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The human mind is a marvelous device that effectively regulates mental activities and facilitates amendable cognitive behaviour across several domains such as attention, memory, and language processing. For multilinguals, the mind also represents and manages more than one language systemΓÇöa mental exercise which may lead to cognitive benefits. Through an in-depth exploration of these issues, Cognitive control and consequences of multilingualism presents original studies and new perspectives which are cutting-edge and feature traditional and innovative methodologies such as ERPs, fMRIs, eye-tracking, picture- and numeral naming, the Simon, flanker, and oculomotor Stroop tasks, among others. The studies in this book investigate prominent themes in multilingual language control for both comprehension and production and probe the notion of a cognitive advantage that may be a result of multilingualism. The growing number of researchers, practitioners, and students alike will find this volume to be an instrumental source of readings that illuminates how one mind accommodates and controls multiple languages and the consequences it has on human cognition in general.

This work aims to provide an in-depth study and background information pertaining to lexicography and terminology, focusing on English words abroad.

This title examines what we actually know about the effects of literature on the reader. The title applies methods of the social sciences to literary theory, presenting a psychological explanation based on the conception of literature as a moral laboratory.

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners' performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these theories in a series of empirical studies. The book examines different types of planning (i.e. task rehearsal, pre-task planning and within-task planning), addressing both what learners do when they plan and the effects of the different types of planning on L2 production. The choice of planning as the variable for investigation in this book is motivated both by its importance for current theorizing about L2 acquisition (in particular with regard to cognitive theories that view acquisition in terms of information processing) and its utility to language teachers and language testers, for unlike many other constructs in SLA 'planning' lends itself to external manipulation. The study of planning, then, provides a suitable forum for demonstrating the interconnectedness of theory, research and pedagogy in SLA.

The term "applied linguistics" is used in a broad sense and describes several examples of the cooperation between linguists and public service institutions or commercial companies. This title aims to highlight the importance of applied linguistic research concerning the deployment of multilingualism, and to stimulate the debate about it.

Describes methodological and technological approaches to corpus building and presents research based on the "Norwegian Newspaper Corpus". This book gives an overview of the corpus and its system architecture, and presents tools used for tasks such as text harvesting, annotation, topic classification and extraction and more.

Presents developments in the linguistics of humour. This volume depicts theoretical proposals for capturing different humorous forms and phenomena central to humour research, thereby extending its scope.

Words are never used in isolation but in combination and not with any word but only with certain specific words. This dictionary reconstructs the frame to which 3,000 Italian entries belong and aims to help non-Italian speakers with an advanced linguistic competence to find the appropriate word combinations for communicating in Italian.