Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

This book tackles the interface between translation and pragmatics.

This book investigates Chinese secondary EFL learners' meaning-making abilities in English L2 writing by adopting theoretical frameworks used in systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

This book explores debaters' professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective.

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

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 presents the latest theoretical and empirical advances in cognitive translation studies.

This book offers a comprehensive view of multimodal composing and literacies in multilingual contexts for ESL and EFL education in United States of America and globally.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book decodes commercial news discourses from the perspective of cognitive semantics.

This book, one of the few English language publications on indigenous languages spoken in East Africa, highlights theoretical contributions on understudied East Cushitic languages, based on extensive data.

The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a focus on expressing spatial characteristics.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This is the first book of its kind that explains the basic concepts, theoretical foundations and systematic research of linguistic semiotics, so as to establish a well-founded framework for linguistic semiotics as an independent discipline.

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy.

This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children's literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and young audiences.

Based on 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews, this book investigates 15 high-tech engineering co-op professionals' writing experience in the workplace.

There is an odd contradiction at the heart of language and culture learning: Language and culture are, so to speak, two sides of a single coin-language reflects the thinking, values and worldview of its speakers.

This book explains why cognitive linguistics offers a plausible theoretical framework for a systematic and unified analysis of the syntax and semantics of particle verbs.

This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm.

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

This book proposes a novel CWW model to personalize individual semantics in linguistic decision making, based on two new concepts: numerical scale and consistency-driven methodology.

This book shows ways of augmenting the capabilities of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems by means of cognitive-mode language processing.

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

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.

This book analyses the emotional message of Hungarian folksongs from a Cultural Linguistic perspective, employing a wide range of empirical devices.

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

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.

This commemorative volume is the 12th edition in the Nigerian Linguists Festschrift Series devoted to Professor (Mrs.

Este libro está dirigido a todos los interesados en la enseñanza de lenguas y en la formación de docentes de lenguas, en particular, del español como lengua extranjera (ELE).

Este libro es una secuela —o tal vez sería más preciso decir que es una precuela— de otro titulado The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Los caminos que se recorren en esta obra son diversos, pero siempre convergen en conceptos centrales de la experiencia universitaria en un país que se ha reconocido como multicultural y plurilingüe.

Un manual 100% actualizado con lo que los docentes necesitan saber sobre trayectorias escolares en lectura y escritura, escrito por dos especialistas con amplísima experiencia.

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition.

This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology.

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology.

A revival of interest in morphology has taken place during recent years and the subject is seen now as a relatively autonomous subdiscipline of linguistics.

This collection of papers investigates two specific linguistic phenomena from the point of view of first- and second-language acquisition.

impossible triangle, after apprehension of the perceptively given mode of being of that 'object', the visual system assumes that all three sides touch on all three sides, whereas this happens on only one side.

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

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

This book is not written for posterity.