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The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis (Hardcover): Greg Myers The Discourse of Blogs and Wikis (Hardcover)
Greg Myers
R5,596 Discovery Miles 55 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Blogs and Wikis have not been with us for long, but have made a huge impact on society. Wikipedia is the best known exemplar of the wiki, a collaborative site that leads to a single text claimed by no-one; blogs, or web-logs, have exploded into the mainstream through novelisations, film adaptations and have gathered huge followings. Blogs and wikis also serve to provide a coherent basis for a discourse analysis of specific web language. What makes these forms distinctive as genres, and what ramifications does the technology have on the language? Myers looks at how blogs and wikis: *allow for easier than ever publication *can claim to challenge institutional hierarchies *provide alternate perspectives on events *exemplify globalization *challenge demarcations between the personal and the public *construct new communities and more Drawing on a wide range of popular blogs and wikis, the book works alongside an author blog that contains regularly updated links, references and a glossary. An essential textbook for upper level undergraduates on linguistics and language studies courses, it elucidates, informs and offers insights into a major new type of discourse. This coursebook will include a companion website.

Student Engagement in the Language Classroom (Paperback): Phil Hiver, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Sarah Mercer Student Engagement in the Language Classroom (Paperback)
Phil Hiver, Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Sarah Mercer
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book defines engagement for the field of language learning and contextualizes it within existing work on the psychology of language learning and teaching. Chapters address broad substantive questions concerned with what engagement is or looks like, and how it can be theorized for the language classroom; methodological questions related to the design, measurement and analysis of engagement in language classrooms and beyond; as well as applied issues examining its antecedents, factors inhibiting and enhancing it, and conditions fostering the re-engagement of language learners who have become disengaged. Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, the book explores similarities and differences between motivation and engagement and addresses questions of whether, how and why learners actually do exert effort, allocate attention, participate and become involved in tangible language learning and use. It will serve as an authoritative benchmark for future theoretical and empirical research into engagement within the classroom and beyond, and will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the unique insights and contributions the topic of engagement can make to language learning and teaching.

Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions - A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Discussions Directed towards Solving... Speech Acts in Argumentative Discussions - A Theoretical Model for the Analysis of Discussions Directed towards Solving Conflicts of Opinion (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst
R3,345 Discovery Miles 33 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Case Studies in Health Communication (Hardcover): Eileen Berlin Ray Case Studies in Health Communication (Hardcover)
Eileen Berlin Ray
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the complexities of the communication of health-related messages and information through the use of case studies. The expert contributors to this volume are scholars who, during their research and consulting, grapple with many of the issues of concern to those studying health communication. While several introductory books offer brief case studies to illustrate concepts covered, this book provides in-depth cases that enable more advanced students to apply theory to real situations.

Language, Text, and Knowledge - Mental Models of Expert Communication (Hardcover, Reprint 2010): Lita Lundquist, Robert J.... Language, Text, and Knowledge - Mental Models of Expert Communication (Hardcover, Reprint 2010)
Lita Lundquist, Robert J. Jarvella
R4,537 Discovery Miles 45 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The series serves to propagate investigations into language usage, especially with respect to computational support. This includes all forms of text handling activity, not only interlingual translations, but also conversions carried out in response to different communicative tasks. Among the major topics are problems of text transfer and the interplay between human and machine activities.

Towards a Semiotics of Ideology (Hardcover, Reprint 2020): Carlos Reis Towards a Semiotics of Ideology (Hardcover, Reprint 2020)
Carlos Reis
R3,338 Discovery Miles 33 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bilingual Acquisition of Intonation - A Study of Children Speaking German and English (Hardcover, Reprint 2014): Ulrike Gut Bilingual Acquisition of Intonation - A Study of Children Speaking German and English (Hardcover, Reprint 2014)
Ulrike Gut
R3,333 Discovery Miles 33 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children. Intonation is analysed both auditorily and instrumentally, and the transcription system of the British Tradition and the ToBI system in the autosegmental-metrical approach of intonation analysis are employed. Based on longitudinal data of three children comprising the ages 2 years 1 month (2;1) to 5 years 6 months (5;6), the acquisition sequence for the phonological rules and phonetic production of nucleus placement, pitch and intonational phrasing is sketched. Some phonological functions of nucleus placement and pitch such as the marking of contrast or the type of speech act are mastered as early as 2;1 whilst intonational phrasing is first used phonologically at 4;6. Mastery of the phonetic production of all three intonational systems is acquired much later, and acquisition is not completed yet at 5;6. In general, interindividual differences and a clear separation of both language systems are apparent in all children, with a considerable time lag in the acquisition of the weaker language. It is concluded that both transcription systems for intonation need to be modified for the analysis of child speech and that the autosegmental-metrical approach with its distinction between the phonological and the phonetic level proves a more flexible and descriptively valuable tool.

