Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

A comprehensive survey of the quickly developing discipline of cognitive linguistics, its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context.

Written from a critical perspective, this volume provides teachers, teacher educators, and classroom researchers with a conceptual framework and practical methods for teaching and researching the disciplinary literacy development of English language learners (ELLs).

This psychobiographical study of the renowned French pediatrician and psychoanalyst Francoise Dolto introduces both her theories of child development and her unique insights into language and identity.

Rethinking Multilingual Writers in Higher Education: An Institutional Case Study explores the complexities of multilingual students as language users and learners, emphasizing the distinctive assets that they bring to their education and the ways in which institutions of higher education can better meet their needs.

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints.

First published in 1985.

Drawing on the collective expertise of language scholars and educators in a variety of subdisciplines, the Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II, provides a comprehensive treatment of teaching and research in Arabic as a second and foreign language worldwide.

As a bold provocation to reimagine what the philosophy of education might mean in the 21st century, this book responds to the exhaustion of present theoretical models and indeed the degradation of fabulative thought in its current prospectus.

In this colourful illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Rusty the Robber, and the night he got caught.

An increasing number of students graduate from U.

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts.

The central question explored in this volume is: How is humor multimodally produced, perceived, responded to, and negotiated?

An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.

This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders.

Long studied by anthropologists, historians, and linguists, oral traditions have provided a wealth of fascinating insights into unique cultural customs that span the history of humankind.

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

Weaving together a richly diverse range of student voices, perspectives, and insights, this collection of studies from around the world offers the educational community a better understanding of K-12 and adult Chinese-heritage students' languages, cultures, identities, motivations, achievements, and challenges in various cross-cultural settings outside North America.

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for "e;about every third word of discourse"e;.

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This book offers an insight into the 21st century teaching and learning of English in Asia.

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes.

Rastelli shows how data comparison is improving our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

Dinner Talk draws upon the recorded dinner conversations of, and extensive interviews with, native Israeli, American Israeli, and Jewish American middle-class families to explore the cultural styles of sociability and socialization in family discourse.

This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers.

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

Taking as a starting point the most enduring insights to emerge from acclaimed researcher Arthur Applebee's scholarship, this volume brings together leading experts to fully examine his work for its explanatory power and its potential to shape current and future research agendas.

Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics.

Drawing on a range of contexts and data sources, from urban multilingualism to studies of animal communication, Posthumanist Applied Linguistics offers us alternative ways of thinking about the human predicament, with major implications for research, education and politics.

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.

Introduction to the study of children''s language difficulties, drawing widely on real-life examples.

Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activity.

Sets out state-of-the-art methodological and theoretical advancements to shed light on how bilingual speakers comprehend ambiguous information.

Now in its fifth edition, Academic Writing helps international students succeed in writing essays and reports for their English-language academic courses.

An increasingly popular approach to second and foreign language education, this book focuses on incidental learning: how students learn words from reading.

This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative acts.

The sixth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series offers up-to-date research on the rapidly changing field of language assessment.

A study of first and second language development in an indigenous community with implications for broader linguistic and cognitive issues.

Drawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation.

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

This engaging volume on English as an Additional Language (EAL), argues persuasively for the importance of critical participatory pedagogies that embrace multilingualism and multimodality in the field of TESOL.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for business or workplace communication and covers both spoken and written English.

This book reflects on key questions of enduring interest on the nature of syntax, bringing together Grant Goodall's previous publications and new work exploring how syntactic representations are structured and the affordances of experimental techniques in studying them.

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.

Originally published in 1980, this is a book about the psychology of figurative language.

Researchers working at the intersections of language and education reflect on how their life experiences have informed their research.

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic theory of translation, with numerous examples and exercises.

From K-pop to kimchi, Korean culture is becoming increasingly popular on the world stage.