Beyond the Ivory Tower: Rethinking Translation Pedagogy (American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph, 12)
By Brian James Baer, Geoffrey Koby
* Publisher:John Benjamins Pub Co
* Number Of Pages:253
* Publication Date:2003-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:158811399X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588113993
Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change
By William Labov, Sharon Ash, Charles Boberg
* Publisher:Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:318
* Publication Date:2005-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110167468
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110167467
Product Description:
Recently hailed as a 2006 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title!
Print Volume Only
The Atlas of North American English provides the first overall view of the pronunciation and vowel systems of the dialects of the U.S. and Canada. The Atlas re-defines the regional dialects of American English on the basis of sound changes active in the 1990s and draws new boundaries reflecting those changes. It is based on a telephone survey of 762 local speakers, representing all the urbanized areas of North America. It has been developed by Bill Labov, one of the leading sociolinguists of the world, together with his colleagues Sharon Ash and Charles Boberg.
The book contains:
- 23 chapters that re-define the geographic boundaries of North American dialects and trace the influence of gender, age, education, and city size on the progress of sound change;
- findings that show a dramatic and increasing divergence of English in North America;
- 139 four color maps that illustrate the regional distribution of phonological and phonetic variables across the North American continent;
- 120 four color vowel charts of individual speakers.
The multimedia CD-ROM supplements the articles and maps by providing:
-a data base with measurements of more than 100,000 vowels and mean values for 439 speakers;
-the Plotnik program for mapping each of the individual vowel systems;
-extended sound samples of all North American dialects;
-multimedia applications to enhance classroom presentations.
Summary: Tracking American Accents and Pronunciation
Rating: 5
This is fascinating to see the regional dialects mapped for the United States. My husband studied linguistics, so we take an interest still even though he is retired. I've lived in Baltimore, after growing up in the midwest. I was amazed at the differences in speech. Baltimore residents say am-BU-lance, for example. Even after being away from the mid-atlantic for 15 years now, I still recognize a Virginia accent by the way they say "house." It's actually very similar to one area of Canada.
Summary: Worth waiting for: a magnificent achievement
Rating: 5
In the 1960s, William Labov went to New England to discover what had happened to English there since it had been surveyed in the 1930s. What he found opened his eyes to the speed at which linguistic change takes place, and the trip set him on a course that culminates in this Atlas, a survey of English in cities across the U. S. and Canada.
Beautifully produced in a boxed set (the other "volume" contains a CD-Rom), this is an expensive book but filled with beautiful color maps and displays, also in color, of the shifting vowels of English. The clearly-written narrative explains the mechanisms of sound change in progress and the regions of distinctive varieties.
Everyone interested in the pronunciation of English in America must consult this masterpiece.
Richard W. Bailey
Fred Newton Scott Professor of English
The University of Michigan
Up and Down the Cline: The Nature of Grammaticalization (Typological Studies in Language)
By Olga Fischer, Muriel Norde, Harry Perridon
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:404
* Publication Date:2004-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588115046
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588115041
Discourse and Silencing: Representation and the Language of Displacement (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 5)
By Lynn Janet Thiesmeyer
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:298
* Publication Date:2003-10
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:158811385X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588113856
Epistemic Stance in English Conversation: A Description of Its Interactional Functions, With a Focus on I Think (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
By Elise Karkkainen
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:200
* Publication Date:2003-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588114449
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588114440
Introduction
As Ford and Wagner (1996: 277) put it, “the study of recurrent linguistic patterns
has become, for numerous scholars, inseparable from the study of patterns
of social interaction.” This book explores the linguistic patterns formed
by expressions of epistemic modality in American English conversational discourse,
and the functions that such patterns may serve in social interaction.