The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition - An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model (Hardcover): Anke... The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition - An Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model (Hardcover)
Anke Lenzing
R3,014 R1,834 Discovery Miles 18 340 Save R1,180 (39%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Examining a key issue in second language acquisition (SLA) research, this book explores the relation between second language (L2) production and comprehension at the level of processing. The central question underlying this interface is the relationship between grammatical encoding and decoding, namely: are the two modalities of production and comprehension subserved by different types of processors, or by the same syntactic processing module? Proposing an 'Integrated Encoding-Decoding Model' of SLA, Anke Lenzing presents the results of a comprehensive empirical study to demonstrate the extent to which the two modalities rely on shared representations and/or shared processes. Through this detailed analysis The Production-Comprehension Interface in Second Language Acquisition sheds new light on the cognitive architecture of human language processing and offers a deeper understanding of the mechanisms at work in the L2 acquisition process.

The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery (Hardcover): Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler The Syntax and Semantics of the Left Periphery (Hardcover)
Horst Lohnstein, Susanne Trissler
R6,096 Discovery Miles 60 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The left periphery of clausal structures has been a prominent topic of research in generative linguistics during the last decades. Closer examination of its properties unfolds a rich array of perspectives like the status of barriers for extraction and government, the articulation of the topic focus structure, the fixation of wh-scope, the marking of clausal types, the interaction of syntactic structure with inflectional morphology as well as the determination of sentence mood and illocutionary force to mention just a few. The purpose of this book is to collect different and relevant studies in this field and to give a general overview of the various theoretical approaches concerned with morphological, syntactic and semantic properties together with the diachronic development of the left periphery.

Language Development and Education - Children With Varying Language Experiences (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): P Menyuk, M. Brisk Language Development and Education - Children With Varying Language Experiences (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
P Menyuk, M. Brisk
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

We now know much more about the process of language development in all children, and also much more about variations in the process due to multi-cultural and multi-linguistic backgrounds, and developmental anomalies. The book describes both the remarkable changes in language knowledge and use that occur from infancy through high school, and also the differences in the process due to variations in experience. What has been found to be good educational practice during each of these stages is discussed, emphasising that among other things, good practice involves awareness of, and planning for, diversity in the abilities of children.

Functional Categories in Learner Language (Hardcover): Christine Dimroth, Peter Jordens Functional Categories in Learner Language (Hardcover)
Christine Dimroth, Peter Jordens
R4,694 Discovery Miles 46 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Language acquisition is a developmental process. Research on spontaneous processes of both children learning their mother tongue and adults learning a second language has shown that particular stages of acquisition can be discriminated. Initially, learner utterances can be accounted for in terms of a language system that is relatively simple. In studies on second language acquisition this learner system is called the Basic Variety (Klein and Perdue 1997). Utterance structure of the Basic Variety is determined by a grammar which consists of lexical structures that are constrained, for example, by semantic principles such as "The NP-referent with highest control comes first" and a pragmatic principle such as "Focus expression last". At some point in acquisition this lexical-semantic system is given up in favour of a target-like system with morpho-syntactic features to express the functional properties of finiteness, topicality, the determiner system, etc. Insights into how this process evolves may also provide an answer to the question of why it takes place. Within this functional perspective on language acquisition research focuses on questions such as the following. 1. What is the driving force behind the process that causes learners to give up a simple lexical-semantic system in favour of a morpho-syntactic functional category system? 2. What is the added value of morpho-syntactic properties of inflection, word-order variation, definiteness and agreement? 3. Why is it that in cases of specific language impairment it is mainly morpho-syntactic properties of the target language that are affected?

