- Home
- Books
Books
To browse by subfields of a subject, please start on the Subjects tab in the navigation bar/menu, then filter by subject-subcategory and by content type.
Information on Forthcoming Books can be found on the benjamins.com website.
1 - 20 of 195 results
Subject
- Theoretical linguistics [79] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-theor
- Pragmatics [52] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-prag
- Romance linguistics [49] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-rom
- Syntax [46] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-syntax
- Discourse studies [41] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-disc
- Generative linguistics [32] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-gener
- Semantics [28] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-seman
- Historical linguistics [20] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hl
- Sociolinguistics and Dialectology [16] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-socio
- Germanic linguistics [14] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-germ
- Communication Studies [13] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/comm-cgen
- English linguistics [13] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-eng
- Language acquisition [12] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-la
- Theoretical literature & literary studies [11] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-theor
- Cognition and language [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogn
- Typology [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-typ
- Translation studies [10] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/tran-transl
- Corpus linguistics [9] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-corp
- Applied linguistics [8] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-appl
- Functional linguistics [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-funct
- Morphology [7] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-morph
- Bilingualism [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-bil
- Language teaching [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-educ
- Phonology [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-phon
- Psycholinguistics [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-psylin
- Philosophy [6] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-gen
- Writing and literacy [5] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-writ
- Contact Linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cont
- Slavic linguistics [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-slav
- Comparative literature & literary studies [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-comp
- Romance literature & literary studies [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-rom
- Lexicography [4] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-lex
- Consciousness research [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/cons-gen
- Afro-Asiatic languages [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-afas
- Cognitive linguistics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-cogpsy
- Computational & corpus linguistics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-comput
- Creole studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-creo
- History of linguistics [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-hol
- Language policy [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-lapo
- Natural language processing [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-nlp
- Industrial & organizational studies [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/misc-indroc
- Medieval philosophy [3] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-med
- Forensic linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-for
- Japanese linguistics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-japanese
- Semiotics [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sem
- Sino-Tibetan languages [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-sitib
- English literature & literary studies [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-engl
- Cognitive psychology [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-cogpsy
- Neuropsychology [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/psy-neuro
- Terminology [2] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/term-term
- Anthropological Linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-anthr
- Bibliographies in linguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-biblio
- Dialogue studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dial
- Dictionaries [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-dict
- Linguistics of isolated languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-isol
- Language disorders & speech pathology [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ladis
- Language documentation [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-landoc
- Neurolinguistics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-neuro
- Languages of North America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-noam
- Other Indo-European languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-othie
- Phonetics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-phot
- Languages of South America [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-soam
- Uralic languages [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lin-ural
- Classical literature & literary studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-class
- German literature & literary studies [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/lit-germli
- Semiotics [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/phil-sem
- Interpreting [1] http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject http://instance.metastore.ingenta.com/content/tran-interp
- More Hide
Year
- 2024 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2024
- 2023 [9] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2023
- 2022 [3] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2022
- 2021 [4] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2021
- 2020 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2020
- 2019 [10] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2019
- 2018 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2018
- 2017 [8] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2017
- 2016 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2016
- 2015 [6] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2015
- 2014 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2014
- 2013 [8] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2013
- 2012 [6] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2012
- 2011 [9] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2011
- 2010 [6] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2010
- 2009 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2009
- 2008 [9] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2008
- 2007 [6] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2007
- 2006 [4] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2006
- 2005 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2005
- 2004 [4] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2004
- 2003 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2003
- 2002 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2002
- 2001 [7] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2001
- 2000 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 2000
- 1999 [2] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1999
- 1998 [3] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1998
- 1997 [4] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1997
- 1996 [2] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1996
- 1995 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1995
- 1994 [2] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1994
- 1993 [5] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1993
- 1992 [3] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1992
- 1991 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1991
- 1990 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1990
- 1989 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1989
- 1988 [2] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1988
- 1987 [3] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1987
- 1986 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1986
- 1982 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1982
- 1981 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1981
- 1980 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1980
- 1979 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1979
- 1977 [1] http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/yearOfPublication 1977
- More Hide
-
-
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
Author(s): Teun A. van DijkPublication Date July 2005More LessThis new book extends Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier research on discursive racism to the Latin world. He presents a first inventory of elite discourse and racism in Spain and Latin America by examining discursive reactions in Spain to recent immigration, as well as age-old racism and ethnicism in text and talk in Latin America (especially Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile). Through careful analysis of the media, political discourse, textbooks and other public discourses in these countries he shows that discursive euro-racism is ubiquitous also in countries outside Europe. Spain reproduces, but as yet in a less radical way, the kind of racist discourse we find elsewhere in Western Europe. In Latin America, ethnicism and racism against the indigenous peoples and against Afrolatins has prevailed in elite discourse since colonialism and slavery.
This is the first integrated study of discursive racism in the Latin world and provides a useful framework for similar research.
-
-
-
Radical Enactivism
Editor(s): Richard MenaryPublication Date November 2006More Less"This collection is a much-needed remedy to the confusion about which varieties of enactivism are robust yet viable rejections of traditional representationalism approaches to cognitivism – and which are not. Hutto's paper is the pivot around which the expert commentators, enactivists and non-enactivists alike, sketch out the implications of enactivism for a wide variety of issues: perception, emotion, the theory of content, cognition, development, social interaction, and more. The inclusion of thoughtful replies from Hutto gives the volume a further degree of depth and integration often lacking in collections of essays. Anyone interested in assessing the current cutting-edge developments in the embodied and situated sciences of the mind will want to read this book."Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex, UK
-
-
-
La raison morphologique
Author(s): Bernard FradinPublication Date April 2008More LessCe recueil se compose de treize articles centrés sur la morphologie ou le lexique. Ses auteurs ont tous entretenu des relations de travail avec Danielle Corbin et la plupart sont des linguistes reconnus en morphologie. Au-delà de la diversité des approches, l’originalité de l’ouvrage tient au fait qu’il rassemble des contributions qui mettent en lumière des données nouvelles concernant plusieurs phénomènes peu ou pas décrits auparavant (l’incidence des contraintes prosodiques dans la formation des gentilés, les noms dérivés ambigus entre N de procès et N de propriété (correction), la sémantique des adjectifs dénominaux, l’inhibition dans les adjectifs dérivés d’ethniques en espagnol (Usbekistán / usbekistano), ou encore la morphologie non conventionnelle à travers les lexèmes complexes en -ouille) et des contributions qui débattent de questions théoriques plus classiques : principe de la base unique, frontière entre dérivation et composition, statut des segments fluctuants, relation entre préfixation et catégorisation, dérivation paradigmatique. Les phénomènes traités concernent essentiellement l’espagnol, le français, le grec, l’italien et le portugais.
-
-
-
(Re)presentations and Dialogue
Editor(s): François Cooren and Alain LétourneauPublication Date November 2012More LessThis edited volume proposes key contributions addressing the connections between two important themes: dialogue and representation. These connections were approached or interpreted in three possible ways: 1. Dialogue as representation, 2. Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues, and 3. Representations of dialogue. The first interpretation -- Dialogue as representation -- consists of exploring dialogue as an activity where many things, beings or voices can be made present, whether we think in terms of ideologies, cultures, situations, collectives, roles, etc. The second interpretation – Normative perspectives on dialogue/representation issues – leads scholars to explore questions of normativity, which are often associated with the notion of dialogue, when conceived as a morally stronger form of conversation. Finally, the third interpretation – Representations of dialogue – invites us to address methodological questions related to the representation of this type of conversation. Echoing Bakhtin, contributors were invited to explore the polyphonic, heteroglot, or dialogic character of any text, discourse or interaction.
-
-
-
Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions
Editor(s): Pascal Hohaus and Rainer SchulzePublication Date November 2020More LessMood, modality and evidentiality are popular and dynamic areas in linguistics. Re-Assessing Modalising Expressions – Categories, co-text, and context focuses on the specific issue of the ways language users express permission, obligation, volition (intention), possibility and ability, necessity and prediction linguistically.
Using a range of evidence and corpus data collected from different sources, the authors of this volume examine the distribution and functions of a range of patterns involving modalising expressions as predominantly found in standard American English, British English or Hong Kong English, but also in Japanese. The authors are particularly interested in addressing (co-)textual manifestations of modalising expressions as well as their distribution across different text-types and thus filling a gap research was unable to plug in the past. Thoughts on categorising or re-categorising modalising expressions initiate and complement a multi-perspectival enterprise that is intended to bring research in this area a step forward.
-
-
-
Re-Covered Rose
Author(s): Marco SonzogniPublication Date December 2011More LessWhen a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection of visual signs to represent verbal signs. As an act of translation, the cover of a book ought to be an ‘equivalent representation’ of the text. But in the absence of any established interpretive criteria, how can equivalence between the visual and the verbal be determined and interpreted? Re-Covered Rose tackles this question in an original and creative way, laying the foundation for a new research trend in Translation Studies.
Marco Sonzogni is Senior Lecturer in Italian, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A widely published academic and an award-winning editor, poet and literary translator, he is the Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation/Te Tumu Whakawhiti Tuhinga.
-
-
-
Re/reading the past
Editor(s): J.R. Martin and Ruth WodakPublication Date November 2003More LessRe/reading the Past is concerned with the discourses of history, from the complementary perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The papers in the book stress the discursive construction of the past, focussing on the different social narratives which compete for official acknowledgement. Issues of collective and cultural memory are addressed, reflecting the "linguistic turn" in the Social Sciences. The book covers a range of discourses, interpreting texts from popular culture to academic discourse including the construction and evaluation of past events in a variety of places around the world. It is especially timely in its focus on the construction of time and value in a post-colonial world where history discourses are central to on-going processes of reconciliation, debates on war crimes, and the issues of amnesty and restitution. As such the book fills a significant gap in interdisciplinary debates as well as in register and genre analysis, and will be of general interest to historians, political scientists and discourse analysts as well as students and teachers of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) and EAP (English for Academic Purposes).
-
-
-
The Reader and the Text
Author(s): Diana Sorensen GoodrichPublication Date January 1986More LessThe shift toward the reader's task may be said to stem from a double source: the questioning of the sleuthlike approach to a text aiming at the discovery and explication of the author's intended meaning, coupled with the recognition that the work, liberated from its dependence on the authorial voice, will generate a wealth of meanings through acts of reading. Chapter 1 of this volume charts the conventions that operate at the threshold of the textual encounter as preliminary reading contracts which may shape ensuing operations. Chapter 2 shows the extent to which the reader's world knowledge is put to work in and by the decodification process. Chapter 3 sets out to outline how the reader's knowledge of genre and the intertextual repertoire is put to work. After exploring the areas that this hypothetical competence may cover, the study moves toward the related concept of performance in a final chapter entitled "Text Processing." Here again there is an assembly of perspectives through which the reading process is approached: the phenomenology of reading, text theory and semiotics, models of linguistic comprehension, and cognitive psychology have all been put to work in order to throw light on the complex operations presupposed by the act of reading.
-
-
-
Reader in Czech Sociolinguistics
Editor(s): Jan Chloupek and Jiří NekvapilPublication Date January 1987More LessAlthough in Czechoslovakia sociolinguistics is not institutionalized, some results and approaches of Czech linguistics appear to be sociolinguistic, and that from the viewpoint of other linguistic and scientific traditions in general. The socio-component' of Czech linguistics took shape as early as between the two world wars in the activity of the Prague Linguistic School, and is influenced in a positive way also by a contemporary philosophico-ideological climate. The contents of the present volume include contributions of prominent Czech linguists, especially research workers from academic and university institutions. The papers concentrate on four general subjects: 1) methodological problems, 2) the theory of standard language and language culture, 3) presentation of the linguistic situation in Czechoslovakia, 4) communication in small social groups. All papers are written in English. The volume is primarily intended for those concerned with general linguistics, sociolinguistics, Slavonic studies and Czech studies.
-
-
-
Reader in the History of Aphasia
Editor(s): Paul ElingPublication Date December 1994More LessThe study of language and the brain is heavily dependent on the work of the early aphasiologists, and those wanting to get acquainted with the discipline will come across frequent references to these classic authors. This collection brings together seminal publications by 19th- and 20th-century neurologists concerned with the relationship between language and the brain. In selecting texts the emphasis was on those parts that deal explicitly with the opinion of an author on language processes as revealed by aphasic phenomena. All texts are presented in English (many of them translated for the first time), and preceded by in-depth introductions by present-day specialists in the field. The book includes biographical sketches of the authors discussed, and bibliographies of their relevant publications. This volume is invaluable for professionals and students who prefer to read the originals instead of leaning on textbook summaries.
Texts by: Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) [Claus Heeschen]; Paul Broca (1824-1880) [Paul Eling]; Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) [Antoine Keyser]; Henry Charlton Bastian (1837-1915) [John C. Marshall]; John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) [Bento P.M.Schulte]; Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) [O.R. Hommes]; Jules Dejerine (1849-1917) [W.O.Renier]; Pierre Marie (1853-1940) [Yvan Lebrun]; Arnold Pick (1851-1924) [A.D.Friederici]; Henry Head (1861-1940) [Patrick Hudson]; Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) [Ria de Bleser]; Norman Geschwind (1926-1984) [Mary-Louise Kean].
-
-
-
A Reader in the Language of Shakespearean Drama
Author(s): Vivian Salmon and Edwina BurnessPublication Date January 1987More LessIn recent years the language of Shakespearean drama has been described in a number of publications intended mainly for the undergraduate student or general reader, but the studies in academic journals to which they refer are not always easily accessible even though they are of great interest to the general reader and essential for the specialist. The purpose of this collection is therefore to bring together some of the most valuable of these studies which, in discussing various aspects of the language of the early 17th century as exemplified in Shakespearean drama, provide the reader with deeper insights into the meaning of Shakespearean text, often by reference to the social, literary and linguistic context of the time.
-
-
-
Reading 'La Regenta'
Author(s): Stephanie A. SieburthPublication Date January 1990More LessCriticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The narrator is shown to be duplicitous and unreliable in his judgments on characters and events. Without an omniscient narrator, readers must interpret for themselves the complex intertextual structure of the novel. Saints' lives, honor plays, and serial novels each provide partial reflections of Ana Ozores' story. The text becomes a collage of mutually reflecting segments which, like Ana in her moments of self-doubt and madness, ultimately question the function of language and of any overriding interpretation or meaning.
-
-
-
Reading and Writing Public Documents
Editor(s): Daniël Janssen and Rob NeutelingsPublication Date February 2001More LessGovernments communicate with the public through all kinds of documents: forms, brochures, letters, policy papers, and so on. These public documents have an important role in any democracy and their design very much affects the efficiency with which governments can perform their tasks.
Document designers, linguists and other communication experts in the Netherlands have been studying public documents from a design point of view as well as empirically for decades. In this book, the most prominent of these researchers present the results of their work, collectively giving an overview of various recurring problems in government-to-public communication, and providing suggestions for problem solving.
-
-
-
Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings
Editor(s): José A. León and Inmaculada EscuderoPublication Date October 2017More LessText comprehension is a critical area of psychological and educational research, and has particular relevance to educational context. The general aim of this international volume Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings is to encourage excellence in research and to bring together teachers, students, researchers and other professionals from different disciplines (e.g. psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, education, information technology, and communication), as well as all those members of the general public who have an interest in the study of reading. The specific objectives of the different chapters in this volume are to analyze existing methods of studying the various aspects of reading comprehension, disseminate results already obtained by research groups working in the field and debate current and future trends in the study of reading.
-
-
-
Reading for Learning
Author(s): Maria NikolajevaPublication Date June 2014More LessHow does reading fiction affect young people? How can they transfer fictional experience into real life? Why do they care about fictional characters? How does fiction enhance young people's sense of self-hood? Supported by cognitive psychology and brain research, this ground-breaking book is the first study of young readers' cognitive and emotional engagement with fiction. It explores how fiction stimulates perception, attention, imagination and other cognitive activity, and opens radically new ways of thinking about literature for young readers. Examining a wide range of texts for a young audience, from picturebooks to young adult novels, the combination of cognitive criticism and children’s literature theory also offers significant insights for literary studies beyond the scope of children’s fiction. An important milestone in cognitive criticism, the book provides convincing evidence that reading fiction is indispensable for young people’s intellectual, emotional and social maturation.
-
-
-
Readings in Creole Studies
Editor(s): Ian F. HancockPublication Date January 1979More LessCreole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.
-
-
-
Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition
Editor(s): Asako Yoshitomi, Tae Umino and Masashi NegishiPublication Date June 2006More LessThe selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation through training in story telling skills; task activities as a means for grammarization in grammar teaching; the development of a computerized speaking test and a proficiency scale for EFL learners; and the social aspects of the language teacher expertise. Part II deals with the cognitive transformation involved in the acquisition of syntactic structures; the application of ZPD to adult learners not only in terms of interpersonal interaction but also through interfacing with other media; examination of learners’ narrative data to analyze linguistic and gestural reference and to investigate learners’ use of phrasal verbs; learner’s strategy use in self-instruction that utilizes audiovisual materials; and network computer technology in computer-assisted language learning.
-
-
-
Realism and Individualism
Author(s): Mateusz W. Oleksy and Wieslaw OleksyPublication Date February 2015More LessRealism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely extends or refines new arguments in support of Scholastic Realism without questioning its basic assumptions. The book presents a critical overview of Peirce’s views on modern nominalism and offers a novel approach to the social-anthropological underpinnings of his realism, especially Pragmatic Realism vis à vis the individualist tendencies in modern thought.
The book is of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, especially students of American pragmatism, anthropology, linguistic pragmatics, as well as to anyone interested in Charles S. Peirce, Duns Scotus, Ockham, and generally to semioticians, social scientists, and sociologists.
-
-
-
The Reality of Linguistic Rules
Author(s): Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan and Gregory IversonPublication Date November 1994More LessThis volume presents a selection of the best papers from the 21st Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. Researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, and philosophy, using many different methods and focusing on many different facts of language, addressed the question of the existence of linguistic rules. Are such rules best seen as convenient tools for the description of languages, or are rules actually invoked by individual language users? Perhaps the most serious challenge to date to the linguistic rule is the development of connectionist architecture. Indeed, these systems must be viewed as a serious challenge to the foundations of all of contemporary linguistics. Four broad themes emerged from the Milwaukee conference, corresponding to the four parts of the volume. Part I centers on arguments for the existence of symbolic rules in linguistic competence and performance. Part II contains arguments against symbolic rules, presenting connectionist models and other alternatives to the symbolic paradigm. Parts III and IV take up two issues that are central to a number of language researchers: Language acquisition and learnability, and modularity. These issues are addressed from within both rule-based and non-rule-based perspectives. Contributors: Farrell Ackerman, Michael Barlow, Catherine Best, David Corina, Roberta Corrigan, Kim Daugherty, Bruce Derwing, Jeff Elman, Alice Faber, John Goldsmith, Helen Goodluck, Neil Jacobs, Richard Janda, Brian Joseph, Michael Kac, Alan Kawamoto, Suzanne Kemmer, Susan Lima, Brian MacWhinney, Steven Pinker, Alan Prince, Gerald Sanders, Hinrich Schutze, Mark Seidenberg, Royal Skousen, Nicholas Sobin, Joseph Stemberger, Gregory Stone, Ann Thyme, Robert Van Valin.
-
-
-
The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel
Editor(s): María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera GarcíaPublication Date December 2023More LessThis volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twenty-six contributions in this volume have been divided into thematic blocks, based on the different approaches that the authors have adopted to tackle the subject. The first block is about realia – the reality in which the fiction has been conceived. The second block focuses on the legal problems that can be deduced from the plots of the novels. The third block encompasses deals with the Greek and Roman novel from the point of view of classical philology, literary criticism and literary theory, with chapters dedicated to the tradition of the ancient novel, both in our most immediate cultural area (Middle Ages, Spanish Golden Age) and in other contexts, whether Indo-European (India, Persia) or of a different origin.
-