This book is a progressive exposition on Halliday's academic thought and its origins by the renowned linguist Hu Zhuanglin, based on 30 years of research.
This book investigates -s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
First published in 1984, The Passive surveys a wide range of different constructions, which have all been termed 'passives' by linguists, using data from a large number of genetically and typologically diverse languages.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive treatment of basic and more advanced research methodologies in applied linguistics and offers a state-of-the-art review of methods particular to various domains within the field.
This book explores the topic of teacher cognition, making use of sociocultural theory as a framework to understand what teachers know, think, believe and do in their professional contexts through 'applied' conversation analysis.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.
Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge.
Speaking to a broader global preoccupation with the state of languages and language development, this book considers issues surrounding the diverse languages, linguistic communities, and cultures of Zimbabwe.
In this edited volume, language weaponization - or the weaponization of language - is used to describe the process in which words, discourse, and language in any form can be used to inflict harm on others.
The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where food culture and language intersect, revealing how each dish communicates beyond mere taste.
Bringing insights from linguistics to those without a background in this field, An Introduction to Language and Communication for Allied Health and Social Care Professions enables readers to better appreciate the ways in which language functions simultaneously as an instrument to encode and communicate meaning, build and sustain interpersonal relationships, and express identity.
Queer linguistics - in its position as both a linguistic science of and for queer folk - is inherently agitating to the disciplinary anxiety of a general linguistic science.
Linguistic variation, loosely defined as the wholesale processes whereby patterns of language structures exhibit divergent distributions within and across languages, has traditionally been the object of research of at least two branches of linguistics: variationist sociolinguistics and linguistic typology.
This book addresses increasingly diverse language learning trajectories in a modern, globalized world, specifically outside of formal classroom situations and with respect to second and additional language practices.
Master trainer and career coach Jack Myrick shares the practices he uses to find clarity for his Christian journey and keep him centered in God's will and on God's path.
Life is very difficult as a teen girl, not to mention trying to live to glorify God on top of all the peer pressure that we encounter on a day-to-day basis.
Sadly, and far too pervasive, submerged pain-narratives are so easily hidden and are historically, sometimes trapping humankind within gross diachronic amniotic darkness, where it is difficult to breath.
Este libro analiza, desde una perspectiva sociohistórica y dialectal, una variedad del castellano escasamente descrita en la literatura especializada: la de los Andes norperuanos, específicamente Cajamarca, La Libertad y Áncash.
This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012.
This book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012.
Este libro aborda el fenómeno lenguaje inclusivo desde una perspectiva integral, en base a un detallado análisis lingüístico, social y político, y con argumentos poco visitados en otros trabajos sobre el tema.
En este libro la psicopoética es entendida como un acontecimiento sociopsicológico que involucra de manera más o menos sutil o explícita deslices recreativos y que surge bajo determinadas condiciones culturales y de relaciones de poder en el contexto de la interacción cotidiana, así como a través de ciertos modos de dialogar y conversar.
El diagnóstico de época que se desprende de los testimonios de jóvenes populares en los que se basa este libro refiere al sentimiento de inexistencia de claras trayectorias institucionales que aseguren el tránsito entre los diferentes períodos etarios; en la imagen de una trama institucional globalmente abusiva y que sólo algunos individuos logran matizar; en la fuerza de las aspiraciones y de los sueños personales que no se abdican.
Este libro se enmarca en un área de la didáctica de las ciencias naturales que promueve la generación de una enseñanza de las ciencias que incluya las cosmovisiones de los pueblos originarios en su definición.
"Las reflexiones que, creo, disparará Vecinos Distantes en todos los lectores, hablan de la riqueza del libro y su alta densidad de ideas, unidas al placer que me produjo su lectura.
"El lenguaje es un amenazante peligro para la civilización mercantilista, por su estructura única e indestructible, que ningún mercado puede poner en jaque.
Virus significa en latín, a la vez, esperma y veneno; embarazada es la que no lleva cinto; hospital y hostilidad tienen orígenes comunes; el vocabulario de la Iglesia y del Ejército se entremezcla con el de la medicina.