It discusses an area of the English language that has been almost completely
neglected in the recent explosion of interaction-based studies in discourse–
functional linguistics. The area of epistemicity, a subcategory of modality,
forms a relatively coherent semantic domain, and comprises linguistic forms
that show the speakers’ commitment to the status of the information that they
are providing, most commonly their assessment of its reliability. Expression
of epistemic stance is highly pervasive in everyday spoken interaction; in fact
speakers show more concern for marking their epistemic stance than marking
attitudes or evaluations, or expressing personal feelings and emotions (cf. Biber
et al. 1999; Thompson 2002). However, epistemic modality does not constitute
a uniform syntactic category, as epistemic stance can be expressed in a variety
of syntactic forms in English. My study will present as problematic the study
of epistemicity as a strictly semantic phenomenon, because the way this category
is made use of in spoken discourse is above all socially and interactionally
motivated, and should be analyzed accordingly.
This book, therefore, has its origins in an overall approach to the study
of language which is generally called discourse–functional or functional linguistics.
The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe
By Tomasz Kamusella
* Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
* Number Of Pages: 1169
* Publication Date:2009-01-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0230550703
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780230550704
Review
'Kamusella has produced a magisterial study, ambitious in its aims but supported by original research as well as offering a synthesis of specialized contributions in a number of languages. The concepts it uses and the conclusions it reaches about
language and politics can be expected to provoke a more general discussion. It is likely to remain the standard work in its field for a generation.' - from the Foreword by Peter Burke, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge, UK
Product Description
Unlike anywhere else in the world, in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Central Europe national movements and politicians made language into the paramount instrument of politics, and of statehood and nationhood legitimization. In this order of things, each nation wishing to be recognized in the international arena must possess its own unique national language. When a nation is lucky enough to have gained its own nation-state, not only is the national language to become the new polity's sole official language, what is more, it cannot be shared in that function with any other state across the globe. During the Twentieth century, this specifically Central European 'deification' of language justified the destruction of entire states deemed as 'non-national', vast unprecedented border changes, and instances of ethnic cleansing involving tens of millions. The violent parallel break-ups of Yugoslavia and Serbo-Croatia bear witness to the continuing destructive potential of language politicization.
Language, Vision, and Music: Selected Papers from the 8th International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing, Galway, Ireland 1999 (Advances in Consciousness Research)
By International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Press, Paul Mc Kevitt, Sean O Nuallain, Conn Mulvihill
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:433
* Publication Date:2002-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588111091
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588111098
Product Description:
Language, vision and music: what common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of such entities as cerebral columnar automata? Answers are to be found in this international collection of work which recognises that one of the basic features of consciousness is its MultiModality, that there are possibilities to model this with contemporary technology, and that cross-cultural commonalities in the experience of, and creativity within, the various modalities are significant. With the advent of Intelligent MultiMedia this aspect of consciousness implementation in mind/brain acquires new significance. (Series B)
Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context (Studies in Bilingualism)
By Ludo Verhoeven, Sven Stromqvist
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:430
* Publication Date:2002-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588110982
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588110985
Contents
1. Development of narrative production in a multilingual context 1
Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Str鰉qvist
2. Temporality and language contact in narratives
by children bilingual in Norwegian and English 15
Elizabeth Lanza
3. Reference continuation in L2 narratives
of Turkish adolescents in Norway 51
Ingvild Nistov
4. Age-related and L2-related features
in bilingual narrative development in Sweden 87
舓e Viberg
5. Sociocultural aspects of bilingual narrative development
in Sweden 129
Sally Boyd and Kerstin Nauclér
6. The development of co-constructed narratives
by Turkish children in Germany 153
Carol W. Pfaff
7. Influence of L1 Turkish on L2 French narratives 189
Mehmet-Ali Akinci, Harriet Jisa and Sophie Kern
8. Development of temporal relations in narratives
by Turkish–Dutch bilingual children 209
Jeroen Aarssen
9. Temporality issues in Moroccan Arabic and Dutch 233
Petra Bos
10. Bilingual narrative development in Papiamento and Dutch 255
Ria Severing and Ludo Verhoeven
11. Linguistic features of Spanish-Hebrew children’s narratives 277
Judy Kupersmitt and Ruth A. Berman
12. Narrative development in Hebrew and English 319
Dorit Kaufman
13. Trilingual children narrating in Hebrew, English and Spanish 341
Anat Stavans
14. Logic and mind in Spanish–English children’s narratives 373
Barbara Zurer Pearson
15. From affect to language: development of evaluation in narratives
in spoken English and American Sign Language 399
Judy Reilly
16. Narrative development in multilingual contexts:
A cross-linguistic perspective 419
Ruth A. Berman
Index 429
Negotiation and power in dialogic interaction
Negotiation and power in dialogic interaction
by Edda Weigand, Marcelo Dascal
Papers presented at the International Conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation held June 13–16,
1999, Tel Aviv, Israel and Jerusalem, Palestine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Dialogue analysis. 2. Negotiation. 3. Power (Social sciences). 4. Social interaction. I. Weigand,
Edda. II. Dascal, Marcelo. III. International Conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation : 1999 : Tel
Aviv, Israel and Jerusalem). IV. Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistics science.
Series IV, Current issues in linguistics theory ; v. 214.
P95.455.N44 2001
401’41--dc21 2001025185
ISBN 90 272 3721 2 (Eur.) / 1 58811 047 0 (US)
Point of View and Grammar: Structural Patterns and Subjectivity in American English Conversation (Studies in Discourse and Grammar)
By Joanne Scheibman
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:187
* Publication Date:2002-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588112322
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588112323
Product Description:
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of structural and functional properties of English conversational utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject, tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence, or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in discourse.
Summary: Abstract
Rating: 5
This book proposes that subjective expression shapes grammatical and
lexical patterning in American English conversation. Analyses of
structural and functional properties of English conversational
utterances indicate that the most frequent combinations of subject,
tense, and verb type are those that are used by speakers to
personalize their contributions, not to present unmediated
descriptions of the world. These findings are informed by current
research and practices in linguistics which argue that the emergence,
or conventionalization, of linguistic structure is related to the
frequency with which speakers use expressions in discourse. The use of
conversational data in grammatical analysis illustrates the local and
contingent nature of grammar in use and also raises theoretical
questions concerning the coherence of linguistic categories, the
viability of maintaining a distinction between semantic and pragmatic
meaning in analytical practice, and the structural and social
interplay of speaker point of view and participant interaction in
discourse.
Prolific Domains: On the Anti-Locality of Movement Dependencies (Linguistik Aktuell / Linguistics Today)
By Kleanthes K. Grohmann
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:343
* Publication Date:2003-12
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588114414
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588114419
Standard conceptions of Locality aim to establish that a dependency between two positions may not span too long a distance. This book explores the opposite conception, Anti-Locality: Don't move too close. The model of clause structure, syntactic computation, and locality concerns Kleanthes Grohmann develops makes crucial use of derivational sub-domains, Prolific Domains, each encapsulating particular context information (thematic, agreement, discourse). The Anti-Locality Hypothesis is the attempt to exclude anti-local movement from the grammar by banning movement within a Prolific Domain, a Bare Output Condition. The flexible application of the operation Spell Out, coupled with an innovative view on grammatical formatives, leads to a natural caveat: Copy Spell Out. Grohmann explores a theory of Anti-Locality relevant to all three Prolific Domains in the clausal layer as well as the nominal layer, and offers a unified account of Standard and Anti-Locality regarding clause-internal movement and operations across clause boundaries, revisiting successive cyclicity.
Reported Discourse: A Meeting Ground for Different Linguistic Domains (Typological Studies in Language)
By Tom Guldemann, Manfred Von Roncador, Manfred Von Roncador, Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Sprachwissenschaft Jahrestagung jahrestagung
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:423
* Publication Date:2002-08
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588112276
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588112279
Contents
Preface vii
Tom Güldemann and Manfred von Roncador
Abbreviations and symbols x
Part I. Categories of reported discourse and their use
1. Speech and thought representation in the Kartvelian
(South Caucasian) languages 3
Winfried Boeder
2. Self-quotation in German: Reporting on past decisions 49
Andrea Golato
3. Direct and indirect speech in Cerma narrative 71
Ivan Lowe and Ruth Hurlimann
4. Direct and indirect discourse in Tamil 91
Sanford B. Steever
5. The acceptance of ‘free indirect discourse’:
A change in the representation of thought in Japanese 109
Yasushi Suzuki
6. Direct, indirect and other discourse in Bengali newspapers 121
Wim van der Wurff
Part II. Tense-aspect and evidentiality
7. Evidentiality and reported speech in Romance languages 143
Gerda Ha遧er
8. Discourse perspectives on tense choice in spoken-English
reporting discourse 173
Tomoko I. Sakita
Part III. Logophoricity
9. The logophoric hierarchy and variation in Dogon 201
Christopher Culy
10. Logophoric marking in East Asian languages 211
Yan Huang
Part IV. Form and history of quotative constructions
11. The grammaticalization of ‘say’ and ‘do’:
An areal phenomenon in East Africa 227
David Cohen, Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and Martine Vanhove
12. When ‘say’ is not say: The functional versatility of the Bantu
quotative marker ti with special reference to Shona 253
Tom Güldemann
13. Reported speech in Egyptian: Forms, types and history 289
Frank Kammerzell and Carsten Peust
14. ‘Report’ constructions in Kambera (Austronesian) 323
Marian A.F. Klamer
15. All the same? The emergence of complementizers in Bislama 341
Miriam Meyerhoff
Part V. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse
16. A comprehensive bibliography of reported discourse 363
Tom Güldemann, Manfred von Roncador and Wim van der Wurff
Index of names 417
Index of languages and language groups 422
The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation (Typological Studies in Language)
By Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice Symposium on Linguistics 2000
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:549
* Publication Date:2002-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1588111199
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781588111197
The grammar of causation is one of the areas that have received intensive scrutiny
over the past 30 years. For one thing, no grammatical description can be complete
without a discussion of causative constructions, because every human language
seems to possess a means of expressing the notion of causation, and this
ubiquity, in turn, indicates the fundamental nature of this cognitive category. Such
a basic category in human conceptualization is an ideal field of investigation for
cross-linguistic comparison leading to the study of language universals and crosslinguistic
variation. Grammarians have an intuitive understanding of what causation
means, as causative expressions, encountered in one language after another,
translate rather easily unlike such phenomena as ‘topic/focus’ constructions a là
Philippine languages, the adversative passive in Japanese, and ethical datives inGerman
or French. Despite these advantages and despite the intensive effort during the
last three decades, a great deal about the grammar of causation still remains a mystery.
The following chapters contain the most up-to-date efforts to unravel some
of themysteries.
Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory)
By Claire L. Bowern, Harold Koch
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
* Number Of Pages:420
* Publication Date:2004-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027247617
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027247612
description:
This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung ‘Pama-Nyungan’ language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method.
Acknowledgements
vii
Map
viii
Contributor’s addresses
ix
Foreword
Lyle Campbell
xi
Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics
Claire Bowern and Harold Koch
1
A methodological history of Australian linguistic classification
Harold Koch
17
Pama-Nyungan as a genetic entity
Luisa Miceli
61
The coherence and distinctiveness of the Pama-Nyungan language family within the Australian linguistic phylum
Geoffrey O’Grady and Kenneth L. Hale
69
Pama-Nyungan: phonological reconstruction and status as a phylogenetic group
Barry Alpher
93
The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages
Harold Koch
127
The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup
Patrick McConvell and Mary Laughren
151
Thura-Yura as a subgroup
Jane Simpson and Luise Hercus
179
The Yarli languages
Luise Hercus and Peter Austin
207
Evolution of the verb conjugations in the Ngarna languages
Gavan Breen
223
The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula
Paul Black
241
Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages
Claire Bowern
269
Revisiting Proto-Mirndi
Ian Green and Rachel Nordlinger
291
Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan
Brett Baker
313
Combined references
341
Language index
365
Subject index
373
Appendices
379
Construction Grammar in a Cross-language Perspective (Constructional Approaches to Language)
By
* Publisher:
* Number Of Pages:205
* Publication Date:
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027218226
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027218223
description:
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.
The 'Thumbnail sketch' by Fried & 謘tman is the only extensive introduction published so far to Fillmorean Construction Grammar.
Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar
Jan-Ola 謘tman and Mirjam Fried
1–10
Construction Grammar: A thumbnail sketch
Mirjam Fried and Jan-Ola 謘tman
11–86
Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking
Mirjam Fried
87–119
Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types: The case of Japanese modal conditional constructions
Seiko Fujii
121–155
On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions: The case of French right-detached comme-N
Knud Lambrecht
157–199
Index
201–208
Functional Structure in DP and IP: The Cartography of Syntactic Structures Volume 1 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
By Guglielmo Cinque
* Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages:248
* Publication Date:2002-10-31
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0195148800
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780195148800
Product Description:
This volume presents the first results of a long-term research project, funded by the Italian government, which aims at mapping out the fine functional structure of sentences, nominal phrases, and other major phrases making up sentences. In particular, it examines the functional structure of DPs (determiner phrases) and IPs (inflection phrases).
Language Curriculum Design (Esl & Applied Linguistics Professional)
By Paul Nation, Victoria Univer John Macalister
* Publisher:Routledge
* Number Of Pages:224
* Publication Date:2009-08-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0415806062
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780415806060
Product Description:
Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied in a wide range of particular circumstances. The process comes to life through plentiful examples of actual applications of the steps. Each chapter includes:
Examples from the authors’ experience and from published research
Tasks that encourage readers to relate the steps to their own experience
Case studies and suggestions for further reading that put readers in touch with others’ experience.
Curriculum, or course, design is largely a how-to-do-it activity that involves the integration of knowledge from many of the areas in the field of Applied Linguistics, such as language acquisition research, teaching methodology, assessment, language description, and materials production. Combining sound research/theory with state-of-the-art practice, Language Curriculum Design is widely applicable for ESL/EFL language education courses around the world.
Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure (Cognitive Theory of Language and Culture Series)
By Adele E. Goldberg
* Publisher:University Of Chicago Press
* Number Of Pages:271
* Publication Date:1995-03-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0226300862
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780226300863
Product Description:
Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E. Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. She demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning--that the constructions themselves carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence.
Goldberg provides a comprehensive account of the relation between verbs and constructions, offering ways to relate verb and constructional meaning, and to capture relations among constructions and generalizations over constructions. Prototypes, frame semantics, and metaphor are shown to play crucial roles. In addition, Goldberg presents specific analyses of several constructions, including the ditransitive and the resultative constructions, revealing systematic semantic generalizations.
Through a comparison with other current approaches to argument structure phenomena, this book narrows the gap between generative and cognitive theories of language.
Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains and Gaps (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics)
By Geert Br么ne
* Publisher:Mouton de Gruyter
* Number Of Pages:560
* Publication Date:2009-04-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:3110205602
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9783110205602
Product Description:
This volume offers a state-of-the-art collection of studies in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of cognitive poetics. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts. By bringing together key players and critics in a setting of interdisciplinary dialogue, this volume captures the goals, gains and gaps of this emerging field.
About this Title
For more than two decades now, cognitive science has been making overtures to literature and literary studies. Only recently, however, cognitive linguistics and poetics seem to be moving towards a more serious and reciprocal type of interdisciplinarity. In coupling cognitive linguistics and poetics, cognitive poeticians aim to offer cognitive readings of literary texts and formulate specific hypotheses concerning the relationship between aesthetic meaning effects and patterns in the cognitive construal and processing of literary texts. One of the basic assumptions of the endeavour is that some of the key topics in poetics (such as the construction of text worlds, characterization, narrative perspective, distancing discourse, etc.) may be fruitfully approached by applying cognitive linguistic concepts and insights (such as embodied cognition, metaphor, mental spaces, iconicity, construction grammar, figure/ground alignment, etc.), in an attempt to support, enrich or adjust ‘traditional’ poetic analysis. Conversely, the tradition of poetics may support, frame or call into question insights form cognitive linguistics.
