Conversation Analysis: Comparative Perspectives (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
By Jack Sidnell
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:462
* Publication Date:2009-10-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521883717
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521883719
Product Description:
'Conversation analysis' is an approach to the study of social interaction that focuses on practices of speaking that recur across a range of contexts and settings. The early studies in this tradition were based on the analysis of English conversation. More recently, however, conversation analysts have begun to study talk in a broader range of communities around the world. Through detailed analyses of recorded conversations, this book examines differences and similarities across a wide range of languages including Finnish, Japanese, Tzeltal Mayan, Russian, and Mandarin. Bringing together interrelated methodological and analytic contributions, it explores topics such as the role of gaze in question-and-answer sequences, the organization of repair, and the design of responses to assessments. The emerging comparative perspective demonstrates how the structure of talk is inflected by the local circumstances within which it operates.
Linking: The Geometry of Argument Structure (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)
By Janet H. Randall
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:328
* Publication Date:2009-11-11
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1402083076
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781402083075
Product Description:
Linking – how semantic arguments map to the syntax – is one of the challenges for theories of the syntax-semantics interface. In this new approach, Janet Randall explores the hypothesis that the positions of syntactic arguments are strictly determined by lexical argument geometry. Yielding novel – if sometimes surprising – conclusions, her Isomorphic Linking Hypothesis establishes the linking patterns of a wide range of verbs and, with those results, shows how to reason "backwards" from how a given verb's arguments link to what its lexical representation must be. Along the way, the investigation takes on thorny lexical issues – reformulating the Theta Criterion, revisiting the multiple lexical-entry debate, eliminating "indirect" arguments and redefining unaccusativity. It offers new insights into how arguments are represented, assembles a host of argument/adjunct diagnostics, and re-examines the relation between arguments and predicates. The result of this incisive study is a simple and consistent account of linking, integrated with a radical rethinking of the nature of arguments and argument structure.
Philosophy of Syntax: Foundational Topics (Trends in Logic)
By Mieszko Talasiewicz
* Publisher:Springer
* Number Of Pages:189
* Publication Date:2010-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9048132878
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789048132874
Product Description:
This book is intended as a preliminary work for a uniform description of language, especially overall organization and architecture of grammar and its connection with semantics. An array of general logical intuitions, concerning the initial requirements for building and interpreting compound expressions, stemming from Frege, Husserl and Ajdukiewicz, is spelled out to form a general framework, allowing for critical evaluation of today’s leading paradigms, such as Generative Grammar, Montague Grammar or Type-Logical Grammar.
The main message of the book is that categorial grammar is not only one of the competing theories of syntax, but – according to some general features – is the most plausible framework for logical syntax of natural language. With profound motivation the book proposes an original treatment of quantification and formulates insightful general principles of syntactic analysis.
Children's Reading Comprehension and Assessment (Center for Improvement of Early Reading)
By
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum
* Number Of Pages:376
* Publication Date:2005-02
* Sales Rank:2018363
* ISBN / ASIN:0805846557
* EAN:9780805846553
* Binding:Hardcover
Book Description:
Originating in a recent CIERA conference held at the University of Michigan, this book brings together the nation's most distinguished researchers to examine how readers understand text and how comprehension is assessed. The first part provides both national and historical contexts for the study of reading comprehension. The second part examines how vocabulary, motivation, and expertise influence comprehension, and it includes analyses of the developmental course and correlates of comprehension. Chapters in the third part consider how schools focus on comprehension for instruction and assessment. The fourth part includes chapters on large-scale assessment that analyze how test formats and psychometric characteristics influence measures of reading comprehension. At the end of each part is a commentary--written by an expert--that reviews the chapters, critiques the main points, and synthesizes critical issues.
Key features of this outstanding new book include:
*Integration of Research and Practice--provides a bridge between conceptual issues studied by researchers concerned with reading comprehension theories and practical issues addressed by educators concerned with classroom instruction and assessment.
*Comprehension Focus--provides a thorough history and rigorous research-based analyses of reading comprehension.
*Assessment Focus--provides innovative approaches to comprehension assessment that include the influences of vocabulary, decoding, and motivation.
*Synthetic Commentaries--provides periodic summaries that analyze and synthesize research, practices, and issues discussed in each part.
*Expertise--contributing authors and commentators are highly respected authorities on reading comprehension (see table of contents).
This text is appropriate for educational and psychological researchers, reading educators, and graduate students in education and psychology. It is part of the CIERA series, which includes the following volumes:
Taylor and Pearson: Teaching Reading: Effective Schools, Accomplished Teachers (2002)
Van Kleeck, Stahl, and Bauer: On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers (2003)
Hoffman and Schallert: The Texts in Elementary Classrooms (2005)
Words without Meaning (Contemporary Philosophical Monographs)
ISBN: 0262072424
Author: Christopher Gauker
Publisher: The MIT Press
Edition: (January 24, 2003)
Hardcover: 312 pages
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Summary:
According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception of language, arguing that it rests on an untenable conception of mental representation and yields a wrong account of the norms of discourse.
Gauker's alternative starts with the observation that conversations have goals and that the best way to achieve the goal of a conversation depends on the circumstances under which the conversation takes place. These goals and circumstances determine a context of utterance quite apart from the attitudes of the interlocutors. The fundamental norms of discourse are formulated in terms of the conditions under which sentences are assertible in such contexts.
Words without Meaning contains original solutions to a wide array of outstanding problems in the philosophy of language, including the logic of quantification, the logic of conditionals, the semantic paradoxes, the nature of presupposition and implicature, and the nature and attribution of beliefs.
Perfectly Said: when words become art
By Brian Douthit
* Publisher:PublishAmerica
* Number Of Pages:86
* Publication Date:2004-09-13
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1413740243
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781413740240
Product Description:
Brian Douthit's poetry has been compared to Wordsworth, Frost, Shelley, Byron and many others. In terms of art, it has been described as a "word-Picasso" or "sublime Monet." Readers often say they feel serene or even breathless after reading his pieces. Whatever the reaction, all seem to agree his poetry is beautiful and eloquent, and in a class of its own. You too may experience the addictive compulsion to read them over and over again and be lifted to a new dimension by his extraordinary grasp of language and by the amazing talent and artistry contained within these pages.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
Contents
Poetry
Perfectly Said
Golden Ambrosia
A Kiss Remembered
January’s Hands
Exquisite Anguish
The Tender Leaves Of Pleasure
Morning Vision
The Young Maiden
I Fathom Infinity
Beginnings
The Magi’s Reply
Convergence
A Delicate Kiss
An Enchanting Lover
She Returns
Immersed With Beauty
White Lace Limbo
Peking Breezes
Mystical Dream
Your Name
A Saturday In Chartres
Sanctuary
Biography Of A Rumor
Endless Night
The Nature Of It All
Pleasurable Frustration
Romance Unplanned
Another World
My Lover
Answers To Everlasting Strands
Gentle Torrent
Holy Evolution
Polly’s High Firefly Season
Here, There, Everywhere
Perception
I Long For Your Shimmer
Ashes Of Angels
Radiant Beauty
The Religion Of Romance
Shout Past The Horizon
Beauty’s Merit
Midnight Ponderings
The Beautiful Artist
Weave The Rain
Freedom Song
Memory’s Gracious Glance
Silent Confession
A Sigh In Abiding Passion
Heed My Human Wish
An Afternoon With Rain
The Meaning Of Life
Summary: wow
Rating: 5
What great poetry in this book. I absolutely love it! A definate must have for the poetry lover...
Summary: Love in Charming Language
Rating: 5
One of the characteristic's of Brian's voice is that it is coupled with humility as it expresses delicate love. I have a sense while reading his poetry that each line is eloquently penned as gently as one would carry a precious item home to a loved one after a long journey.
There is a lack of self consciousness within the pages of this love, a lack of ego centricism, as one glimpses into the most private elements of true love, and is drawn in with an old fashioned style of charm, so that it is moving to the soul.
Brian's devotion to poetry as an art form is also evident in the style he has carefully chosen to lay the words on the page. Each page offers a new breath of love. Without any sense of cunning or excessiveness, he moves us into a Renaissance of beauty and life interwoven with grace and innocence.
Clearly his poems are made from a large knowing, a greater sense of wisdom, and human relations, as he translates not only his heart, but tenderly of those he loves and might love.
One cannot help to go back again and again into the full spectrum of his emotions and style of expressing love here on earth. That in fact love is alive and not dead. It is not the end of love, not the end of the world, because as one reads Brian's poetry one discovers it is just the beginning of a revival in love.
Summary: A keeper
Rating: 4
One of those little jewels to read at any time. Each poem leaves you with something to think about and ponder. Beautifully done.
Summary: "All love expressed is divine"
Rating: 5
Each piece cradled within Brian Douthit's "Perfectly Said: when word becomes art" seems to be penned by a poet at peace in his place. All darkness is bypassed by the light of the love in his life. The torment alluded to in "Pleasurable Frustration" is delightfully desirous...
You delve into me deeply
Discovering facets I didn't fathom
Making me yearn for innocent folly
And wish for blasphemous rhythm
~pg. 48
It is the edge drawn in delicate hues that leads the reader to believe that the man gives in to the bite of passion despite the all-consuming love for his mate, and that nibble leads way to her melting into "them".
The lines:
She is the enigma
I strain to explain
yet in her eyes
I fathom infinity
~pg. 22
drawing "I Fathom Infinity" to a close, prove case in point. The unexplainable is given definition within the knowing that she is what makes him what he needs to be forever. As in "Perfectly Said":
She is light and tender grace
and the world is joy around me..
~pg. 11
there is no better way to explain all that leaves him at a loss for words in her presence. Their forays into a sensual place are couched in natural metaphors that bring an appreciation for God's creations even as your breath catches and you chew your nail to the quick.
To balance his equator in rhyme and time, Brian forays into deep questions with a grand attempt to answer them as he ponders "Answers to Everlasting Strands". Yet his sadly sweet dedication to Polly Klaas in "Polly's High Firefly Season" leaves us feeling her loss with each winking glimpse of a firefly dance. These brief and subtle glimpses into another shade of Brian's heartening character, in my humble opinion, are summed up in the last four lines of this book..
Meaning is found in many different places
Each of us different in how we choose to live
It could be a church, garden, or newborn faces
The real meaning, is how we love and give
~pg.86
A healthy respect for the reader's sensibilities glosses over any intrusion of the world's perception of the art of poetry. An exquisitely written book, offered in such a beguiling form is well worth the read and the time spent to read his words over and over again. A gem to be cherished and not left to gather dust on a far reaching shelf but to be thumbed, tic'd, dog-eared and worn to a condition of scotch- taped glory. This poet, as a person and a writer, is proof positive that sometimes God breaks the mold when he creates a "Master" without bowing to the stereotype of a man.
It has been my pleasure to make the acquaintance of Brian Douthit and to be included in his "Eyes of the Poet" project. Sharing the vision of contributing to the survival of poetry, my only hope is that we, as part of the Poetry in Motion movement, are successful in resurrecting poetry as a renewed art form.
~Diane Anjoue,
Author of Collection de Jolie-Laide, wanting to be lost within...
(...)
Summary: Perfectly Said by Brian Douthit Why aren't allmen this lovin
Rating: 5
Plain and simple this book is amazing. I do not need to try and use a bunch of poetic words to emphasize the love this book leaves you longing for. The book places you in a different world in every poem. The writing flows well and the feelings are very intense. I anxiously wait for Mr. Douthits' next publication
Language Test Construction and Evaluation (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
By J. Charles Alderson, Caroline Clapham, Dianne Wall
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:324
* Publication Date:1995-05-26
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521478294
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521478298
Product Description:
Language Test Construction and Evaluation describes the process of language test construction clearly and comprehensively. Each chapter deals with one stage of the test construction process; from drafting initial test specifications, to reporting test scores, test validation and washback. In addition, current practice in the examining of English as a Foreign Language by different examining boards is reviewed in order to compare testing principles with present test practice. The focus of the book is on the practical: it does not assume a statistical background but explains and demystifies the procedures and concepts that are relevant to the construction and evaluation of language tests. Language Test Construction and Evaluation will provide an invaluable reference for anyone who wishes to understand how language tests are, and should be, constructed.
Summary: A Good Starter on the Theory
Rating: 5
After reading Language Testing (Oxford Introduction to Language Series), "Language Test Construction" formed a good further step into the theory that underlies various tests and considerations that go into construction.
As mentioned by a previous reviewer, this book is really not written for teachers who have to administer the tests themselves, (though some may be interested in having some knowledge of it anyway). It is more aimed at those who will be involved in the construction, testing and modifying of the tests themselves.
The book covers a lot of territory, though it does not get into overwhelming amounts of mind-boggling information. It draws some definite lines and sticks to brief overviews. However, should one wish to have some more boggling of the mind, the authors make suggestions aplenty about where to get it.
