Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Gathers decades of research on figurative language cognition to answer the question, ''Why don''t people just say what they mean?

Initial Language Teacher Education provides language teacher researchers, as well as teachers of teachers, with an introduction to research on how language teachers learn to teach before they begin practicing.

Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography.

This carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts around the world highlights cutting-edge research in the use of digital learning technologies in language classrooms and in online learning.

One of the controversial philosophical issues of recent years has been the question of the nature of logical and mathematical entities.

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics.

Over the past thirty years, the field of language learning strategies has generated a massive amount of interest and research in applied linguistics.

This book offers an in-depth look at early years education, recognizing the pivotal role of early education in shaping individual development.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

This book provides a unique roadmap for the design of an effective emotional intelligence (EI) intervention adapted to the needs of translators.

The concept of "e;funds of knowledge"e; is based on a simple premise: people are competent and have knowledge, and their life experiences have given them that knowledge.

Atypical Interaction presents a state-of-the-art overview of research which uses conversation analysis to explore how communicative impairments impact on conversation and other forms of talk and social interaction.

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development?

In 1945 Japan had to adjust very rapidly to sudden defeat, to the arrival of the American Occupation and to the encounter with the English language, together with a different outlook on many aspects of society and government.

Two decades ago, Mandarin Chinese seemed set to become a mainstream school subject in Anglophone settings.

Doing Research in Applied Linguistics: Realities, dilemmas, and solutions provides insight and guidance for those undertaking research, and shows the reader how to deal with the challenges of this research involving real people in real settings.

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This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

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.

Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude.

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics.

A Co-Publication of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Rastelli shows how data comparison is improving our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

This introductory text for students of linguistics, language, and education provides background and up-to-date information and resources that beginning researchers need for studying language diversity and education.

The role of orthography in reading and writing is not a new topic of inquiry.

Revision Revisited LINDA ALLAL* & LUCILE CHANQUOY** *University ofGeneva, SWitzerland, **UniversityofNantes, France Revision is a fundamental component of the writing process.

This collection brings together cutting-edge research and theoretical discussions on the linguistic, cultural, and political forces that shape multilingual Colombia, highlighting the country's unique sociolinguistic landscape and offering new insights into multilingualism in the Global South.

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading.

Open publication The volume deals with previously undescribed morphosyntactic variations and changes appearing in settings involving language contact.

This volume provides a sample of the most recent studies on Spanish-English codeswitching both in the Caribbean and among bilinguals in the United States.

Foundational and comprehensive, this volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the current issues that dominate the field of teaching and learning Arabic grammar.

This book traces the historical development of major language teaching methods in terms of theoretical principles and classroom procedures, and provides a critical evaluation of each.

Originally published in 1978, The Process of Question Answering examines a phenomenon that relies on many realms of human cognition: language comprehension, memory retrieval, and language generation.

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas.

Since before the dawn of history, people have been telling stories to each other and to themselves.

Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose.

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon.