Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise.

This book offers an inclusive perspective on the constellation of languages in Europe by taking into account official state languages, regional minority languages and immigrant minority languages.

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning.

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition.

Cognitive linguistics is a relatively new discipline which is rapidly becoming mainstream and influential, particularly in the area of second language teaching.

Written to help international students write essays and reports for their English-language university courses, this key title covers the essentials needed to achieve academic writing success.

Questions about what to teach and how best to teach it are what drive professional practice in the English language classroom.

Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity.

Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English.

This handbook is the first to explore the growing field of experimental semantics and pragmatics.

This text integrates the theory and practice of learner-based assessment.

This collection offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which multilingual practices were embedded in early modern European literary culture, opening up a dynamic dialogue between contemporary multilingual practices and scholarly work on early modern history and literature.

Exploring the role that metaphor plays in our linguistic and conceptual systems from a Cognitive Linguistics (CL)-oriented perspective has attracted a great deal of attention for the past three decades.

Wenn Kinder beginnen, sich ihre Welt durch Wörter anzueignen, machen auch die Erwachsenen neue Erfahrungen in ihrem eigenen Umgang mit Sprache und sich selbst.

Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial.

This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics.

This book investigates linguistic strategies of threat construction and fear generation in contemporary public communication, including state political discourse as well as non-governmental, media and institutional discourses.

The book is about the numeral classifier system and the acquisition of Japanese classifiers by Japanese children.

This volume provides an overview of research from the learning sciences into understanding, enhancing, and measuring "e;deep comprehension"e; from a psychological, educational, and psychometric perspective.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics is a novel and burgeoning field of research which seeks to foster investigation into the socio-cognitive dimensions of language at a usage-based level.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics provides a comprehensive introduction and essential reference work to cognitive linguistics.

This book brings together linguistics and psycholinguistics.

How can linguistics help teachers of English language learners (ELLs) improve their instruction?

This book fulfils the need for a clear overview of this area of cognitive psychology which encompasses both language and thought.

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates.

The chapters in this volume are extended versions of material first presented at the National Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language, Mind, and Brain held April 6-9, 1978, in Gainesville, Florida.

Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.

Originally published in 1976.

The book sets out to describe new developments in terminology from a cognitive perspective.

This volume contributes to a better understanding of both psycho- and sociolinguistic levels of multilingualism and their interplay in development and use.

This edited volume explores how digital humanities can address critical societal challenges in social media, health, education, archives, heritage, and the arts.

This book systematically examines how learning to read occurs in diverse languages, and in so doing, explores how literacy is learned in a second language by learners who have achieved at least basic reading skills in their first language.

Extensive Reading is an innovative resource bridging theory and practice for those seeking to learn about extensive reading (ER) for L2 students' language development, including ways to motivate students to read extensively and to assess learning.

The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.

Translingual discrimination is inequality based on transnational migrants'' specific linguistic and communicative repertoires that are (il)legitimized by the national order of things.

Studies in Neurolinguistics, Volume 4 covers researches on language phenomena.

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

This edited volume picks up where Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, Volume 1 ended.

This innovative volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between language and cognition with a focus on bilinguals.

The growing number of bilingual students in public schools coupled with a critical shortage of teachers specially prepared to serve this population calls for a critical examination of policies and practices in bilingual and ESL teacher preparation.

A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.

In a bold attempt to redirect the ways theories of communication are conceived and research on communication processes are conducted, this volume questions prevailing communication scholarship that emphasizes the cultural, psychological, and sociological variables that impact on, and/or are impacted by, communication.

This edited book focuses on affordances and limitations of e-books for early language and literacy, features and design of e-books for early language and literacy, print versus e-books in early language and literacy development, and uses of and guidelines for how to use e-books in school and home literacy practices.

Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research explores how ethical issues are negotiated in different areas of language research, illustrating for graduate students in applied linguistics the ethical dilemmas they might encounter in the research methodology classroom and how they might be addressed.

Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was previously thought.