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Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners
Author(s): Natsuko ShintaniPublication Date March 2016More LessThe book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book reports a study that examined how TBLT can be made to work in such a context. The study compares the effectiveness of TBLT and the traditional “present-practice-produce” (PPP) approach for teaching English to young beginner learners in Japan. The TBLT researched in this study is unique as it employed input-based tasks rather than oral production tasks. The study shows that such tasks constitute an ideal means of inducting beginner learners into listening and processing English. It also shows that such tasks lead naturally to the learners trying to use the L2 in communication. It provides evidence to support the claim that TBLT promotes the kind of naturalistic interaction which is beneficial for the development of both interactional and linguistic competence. The book concludes with suggestions for how to implement TBLT in Japanese school contexts.
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Inquiries in Hispanic Linguistics
Editor(s): Alejandro Cuza, Lori Czerwionka and Daniel OlsonPublication Date November 2016More LessInquires in Hispanic Linguistics: From Theory to Empirical Evidence showcases eighteen chapters from formal and empirical approaches related to Spanish syntax and semantics, phonetics and phonology, and language contact and variation. Drawing on data from a number of monolingual and contact Spanish varieties, this volume represents the most current themes and methods in the field of Hispanic linguistics. The book brings together both established and emerging scholars, and readers will appreciate the variety of theoretical approaches, ranging from generative to variationist perspectives. The book is geared towards researchers and students in Spanish and Romance linguistics. Given its scope and quality, this volume is also well-suited for graduate courses in Spanish morphosyntax, phonetics, sociolinguistics, and language contact and change.
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Inquiries in Linguistic Development
Editor(s): Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe PrévostPublication Date April 2006More LessThe focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions, overview studies, and experimental designs exploring various research questions, such as learnability and access to UG, L1 influence, the nature of initial and endstate grammars, and variability. The linguistic domains investigated are also extremely diverse: morphosyntax, phonology, the lexicon, argument realization, language processing, and interface phenomena. This book, edited and written by McGill University alumni, is intended as a tribute to Lydia White's contribution to the field of generative second language acquisition. The authors present current work on language acquisition which further investigates several themes developed by White's research. Through these state-of-the-art contributions the reader will be able to identify important new directions in which generative language acquisition is developing and expanding.
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Insistent Images
Editor(s): Elżbieta Tabakowska, Christina Ljungberg and Olga FischerPublication Date March 2007More LessInsistent Images presents a number of new departures dealing with iconicity on the conceptual and the structural levels. On the level of structure, the interface between different aspects of iconicity, lexical meaning and grammar is discussed in reference to both spoken and signed languages. Novel approaches to aural iconicity investigate a wide range of phenomena from phonological iconicity to the role of iconic features in discourse, in the nineteenth century practice of reading aloud, in the almost magic incantations of fin de siècle poetry and in Tolkien’s invented languages. Several papers examine the function of iconicity in visual and avant-garde poetry, where iconic features allow a reduction of means, which, paradoxically, generates textual diversification and complexity. A discussion of iconic text strategies shows how texts are comprehended through iconic holistic transfer from complex natural and action patterns. ‘Liberature’, which integrates text, image and physical space, is another novel area of study, as are the investigations into the iconic properties of film and of multimedia performance. Film is intrinsically iconic, while at the same time being, like photography, indexical; in multimedia performance, on the other hand, iconicity functions intermedially by both integrating and reflecting processes of perception and conceptualization. These last two new fields of inquiry further enhance this truly interdisciplinary volume’s explorations of icons as ‘insistent images’.
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Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods
Editor(s): Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin KimPublication Date December 2022More LessWritten for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are organized by four skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and four major linguistic features (grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, pragmatics). In each chapter, authors define the target sub-domain of ISLA, outline the basics of research design, provide concrete guidance on crafting robust research questions, identifying appropriate methodology and method(s), adapting an existing instrument or creating your own, carrying out a study, analyzing and interpreting data, and determining how/where/when to share your work. The volume also dedicates chapters to addressing common inquiries of conducting ISLA research (e.g., obtaining ethics permission, recruiting your own students, working with small and heterogeneous sample sizes, accounting for individual differences), and to maximizing research impact beyond academia. Written by leading experts on each topic, this book is an essential resource for ISLA, SLA, and research methods scholars.
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Instructional Writing in English
Editor(s): Matti Peikola, Janne Skaffari and Sanna-Kaisa TanskanenPublication Date July 2009More LessThe history of English writing is, to a considerable extent, the history of instructional writing in English. This volume is the first collection of papers to focus on instructional writing throughout the history of the language. Spanning a millennium of English texts, the materials studied represent procedural and behavioural discourse in a variety of genres. The primary texts, from Ælfric’s homilies to medieval cooking recipes to seventeenth-century American conduct literature to present-day language textbooks, display a variety of linguistic devices typical of instruction. The materials nonetheless differ with respect to the explicitness of their instructive purpose. Bringing together a broad range of instructional writing from the Old, Middle and Modern English periods, this collection celebrates the sixtieth birthday of Risto Hiltunen, who has successfully combined discourse-linguistic approaches with the history of English in his research, and inspired the colleagues and former students contributing to this volume.
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Instrumental Studies in Arabic Phonetics
Editor(s): Zeki Majeed Hassan and Barry HeselwoodPublication Date December 2011More LessBrought together in this volume are fourteen studies using a range of modern instrumental methods – acoustic and articulatory – to investigate the phonetics of several North African and Middle Eastern varieties of Arabic. Topics covered include syllable structure, quantity, assimilation, guttural and emphatic consonants and their pharyngeal and laryngeal mechanisms, intonation, and language acquisition. In addition to presenting new data and new descriptions and interpretations, a key aim of the volume is to demonstrate the depth of objective analysis that instrumental methods can enable researchers to achieve. A special feature of many chapters is the use of more than one type of instrumentation to give different perspectives on phonetic properties of Arabic speech which have fascinated scholars since medieval times. The volume will be of interest to phoneticians, phonologists and Arabic dialectologists, and provides a link between traditional qualitative accounts of spoken Arabic and modern quantitative methods of instrumental phonetic analysis.
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Instrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training
Editor(s): Olaf Immanuel Seel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-GonzálezPublication Date June 2023More LessThis volume offers a wide array of cutting-edge original research on the implementation of Foreign Language Pedagogy in translator and interpreter training, a still rather unexplored field of research in Translation Studies. It is divided in two distinct sections. The first section focuses on theoretical approaches to this topic. The chapters of this section will offer the reader valuable new knowledge and thoughts on how to update and enrich academic curricula as well as how to make use of cognitive linguistics and to implement a multicultural approach in the demanding domain of translator and interpreter training. The second practical section comprises a series of diverse methods and didactical means of Foreign Language Pedagogy which are creatively adapted to fit in language and translation/interpreting teaching for translation/interpreting trainees, aiming at fostering their translational sub-competences. The volume’s overarching aim is to clearly emphasise that foreign language teaching for translation and interpreting trainees has to be approached and structured differently than conventional language teaching in other academic disciplines. It is useful for scholars and translation/interpreting teachers who want to enrich translator/interpreter training with new interdisciplinary ideas and knowledge which will significantly assist them in enhancing the translation/interpreting competence of their students.
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Insubordination
Editor(s): Nicholas Evans and Honoré WatanabePublication Date November 2016More LessThe phenomenon of insubordination can be defined diachronically as the recruitment of main clause structures from subordinate structures, or synchronically as the independent use of constructions exhibiting characteristics of subordinate clauses. Long marginalised as uncomfortable exceptions, insubordinated clause phenomena turn out to be surprisingly widespread, and provide a vital empirical testing ground for various central theoretical issues in current linguistics – the interplay of langue and parole, the emergence of structure, the question of where productive syntactic rules give way to constructions, the role of prosody in language change, and the question of how far grammars are produced by isolated speakers as opposed to being collaboratively constructed in dialogue. This volume – the first book-length treatment on the topic – assembles studies of languages on all continents, by scholars who bring a range of approaches to bear on the topic, from historical linguistics to corpus studies to typology to conversational analysis.
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Insular Toponymies
Author(s): Joshua NashPublication Date August 2013More LessHow do people name places on islands? Is toponymy in small island communities affected by degrees of connection to larger neighbours such as a mainland? Are island (contact) languages and mainland languages different in how they are used in naming places? How can we conceptualise the human-human interface in the fieldwork situation when collecting placenames on islands? This book offers answers relevant to toponymists, linguists, island studies scholars, and anthropologists. It focuses on two island environments within Australia – Norfolk Island, South Pacific and Dudley Peninsula, Kangaroo Island, South Australia – and puts forward a number of novel findings relevant to Australian linguistics and the linguistics and toponymy of islands anywhere.
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Integrale Linguistik
Editor(s): Edeltraud Bülow and Peter SchmitterPublication Date December 1979More LessIntegrale Linguistik honour the life and work of Helmut Gipper. Part I covers the History of Linguistics (Hennig Brinkmann, Eugenio Coseriu, Hartwig Franke & Kristina Franke, Johannes Lohmann, Gerold Ungeheur); Part II Theory of Linguistics (Karl-Otto Apel, Edeltraud Bülow, Shirô Hattori, Ladislaus Hojsak, Alfred Hoppe, Werner Ingendahl, H. Joachim Neuhaus, Guram Ramischwili, Adam Schaff, Maximilian Scherner, Hans Schwarz); Part III Speech Analysis (Werner Abraham, Hartmut Beckers, Bernhard Engelen, Horst Geckeler, Johann Knobloch, Ekkehart Malotki, Peter Schmitter, Karl Schneider, Rudolf Schützeichel, Andrea Stahlschmidt); Part IV Interdisciplinary Aspects of Linguistic Research (Hugo Dyserinck, Günter Heintz, Anton Leischner, Beate Marquardt, Thomas A. Sebeok, Leo Weisgerber, Gerd Wolandt). The volume ends with a complete bibliography of writings of Helmut Gipper. The language of this volume is German.
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Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning
Editor(s): Hongyin TaoPublication Date October 2016More LessLinguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with pattern finding and theory building, language teachers often encounter issues that are not readily addressed by theoretical linguistic research. This collection, with eleven papers touching upon a wide range of issues, stands out as one of the rare concerted efforts toward a meaningful integration of the two endeavors. Subject matters include tone, stress, word structure, grammatical categories (e.g. classifiers), syntactic structures (including argument structure), discourse particles, implicit and explicit knowledge, conversational repair, and learner corpus. With a diverse range of theoretical orientations, this collection serves to showcase some of the productive ways to create synergy between Chinese linguistic research and language education.
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Integrating Gestures
Editor(s): Gale Stam and Mika IshinoPublication Date June 2011More LessGestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans. Consequently, the modern field of gesture studies has attracted researchers from a number of different disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, communication, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, primatology, psychology, robotics, sociology and semiotics. This volume presents an overview of the depth and breadth of current research in gesture. Its focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of gesture. The twenty-six chapters included in the volume are divided into six sections or themes: the nature and functions of gesture, first language development and gesture, second language effects on gesture, gesture in the classroom and in problem solving, gesture aspects of discourse and interaction, and gestural analysis of music and dance.
As of March 2017, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. It is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license.
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Integration, Identity and Language Maintenance in Young Immigrants
Editor(s): Ludmila Isurin and Claudia Maria RiehlPublication Date April 2017More LessThe volume presents a selection of contributions related to integration, adaptation, language attitudes and language change among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany. At the turn of the century, Germany, which defined itself as a mono-ethnic and mono-racial society, has become a country integrating various immigrant groups. Among those, there are three different types of Russian immigrants: Russian Germans, Russian Jews and ethnic Russians, all three often perceived as “Russians” by the host country. The three groups have the same linguistic background, but a different ethnicity, known as “nationality”, a separate entry in Russian official documents. This defined the immigration paths and the subsequent integration into German society, where each group strives to position itself in relation to two other groups in the same migrant space. The book discusses the complexities of belonging and (self-/other) assignment to groups as well as the attitude to language maintenance among young Russian-speaking immigrants.
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Integrational Linguistics
Author(s): Hans-Heinrich LiebPublication Date January 1984More LessThis is the first volume of a work envisioned to consist of six volumes, providing a complete overview of the unified approach to basic problems of linguistics, as developed by Hans-Heinrich Lieb. This first volume contains a detailed overview of Integrational Linguistics, and outlines a major fragment of a theory of language systems. The further volumes will discuss: II. A theory of grammars; III. Language universals and language contrast; IV. Syntax and semantics; V. Morphology and morphosemantics; VI. Lexical semantics.
