Nearly half a century has passed since Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence to describe the knowledge and skills required for the appropriate use of language in a social context.
Der vorliegende Sammelband verfolgt das Ziel, aktuelle Arbeiten und Forschungsergebnisse der Sondersprachenforschung mit "arkanlinguistischem" Bezug zusammenzuführen, sie kritisch zu diskutieren und zu hinterfragen und durch diese Bündelung explizit auch eine Linguistik des Arkanen zu konturieren.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field.
This volume is the long-awaited revision of the only textbook on primary language instruction written with classroom teachers of deaf and hard-of-hearing children (TODs) in mind.
It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on sign languages, leading to less structural variation in sign language structure as compared to spoken language structure.
This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman's autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.
The relationship of language to cognition, especially in development, is an issue that has occupied philosophers, psychologists, and linguists for centuries.
One of the foremost authorities on the use of sign language with hearing children provides a guide for teachers and parents who want to introduce signing in hearing children's language development.
Deaf around the World is a compendium of work by scholars and activists on the creation, context, and form of sign languages, and on the social issues and civil rights of Deaf communities.
Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy.
This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe.
Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language, with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world.
One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators.
This book introduces a new topic to applied linguistics: the significance of the TESOL teacher's background as a learner and user of additional languages.
This first linguistic study of British Sign Language is written for students of linguistics, for deaf and hearing sign language researchers, for teachers and social workers for the deaf.
Questions About Language sets out to answer, in a readable yet insightful format, a series of vital questions about language, some of which language specialists are regularly asked, and some of which are so surprising that only the specialists think about them.
Combining the expertise of renowned academics and aviation experts, this edited collection draws together the latest research into language in the aviation industry, with a focus on teaching and assessment.
This book introduces a new topic to applied linguistics: the significance of the TESOL teacher's background as a learner and user of additional languages.
