Language and linguistics emerging trends (Nova Science Publishers, 2009)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
As the call, so the echo: proverbs as cues to cultural knowledge and language change / Kristyl Kepley -- Specifying coordination: an investigation into the syntax of dislocation, extraposition and parenthesis / Mark de Vries -- Learner perception and strategies for pragmatic acquisition: a glimpse into online learning materials / Julie M. Sykes and Andrew D. Cohen -- "Best success through language loss?" An incipient Austrian sociolinguistic study on open questions in education and migration research / Katharina Brizic -- A contribution to the study of Russian euphemistic youth slang / Brian Cooper -- What do we learn on language acquisition from Williams Syndrome? / Agnès Lacroix, Vesna Stojanovik and Ágnes Lukács -- The need for explicit inferential methods in linguistics / Kent Johnson -- 'Doing' disciplinary power: manager-subordinate interaction in a staff meeting / Jonathon Clifton -- Simulation tasks: can EFL learners interact as effectively with each other as they can with native speakers? / Yasuo Nakatani -- The effect of text difficulty of reading comprehension tests on cognitive and metacognitive strategy use / Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz and Hassan Rouhi
"A language is a dynamic set of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon. Language is considered to be an exclusively human mode of communication; although animals make use of quite sophisticated communicative systems, none of these are known to make use of all of the properties that linguists use to define language. This new book presents important research in the field from around the globe."--Jacket