In order to capture the goals, gains and gaps of this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of research, this volume brings together some of the key players and critics of cognitive poetics. The eleven chapters are grouped into four major sections, each dealing with central concerns of the field: (i) the cognitive mechanisms, discursive means and mental products related to narrativity (Semino, Herman, Culpeper); (ii) the different incarnations of the concept of figure in cognitive poetics (Freeman, Steen, Tsur); (iii) the procedures that are meant to express or create discursive attitudes, like humour, irony or distance in general (Antonopoulou and Nikiforidou, Dancygier and Vandelanotte, Giora et al.); and (iv) a critical assessment of the current state of affairs in cognitive poetics, and more specifically the incorporation of insights from cognitive linguistics as only one of the contributing fields in the interdisciplinary conglomerate of cognitive science (Louwerse and Van Peer, Sternberg). The ensuing dialogue between cognitive and literary partners, as well as between advocates and opponents, is promoted through the use of short response articles included after ten chapters of the volume.
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th Edition)
By H. Douglas Brown
* Publisher:Pearson ESL
* Number Of Pages:410
* Publication Date:2006-06-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0131991280
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780131991286
Product Description:
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Fifth Edition, by H. Douglas Brown, is the classic second language acquisition text used by teacher education programs worldwide. Principles introduces key concepts through definitions of terms, thought-provoking questions, charts, and spiraling. New "Classroom Connections" encourage students to consider the implications of research for classroom pedagogy. An up-to-date bibliography and new glossary provide quick access to important works and key terminology in the field. The fifth edition takes a comprehensive look at foundations of language teaching through discussions of the latest research in the field, including: *Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories *Thorndike's law of effect *error treatment, noticing, recasts *intercultural communication *language policy and politics *corpus linguistics *"hot topics" in SLA *connectionism and emergentism *flow theory, willingness to communicate *strategies-based instruction *contrastive rhetoric *attribution theory, self-efficacy *output hypothesis Also by H.Douglas Brown: Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English
Summary: The New 5th Edition
Rating: 4
Given the heavy-duty subject matter, Brown's "Principles of Language Learning and Teaching" is probably about as good as it gets. It's definitely not a book of general interest, but rather a compendium of the various theories that have influenced and shaped the teaching of second languages in the 20th century. It's slow going, but after a one semester course during which I plowed through and digested the material, I've gained a general understanding of the theory behind the practice. Babyboomers like me who had an unhappy second language experience in school will smile while reading Brown's explanations of the theories of the 50's, 60's and 70's, and why so many of us became discouraged. As a teacher of ESL now, I can only say things have improved a lot. In this new edition, Brown has included a section in the last chapter on current hot topics in the field. But again, this is for professionals or students, not general readers.
Summary: scholarly and thorough
Rating: 5
H Douglas Brown, no stranger to the TESOL community, offers scholarly information about issues in teaching English as Second Language. Scholarly language interspersed with plain English from a real person.
Summary: A great theoretical review.
Rating: 5
I bought this book to help me review theories of language acquisition. It is well-written and an easier read than the textbook I bought for my TESL methodology course. I recommend this book to anyone reviewing for a TESL comprehensive exam. It is not the book for you if you are looking for practical teaching tips.
Summary: if its complex and difficult then why write a book
Rating: 1
this is the best, i search for learning languages and i get only three books. if learning languages is a difficult task then why am i wasting my time reading reviews. no duh, if i have to learning the basics but where's the magic that 'hoshi' can understand the structure of languages she's never heard of before. ensign hoshi from star trek: enterprise.
i guess she's a genius and learning multiple languages quickly is not for the ordinary person. no way i'm paying $56 bucks for something i already know.
Summary: boring and verbose
Rating: 1
This book makes me wonder what other books are written on this subject that my professor could have chosen. It is a dreary and obfuscating treatise on what should be an interesting subject.