with content.

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom.

Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon.

This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad.

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom.

This edited collection documents the experiences of Muslim students and staff in UK higher education (HE), including their expertise and experiences in teaching, scholarship, policy and academic transitions as professionals, academics and students.

This book focuses on the role of cross-language awareness in foreign language learning, especially unrelated languages as a third or additional language.

A great majority of people around the world know more than one language.

Explore the spiritual practices, legends, and traditions of various Indigenous tribes throughout the North American continent.