Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Basil Bernstein began to develop his theory of social structure and power relations during the 1950s and 1960s.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

This handbook provides a detailed and sustained examination of the scope, purpose and practical application of crisis and disaster management communication in this critical region of the African continent, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex.

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

This book examines everyday literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL).

Originally published in 1939, it was only recently that serious study and attention had been given to disorders of speech and there was a growing demand for books dealing with the subject.

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition, each contributor was asked to include a brief history that chronicles the legacies within each of the volume's many topics.

Originally published in 1999 Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed.

This book aims to contribute to the discipline of teaching English as an international language by exploring teachers' reflections on the recent changes within the English language for their teaching profession.

More than any book to date, this one provides a comprehensive approach to designing, building, implementing and interpreting test results that validly measure the academic achievement of English language learners.

In the sociopolitics of language, sometimes yesterday's solution is tomorrow's problem.

David Nunan's dynamic learner-centered teaching style has informed and inspired countless TESOL educators around the world.

This accessible and inclusive new textbook introduces Child Language Acquisition (CLA), with unique coverage of bilingual and early second language development as well as first languages.

The Handbook of Speech Production is the first reference work to provide an overview of this burgeoning area of study.

This volume focuses on advances in research methodology in an interdisciplinary field framed by discourses of identity and interculturality.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, converging scientific and social movements had generated increasing concern over the meaning of the term intelligence.

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important implications for language planning and policy and for projects designed to curtail language loss.

This handbook brings together past and current research on all aspects of lying and deception, with chapters contributed by leading international experts in the field.

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics.

This revised and updated second edition is an accessible companion designed to help science and technology students develop the knowledge, skills and strategies needed to produce clear and coherent academic writing in their university assignments.

English lexicography and linguistics have always shared close ties, yet the potential of cognitive linguistics for lexicography has only been hesitantly acknowledged in the literature.

Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.

Locality is a key concept not only in linguistic theorizing, but in explaining pattern of acquisition and patterns of recovery in garden path sentences, as well.

First published in 1982.

In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics.

Now adopted by over 40 states, the Common Core State Standards provide a clear and consistent framework for public school systems as they develop student learning goals that define the path to readiness for college, careers, and informed citizenship.

Through the lens of cognitive science, Jokes and the Linguistic Mind investigates jokes that play on some aspect of the structure and function of language.

This volume critically analyzes and explains the goals, processes, and effects of language policies in the United States and Canada from historical and contemporary perspectives.

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines.

Taking a Vygotskian sociocultural stance, this book demonstrates the meaningful role that L2 teacher educators and L2 teacher education play in the professional development of L2 teachers through systematic, intentional, goal-directed, theorized L2 teacher education pedagogy.

Current primate research has yielded stunning results that not only threaten our underlying assumptions about the cognitive and communicative abilities of nonhuman primates, but also bring into question what it means to be human.

This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke.

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

Explains why reading disorders have been hard to identify and how mind, brain and education can help to understand them.

This original volume examines the interface between attentional and linguistic processes in humans from the perspectives of psycholinguistics and cognitive science.

A 2004 overview of linguistic research into acquisition of phonology, focusing on constraints in phonological acquisition.

New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction.