Linguistics category: 5616 books
Multimodality and Social Semiosis
Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Gunther Kress, one of the founders of social semiotics and multimodality, has made lasting contributions to these fields through his work in semiotics and meaning-making; power and identity; agency, design, production; and pedagogy and learning; in varied sites of transformation. This book brings...
Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self
Studies in Linguistics and Language Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This book offers several insights into cross-cultural and multilingual learning, drawing upon recent research within two main areas: Language Studies and Multilingual Language Learning/Teaching. It places particular emphasis on the Polish learning environment and Poles abroad.
Today’s world...
The Language of Popularization- Die Sprache der Popularisierung
Theoretical and Descriptive Models- Theoretische und deskriptive Modelle
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
In today’s knowledge-based society, exploring the dynamics of communicating specialised contents to the lay public is an undoubtedly topical issue. However, popularization still remains a rather unexplored territory and recent contributions to the field seem to lack a consistent methodological orientation,...
by Colin Browne
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: A, University of London (Institute of Education), course: MA TESOL, language: English, abstract: The English immersion programme in the German-speaking part of Switzerland sees various school subjects being taught...
Analyzing Multimodal Interaction
A Methodological Framework
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2004
Our perception of our everyday interactions is shaped by more than what is said. From coffee with friends to interviews, meetings with colleagues and conversations with strangers, we draw on both verbal and non-verbal behaviour to judge and consider our experiences.
Analyzing Multimodal Interaction...
Approaches to Conflict
Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent...
Reading Between the Lines
Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book presents a collection of new and stimulating approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors to the volume all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign culture, and they consider issues and methods of language education from such diverse...
Multimodality Across Classrooms
Learning About and Through Different Modalities
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This volume takes a broad view of multimodality as it applies to a wide range of subject areas, curriculum design, and classroom processes to examine the ways in which multiple modes combine in contemporary classrooms and its subsequent impact on student learning. Grounded in a systemic functional...
by Andrew D. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language learning from language-use strategies, Andrew D. Cohen disentangles a morass of terminology to help the reader see what language strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
This volume provides a broad overview of current work in aphasia in individuals who speak more than one language. With contributions from many of the leading researchers in the field, the material included, both experimental work and theoretical overviews, should prove useful to both researchers and...
Figurative Language Comprehension
Social and Cultural Influences
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together...
Kashmiri
A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists.
by Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that they do. This book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics....
Rethinking Language and Gender Research
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Rethinking Language and Gender Research is the first book focusing on language and gender to explicitly challenge the dichotomy of female and male use of language. It represents a turning point in language and gender studies, addressing the political and social consequences of popular beliefs about...