Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript.

Language is Politics discusses power relations between languages in the world, with a particular focus on English.

Offers an innovative, holistic and evidence-based pedagogic approach to deeper learning for all subjects of schooling.

Grounded in a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach, this book applies a contrastive interlanguage corpus-based approach to investigate the nature and role of L2 intonation and its pragmatic function in spoken discourse.

Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the evidence, theories, and practical issues associated with recovery from stuttering in early childhood and into adolescence.

One of the key issues in second language learning and teaching concerns the role and practice of grammar instruction.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

Recently intensified global mobility has reinforced the interest for ethnolinguistic diversity and multilingualism in education and society.

This book includes selected peer reviewed articles from The 5th International Conference on Communications and Cyber-Physical Engineering (ICCCE 2022), held on 29th  and 30th  April 2022 in Hyderabad, India.

This volume explores the inner-workings of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education (HE) at two universities.

This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self.

Originally published in 1990, this comprehensive volume addresses the central issues of sentence and discourse processes, with particular emphasis placed on reading and listening comprehension.

Higher education institutions (HEIs) are increasingly affected by globalization and internationalization, with implications for language use, teaching and learning in their academic communities.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint.

Face-to-face conversation between two or more people is a universal form, and perhaps the basic form, of social interaction.

As the first title in the new series, New Directions in Communication Disorders Research: Integrative Approaches, this volume discusses a unique phenomenon in cognitive science, single-word reading, which is an essential element in successful reading competence.

This book aims to provide a new, linguistically grounded typology of speech and thought representation in English on the basis of the systematic study of deictic, syntactic and semantic properties of authentic examples drawn from literary as well as non-literary sources.

Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display.

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research.

Für die Sprachentwicklung gibt es zwei besonders wichtige Phasen: die frühe Kindheit und die Pubertät.

Designed for ESL and ELT pedagogy courses around the world, this text describes English grammar from a World Englishes perspective.

This book focuses on the international and educational context of ethnic communities and their language varieties in the Netherlands.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting stalled in the complex specifics.

This fully updated new edition provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the challenges that English language learners (ELLs), also known as English Learners (ELs), face, as well as the ways in which educators might address them in the social studies classroom.

Developing Intercultural Language Materials puts intercultural competence at the forefront of the learning agenda.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people''s daily literate experience.

The Comprehension of Jokes consolidates and develops the tradition of analysing jokes, by defining a framework of concepts which are suited to capturing what happens when someone understands a joke.

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy.

The intense language contact between Spanish and Catalan in Catalonia has led to cross-linguistic influence at all linguistic levels, but its effect on the prosody of these languages has received little attention to date.

Comprehension Processes in Reading addresses the interrelationship among several areas relevant to understanding how people comprehend text.

Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English.

Eine Zigarre rauchen, Zeitung lesen und sich am Kopf kratzen, das kann man gleichzeitig - und zwar muhelos, konstatiert John Searle.

Arranged alphabetically, this accessible glossary provides a quick source of reference for a range of readers, from students of linguistics to educators who need help navigating the vocabulary of Bilingualism.