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Multimodality and Social Semiosis

Communication, Meaning-Making, and Learning in the Work of Gunther Kress

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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...
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Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self

Studies in Linguistics and Language Learning

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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...
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The Language of Popularization- Die Sprache der Popularisierung

Theoretical and Descriptive Models- Theoretische und deskriptive Modelle

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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,...
Cover of The Language Demands of Immersion Teaching from the Teacher's Perspective in German-Speaking Switzerland
by Colin Browne
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...
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Analyzing Multimodal Interaction

A Methodological Framework

by Sigrid Norris
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...
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Approaches to Conflict

Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics

by Olga L. Antineskul, Alberto M. Albuquerque, François Bogacz
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...
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Reading Between the Lines

Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy

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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...
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Multimodality Across Classrooms

Learning About and Through Different Modalities

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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...
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by Andrew D. Cohen
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

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...
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Figurative Language Comprehension

Social and Cultural Influences

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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...
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Kashmiri

A Cognitive-Descriptive Grammar

by Omkar N. Koul, Kashi Wali
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.
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by Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre
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....
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by Victoria Bergvall
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...
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