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Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds
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Language, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social KindsLanguage, Culture, and Mind: Natural Constructions and Social Kinds

Based on fieldwork carried out in a Mayan village in Guatemala, this book examines local understandings of mind through the lens of language and culture. It focuses on a variety of grammatical structures and discursive practices through which mental states are encoded and social relations are expressed: inalienable possessions, such as body parts and kinship terms; interjections, such as 'ouch' and 'yuck'; complement-taking predicates, such as 'believe' and 'desire'; and grammatical categories such as mood, status and evidentiality.
 
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Tags: through, grammatical, complement, taking, predicates, grammatical, through, Language, Social, Kinds
Assessing Grammar
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Assessing GrammarAssessing Grammar

A renewed interest in grammar, from pedagogical and research perspectives, has created the need for new approaches to assessing the grammatical ability of language learners. This book presents a comprehensive framework of second language grammatical knowledge and uses this as a base to help readers create their own assessment tools to test students' grammar.
 
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Tags: grammar, grammatical, language, readers, knowledge, Assessing, grammar, Grammar
The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students (Second Language Acquisition)
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The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students (Second Language Acquisition)This book is a significant contribution to an under-studied aspect of SLA research, namely the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by immersion students who have learnt their second language primarily in an educational context. The student’s mastery of sociolinguistic competence is measured in relation to a range of phonetic, lexical and grammatical variants and to the factors that influence such mastery.
 
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Tags: sociolinguistic, mastery, lexical, grammatical, phonetic
Let's Chant, Let's Sing Book 4 with Audio
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Let's Chant, Let's Sing Book 4 with AudioLet's Chant, Let's Sing is a six-level series of delightful chants and songs that help children to learn and review basic language
Carolyn Graham is the creator of Jazz Chants, which connect the rhythm of spoken American English to the beatof jazz.
 
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Tags: structures, grammatical, American, English, Chant, connect, which, creator, rhythm
First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development
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First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical DevelopmentFirst Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child's first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning.
 
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Tags: verbs, First, author, grammatical, cognitive, Verbs, language, first