Download or read book The Role of Alternatives in Language written by Sophie Repp and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition written by Dwight Atkinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition – 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches – sociocultural, complexity theory, conversation-analytic, identity, language socialization, and sociocognitive – are described according to the same set of six headings, allowing for direct comparison across approaches. Each chapter is authored by leading advocates for the approach described: James Lantolf for the sociocultural approach; Diane Larsen-Freeman for the complexity theory approach; Gabriele Kasper and Johannes Wagner for the conversation-analytic approach; Bonny Norton and Carolyn McKinney for the identity approach; Patricia Duff and Steven Talmy for the language socialization approach and Dwight Atkinson for the sociocognitive approach. Introductory and commentary chapters round out this volume. The editor’s introduction describes the significance of alternative approaches to SLA studies given its strongly cognitivist orientation. Lourdes Ortega’s commentary considers the six approaches from an 'enlightened traditional' perspective on SLA studies – a viewpoint which is cognitivist in orientation but broad enough to give serious and balanced consideration to alternative approaches. This volume is essential reading in the field of second language acquisition.

Download or read book Varieties of Alternatives written by Mingming Liu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = ‘what’, na geren = ‘which person’) in Mandarin Chinese. These items are systematically ‘ambiguous’ and have played important roles in various aspects of Mandarin grammar. An idea based on alternatives and varieties of alternatives in particular – following Chierchia’s 2013 analysis of the polarity system – is pursued to account for the systematic ambiguities. The unambiguous semantics of jiu, dou and wh-expressions are maintained and ‘ambiguity’ explained through varieties of alternatives interacting with other independently motivated aspects of the structure they occur in. By examining these aspects in detail, the book will help readers gain a better understanding of a broad range of phenomena that involve these items – including exhaustivity, distributivity, questions and conditionals.

Download or read book Alternatives in Semantics written by A. Falaus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of the use of alternatives in semantics and pragmatics, and an overview of current approaches and applications of alternative-based semantics, from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.

Download or read book Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities written by Susan A. Vogel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational Alternatives for Students with Learning Disabilities responds to the pressing need to provide teachers of learning-disabled students with practical knowledge regarding state-of-the-art intervention strat- egies. This book provides examples of validated alternative educational practices which avoid the pitfalls and stigmatizing effects on students of older models of intervention. The new practices aim to maximize teaching effectiveness and to assist the learning disabled in achieving their potential. The intervention strategies described in this book have the power to enhance the efforts of all concerned.

Download or read book Alternative Linguistics written by Philip W. Davis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were presented at the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Department of Linguistics, Rice University, March 1993. The participants were asked to concentrate in depth and in a self-reflective way upon some range of data. The intent was multifold. The first purpose was descriptive. It was expected that the participants would carry out their task in a retrospective way, exemplifying and building upon their previous work, but it was also expected that they would begin to demonstrate the configuration of some area in a more comprehensive picture of language. The point was to take (at least) one substantive step in the depiction of what we think language will ultimately be like. The contributions were both specific and generalizing, with focus as much upon methodology as upon hypotheses about language. In examining descriptive practice, we continued to concentrate upon issues which concerned us all, and at the same time we tried to advance the discourse by the results of such description. We hoped that problematic and recalcitrant data would make our own practice clearer to us and that it might also instruct us in the refinement of our conceptions of language.

Download or read book Tourism Alternatives written by Valene L. Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism alternatives is a publication of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism. The contributors to this volume address the theoretical attributes and dimensions of tourism from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. Twenty-four academy members from diverse disciplines were convened to the week-long symposium (1989), and their papers and discussions constitute the genesis of this book. This volume is organized into two major sections. The first is essentially theoretical; the second includes case studies. The final chapter proposes an agenda for future research.

Download or read book The Role of Religion in Modern Societies written by Detlef Pollack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a thorough understanding of the many ways in which religion interacts with modernization and its debates, respected scholars such as David Voas, Steve Bruce and Anthony Gill examine modern societies across the world in this splendid book.

Download or read book Alternative Educational Methodologies written by Ion Albulescu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of papers presented at the international conference on “Specific Methodologies in Educational Alternatives” held in June 2016, at the Bistriţa University Extension of the Educational Sciences Department of Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The event served to promote the most recent theoretical and practical findings related to educational alternatives, and attracted the attendance of over 250 theorists and experts in the field. The conference represented a significant opportunity to know and develop this field of study, based on research and examples of good practice. The contributions here specifically explore the six educational alternatives that exist in Romania, namely Step by Step, Waldorf, Freinet, Curative Pedagogy, Montessori and the Jenaplan.

Download or read book Applied Studies Towards a Sociology of Language written by Basil Bernstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this second volume show some of the results of the empirical exploration of Bernstein's hypothesis. The volume represents a significant contribution not only to the study of the sociology of language, but also to education and the social sciences. "This collection demonstrates the magnitude of Bernstein's pioneering contribution to socio-linguistic studies" - S. John Eggleston, Times Educational Supplement

Download or read book Style and Social Identities written by Peter Auer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.

Download or read book Assembling Alternatives written by Romana Huk and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First anthology to examine the national borders of postmodern poetry.

Download or read book Potential Alternative Transportation Fuels Other Than Methanol written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Criterion Referenced Language Testing written by James Dean Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criterion-referenced Language Testing looks at the practical applications of this new area of language testing.

Download or read book The Role of Experience in Children s Language Development A Cultural Perspective written by Priya Shimpi and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cognitive Linguistics written by Mario Brdar and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognitive Linguistics is not a unified theory of language but rather a set of flexible and mutually compatible theoretical frameworks. This volume is of interest to scholars and students wishing to inform themselves about the state and possible future developments of Cognitive Linguistics

Download or read book On the Role of Contrast in Information Structure written by Jorina Brysbaert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In research on Information Structure, there is an ongoing discussion about the role of contrast. While most linguists consider contrast to be compatible with both focus and topic, some argue that it is an autonomous IS category. Contrast has been shown to be encoded by different linguistic means, such as specific morphemes, adverbials, clefts, prosodic cues. Hence, this concept is also related to other domains, in particular morphosyntax and prosody. The precise way in which they interact is however not yet entirely clear. Moreover, from a methodological point of view, the identification and annotation of contrast in corpora is not straightforward. This volume provides a selection of articles discussing the definition of contrast, the importance of distinguishing different types of contrast, the use of several encoding strategies, and the annotation of contrast in corpora using the Question Under Discussion Model. The contributions offer data on English, French, French Belgian Sign Language, German, Hindi, Italian and Spanish.