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Narratives are fundamental to our lives: we dream, plan, complain, endorse, entertain, teach, learn, and reminisce through telling stories. This title illustrates how narratives build bridges among language, identity, interaction, society, and culture.

Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.

Approaches to Discourse Analysis demonstrates the importance of the diverse perspectives that various approaches to discourse bring to bear on human communication. Linguists and other readers interested in the interplay of language and culture will gain new insight and understanding from this rich compilation.

The specific-and varied-ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern. This tripartite work highlights contemporary research exploring innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.

The specific-and varied-ways in which assessment and evaluation can impact learning and teaching have become an important language education research concern. This tripartite work highlights contemporary research exploring innovative uses of assessment and evaluation in a variety of educational contexts.

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded,separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.

The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism offers cutting-edge research from a cadre of international experts who agree that human language learning is a process of learning how to create shared meaning. The articles collected here present a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.

The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism offers cutting-edge research from a cadre of international experts who agree that human language learning is a process of learning how to create shared meaning. The articles collected here present a much-needed exploration of this growing area of linguistic research.

A collection of essays on linguistics and language education. It features contributors who take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. It tackles such issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.

Examines strategies for language acquisition and language teaching, focusing on applications of the strategic interaction method.

Based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, this title covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy through language policy to discourse analysis.

Opens up a discussion among discourse analysts and others in linguistics and related fields about the two-fold impact of communication technologies: the impact on how discourse data is collected, transcribed, and analyzed - and the impact that these technologies are having on social interaction and discourse.

Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded,separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. This volume takes stock of the increasing diversity of linguistic phenomena and more.

Features essays that explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. This title includes topics such as the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world.

Includes topics that explores: how Web 2.0 can be conceptualized and theorized; the role of English on the worldwide web; how use of social media such as Facebook and texting shape communication with family and friends; electronic discourse and assessment in educational and other settings; and more.

Explore the layers of African multilingualism as they affect language policy and education. This book includes case studies ranging across the continent, the contributors consider multilingualism in the classroom as well as in domains ranging from music and film to politics. It also reveals how poor teacher training leads to failures in education.

Neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. This title addresses these perspectives in an effort to build connections among them and to draw pedagogical implications when possible.

Brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. This book examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning.

The 2000 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics brought together distinguished linguists from around the globe to discuss applications of linguistics to important and intriguing real-world issues within the professions. This title features selected papers from this roundtable meeting.

In 2001, the best from around the world in the disciplines of anthropological linguistics and discourse analysis met to share the latest research on linguistic analysis and to address real-world contexts in private and public domains. This work covers topics by the plenary speakers only.

Presents studies using forms of measurement and quantitative analysis current in diverse areas of linguistic research from language assessment to language change, from generative linguistics to experimental psycholinguistics, and from longitudinal studies to classroom research.

Presents both general and theoretical insights and language-specific considerations in college classrooms spanning a range of languages, from the commonly taught languages of English, French, and German to the less commonly taught Farsi, Korean, Norwegian, and Russian. This title highlights a cognitive-semantic approach.

Presents the research in Arabic linguistics from a theoretical point of view, including computational linguistics, syntax, semantics, and historical linguistics. This title covers sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and discourse analysis by looking at issues such as gender, urbanization, and language ideology.

Presents an overview of work in defining, documenting, and developing the world's smaller languages and language varieties. This book shows how we define endangerment - how languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them.