Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning (Explorations in Semantics)
By David I. Beaver, Brady Z. Clark
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:328
* Publication Date:2008-09-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405112646
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405112642
Product Description:
Sense and Sensitivity advances a novel research proposal in the nascent field of formal pragmatics, exploring in detail the semantics and pragmatics of focus in natural language discourse. The authors develop a new account of focus sensitivity, and show that what has hitherto been regarded as a uniform phenomenon in fact results from three different mechanisms. The book
* Makes a major contribution to ongoing research in the area of focus sensitivity – a field exploring interactions between sound and meaning, specifically the dependency some words have on the effects of focus, such as "she only LIKES me" (i.e. nothing deeper) compared to "she only likes ME" (i.e. nobody else)
* Discusses the features of the QFC theory (Quasi association, Free association, and Conventional association), a new account of focus implying a tripartite typology of focus-sensitive expressions
* Presents novel cross-linguistic data on focus and focus sensitivity that will be relevant across a range of linguistic sub-fields: semantics and pragmatics, syntax, and intonational phonology
* Concludes with a case study of exclusives (like “only”), arguing that the entire existing literature has missed crucial generalizations, and for the first time explaining the focus sensitivity of these expressions in terms of their meaning and discourse function
The Syntactic Nature of Inner Aspect: A minimalist perspective (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Jonathan E. MacDonald
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:263
* Publication Date:2008-11-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027255164
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027255167
This book explores the syntactic nature of inner aspect from a minimalist perspective. It begins with the new observation that there are two independent properties at play in English inner aspect: the object-to-event mapping and event structure. From a discussion of English statives and Russian, it is concluded that the former property is variant and the latter universal; a minimalist conception of language variation arises naturally in this context. Additionally, an exploration of a lexical derivational approach to achievements leads to the expectation that there are no accomplishments in the lexicon. A detailed look at idioms suggests that this expectation is met. These results support the division of labor between an operative lexicon and narrow syntax in aspectual composition; this naturally poses a problem for (neo-)constructional approaches to inner aspect. Finally, one conclusion reached about the syntactic nature of inner aspect regards the object-to-event mapping: it is a purely syntactic phenomenon.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
xi–xii
Preface
xiii–xiv
List of abbreviations
xv
Chapter 1. An introduction to the syntax of inner aspect
1–30
Chapter 2. The syntax of eventives 1: An aspectual projection
31–60
Chapter 3. The syntax of eventives 2: Event features
61–91
Chapter 4. A lexical derivation of achievements
93–136
Chapter 5. Minimalist variation in inner aspect
137–167
Chapter 6. The autonomy of inner aspect
169–192
Chapter 7. A consideration of other aspectual facts
193–209
Chapter 8. The syntactic nature of inner aspect and some speculative remarks
211–226
References
227–235
Index
237–241
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
By Dennis R. Preston
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:480
* Publication Date:1999-09
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556195346
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556195341
Part of the set: Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: 2 Volumes (set).
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or “folk linguistics”. Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something.
Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology:
* a historical survey;
* a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States;
* a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed;
* an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts;
* a comprehensive bibliography.
The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Series Editor’s Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dennis R. Preston
I: The Dutch Contribution: ‘Little Arrows’
Informant Classification of Dialects
W.G. Rensink
Dialects
Jo Daan
The Netherlands-German National Border as a Subjective Dialect Boundary
Ludger Kremer
II: The Japanese Controversy: ‘Subjective’ and ‘Objective’
Consciousness of Dialect Boundaries
Takesi Sibata
Consciousness of Linguistic Boundaries and Actual Linguistic Boundaries
Kikuo Nomoto
Dialect Consciousness and Dialect Divisions: Examples in the Nagano-Gifu Boundary
Yoshio Mase
On Dialect Consciousness: Dialect Characteristics Given by Speakers
Yoshio Mase
The Discussion Surrounding the Subjective Boundaries of Dialects
Willem Grootaers
On the Value of Subjective Dialect Boundaries
Antonius A. Weijnen
Dialects and the Subjective Judgments of Speakers: Remarks on Controversial Methods
Ton Goeman
III: Images, Perceptions and Attitudes
Classification of Dialects by Image: English and Japanese
Fumio Inoue
Subjective Dialect Division in Great Britain
Fumio Inoue
Geographical Perceptions of Japanese Dialect Regions
Daniel Long
Mapping Nonlinguists’ Evaluations of Japanese Language Variation
Daniel Long
The Perception of Post-Unification German Regional Speech
Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
Variation and the Norm: Parisian Perceptions of Regional French
Lawrence Kuiper
The Perception of Turkish Dialects
Mahide Demirci and Brian Kleiner
Regional Variation in Subjective Dialect Divisions in the United States
Donald M. Lance
A View from the West: Perceptions of U.S. Dialects by Oregon Residents
Laura Hartley
“Welshness” and “Englishness” as Attitudinal Dimensions of English Language Varieties in Wales
Nikolas Coupland, Angie Williams and Peter Garrett
Dialect Recognition
Angie Williams, Peter Garrett and Nikolas Coupland
A Language Attitude Approach to the Perception of Regional Variety
Dennis R. Preston
References
Additional Readings
About the Contributors and Translators
Index
“Dennis Preston has done the field of empirical linguistics great service in his earlier work on perceptual dialectology, both to raise our consciousness of the phenomenon and to document some facts about the perception of English varieties. Now he has done it again in the Handbook of Percpetual Dialectology, to expose the foundation of the study of perceptual dialectology and to extend our knowledge of it around the world.”
William A Kretzschmar Jr., University of Georgia
“The Handbook is recommended to everyone interested in sociolinguistics and the social psychology of language in general, and in dialectology, language attitudes and folk-linguistic awareness in particular.”
Hans J. Ladegaard in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
“Preston's volume is successful in communicating the problems as well as the insights of perceptual dialectology. The text is highly effective in arguing and illustrating the benefits of such a perspective for a wide array of linguistic subfields and other social sciences. Each chapter is useful in itself, and when linked together, the chapters proffer a well-constructed infrastructure of information. Undoubtedly, this collection will be come a valuable resource to language scholars and social scientists alike.”
Clare J. Dannenberg in Language 77:2, 2001
Terms in Context (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Jennifer Pearson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:258
* Publication Date:1998-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1556193424
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781556193422
Terms in Context applies the methodology that has been developed over the last two decades in corpus linguistics to the relatively new and still little developed field of corpus-based terminography. While corpora are already being used by some terminologists for the identification of terms and retrieval of contextual fragments, this book describes the first attempt to use corpora for terminography in much the same way as large general reference corpora are already being used for general language lexicography. The author goes beyond the standard problem of identifying terms as opposed to non-terminological lexical items in text and focuses on identifying metalanguage patterns which point to the presence in text of (parts of) reusable definitions of terms. The author examines these patterns and shows how the information which they contain can be retrieved and used as input for terminological entries.
Terms in Context should be of interest to ‘traditional’ terminologists who have not previously considered adopting a corpus-based approach to their work or at least not on the scale proposed here; to ‘modern’ terminologists who use text primarily for the identification of terms and the retrieval of contextual examples; to those in the corpus linguistic community who have hitherto used general language corpora for the purposes of lexicography and have not previously considered using special purpose corpora for more specific lexicography studies; and to academics in the ESP/LSP community who are interested in showing students how to use text as a means of ascertaining the meaning of terms.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
viii
Introduction
1
1.Identifying differences between words and terms
7
2.Corpora, corpus design and corpus selection
41
3.Dictionaries and defining strategies
67
4.Analysis of definitions in text
89
5.Defining as a perfomative act
105
6.Retrieval of terms from the corpora
121
7.Retrieval of formal and semi-formal defining expositives
135
8.Synonymy, substitution and paraphrasing
168
9.Using the term as the node
191
10. Summary
204
References
211
Appendix A
223
Appendix B
226
“I believe Terms in Context will be judged to be a highly useful and valued monograph. It will surely attract the eager attention of experts and students of terminology/terminography, alongside those whose professional interest is directed more to genre usage and analysis. Corpus analysts will welcome a sophisticated case-study shedding valuable light on complex data identification and extraction techniques.”
Frank Knowles, Aston University
“This is an excellent and important book which, besides being of interest to corpus linguistics, covers matter relevant to terminology, terminography and linguistic data processing. The book is beautifully structured with a clear introduction which sets out the background against which the research was performed, who is being addressed with this book, what research is being undertaken and how it is to be done, and what the nine different chapters will contain. Overall I find this book well written, stimulating, and offering genuine new thoughts of the troublesome topic of automatic term extraction.”
Juan C. Sager, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:2
“This book is certainly a most useful contribution to the use of corpora for compilation of technical terms and their definitions.”
Paul R. Bowden in Natural Language Engineering 5(4)
In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the Four Fields of Anthropology - in Honor of Harold Crane Fleming
By John D. Bengtson
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages: 501
* Publication Date:2008-12-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027232520
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027232526
Compiled in honor and celebration of veteran anthropologist Harold C. Fleming, this book contains 23 articles by anthropologists (in the general sense) from the four main disciplines of prehistory: archaeology, biogenetics, paleoanthropology, and genetic (historical) linguistics. Because of Professor Fleming’s major focus on language — he founded the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory and the journal Mother Tongue — the content of the book is heavily tilted toward the study of human language, its origins, historical development, and taxonomy. Because of Fleming’s extensive field experience in Africa some of the articles deal with African topics.
This volume is intended to exemplify the principle, in the words of Fleming himself, that each of the four disciplines is enriched when it combines with any one of the other four. The authors are representative of the cutting edge of their respective fields, and this book is unusual in including contributions from a wide range of anthropological fields rather than concentrating in any one of them.
Table of contents
Foreword
ix–xii
Acknowledgments
xiii
Photographs
xv–xvii
Works of Harold Crane Fleming
xix–xxiv
Part I. African peoples
Geography, selected Afro-Asiatic families, and Y chromosome lineage variation: An exploration in linguistics and phylogeography
Shomarka Omar Keita
3–16
A dental anthropological hypothesis relating to the ethnogenesis, origin, and antiquity of the Afro-Asiatic language family: Peopling of the Eurafrican-South Asian triangle IV
Christy G. Turner II
17–23
African weeks
Daniel F. McCall
25–36
Part II. African languages – synchronic studies
Gender distinction and affirmative copula clauses in Zargulla
Azeb Amha
39–48
Riddling in Gidole
Paul Black
49–53
Part III. African languages – Classification and prehistory
Lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages
Václav Blažek
57–148
The primary branches of Cushitic: Seriating the diagnostic sound change rules
Christopher Ehret
149–160
Erosion in Chadic
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
161–167
On Kunama ukunkula 'elbow' and its proposed cognates in Nilo-Saharan languages
Philippe Bürgisser
169–187
The problem of pan-African roots
Roger M. Blench
189–209
Part IV. Languages of Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas
Some thoughts on the Proto-Indo-European cardinal numbers
Allan R. Bomhard
213–221
Some Old World experience of linguistic dating
Juha Janhunen
223–239
The languages of Northern Eurasia: Inference to the best explanation
John D. Bengtson
241–262
Slaying the Dragon across Eurasia
Michael Witzel
263–286
Trombetti: The forefather of Indo-Pacific
Jonathan Morris
287–307
Otomanguean loan words in Proto-Uto-Aztecan maize vocabulary?
Jane H. Hill
309–320
Historical interpretations of geographical distributions of Amerind subfamilies
Larry Lepionka
321–339
Part V. Human origins, Language origins, and Proto-Sapiens language
Current topics in human evolutionary genetics
Steven L. Zegura
343–357
A wild 50,000-year ride
Philip Lieberman
359–371
Can Paleolithic stone artifacts serve as evidence for prehistoric language?
Ofer Bar-Yosef
373–379
The origin of language: Symbiosism and symbiomism
George van Driem
381–400
Some speculations on the evolution of language, and the language of evolution
Paul Whitehouse
401–416
The age of Mama and Papa
Alain Matthey de l'Etang and Pierre J. Bancel
417–438
The millennial persistence of Indo-European and Eurasiatic pronouns and the origin of nominals
Pierre J. Bancel and Alain Matthey de l'Etang
439–464
General index
465–469
Index of languages and languages families
471–473
Index of scholars discussed
475–476
The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics)
By Martin J. Ball, Michael R. Perkins, Nicole Müller, Sara Howard
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:712
* Publication Date:2008-05-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405135220
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405135221
Product Description:
The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics is an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education.
* Brings together an international team of contributors to create an original and in-depth survey of this multi-faceted field
* Explores the field of clinical linguistics: the application of the principles and methods of linguistics to the study of language disability in all its forms
* Fills a gap in the existing literature, creating the first non-encyclopedic volume to explore this ever-expanding area of linguistic concern and research
* Includes a range of pathologies, with each section exploring multilingual and cross-linguistics aspects of the field, as well as analytical methods and assessment
* Describes how mainstream theories and descriptions of language have been influenced by clinical research.
Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism
By Li Wei, Melissa Moyer
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:424
* Publication Date:2007-12-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405126078
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405126076
Product Description:
Written by leading experts in the field, The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism focuses on the methodology of research in this rapidly growing field.
* Highlights the interdisciplinary nature of research on bilingualism and multilingualism and offers a practical guide to the specific procedures and tools for collecting and analyzing data
* Specifically addresses methodological issues, discussing research topics, core concepts and approaches, and the methods, techniques and tools available
* Provides project ideas and practical advice on conference presentations and publication
* Brings together a team of leading international experts in the field
* Links theory to method, and to data, answering the market need for a volume on bilingualism and multilingualism that deals with its methodology in a systematic and coherent way.
Summary: Excellent idea and execution
Rating: 5
Professors Li Wei and Melissa Moyer have edited a really outstanding collection for students aspiring to do their own research in bilingualism and multilingualism.They've assembled 22 chapters, which teach about methods of research like imaging technologies, recording audio and video, transcription, stats, corpora, critical discourse analysis... essentially all the major research methods that students need to learn about, but this is the first volume that brings together these disaparate topics for the student who's just venturing in. Includes project ideas and guides for "disseminating the research", too. Must-have for grad students working in these fields.
Theoretical Approaches to Universals (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)
By Artemis Alexiadou
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:320
* Publication Date:2002-07-31
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027227705
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027227706
Product Description:
This volume has its origin in the GLOW conference on Universals hosted in Berlin in March 1999. The papers are concerned both with formal as well as with substantive universals. All the contributions attempt to identify universal properties of the language faculty, as well as the source of cross-linguistic variation. They cover a wide range of empirical phenomena across languages such as locality, deletion, verb classes, XP-split constructions, Quantifier Raising, the EPP, and the Person Case Constraint etc. Some of the articles pay particular attention to the organization of the grammar, the type of operations that are effective, the role of features in determining variation, and primitive notions of phrase-structure (c-command, Agree etc.). Others show how structural differences capture semantic and morphological differences within a language and across languages, and how these are the ultimate source of linguistic variation. The book is of primary interest to researchers and students in syntactic theory, comparative syntax, and linguistic variation.
Second Language Acquisition: An Introductory Course
By Susan M. Gass, Larry Selinker
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:504
* Publication Date:2001-06
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805835288
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805835281
Product Description:
This book is a thorough revision of the highly successful text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an introductory course for undergraduate or graduate students. The research is updated throughout and there are new sections and chapters in this second edition as well. New chapters cover child language acquisition (first and second), Universal Grammar, and instructed language learning; new sections address issues, such as what data analysis doesn't show, replication of research findings, interlanguage transfer (multilingual acquisition and transfer), the aspect hypothesis, general nativism, connectionist approaches, and implicit/explicit knowledge. Major updates include nonlanguage influences and the lexicon.
The workbook, Second Language Learning Data Analysis, Second Edition, makes an ideal accompaniment to the text.
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Summary: excellent
Rating: 5
The book is very clearly written and informative. If you are looking for a book that covers Second language acquisition concepts, theories, and studies, I think this book would be a good resource(my opinion).
Summary: Excellent
Rating: 5
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Summary: an excellent book
Rating: 5
This is a nice book and it covers almost every aspect of SLA. Moreover, the languae wriiten in this book is very reader-friendly.
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Pattern Grammar: A Corpus-driven Approach to the Lexical Grammar of English (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
By Susan Hunston, Gill Francis
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:299
* Publication Date:1999-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027222738
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027222732
Understanding Media Semiotics
By Marcel Danesi
* Publisher:A Hodder Arnold Publication
* Number Of Pages:288
* Publication Date:2002-06-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0340808845
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780340808849
Product Description:
Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the field, avoiding jargon and explaining the issues step by step. The two basic features of the methods used are the historical study of media and their genre and the analysis of the meaning structures that such genres encode. Semiotic analysis is sometimes seen as complicated and difficult to understand; Marcel Danesi shows that on the contrary it can be readily understood and can greatly enrich students' understanding of media texts, from print media right through to the internet.
New Reflections on Grammaticalization (Typological Studies in Language)
By Ilse Wischer, Gabriele Diewald
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:459
* Publication Date:2002-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027229546
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027229540
Product Details
* ISBN: 1588111210
* ISBN-13: 9781588111210
* Format: Hardcover, 437pp
* Publisher: Benjamins, John Publishing Company
* Pub. Date: March 2002
* Series: Typological Studies in Language Series
* Paperback: 435 pages
* Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co (May 2002)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1588111229
* ISBN-13: 978-158811122
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
New reflections on grammaticalization and lexicalization1
More thoughts on degrammaticalization19
Grammaticalization within a theory of morphocentricity31
The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond45
Yesterday's affixes as today's clitics: A case-study in degrammaticalization67
On the role of context in grammaticalization83
A model for relevant types of contexts in grammaticalization103
Semantic constraints in the grammaticalization of locative constructions121
Really worthwhile or not really significant? A corpus-based approach to the delexicalization and grammaticalization of intensifiers in Modern English143
Crosslinguistic and diachronic remarks on the grammaticalization of aspect in Romance languages: Location and motion verbs163
The grammaticalization of deictic directionals into modulators of temporal distance181
Grammaticalization and category weakness201
Grammaticalization of 'give': African and Asian perspectives217
An invisible hand at the root of causation: The role of lexicalization in the grammaticalization of causatives237
Making sense of nominal classification systems: Noun classifiers and the grammaticalization variable259
Phono-syntactic conspiracy and beyond: Grammaticalization in spoken Beijing Mandarin277
Retention of abstract meaning: The essive case and grammaticalization of polyphony in Finnish293
The grammaticalization of honorific particles in Korean309
From logophoric pronoun to discourse particle: A case study of Finnish and Saami327
On the development of final though: A case of grammaticalization?345
Grammaticalization, subjectification and the origin of phatic markers363
The evolution of the German modal particle denn379
Putting grammaticalization in its place395
Grammaticalization as an analogue of hypothetico-deductive thinking413
Appendix423
General Index425
Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction
By Alastair Pennycook
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2001-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805837914
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805837919
Product Description:
This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other language-related domains. Covering both critical theory and domains of practice, the book is organized around five themes: the politics of knowledge, the politics of language, the politics of texts, the politics of pedagogy, and the politics of difference. It is an important text for anyone involved in applied linguistics, TESOL, language education, or other language-related fields.
Summary: who saves us from deconstruction?
Rating: 1
While his previous work revealed many interesting facts about ELT, Pennycook's post-modern ideology leads to disaster in "Critical Applied Linguistics". Indeed, the book's structure is so postmodern that there is hardly any frame left for reader to cling to. The only overarching structure is Pennycook's construction of the four schools of applied linguistics and this classification is extremely questionable. Often one scholar is taken as representing a whole school. In the case of Widdowson, his argument is misrepresented to suit the construction of "liberal ostricism".
But the basic fallacy of the book is Pennycook's attitude towards research.Pennycook argues that, as objectivity is not possible, there is no need to try to be objective. While it is certainly true that notions such as "objectivity" and "rationalism" are often biased, the answer is not to discharge these notions but to use them while being aware of their problematic nature.
Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
By Gordon Wells
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:390
* Publication Date:1999-08-28
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521631335
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521631334
Product Description:
For more than a quarter century, the polemics surrounding educational reform have centered on two points of view: those that favor a "progressive" child-centered form of education, and those that would prefer a return to a more structured, teacher-directed curriculum that emphasizes basic knowledge and skills. Vygotsky's social constructivist theory offers an alternative solution, placing stress on coconstruction of knowledge by more and less mature participants engaging in joint activity. This theory offers semiotic mediation as the primary means of obtaining knowledge, whereby the less mature participants can seek solutions to everyday problems by using resources existing in society. In addition to using illustrative examples from classroom studies, this book provides a comparative analysis of the theories and complementary developments in works by Vygotsky and the linguist M.A.K. Halliday. This unique volume will be of tremendous benefit to researchers in the fields of education, sociolinguistics, and psychology.
Summary: Langauge an overview
Rating: 4
This book is really so interesting, I could not put it down! I have shared the book with some of my students and they all agree that it is worth having your own copy. I also agree on many of the points that are stressed in the book. Cognitive & learning in doing are the key words here. I found this book very useful to aid in my lecturing.
Language and Communication: A Cross-Cultural Encyclopedia
By Michael Shaw Findlay
* Publisher:ABC-Clio Inc
* Number Of Pages:229
* Publication Date:1998-04-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0874369460
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780874369465
Editorial Reviews From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up-An accessible, intercultural examination of verbal and nonverbal communication. The alphabetically arranged entries are well documented and cross-referenced. The text itself, while a little dry, is highly informative and unfamiliar terms are defined in context. Captioned black-and-white photographs are sprinkled throughout; short bibliographies are supplied at the end of many of the entries. The author presents a cross-cultural perspective on theories of language and communication, making his work unique. The encyclopedia will also be helpful for readers needing concise definitions of terms in the field of communications.
J. B. MacDonald, Milner Library, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This latest installment in the "Encyclopedias of Human Experience" series includes 151 entries pertaining to the study of "language and communication from a cross-cultural perspective." Findlay, a cultural anthropologist, aims to avoid European ethnocentrism by showing how Western and non-Western traditions influence one another. Of the 126 cultures from five continents cited in this encyclopedia, only one is European: British Cockney-speakers. Throughout, Findlay focuses on "communicative competence," the cultural and social rules an individual must know in order to use a language. Each entry is written with great clarity and followed by bibliographic information and cross references. An especially helpful feature is the author's practice of defining technical terms within parentheses following the terms themselves; another is the excellent bibliography. Both the geographical range and the richness of the subject matter are to be applauded. While one might have wished for an explanation of how the cultures discussed were selected, this encyclopedia is a laudable accomplishment and belongs in high school, college, and public libraries.?Joan W. Gartland, Detroit P.L.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Developing Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Studies on Language Acquisition)
By Martin
* Publisher:Walter de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:380
* Publication Date:2008-02-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110196700
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110196702
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
The present volume is a collection of papers on Contrastive Pragmatics, involving research on interlanguage and cross-cultural perspectives with a focus on second language acquisition contexts. The subdiscipline of pragmatics is seen from a multilingual and multicultural perspective thus contributing to an emerging field of study, i.e. intercultural pragmatics which can be made fruitful to second language teaching/learning and contrastive analysis. The book is an important contribution to general linguistics, pragmatics, cross-cultural communication, second language acquisition, as well as minority issues in multilingual settings.
English Across Cultures: Cultures Across English : A Reader in Cross Cultural Communication
(Contributions to the Sociology of Language, 53)
By
* Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
* Number Of Pages: 492
* Publication Date: 1989-06
* Sales Rank: 2822905
* ISBN / ASIN: 0899255132
* EAN: 9780899255132
* Binding: Hardcover
* Manufacturer: Mouton De Gruyter
* Studio: Mouton De Gruyter
* Average Rating: 5
* Total Reviews: 1
Date: 2000-07-14 Rating: 5
Review:
a must for those interested in language and culture
The articles contained in this volume give a good overview about the main questions in the field of cross-cultural communication as well as language and culture. Particularly interesting is Platt's article about different communicative strategies in English-speaking Asian speech communities and Verschueren's paper about English as an object and medium of misunderstanding.
Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories: 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 September, 2005, ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
By Carol Peters, Fredric Gey, Julio Gonzalo, Henning Mueller, Gareh Jones, Michael Kluck, Bernardo Magnini, Maarten de Rijke
* Publisher: Springer
* Number Of Pages: 1013
* Publication Date: 2006-11-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 354045697X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540456971
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the 6th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2005, held in Vienna, Austria in September 2005.
The 111 revised papers presented together with an introduction were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on multilingual textual document retrieval, cross-language and more, monolingual experiments, domain-specific information retrieval, interactive cross-language information retrieval, multiple language question answering, cross-language retrieval in image collections, cross-language speech retrieval, multilingual Web track, cross-language geographical retrieval, and evaluation issues.
Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September ... Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
By Carol Peters, Valentin Jijkoun, Thomas Mandl, Henning Müller, Douglas W. Oard, Anselmo Pe馻s, Vivien Petras, Diana Santos
* Publisher: Springer
* Number Of Pages: 922
* Publication Date: 2008-10-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540857591
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540857594
* Binding: Hardcover
Product Description:
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary, September 2007.
The revised and extended papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. There are 115 contributions in total and an introduction. The seven distinct evaluation tracks in CLEF 2007, are designed to test the performance of a wide range of multilingual information access systems or system components. The papers are organized in topical sections on Multilingual Textual Document Retrieval (Ad Hoc), Domain-Specific Information Retrieval (Domain-Specific), Multiple Language Question Answering (QA@CLEF), cross-language retrieval in image collections (Image CLEF), cross-language speech retrieval (CL-SR), multilingual Web retrieval (WebCLEF), cross-language geographical retrieval (GeoCLEF), and CLEF in other evaluations.
Learning to Read Across Languages: Cross-Linguistic Relationships in First- and Second-Language Literacy Development
By Keiko Koda, Annette M. Zehler
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:241
* Publication Date:2007-10-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805856110
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805856118
* Binding:Hardcover
Product Description:
This book systematically examines how learning to read occurs in diverse languages, and in so doing, explores how literacy is learned in a second language by learners who have achieved at least basic reading skills in their first language. As a consequence of rapid globalization, such learners are a large and growing segment of the school population worldwide, and an increasing number of schools are challenged by learners from a wide variety of languages, and with distinct prior literacy experiences. To succeed academically these learners must develop second-language literacy skills, yet little is known about the ways in which they learn to read in their first languages, and even less about how the specific nature and level of their first-language literacy affects second-language reading development.
This volume provides detailed descriptions of five typologically diverse languages and their writing systems, and offers comparisons of learning-to-read experiences in these languages. Specifically, it addresses the requisite competencies in learning to read in each of the languages, ,how language and writing system properties affect the way children learn to read, and the extent and ways in which literacy learning experience in one language can play a role in subsequent reading development in another. Both common and distinct aspects of literacy learning experiences across languages are identified, thus establishing a basis for determining which skills are available for transfer in second-language reading development.
Learning to Read Across Languages is intended for researchers and advanced students in the areas of second-language learning, psycholinguistics, literacy, bilingualism, and cross-linguistic issues in language processing.