Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process.

Investigates the acquisition and use of geocentric spatial language for children in Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Development is the first comprehensive overview of the field of sociocultural second language acquisition (SLA).

According to current estimates, about eighty percent of English teachers worldwide are nonnative speakers of the language.

The volume contains articles that focus on the interface between linguistic and conceptual knowledge.

Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time.

Linguistics for L2 Teachers is designed to help bilingual and ESL teachers better understand how and why the English language works, and to broaden their abilities to help their students learn about the various functions of English in the real world.

Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research.

Explores the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States.

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use.

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons.

This volume explores how grammatical categories, as defined by theoretical linguistics, are effectively implemented in language education.

This book explores the development of multilingual policy in education in Nepal in sociopolitical and historical contexts and examines the frameworks of language use in schools.

The literacy autobiography is a personal narrative reflecting on how one's experiences of spoken and written words have contributed to their ongoing relationship with language and literacy.

This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors.

This volume provides graduate students and experienced researchers with a comprehensive guide to applying qualitative and mixed methods in classroom-based research on second language learning and teaching.

Public Service Interpreting is a field of central interest to those involved in ensuring access to public services.

Spanning scholarly contributions from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, this edited volume seeks to capture and elucidate the distinct challenges, approaches and possible solutions associated with interpreting, adapting and applying language-in-education policies in a range of linguistically complex teaching and learning environments across South Asia.

This book brings together top scholars on different sides of the important scholarly debate between the translingual movement and the field of second language writing.

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings.

The book is designed as an introduction to the scientific study of speech.

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.

An essential handbook for professionals and advanced students in the field.

This book is addressed to a central area' of current linguistics and psycholinguistics: anaphora.

This book provides a unique insight into negotiations around language investment for employability in the context of public employment services.

Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English as an International Language (EIL).

Lexicography is one of the oldest linguistic sub-disciplines and began to compile extensive corpora early on as the basis for dictionary work.

In this interdisciplinary discussion on mental models, researchers from various areas in cognitive science tackle the following questions: What is a mental model?

This volume comprises 16 chapters - both research papers and theoretical contributions - grouped in three thematic sections.

For most native speakers of English, the meanings of ordinary words like "e;blue,"e; "e;cup,"e; "e;stumble,"e; and "e;carve"e; seem quite natural and self-evident.

Offering a wealth of art-based practices, this volume invites readers to reimagine the joyful possibility and power of language and culture in language and literacy learning.

In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "e;expand the contexts"e; in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically.

This book investigates our awareness and control of sociolinguistic features as they are embedded in social and grammatical systems.

The mental representation of what one reads is called a "e;situation model"e; or a "e;mental model.

This volume presents a series of the most up-to-date studies on Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP), an area that has been underrepresented in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP).

This book attempts to discuss selected but thorny issues of humor research that form the major stumbling blocks as well as challenges in humor studies at large and thus merit insightful discussion.

This book introduces and explains the production-oriented approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, a new approach developed by the author through 15 years of rigorous experimentation.

This edited volume addresses the pressing imperative to understand and attend to the needs of the fast-growing population of minority students who are increasingly considered "e;superdiverse"e; in their cultural, linguistic, and racial backgrounds.

Monolingualism is bad; literature is good - right?

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages- Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese-hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.