Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
By Paul R. Kroeger
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:382
* Publication Date:2005-06-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:052181622X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521816229
Product Description:
Covering both syntax (the structure of phrases and sentences) and morphology (the structure of words), this book equips students with the tools and methods needed to analyze grammatical patterns in any language. Students are shown how to use standard notational devices such as phrase structure trees and word-formation rules, as well as prose descriptions. Emphasis is placed on comparing the different grammatical systems of the world's languages, and students are encouraged to practice the analyses through a diverse range of problem sets and exercises.
Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)
By Melanie Metzger
* Publisher:Gallaudet University Press
* Number Of Pages:320
* Publication Date:2000-07-25
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1563680955
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781563680953
Functional Categories and Parametric Variation
By Jamal Ouhalla
* Publisher:Taylor & Francis, Inc.
* Publication Date:1991-10-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:020341201X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780203412015
Functional Categories and Parametric Variation is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the "flesh and blood of grammar." From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar involves functional categories. His main thesis is that most, if not all, of the information which determines the major grammatical processes and relations (movement, agreement, case, etc.) are associated with functional categories. Furthermore, these categories are also the major locus of information determining language variation. This has major implications for the overall structure of the language model. In identifying parameters with a set of lexical properties, this approach could be construed as an attempt to dispense with the notion of "parameter" altogether. Although this book explains for the first time the role of functionalcategories and language variation from within a coherent and explicit Chomskian framework, Functional Categories and Parametric Variation is comprehensible to non-Chomskian linguists. It is an original and important contribution to syntactic theory.
Functional Categories and Parametric Variation is an attempt to make sense of the idea that functional categories are the "flesh and blood of grammar." From within the context of the Principles and Parameters framework put forward by Chomsky and others, Jamal Ouhalla develops the argument that much of what we understand by the term grammar involves functional categories. His main thesis is that most, if not all, of the information which determines the major grammatical processes and relations (movement, agreement, case, etc.) are associated with functional categories. Furthermore, these categories are also the major locus of information determining language variation. This has major implications for the overall structure of the language model. In identifying parameters with a set of lexical properties, this approach could be construed as an attempt to dispense with the notion of "parameter" altogether. Although this book explains for the first time the role of functionalcategories and language variation from within a coherent and explicit Chomskian framework, Functional Categories and Parametric Variation is comprehensible to non-Chomskian linguists. It is an original and important contribution to syntactic theory.
English Teaching in the Secondary School 2/e: Linking Theory and Practice
By Mike Fleming
* Publisher:David Fulton Publish
* Number Of Pages:280
* Publication Date:2004-06-24
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:184312128X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781843121282
Product Description:
Presenting an informed view of current educational policy, this text encourages students of secondary English to take a creative and independent interpretation of government initiatives in order to achieve effective teaching practice.
Foundations of Speech Act Theory
By Savas L. Tsohatzidis
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:508
* Publication Date:1994-12-02
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415095247
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415095242
Product Description:
Foundations of Speech Act Theory investigates the role of speech act theory in the problem of meaning in linguistics and philosophy. Divided into three parts, the book demonstrates the relevance of speech acts to semantic theory, demonstrates the assumption that the analysis of speech act phenomena are at least in part an object of pragmatic investigation and that current pragmatic theories are not well equipped to deal with them satisfactorily.
Time to Speak: Cognitive and Neural Prerequisites for Time in Language (The Language Learning Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Cognitive Neuroscience Series)
By Peter Indefrey, Marianne Gullberg
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:300
* Publication Date:2008-12-03
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405185813
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405185813
Product Description:
Time is a fundamental aspect of human cognition and action. All languages have developed rich means to express various facets of time, such as bare time spans, their position on the time line, or their duration. This volume explores what we know about the neural and cognitive representations of time that speakers can draw on in language.
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Considers the role time plays as an essential element of human cognition and action, providing important insights to inform and extend current studies of time in language and in language acquisition
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Examines the main devices used to encode time in natural language, such as lexical elements, tense, and aspect, and draws on the latest psychological and neurobiological findings
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Addresses a range of issues, including: the relationship between temporal language, culture, and thought; the relationship between verb aspect and mental simulations of events; the development of temporal concepts; time perception; the storage and retrieval of temporal information in autobiographical memory; and neural correlates of tense processing and sequence planning
The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective (Human Cognitive Processing)
By Mengistu Amberber
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:284
* Publication Date:2007-11-14
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027223750
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027223753
Planning And Task Performance In A Second Language (Language Learning and Language Teaching)
By Rod Ellis
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:312
* Publication Date:2005-03-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:158811614X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588116147
Description
The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA ‘planning’ lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA.
