Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9781614512455 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 578 str.

Masahiko Minami

Opis

The Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics reflects crosscurrents in applied linguistics, an ever-developing branch of linguistics. The book is divided into seven sections, where each chapter discusses in depth the importance of particular topics, such as L1 and L2 acquisition, bilingualism, language pedagogy/education, corpus linguistics, clinical linguistics, translation, and sign language. Covering a wide range of current issues in a comprehensive manner, the book will be useful for both researchers and graduate students who are interested in Japanese linguistics and applied linguistics.

Recenzje

This is a valuable resource that expands the definition of 'applied linguistics' and identifies the links among the various topics that fall under that superordinate. Bringing first and second language learning, literacy acquisition, foreign language teaching, mother tongue education, and neurolinguistics into a single volume emphasizes the degree to which common processes underlie language behavior, and to which language analysis is central to solving societal problems.
Catherine Snow, Harvard University

The topic of this highly professional book covers an incredibly wide area of applied linguistics researched by specialists. The topics of the twenty chapters cover applied linguistics in the fields of cognitive linguistics, theory of acquisition/proficiency, cross-linguistic transfer, strategies, style shifts, corpus linguistics, autistic language, translation theory, sign language, among others. This handbook is an ideal book for any person who is interested in second language acquisition as a theorist and/or practitioner.
Seiichi Makino, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

It is laudable that the editors have included considerations of sign languages in a handbook of Japanese linguistics, and I hope that other Japanese linguists will follow this fine example, as sign languages can provide valuable perspectives on other natural languages.
Susan Fischer, Professor Emerita, Rochester Institute of Technology

O autorze

Masahiko Minami, San Francisco State University, USA.