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Intellectus und Imaginatio
Editor(s): João Maria André, Gerhard Krieger and Harald SchwaetzerPublication Date April 2006More LessDieser Band stellt einen Beitrag zum Verständnis geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus dar. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Begriffe intellectus und imaginatio, deren historischer und sachlicher Zusammenhang untereinander und ihr Verhältnis zu weiteren Aspekten der menschlichen Erkenntnis. Auf diese Weise steht im Ergebnis die Einheit und Ganzheit dieser Erkenntnis zur Debatte. Im Einzelnen geht es ebenso um eine Parallele zwischen Wilhelm von Ockham, Johannes Buridan und Cusanus in bezug auf den conceptus absolutus, um den kontemplativen Intellekt, die Metapher sowohl der “Mauer des Paradieses” als auch des Sehens, eine Kartographie des Erkennens, die Cusanische Symbolphilosophie, den Aspekt der Kreativität, die Musik sowie den Magnetismus und ein weiteres Beispiel zur Veranschaulichung der Funktion und Tragweite des imaginatio . Die Beiträge stammen aus der Feder sowohl anerkannter Cusanus-Interpreten als auch jüngere Forscher. Der Band bietet sowohl zahlreiche neue Gesichtspunkte für fruchtbare Auseinandersetzung mit dem Denken des Kardinals als auch ein Zeugnis für deren Lebendigkeit und Internationalität.
This book represents a contribution to the understanding of both intellectual and sensible cognition in Nicolaus Cusanus. Central to this account are the concepts of intellectus and imaginatio , their historical and factual connection and their relationship to other aspects of human cognition. In this way the unity and totality of this cognition is explored and discussed. In particular, points of comparison are outlined between William of Ockham, John Buridan and Cusanus in regard to the conceptus absolutus. Moreover, various issues are explored in light of these points of comparison. Among them are the contemplative intellect, the metaphors of the “wall of the Paradise” and of visio, a cartography of cognition, the Cusan philosophy of symbols, creativity, music and two examples of the function and the importance of imaginatio. The contributions to this book come from well-known interpreters of Cusanus and also younger scholars. In this way, this book offers both new perspectives on fruitful discussions of the thinking of Cusanus as well as evidence of the vivacity and original character of this discussion.
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Intelligibility in Speech Disorders
Editor(s): Raymond D. KentPublication Date April 1992More LessThe papers in this volume, written by authors experienced in intelligibility issues in speech pathology and related fields, describe the basic dimensions by which speech intelligibility can and must be understood. The dimensions are auditory perceptual, linguistic, acoustic and physiologic. These, in turn, are applied to the fundamental problems of definition and theory, measurement and clinical management. Only relatively recently has there been significant progress in formal intelligibility assessment and few, if any books have been published on intelligibility concerns in speech pathology. It is hoped that this book represents the topic of intelligibility in a way that will encourage further invention in research and clinical efforts relating to this essential aspect of speech and language performance.
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Interacting with Objects
Editor(s): Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann and Mirka RauniomaaPublication Date September 2014More LessObjects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.
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Interaction and Second Language Development
Author(s): Rémi A. van CompernollePublication Date December 2015More LessThis volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the chapters delve into a wide range of topics illustrating how the social and the individual are united in interaction. Themes include psychological and human mediation, joint action, negotiation for meaning, the role of first language use, embodied and nonverbal behaviors, and interactional competencies. Theoretical discussions and key concepts are reinforced and illustrated with detailed qualitative analyses of interaction in a variety of second language contexts. Each chapter also includes pedagogical recommendations. Supplemental materials or ‘data sessions’ that engage the readers with the themes presented in the book through sample analytic exercises are included, while videos have been made available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lllt.44.video.
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Interaction of Morphology and Syntax
Editor(s): Zygmunt Frajzyngier and Erin ShayPublication Date May 2008More LessThe present volume deals with hitherto unexplored issues on the interaction of morphology and syntax. These selected and invited papers mainly concern Cushitic and Chadic languages, the least-described members of the Afroasiatic family. Three papers in the volume explore one or more typological characteristics across an entire language family or branch, while others focus on one or two languages within a family and the implications of their structures for the family, the phylum, or linguistic typology as a whole. The diversity of topics addressed within the present volume reflects the great diversity of language structures and functions within the Afroasiatic phylum.
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