The topics that are covered in book include such things as exam testing, (reliability, validity and so on), statistical analysis of tests and results, the monitoring of test administrators, develop specfications and so on. While not overwhelming, some parts require some concentration, (well, they did with me), and may not really be all that light on the brain.
All things considered, I found this book a valuable read and an interesting insight into the murky world of language testing. It is well-organised, well-explained and realistic in what it attempts to achieve. I think it is a valuable resource for people wanting to get into the field of language testing, or wish to take their own testing to the next level.
Summary: Testing on a Grand Scale
Rating: 4
This book isn't for the teacher who'd like to make a weekly quiz for their class. This is intended for those who are interested in large scale institutional testing, like TOEFL. It doesn't give much information on writing test items, but covers how to write testing guidelines in great detail. It also covers how to evaluate items and tests, and it goes into detail about reliability and validity without getting to deep into statistics. In general, I found the style of this book to be very easy to read since it is written with test administrators in mind rather than test writting techies. If you're interested in the process of making large scale institutional tests, then this is a good book, but if you're looking for a book to help you write test items, then you should look elsewhere.
Northern English: A Social and Cultural History
By Katie Wales
* Publisher: Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages: 276
* Publication Date: 2006-07-31
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521861071
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521861076
* Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
English as spoken in the North of England has a rich social and cultural history; however it has often been neglected by historical linguists, whose research has focused largely on the development of 'Standard English'. In this groundbreaking, alternative account of the history of English, Northern English takes centre stage for the first time. Emphasizing its richness and variety, the book places Northern speech and culture in the context of identity, iconography, mental maps, boundaries and marginalization. It re-assesses the role of Northern English in the development of Modern Standard English, draws some pioneering conclusions about the future of Northern English, and considers the origins of the many images and stereotypes surrounding Northerners and their speech. Numerous maps, and a useful index of Northern English words and pronunciations, are included. Innovative and original, Northern English will be welcomed by all those interested in the history and regional diversity of English.
The Language and Reality of Time
By Thomas Sattig
* Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
* Number Of Pages: 240
* Publication Date: 2006-06-19
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0199279527
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780199279524
* Binding: Hardcover
Book Description:
Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linking our ordinary conception of time with the physicist's conception, and linking questions about time addressed in metaphysics with questions addressed in the philosophy of language. Within this framework, Sattig explores the temporal dimension of the material world in relation to the temporal dimension of our ordinary discourse about the world. The discussion is centred around the dispute between three-dimensionalists and four-dimensionalists about whether the temporal profile of ordinary objects mirrors their spatial profile. Are ordinary objects extended in time in the same way in which they are extended in space? Do they have temporal as well as spatial parts? Four-dimensionalists say 'yes', three-dimensionalists say 'no'. Sattig develops an original three-dimensionalist picture of the material world, and argues that this picture is preferable to its four-dimensionalists rivals if ordinary thought and talk are taken seriously. Among the issues that Sattig discusses are the metaphysics of persistence, change, composition, location, coincidence, and relativity; the ontology of past, present, and future; and the semantics of predication, tense, temporal modifiers, and sortal terms.
Comparative Studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond (Varieties of English Around the World General Series)
By Pam Peters, Peter Collins, Adam Smith
* Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
* Number Of Pages:406
* Publication Date:2009-07-29
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:9027248990
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9789027248992
This anthology brings together fresh corpus-based research by international scholars. It contrasts southern and northern hemisphere usage on variable elements of morphology and syntax. The nineteen invited papers include topics such as irregular verb parts, pronouns, modal and quasimodal verbs, the perfect tense, the progressive aspect, and mandative subjunctives. Lexicogrammatical elements are discussed: light verbs (e.g. have a look), informal quantifiers (e.g. heaps of), no-collocations, concord with government and other group nouns, alternative verb complementation (as with help, prevent), zero complementizers and connective adverbs (e.g. however). Selected information-structuring devices are analyzed, e.g. there is/are, like as a discourse marker, final but as a turn-taking device, and swearwords. Australian and New Zealand use of hypocoristics and changes in gendered expressions are also analyzed. The two varieties pattern together in some cases, in others they diverge: Australian English is usually more committed to colloquial variants in speech and writing. The book demonstrates linguistic endonormativity in these two southern hemisphere Englishes.
