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  • Multimodal Affordances in Diplomatic Interpreting

    An SF-MDA Approach

    by Xinqiao Cen, Derek Irwin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    This book offers an in-depth exploration of diplomatic interpreting as a complex form of multimodal interaction, drawing on examples from China–U.S. diplomatic interpreting activities to demonstrate the nuances of meaning transfer across modes and contexts.The volume introduces the notion of interpreting being inherently multimodal through its employment of a range of semiotic repertoires, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Genre Changes and Privileged Pedagogic Identity in Teaching Contest Discourse

    by Ning Liu, Derek Irwin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes how the English as a Second Language (ESL) pedagogic genre has been re-contextualized in the Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press National College English Teaching Contest (SFLEP) for presentation to the contest judges and audience. Departing from prior research on contest discourse, it focuses on the role of teaching contests in re-contextualizing educational practices. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Origins of Human Communication

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    by Muriel Saville-Troike, Karen Barto ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics
    Providing a solid foundation in second language acquisition, this book has become the leading introduction to the subject for students of linguistics, psychology and education, and trainee language teachers. Now in its third edition, the textbook offers comprehensive coverage of fundamental concepts, including second language acquisition (SLA) in adults and children, in formal and informal ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

    by Danny Steinberg ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course.Cognitive Linguistics explores the idea that language reflects our experience of the world. It shows that our ability to use language is closely ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Understanding Reading

    A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Reading and Learning to Read, Sixth Edition

    by Frank Smith ...
    Series series Routledge Education Classic Edition
    Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field. In the sixth edition of this classic text Smith’s purpose remains the same: to shed light on fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading – linguistic, physiological, psychological, and social – and of what is involved in learning to read ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Deductive Reasoning and Strategies

    Edited by Walter Schaeken, Gino De Vooght, Andr‚ Vandierendonck, G‚ry d'Ydewalle, Gery d'Ydewalle ...
    This book brings together both theoretical and empirical research directed toward the role of strategies in deductive reasoning. It offers the first systematic attempt to discuss the role of strategies for deductive reasoning. The empirical chapters correspond well with the main issues in the study of deduction, namely propositional reasoning, spatial reasoning, and syllogistic reasoning. In ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Error Analysis

    Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition

    by Jack C. Richards ...
    Series series Applied Linguistics and Language Study
    The eleven essays in this book cover a wide range of topics from the role of 'interlanguage' and the influence of external factors on the process of language learning, to the development of syntax and the methodology of error analysis. Collectively they provide a valuable perspective on the learning process, which both enriches our theoretical understanding of the processes underlying second ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Subjectivity and Selfhood

    Investigating the First-Person Perspective

    by Dan Zahavi ...
    What is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of consciousness. He ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Meaning in English

    An Introduction

    by Javier Valenzuela ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to the English Language
    This lively, compact textbook introduces readers to semantics - the study of how we construct meaning in communication. Easy to follow, and with a clear structure, it explains formal terminology in a simple and understandable way, without using formal notation or logic, and draws on dozens of examples from up-to-date empirical research findings. Offering a tight integration of classic semantic ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Instruction of Imagination

    Language as a Social Communication Technology

    by Dr. Daniel Dor ...
    Series series Foundations of Human Interaction
    The book suggests a new perspective on the essence of human language. This enormous achievement of our species is best characterized as a communication technology - not unlike the social media on the Net today - that was collectively invented by ancient humans for a very particular communicative function: the instruction of imagination. All other systems of communication in the biological world ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • Cognitive Linguistics

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    by Vyvyan Evans ...

    $36.89 USD