• Topics covered include the biological foundations of language; acquisition of first and second languages in children and adults; the mental lexicon; and speech production, perception, and processing
• Structured as an engaging narrative that takes the reader from an idea in the mind of a speaker to its comprehension in the mind...

• Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanisms
• Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural...

What makes language in the media different from everyday or person-to-person domains is the presence - seen or unseen, human or technical of some intermediary or facilitator, and it is the impact on language by this facilitation or mediation that is the focus of this new 4 volume collection, Language and the Media. Including seminal theoretical articles, case studies, and review articles, the collection will look at language as a means of managing the media audience, will explore language as a topic in the media, and will set out how language is used as a mode of media communication. "

Multimodality is a fast growing area of inquiry as the interest in modes beyond, but always also including language, such as layout, gesture, gaze, or body posture is increasing. A conglomeration of research from various fields interested in examining language as it is embedded in a vast array of other modes, rather than a coherant field of inquiry, this collection will showcase the major achievements in this multidisciplinary field, through the inclusion of theoretically, methodologically and practically important works Topics will range from language studies to education and classroom...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...

Diese Einfuhrung in die begrifflichen, theoretischen und wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Grundlagen der Soziolinguistik ist als Arbeitsbuch mit Aufgaben fur Studenten konzipiert. Die aktuellen Methoden und Forschungsparadigmen der Soziolinguistik werden unter Ruckgriff auf ihre wissenschaftsgeschichtlichen Wurzeln vorgestellt. In den zentralen Kapiteln 3 und 4 wird der Stand der Forschung zu den sprach-soziologischen Grundbegriffen (Sprachgemeinschaft, Diglossie, Status und Funktion von Sprachen u.a.) und den varietatenlinguistischen Grundlagen (Standard, Dialekt, Soziolekt, Register, Stil...

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications.

It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other.

The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists,...

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science.

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as...

Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Studie ist ein zentrales Paradox des kommunikativen Fremdsprachenunterrichts: Das Lernziel der kommunikativen Kompetenz ist ein Ideal geblieben, meist entwickelt sich nur eine Minderheit schulischer Fremdsprachenlerner zu engagiert in eigener Sache Kommunizierenden, zu kompetenten und konversationell flexiblen Sprechern. Diese negative Bilanz wird im theoretischen Teil unter zwei sich erganzenden Gesichtspunkten hinterfragt: dem der Interaktion und dem der Kognition. Zum einen ist die starre schulische Gesprachslogik mit ihren vorhersehbaren Ablaufen dem...

What are the principles according to which lexical data should be represented in order to form a lexical database that can serve as a basis for the construction of several different monofunctional dictionaries? Starting from the notion of lexicographic functions as defined by Henning Bergenholtz and Sven Tarp, this question is approached by analysing how current electronic dictionaries and lexical resource models attempt to satisfy the needs of different types of users in different usage situations, in order to identify general requirements on the model for a lexical resource that aims to...

Of interest to scholars in translation studies, gender and sexuality, and comparative literary and cultural studies, this volume re-examines the possibilities for multiple intersections between translation studies and research on sexuality and gender, and in so doing addresses the persistent theoretical gaps in much work on translation and gender to date. The current climate still seems to promote the continuation of identity politics by encouraging conversations that depart from an all too often limited range of essentializing gendered subject positions. A more inclusive approach to the...