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
vii
List of contributors
ix–x
Prologue
Peter Collins
1–10
Section I. Morphology
Irregular verbs: Regularization and ongoing variability
Pam Peters
13–30
Pronoun forms
Heidi Quinn
31–48
Hypocoristics in New Zealand and Australian English
Dianne Bardsley and Jane Simpson
49–70
Section II. Verbs and verb phrases
Modals and quasi-modals
Peter Collins
73–88
The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English
Johan Elsness
89–114
The progressive
Peter Collins
115–124
The mandative subjunctive in spoken English
Pam Peters
125–138
Light verbs in Australian, New Zealand and British English
Adam Smith
139–154
Section III. Nouns and noun phrases
Non-numerical quantifiers
Adam Smith
159–180
From chairman to chairwoman to chairperson: Exploring the move from sexist usages to gender neutrality
Janet Holmes, Robert J. Sigley and Agnes Terraschke
181–202
Section IV. Clauses and sentences
203–290
Concord with collective nouns in Australian and New Zealand English
Marianne Hundt
205–222
No in the lexicogrammar of English
Pam Peters and Yasmin Funk
223–240
Zero complementizer, syntactic context, and regional variety
Kate Kearns
241–260
Infinitival and gerundial complements
Christian Mair
261–274
Commas and connective adverbs
Peter G. Peterson
275–290
Section V. Discourse
291–398
Information-packaging constructions
Peter Collins
293–314
Like and other discourse markers
Jim Miller
315–336
Final but in Australian English conversation
Jean Mulder, Sandra A. Thompson and Cara Penry Williams
337–358
Swearing
Keith Allan and Kate Burridge
359–384
Epilogue
Pam Peters
385–398
Index
401–406
The Developing Language Learner (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)
By Dick Allwright, Judith Hanks
* Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
* Number Of Pages:329
* Publication Date:2009-01-15
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1403985316
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781403985316
Product Description:
If we want to treat learners as practitioners of learning, alongside teachers as practitioners of teaching, and therefore capable of reaping the developmental benefits of practitioner research, how can we best proceed? For Allwright and Hanks the answer lies in Exploratory Practice – an inclusive form of practitioner research developed largely in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in Lancaster, England, that enables both learners and teachers to develop their own understandings of their learning and teaching lives.
After arguing that developments in the field of applied linguistics have fallen short of establishing such a perspective on learners, and reviewing current research models, the authors propose seven principles for a truly inclusive extension of practitioner research – Exploratory Practice.
Five full chapters document, through learner and teacher narratives from around the world, how Exploratory Practice can engage learners as developing practitioners of learning, and enhance the learning process by enriching human relationships in the classroom.
On What We Know We Don't Know: Explanation, Theory, Linguistics, and How Questions Shape Them
By Sylvain Bromberger
* Publisher:University Of Chicago Press
* Number Of Pages:236
* Publication Date:1993-01-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0226075397
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780226075396
Product Description:
In this collection of essays, Bromberger explores the centrality of questions and predicaments they create in scientific research. He discusses the nature of explanation, theory, and the foundations of linguistics.
Reviews:
A collection of nine papers, previously scattered across many publications, covering topics as diverse as the nature of explanation, the ambiguity of the word theory, the varieties of ignorance, the limits of rationality in the choice of questions, and the ontology of linguistics. More broadly, about how science struggles against limitations on the ability to conceive, formulate, connect, and assess questions and answers. --Book News
Romanticism and the Rise of English
By Andrew Elfenbein
* Publisher:Stanford University Press
* Number Of Pages:288
* Publication Date:2008-10-30
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:080476025X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780804760256
Product Description:
Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation between literature and language that have vanished from contemporary investigation. His book is an example of a kind of work that has often been called for but rarely realized—a social philology that takes seriously the formal and institutional forces shaping the production of English. This results not only in a history of English, but also in a recovery of major events shaping English studies as a coherent discipline. This book points to new directions in literary criticism by arguing for the need to reconceptualize authorial agency in light of a broadened understanding of linguistic history.
