Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

The pioneering new study presents an interdisciplinary examination of how we use creativity to form and interpret new words.

This volume provides a unique interface between the material and linguistic aspects of communication, education and language use, and cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries, drawing on fields as varied as applied linguistics, ethnology, sociology, history and philosophy.

In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes.

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts.

English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides a unique introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English.

Using detailed analyses of cross-generational case studies, Smith explains the acquisition of language phonology by children.

Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary.

First published in 1987.

This seminal handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the research on world language education and how that research can transform into effective and daily instructional practices for K-16 language teachers.

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum.

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project.

International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries offers a detailed analysis of global dimensions and trends in international student mobility and recruitment.

A critical resource for literacy educators and graduate students, this volume investigates key moments in the development of literacy education and provides a much-needed overview of where, when, and how efforts to shape education influence literacy teaching, as well as what literacy educators can do to advocate for themselves, their students, and the profession.

Belle loves to try and get involved with all of the things that her big bother, Pete, can do, but she's not quite big enough to sprint or swim or read.

The Psycholinguistics of Words, Sentences and Discourse introduces the way words, sentences and discourse live in the mind.

The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously.

This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multilingualism through addition of a novel perspective from which to view contemporary language use and acquisition.

This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis.

An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics.

The subject of semantics has been appropriated by various disciplines including linguistic philosophy, logic, cognitive psychology, anthropological linguistics, and computer technology.

This book undertakes a systematic analysis of the workings of ideology in discourse, using an interdisciplinary approach that links language, cognition and society.

This book, one of the few English language publications on indigenous languages spoken in East Africa, highlights theoretical contributions on understudied East Cushitic languages, based on extensive data.

In dreams, part of the self seems to wander off to undertake both mundane tasks and marvellous adventures.

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context?

This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention.

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

This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context.

This volume provides descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena as well as processes that emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in the context of contrastive and contact linguistics and media discourse.

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China.

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland located at the intersection between the Latin, Germanic and Slav civilisations.

Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena.

Educating New Americans examines what it means to be an American through the history of a refugee from Laos.

Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations (or "e;language regimes"e;) to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness.

In The Gestural Origin of Language, Sherman Wilcox and David Armstrong use evidence from and about sign languages to explore the origins of language as we know it today.

Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "e;initial state"e; of the human organism.

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner's success - and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand.

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

This book presents the struggle for dialogue and understanding between teachers and refugee and immigrant families, in their own words.

This book presents a broad, multidisciplinary review of the factors that have been shown to or might influence sharing information on social media, regardless of its veracity.