Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding
Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding

Author: Deborah Tannen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0313390487

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The range of topics addressed in this collection can be seen in the titles of the four sections into which the chapters are grouped: Humanistic Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; The Nature and Uses of Language and Linguistic Theory; Poetry: Linguistic Analysis and Language Teaching; and Language Learning and Teaching. Among the contributors are A. L. Becker, Paul Friedrich, Paul Hopper, William Labov, Kenneth Pike, Harold Rosen, Emanuel Schegloff, Muriel Saville-Troike, H. G. Widdowson, and Deborah Tannen.

Beyond Superstructuralism
Beyond Superstructuralism

Author: Richard Harland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1134923139

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Challenges the foundation of recent literary and language-based theory, offering instead a syntagmatic approach to language. Covers `post-Chomskyan' linguistics, deconstruction, analytic and speech-act theory.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Author: Susan M. Gass

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 998

ISBN-13: 1136666885

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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition. The Handbook covers a wide range of topics related to Second Language Acquisition: language in context, linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic theories and perspectives, skill learning, individual differences, L2 learning settings, and language assessment. All chapters introduce the reader to the topic, outline the core issues, then explore the pedagogical application of research in the area and possible future development. The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition is an essential resource for all those studying and researching Second Language Acquisition.

Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

Author: Hadumod Bussmann

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-02-20

Total Pages: 1336

ISBN-13: 1134630387

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The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics.

Exploring (Im)mobilities
Exploring (Im)mobilities

Author: Anna De Fina

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1788925319

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The impact of mobility and superdiversity in recent sociolinguistic research is well-established, yet very few studies deal with issues related to immobility. The chapters in this book focus on the sociolinguistic investigation of the dynamics between mobility and immobility as experienced by migrants, asylum seekers and members of minority or exploited groups. Central to the book is an exploration of how mobilities are affected by and in turn affect power relations and of the kinds of resources used by people to deal with (im)mobility processes. The book brings to light a new critical sociolinguistic imagination that is responsive to 21st century processes of (im)mobilities as socially, discursively and emotionally constructed and negotiated.

Indexing Authenticity
Indexing Authenticity

Author: Véronique Lacoste

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 3110347016

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The concept of authenticity has received some attention in recent academic discourse, yet it has often been left under-defined from a sociolinguistic perspective. This volume presents the contributions of a wide range of scholars who exchanged their views on the topic at a conference in Freiburg, Germany, in November 2011. The authors address three leading questions: What are the local meanings of authenticity embedded in large cultural and social structures? What is the meaning of linguistic authenticity in delocalised and/or deterritorialised settings? How is authenticity indexed in other contexts of language expression (e.g. in writing or in political discourse)? These questions are tackled by recognised experts in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and contact linguistics. While by no means exhaustive, the volume offers a large array of case studies that contribute significantly to our understanding of the meaning of authenticity in language production and perception.

Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension
Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

Author: Susan E. Israel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 946

ISBN-13: 1317639669

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The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the most recent research on the topic. It summarizes the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction, and assessment, including coverage of landmark studies. Designed to deepen understanding of how past research can be applied and has influenced the present and to stimulate new thinking about reading comprehension, the volume is organized around seven themes: historical perspectives on reading comprehension theoretical perspectives changing views of text elements of reading comprehension assessing and teaching reading comprehension cultural impact on reading comprehension where to from here? This is an essential reference volume for the international community of reading researchers, reading psychologists, graduate students, and professionals working in the area of reading and literacy.

Narrative in English Conversation
Narrative in English Conversation

Author: Christoph Rühlemann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-09

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107650232

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Storytelling is a fundamental mode of everyday interaction. This book is based upon the Narrative Corpus (NC), a specialized corpus of naturally occurring narratives, and provides new paths for its study. Christoph Rühlemann uses the NC's narrative-specific annotation and XPath and XQuery, query languages that allow the retrieval of complex data structures, to facilitate large-scale quantitative investigations into how narrators and recipients collaborate in storytelling. Empirical analyses are validated using R, a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. Using this unique data and methodological base, Rühlemann reveals new insights, including the discovery of turntaking patterns specific to narrative, the first investigation of textual colligation in spoken data, the unearthing of how speech reports, as discourse units, form striking patterns at utterance level, and the identification of the story climax as the sequential context in which recipient dialogue is preferentially positioned.