State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective
By Charlene Rivera, Eric Collum
* Publisher:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
* Number Of Pages:449
* Publication Date:2006-03-14
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0805855688
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780805855685
Product Description:
State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective presents three significant studies, each examining a different aspect of states' strategies for including English language learners in state assessments. • An Analysis of State Assessment Policies Regarding Accommodations for English Language Learners;
• A Survey and Description of Test Translation Practices; and
• An Examination of State Practices for Reporting Participation and Performance of English Language Learners in State Assessments. With the rise in population of English language learners and the subsequent stepped-up legislative focus on this student population over the past decade, states have been challenged to include English language learners in state assessment programs. Until now, the little data available on states' policies and practices for meeting this challenge has been embedded in various reports and professional journals and scattered across the Internet. This volume offers, for the first time, a focused examination of states' assessment policies and practices regarding English language learners. The three studies were supported by OELA, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students. State Assessment Policy and Practice for English Language Learners: A National Perspective is of interest to researchers and professionals involved with the assessment of English language learners; state- and district-level policy makers; and academics, teacher educators, and graduate students in a number of fields, including educational and psychological assessment, testing and measurement, bilingual education, English as a second language, and second language acquisition.
Idioms Organiser: Organised by Metaphor, Topic and Key Word
By Jonathan Wright
* Publisher:Language Teaching Publications
* Number Of Pages:296
* Publication Date:1999-01-01
* Sales Rank:173396
* ISBN / ASIN:1899396063
* EAN:9781899396061
* Binding:Paperback
* Manufacturer:Language Teaching Publications
* Studio:Language Teaching Publications
* Average Rating:5
* Total Reviews:1
Date: 2001-10-26Rating: 5
Review:
A pallette to bring colour to the English Language
A veritable pallette of words and phrases to choose from if you want to bring colour and texture to the English Language. Essential if you are to understand, or speak as, native English speakers. Equally good if you want to use it personally or as a teaching aid. Organised in every conceivable way for easy reference.
Idioms Organiser: Organized by Metaphor, Topic and Key Word
Author: Jon Wright
ISBN: 1899396063
Publisher: Thomson Learning - December 2005
Format: Paperback
Book Review
A veritable pallette of words and phrases to choose from if you want to bring colour and texture to the English Language. Essential if you are to understand, or speak as, native English speakers. Equally good if you want to use it personally or as a teaching aid. Organised in every conceivable way for easy reference.
Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Grades 4-12 By Janet Allen
* Publisher:Stenhouse Publishers
* Number Of Pages:176
* Publication Date:2007-10-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1571103996
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781571103994
Product Description:
We've learned a lot in recent years about the important role vocabulary plays in making meaning, yet many teachers still struggle with vocabulary instruction that goes beyond weekly word lists. Effective vocabulary instruction is particularly vital in the content areas, where the specialized language used by “insiders” often creates a barrier to understanding for those new to the subjects. In Inside Words, Janet Allen merges recent research and key content-area teaching strategies to show teachers how to help students understand the academic vocabulary found in textbooks, tests, articles, and other informational texts.
Each instructional tool is listed alphabetically along with its purpose: building background knowledge; teaching words that are critical to comprehension; providing support during reading and writing; developing a conceptual framework; and assessing students' understanding of words and concepts.
Inside Words builds on Janet's previous books Words, Words, Words and Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, to provide a much-needed middle and secondary school resource for teaching vocabulary, not only in the language arts, but in all of the content areas.
Summary: Great Book
Rating: 4
This book is very helpful for the literacy class I'm taking. Came in great condition. Would purchase from again.
Teaching the Spoken Language (Cambridge Language Teaching Library)
By Gillian Brown, George Yule
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:176
* Publication Date:1984-01-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:0521273846
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521273848
Product Description:
This book is about teaching the spoken language. It presents in a highly accessible form the results of the author's important research on teaching and assessing effective spoken communication. The authors examine the nature of spoken language and how it differs from written language both in form and purpose. A large part of the book is concerned with principles and techniques for teaching spoken production and listening comprehension. An important chapter deals with how to assess spoken language. The principles and techniques described apply to the teaching of English as a foreign and second language, and are also highly relevant to the teaching of the mother tongue. The accompanying cassette contains extracts from original source recordings which are transcribed as examples in the book.
Lexical Diversity and Language Development: Quanitfication and Assessment
By David Malvern, Brian J. Richards, Ngoni Chipere, Pilar Duran
* Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
* Number Of Pages:288
* Publication Date:2004-09-04
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:1403902313
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9781403902313
Product Description:
Vocabulary richness, including lexical diversity and use of rare words, has an important role in assessing proficiency, diagnosing progress and testing theory in the study of language development. This book first reviews different methods for quantifying how vocabulary is deployed in spontaneous speech and writing, and then introduces an alternative approach which can assess overall lexical diversity, measure morphology development and compare the development of different word classes. The new approach is illustrated by its application to first and second language learners.
