Over the last several decades, neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have investigated the implicit and explicit continuum in language development and use from theoretical, empirical, and methodological perspectives. This book addresses these perspectives in an effort to build connections among them and to draw pedagogical implications when possible.
Social cognition – an answer to which problem? This volume of articles comprises papers from the 25th annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA), which was held at the University of Huddersfield, England, in July 2005. The theme of the conference was ‘Stylistics and Social Cognition’, and as usual at a PALA conference, this theme was interpreted very widely by the participants, as the reader of this book will no doubt conclude.
Corpus and Sociolinguistics: Investigating age and gender in female talk (Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
Age is by far the most underdeveloped of the sociolinguistic variables in terms of research literature. To-date, research on age has been patchy and has generally focused on the early life-stages such as childhood and adolescence, ignoring, for the most part, healthy adulthood as a stage worthy of scrutiny. This book examines the discourse of adulthood and accounts for sociolinguistic variation, with regards to age and gender, through the exploration of a 90,000 word age-and gender-differentiated spoken corpus of Irish English.
No book is produced by the author alone, but this book could never have been conceived, let alone produced, had it not been for an enormous number of people throughout Europe. Although addressing the general topic of the diagnosis of foreign language proficiency and diagnostic testing in particular, in this book I have drawn heavily on the DIALANG Project (www.dialang.org) for my inspiration, examples and conclusions. Without DIALANG this book would not be here. I am extremely grateful to all who sponsored, designed, worked in and contributed to the DIALANG Project, which started in 1996 and came to the end of its public funding in 2004.
This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to the nature of reality. Specifically, he argues that semantic properties of tensed sentences are best explained by the hypothesis that they ascribe to events temporal properties of futurity, presentness, or pastness and do not merely ascribe relations of earlier than or simultaneity.