Persuasion Across Genres: A Linguistic Approach (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Helena Halmari, Tuija Virtanen
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:257
* Publication Date:2005-04-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115887
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115881
Perspectives on Localization (American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph)
By Keiran J. Dunne
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:356
* Publication Date:2006-05-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027231893
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027231895
English Learners Left Behind: Standardized Testing as Language Policy (Bilingual education & Bilingualism)
By Kate Menken
* Publisher:Multilingual Matters
* Number Of Pages:216
* Publication Date:2008-01-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1853599980
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781853599989
Product Description:
This book explores how high-stakes tests mandated by No Child Left Behind have become de facto language policy in U.S. schools, detailing how testing has shaped curriculum and instruction, and the myriad ways that tests are now a defining force in the daily lives of English Language Learners and the educators who serve them.
Language in Use (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (Proceedings))
By Andrea, E Tyler, Mari, Takada, Yiyoung, Kim
* Publisher:Georgetown University Press
* Number Of Pages:240
* Publication Date:2005-03-23
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1589010442
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781589010444
Product Description:
Language in Use creatively brings together, for the first time, perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. The physical distance between nations and continents, and the boundaries between different theories and subfields within linguistics have made it difficult to recognize the possibilities of how research from each of these fields can challenge, inform, and enrich the others. This book aims to make those boundaries more transparent, and encourages more collaborative research. The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context and explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. Language in Use examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Using a diverse array of methodologies, it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning. Finally, it addresses issues of language use and creation of social identity. Unique in approach and wide-ranging in application, the contributions in this volume place emphasis on the analysis of actual discourse and experimental results that provide fresh insights into language learning and the nature of language, as well as how language shapes and reflects social identity - making it an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in cutting-edge linguistics.
Conversation Starter
New Stories for Conversation Learners with
listening, Grammar, Comprehension and Dictation
Hana English Academy
South-Korea
48 pages PDF
This book is designed for Students studying English at an Intermediate Level. The material in this book was specifically chosen to assist students in Advancing their English Conversation.
It Includes Lots of interesting stories and has exercises that include Grammar, Listening, Critical thinking and other fun exercises, geared to get students into discussions and lots of open talking.
Each section has some vocabulary which can be translated to a native language or used to make sentences with. There are Dictation exercises and a crossword puzzle based on the story after each story
Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora (TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 11)
By Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Ward Church
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:324
* Publication Date:1999-11-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0792360559
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780792360551
Product Description:
The 1990s have been an exciting time for researchers working with large collections of text. Text is available like never before. It was not all that long ago that researchers referred to the Brown Corpus as a `large' corpus. The Brown Corpus, a `mere' million words collected at Brown University in the 1960s, is about the same size as a dozen novels, the complete works of William Shakespeare, the Bible, a collegiate dictionary or a week of a newswire service. Today, one can easily surf the web and download millions of words in no time at all. What can we do with all this data? It is better to do something simple than nothing at all. Researchers in large corpora are using basically brute force methods to make progress on some of the hardest problems in natural language processing, including part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, parsing, machine translation, information retrieval, and discourse analysis. They are overcoming the so-called knowledge-acquisition bottleneck by processing vast quantities of data, more text than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, and estimating all sorts of `central and typical' facts that any speaker of the language would be expected to know, e.g. word frequencies, word associations and typical predicate--argument relations. Much of this work has been reported at a series of annual meetings, known as the Workshop on Very Large Corpora (WVLC) and related meetings sponsored by ACL/SIGDAT (Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on data). Subsequent meetings have been held in Asia (1994, 1997), America (1995, 1996, 1997) and Europe (1995, 1996). The papers in this book represent much of the best of the first three years of this workshop/conference as selected by a competitive review process.
Introducing Interpreting Studies
By F. Pochhacker
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:264
* Publication Date:2003-12-16
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415268877
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415268875
Product Description:
In today's multilingual, multicultural society, the need for interpreters has never been greater. This book introduces students, researchers and practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies.