Contents:
Lexical Diversity and Language Development Quantification and Assessment
Cover
Other publications by these authors:
Title Page
Copyright,
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Part I: Measuring Lexical Diversity
1 Introduction
Lexical diversity versus vocabulary richness
Overview of the content of this monograph
Lexical diversity
Research using lexical diversity as a variable
Conclusion
2 Traditional Approaches to Measuring Lexical Diversity
The number of different words (NDW)
The type–token ratio (TTR)
Mean segmental type–token ratio (MSTTR)
Other linguistic measures of range
Transformations of TTR
Conclusion
3 A Mathematical Model of Lexical Diversity
A seminal paper
The harmonic series hypothesis and further developments
Using population statistics
The most complete formulation
A mathematical model for diversity
Operationalising the model
A mathematical expression for ideal curves
Producing the graphs from real data
Standardising how the measurement is made
Making the measurement, D, and vocd
Summary
Part II: Validation of the Model and its Application to Language Corpora
4 Early Child Language 1: the New England Corpus
Testing vocd
Investigating sensitivity to sample size
Reliability
Morphemicisation
Criterion-related validity
Discussion
Conclusion
5 Early Child Language 2: the Bristol Corpus
The Bristol Corpus
Measures from the Bristol project
Method
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
6 Lexical Diversity and the Investigation of Accommodation in Foreign Language Proficiency Interviews
Background: the oral interview
Method
Results
Conclusion
7 A New Measure of Inflectional Diversity and its Application to English and Spanish Data Sets
Inflectional diversity in the New England Corpus
Inflectional diversity in the Bristol Corpus
The Spanish data
Conclusion
Part III: Different Word Categories and their Diversity: Type–Type versus Type–Token
8 Comparing the Diversity of Lexical Categories: the Type–Type Ratio and Related Measures
Type–type ratios
Rare words
Vocabulary composition and early lexical style
The 'noun bias' issue
Nouns versus verbs: the effect of sample size
Conclusion
9 Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication in First Language Writing
Overview of the study
Method
Results
Discussion
Part IV: Conclusion
10 Overview and Conclusions
Flawed measures and confused results
A more robust measure
Interpreting the values of D
Cross-linguistic comparisons of lexical diversity
In conclusion
Notes
Glossary of technical terms and acronyms
References
Appendices
I: Key to the CHAT Transcripts in Appendices II–IV
II: Extract from a Transcript in the Bristol Corpus
III: A French Transcript from the Reading Corpus
IV: Extract from the Manchester Corpus Illustrating the %mor Tier
V: Documentation for vocd
Using vocd
Sample size
Preparation of files
The minimum command line
The output from vocd
Text-handling options
Combining options on the command line
VI: Example of standard output from vocd using a transcript from the New England Corpus
VII: Output from the limiting relative diversity (LRD) option in vocd using a file from Anne (anne03a.cha) in the Manchester Corpus
Index
The Syntax of Argument Structure (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics)
By Leonard H. Babby
* Publisher:Cambridge University Press
* Number Of Pages:326
* Publication Date:2009-04-27
* ISBN-10 / ASIN:052141797X
* ISBN-13 / EAN:9780521417976
Product Description:
Each verb in natural language is associated with a set of arguments, which are not systematically predictable from the verb's meaning and are realized syntactically as the projected sentence's subject, direct object, etc. Babby puts forward the theory that this set of arguments (the verb's 'argument structure') has a universal hierarchical composition which directly determines the sentence's case and grammatical relations. The structure is uniform across language families and types, and this theory is supported by the fact that the core grammatical relations within simple sentences of all human languages are essentially identical. Babby determines and empirically justifies the rigid hierarchical organization of argument structure on which this theory rests. The book uses examples taken primarily from Russian, a language whose complex inflectional system, free word order, and lack of obligatory determiners make it the typological polar opposite of English.
Tapio Salakoski Filip Ginter
Sampo Pyysalo Tapio Pahikkala (Eds.)
Advances in Natural Language Processing
5th International Conference on NLP, FinTAL 2006
Turku, Finland, August 23-25, 2006
Proceedings
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006930503
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2.7, F.4.2-3, I.2, H.3, I.7
LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
ISSN 0302-9743
ISBN-10 3-540-37334-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13 978-3-540-37334-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
Preface
The research papers in this volume comprise the pro ceedings of FinTAL 2006,
a Natural Language Processing conference continuing the TAL series of events:
FracTAL 1997 at Universit