Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

The second edition of this important and practical text provides specific information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing instruction in English for K-8 students within the content areas.

The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education presents the first comprehensive international reference work of the latest policies, practices, and theories related to the dynamic interdisciplinary field of bilingual and multilingual education.

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language.

As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education.

The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy.

This book examines how trauma is experienced and narrated differently across languages and cultures, drawing on rich ethnographic case studies and a novel cognitive-linguistic approach to analyse the variations of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) used in the narratives of West-African migrants and refugees in the course of intercultural encounters with Italian experts from domain-specific fields of discourse (including legal, medical, religious and cultural professionals).

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it?

The metalinguistic dimension refers to the way in which learners bring to bear knowledge about language into their learning of a second language, the "L2".

The 1987 landmark publications by G.

Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading.

The eleventh volume in the Routledge-TIRF series presents research on multilingualism in educational contexts across the globe.

Children learn a great deal from other people, including history, science and religion, as well as language itself.

This successful textbook on the psychology of communication explains - here in English for the first time - how human communication works in a very understandable way.

This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises.

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable.

As humans, our many levels of language use distinguish us from the rest of the animal world.

The concept and construct of race is often implicitly yet profoundly connected to issues of culture and identity.

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This collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life.

Bringing together a team of well-known scholars, this book examines the link between linguistic cognition and morphological diversity.

This book investigates how victims of a large-scale traumatic event converge and diverge in metaphor use in describing their traumatic experiences.

This volume details the Yew Chung Approach and the Twelve Values that exemplify the approach as a unique contribution to the field of early childhood education.

This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools.

This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA.

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics.

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their investigation into the roots and development of language.

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.

Mastering the vocabulary of a foreign language is one of the most daunting tasks that language learners face.

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning.

Cognitive Sociolinguistics draws on the rich theoretical framework of Cognitive Linguistics and focuses on the social factors that underlie the variability of meaning and conceptualization.

This volume investigates the implications of the study of populations other than educated, middle-class, normal children and languages other than English on a universal theory of language acquisition.

This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.

By upending traditional perspectives, this book gives a biologically-grounded understanding of how spoken language conveys meaning.

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).

This collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life.

One approach to the study of language has been to describe people whose ability to communicate is impaired.

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