Written by a leading researcher in the field, Introducing Interpreting Studies guides the reader through international conference, court and hospital interpreting, in both signed and spoken modalities. The book begins by exploring the ways in which the field evolved, looking at historical developments, concepts, influential models and methodological approaches. It then moves on to consider the main areas of research in the field, before reviewing the major trends of Interpreting Studies, reflecting on how the subject will develop in the future and offering direction to those undertaking research of their own.
Featuring chapter summaries, guides to the main points covered in the book and suggestions for further reading, this practical and user-friendly textbook is the definitive map of this important and growing field. The book can be used on its own, or to accompany The Interpreting Studies Reader (Routledge, 2002).
Biolinguistics: Exploring the Biology of Language (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics)
By Lyle Jenkins
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:280
* Publication Date:2000-03-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521652332
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521652339
Product Description:
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. It asks what language is from a biological point of view and what the relative contribution of nature and nurture is when a child learns his or her language. Finally it asks how human language evolved and considers the similarities and differences between human language and animal communication systems. Uniquely, it argues that genetic or biological endowment plays a more central role in the aquisition of language than instruction, learning, or cultural determinants.
Summary: Great Read
Rating: 5
Unfortunately, good books on Biolinguistics, as with those on any young field of study, are hard to come by. Luckily, this book does not disappoint.
It is well written and quite substantial. A must for anyone yearning to break into this young field of study.
Summary: Forget it
Rating: 2
If you want to find out about how great the ideas of Noam Chomsky are and how badly mistreated he has been by his critics, this is the book for you. If you really want to learn something about what is known about the biological basis (bases?) of language look somewhere else.
Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (ESL and Applied Linguistics Professional Series)
By A. Suresh Canagarajah
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2004-11-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805845925
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805845921
Product Description:
This volume inserts the place of the local in theorizing about language policies and practices in applied linguistics. While the effects of globalization around the world are being discussed in such diverse circles as corporations, law firms, and education, and while the spread of English has come to largely benefit those in positions of power, relatively little has been said about the impact of globalization at the local level, directly or indirectly. Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice is unique in focusing specifically on the outcomes of globalization in and among the communities affected by these changes. The authors make a case for why it is important for local social practices, communicative conventions, linguistic realities, and knowledge paradigms to actively inform language policies and practices for classrooms and communities in specific contexts, and to critically inform those pertaining to other communities.
Engaging with the dominant paradigms in the discipline of applied linguistics, the chapters include research relating to second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, literacy, and language planning. The majority of chapters are case studies of specific contexts and communities, focused on situations of language teaching. Beyond their local contexts these studies are important for initiating discussion of their relevance for other, different communities and contexts. Taken together, the chapters in this book approach the task of reclaiming and making space for the local by means of negotiating with the present and the global. They illuminate the paradox that the local contains complex values of diversity, multilingualism, and plurality that can help to reconceive the multilingual society and education for postmodern times.
Linguistics in a Colonial World: A Story of Language, Meaning, and Power
By Joseph Errington
* Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
* Number Of Pages:216
* Publication Date:2007-09-17
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1405105704
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781405105705
Product Description:
Drawing on both original texts and critical literature, Linguistics in a Colonial World surveys the methods, meanings, and uses of early linguistic projects around the world.
* Explores how early endeavours in linguistics were used to aid in overcoming practical and ideological difficulties of colonial rule
* Traces the uses and effects of colonial linguistic projects in the shaping of identities and communities that were under, or in opposition to, imperial regimes
* Examines enduring influences of colonial linguistics in contemporary thinking about language and cultural difference
* Brings new insight into post-colonial controversies including endangered languages and language rights in the globalized twenty-first century
The Language Teacher's Portfolio: A Guide for Professional Development (Contemporary Language Studies)
By Jacqueline Davis, Terry A. Osborn
* Publisher:Praeger Publishers
* Number Of Pages:232
* Publication Date:2003-10-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0897897498
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780897897495
Product Description:
The Language Teacher's Portfolio: A Guide for Professional Development is written for use by both preservice and inservice teachers. It links elements of educational practice and theory that students of education frequently find difficult to assimilate in language teaching. This text purposefully integrates material such as foundations of education, educational psychology, elements of planning and lesson preparation, reflective teaching, and classroom management issues into the reality of the language classroom. Thus, students of world language education are provided a holistic perspective of the challenges required to bring what may seem to be disjointed theoretical information into workable elements of classroom practice.
Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives
By Ronald Carter
* Publisher:Routledge
* Publication Date:2002-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0203070232
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780203070239