Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Rebecca J. McCauley
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book constitutes a clear, comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the basic principles of psychological and educational assessment that underlie effective clinical decisions about childhood language disorders. Rebecca McCauley describes specific commonly used tools, as well as general approaches...
Nonverbal Perceptual and Cognitive Processes in Children With Language Disorders
Toward A New Framework for Clinical intervention
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays--even those with so-called specific language impairment--have difficulties in other domains as well. In this pathbreaking book, the authors draw on more than 40 years of research and clinical observations...
Teen Talk
The Language of Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
How do today's teenagers talk? What are the distinguishing features of their style of language, and what do they tell us about the English language more generally? Drawing on a huge corpus of examples collected over a fifteen-year period, Sali A. Tagliamonte undertakes a detailed study of adolescents'...
Rhetorics for Community Action
Public Writing and Writing Publics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell Ryder, offers theory and pedagogy to introduce public writing as a complex political and creative action. To write public texts, we have to invent the public we wish to address. Such invention is a complex task,...
Metonymy
Hidden Shortcuts in Language, Thought and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
'Metonymy' is a type of figurative language used in everyday conversation, a form of shorthand that allows us to use our shared knowledge to communicate with fewer words than we would otherwise need. 'I'll pencil you in' and 'let me give you a hand' are both examples of metonymic language. Metonymy...
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics
Its Nature, Origins and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and methods that are best suited for written language. Accordingly, there is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and...
Myth and Creative Writing
The Self-Renewing Song
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
*Myth and Creative Writing *is a unique and practical guide to the arts of creative writing. It:
Gives a historical perspective on the storyteller's art
Takes a wide view of myth, to include: legends, folklore, biblical myth, classical myth, belief myths, balladry and song.
Considers all aspects...
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
"Code-switching," or the alternation of languages by bilinguals, has attracted an enormous amount of attention from researchers. However, most research has focused on spoken language, and the resultant theoretical frameworks have been based on spoken code-switching. This volume presents a collection...
Communicating Creativity
The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity as a personal attribute which can be objectively measured, the author demonstrates...
Language Evolution
The Windows Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
How can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it? Rudolf Botha addresses this intriguing question in his fascinating new book. Inferences can be drawn about language evolution from a range of other phenomena, serving as windows into this prehistoric process....
Social interaction, Social Context, and Language
Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-tripp
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context. The opening chapter, entitled "Context in Language," is written by Susan Ervin-Tripp, whose diverse and innovative research inspired...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective. It collects original research on traditional performing arts (theatre, dance, opera), live (durational performance) and mediated/recorded performances (films, television shows), as well as performative...
Language and Communication in Mental Retardation
Development, Processes, and intervention
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Research on language and communication development and intervention in persons with mental retardation has been conducted at a fast and furious pace during the last two decades. Past attempts to summarize this research have been rather restricted, focusing on a single, narrowly defined substantive...
by Anne Pauwels
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
What motivates some linguistic minorities to maintain their language? Why do others shift away from it rather quickly? Are there specific conditions - environmental or personal - influencing these dynamics? What can families and communities do to pass on their 'threatened' language to the next generation?...