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching - Fifth Edition (Paperback, 5th edition): Vivian Cook Second Language Learning and Language Teaching - Fifth Edition (Paperback, 5th edition)
Vivian Cook
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no previous background in second language acquisition or language teaching methods, this text starts by introducing readers to the basic issues of second language acquisition research. It then examines how people learn particular aspects of the second language, such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and the writing system, and at the strategies they adopt in their learning and the differences between individuals. Final chapters look at second language learning in a broader context - the goals of language teaching and how teaching methods relate to SLA research. This newly updated fifth edition builds on the comprehensive scope of earlier editions while also addressing more recent developments in the field, particularly multilingual approaches to language teaching.

Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon (Hardcover): Dieter Wunderlich Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon (Hardcover)
Dieter Wunderlich
R5,738 Discovery Miles 57 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book investigates the interface structure of the lexicon from various perspectives, including typology and processing. It surveys work on verb classes, verb-noun similarities, semantic representations, concepts and constructions of polysynthetic languages, research on the processing of inflectional and derivational elements, and new work on inheritance-based network models. The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in all fields of linguistics and in the cognitive sciences.

Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development (Hardcover): Norman A. Krasnegor, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Richard L.... Biological and Behavioral Determinants of Language Development (Hardcover)
Norman A. Krasnegor, Duane M. Rumbaugh, Richard L. Schiefelbusch, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, Esther Thelen
R4,258 Discovery Miles 42 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective. Perspectives regarding language and language acquisition are advanced by scientists of various backgrounds -- speech, hearing, developmental psychology, comparative psychology, and language intervention. This unique volume searches for a rational interface between findings and perspectives generated by language studies with humans and with chimpanzees. Intended to render a reconsideration as to the essence of language and the requisites to its acquisition, it also provides readers with perspectives defined by various revisionists who hold that language might be other than the consequence of a mutation unique to humans and might, fundamentally, not be limited to speech.

Debate and Critical Analysis - The Harmony of Conflict (Hardcover): Robert James Branham Debate and Critical Analysis - The Harmony of Conflict (Hardcover)
Robert James Branham
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Rather than approach debate primarily as a form of interscholastic competition, this unique book identifies it as an activity that occurs in many settings: scientific conferences, newspaper op-ed pages, classrooms, courts of law, and everyday domestic life. Debate is discussed as an integral part of academic inquiry in all disciplines. As in all fields of study, various competing views are advanced and supported; Debate and Critical Analysis is designed to better prepare the student to assess and engage them. This text posits four characteristics of true debate -- argument development, clash, extension, and perspective -- which form the basic structure of the book. Each concept or aspect of argument covered is illustrated by an example drawn from contemporary or historical sources, allowing the reader to actually see the techniques and strategies at work. All popular forms of competitive debate, including "policy," "Lincoln-Douglas," "value-oriented," and "parliamentary," are discussed in detail -- as embedded in the actual topical controversies with which they are concerned. In this way, the student can learn the structures, reasoning processes, and strategies that may be employed, as well as the practical affairs of debating, from brief-writing to the flowsheet.

Proceedings of the Second International Round Table Conference on Historical Lexicography / Actes de la Table Ronde... Proceedings of the Second International Round Table Conference on Historical Lexicography / Actes de la Table Ronde Internationale de Lexicographie Historique (Hardcover, Reprint 2019)
W. Pijnenburg, F. Tollenaere
R3,346 Discovery Miles 33 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Second-Language Speech - Structure and Process (Hardcover, Reprint 2011): Allan James, Jonathan Leather Second-Language Speech - Structure and Process (Hardcover, Reprint 2011)
Allan James, Jonathan Leather
R4,828 Discovery Miles 48 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

Eighteenth-Century British Logic And Rhetoric (Hardcover): W. S. Howell Eighteenth-Century British Logic And Rhetoric (Hardcover)
W. S. Howell
R9,677 Discovery Miles 96 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Psychology of Word Meanings (Hardcover): Paula J. Schwanenflugel The Psychology of Word Meanings (Hardcover)
Paula J. Schwanenflugel
R4,225 Discovery Miles 42 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains perspectives from a collection of cognitive scientists on the psychological, philosophical, and educational issues surrounding the meanings of words and how these meanings are learned and accessed. It features chapters covering the nature and structure of word meaning, how new word meanings are acquired in childhood and later on in life, and how research in word processing may tell us something about the way in which word meanings are represented and how they relate to the language processor.

Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Second Language Learning - The Mcgill Conference in Honour of Wallace E. Lambert... Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Second Language Learning - The Mcgill Conference in Honour of Wallace E. Lambert (Hardcover)
Allan G. Reynolds
R1,174 Discovery Miles 11 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned theorist or researcher, traces the currents of theory and research within the topic area to the present day, provides a state-of-the-art review of the topic, and offers an outline for future research directions. The book concludes with an overview from Professor Lambert that critically examines the impact of the ideas in each individual chapter.
This volume is organized around the three areas where Professor Lambert's unique contributions are most substantial and most evident: bilingualism, multiculturalism, and second language learning. Specifically, the papers presented discuss the topics of social, psychological, cognitive, and neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism and second language learning, the psychology of inter-group relations and multiculturalism, bilingual/immersion education, and language planning.
Note: Royalties earned from sales of this book will go to the Wallace E. Lambert Student Research Fund at McGill University for use by students interested in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and/or multiculturalism.

Analyzing Multimodality in Specialized Discourse Settings (Hardcover): Veronica Bonsignori Analyzing Multimodality in Specialized Discourse Settings (Hardcover)
Veronica Bonsignori
R2,132 Discovery Miles 21 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World - A Critical Feminist Approach (Paperback): Roslyn Appleby Sexing the Animal in a Post-Humanist World - A Critical Feminist Approach (Paperback)
Roslyn Appleby
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This pioneering collection of essays unpacks the complex discursive and embodied relationships between humans and animals, contributing to a more informed understanding of both human-animal relations and the role of language in social processes. Focusing on the example of shark-human interactions, the book draws on forms of analysis from multimodality and critical discourse studies to examine the representations of this relationship across visual arts, popular media, and the natural sciences, each viewed through a critical feminist lens. The combined effect highlights the significance of the emergent turn to post-humanism in applied linguistics and its role in fostering more engaged discussions around broader contemporary social issues, including environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and resurgent feminism and challenges to normative heterosexuality on the other. Paving the way for new forms of writing and language for a post-anthropocentric age, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars in applied linguistics, gender studies, sociolinguistics, human-animal studies, and environmental humanities.

The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Paperback): Kathleen E. Welch The Contemporary Reception of Classical Rhetoric - Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Paperback)
Kathleen E. Welch
R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, and television, this unique volume traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. Welch begins by changing the current view of classical rhetoric by reinterpreting the existing texts into fluid language contexts -- a change that requires relinquishing the formulaic tradition, acquiring an awareness of translation issues, and constructing a classical rhetoric beginning with the Fifth Century B.C. She continues with a discussion of the adaptability of this material to new language situations, including political, cultural, and linguistic change, providing it with much of its power as well as its longevity. The book concludes that classical rhetoric can readily address any situation since it focuses not only on critical stances toward discourse that already exists, but also presents elaborate theories for the production of new discourse.

Time in Child Inuktitut - A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language (Hardcover): Mary D. Swift Time in Child Inuktitut - A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language (Hardcover)
Mary D. Swift
R5,722 Discovery Miles 57 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, its account of children's development of time reference in a system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied makes a unique contribution to the literature on the acquisition of tense and aspect. Drawing on longitudinal spontaneous speech data from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development. The comprehensive study of previously unexplored temporal phenomena and its unprecedented findings makes this book an important resource for researchers, teachers and students of child language development, especially the development of time reference. In addition, the documentation of the Inuktitut temporal system, especially as used in conversational speech, will be of interest to researchers of time reference.

Understanding Face-to-face Interaction - Issues Linking Goals and Discourse (Hardcover): Karen Tracy Understanding Face-to-face Interaction - Issues Linking Goals and Discourse (Hardcover)
Karen Tracy
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to discourse expression. The text discusses discourse-goal linkages in specific face-to-face encounters such as courtroom exchanges, marital counseling, and intellectual discussions, as well as in more general theoretical dilemmas. Because it poses a new set of questions about social actors' motivations and pre-interactional goals, this volume offers a new direction for discourse study -- one that seriously considers the thinking and strategy involved in human communication.

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