"Body Language: How to Read Others Thoughts by Their Gestures" by Allan Pease
Allan Pease: "As a young boy, I was always aware that what people said was not always what they meant or were feeling and that it was..."
Everybody knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and, within minutes, give an accurate description about the relationships and feelings those people are experiencing. This ability to read a person’s attitudes and thoughts by their behaviour was the original communication system used by humans before spoken language evolved.
Dialogue with Bakhtin on Second and Foreign Language Learning - New Perspectives
This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching. Situated within a strong conceptual framework and drawing from a rich empirical base, it reflects recent scholarship in applied linguistics that has begun to move away from formalist views of language as universal, autonomous linguistic systems, and toward an understanding of language as dynamic collections of cultural resources. According to Bakhtin, the study of language is concerned with the dialogue existing between linguistic elements and the uses to which they are put in response to the conditions of the moment. Such a view of language has significant implications for current understandings of second- and foreign-language learning.
The contributors draw on some of Bakhtin's more significant concepts, such as dialogue, utterance, heteroglossia, voice, and addressivity to examine real world contexts of language learning. The chapters address a range of contexts including elementary- and university-level English as a second language and foreign language classrooms and adult learning situations outside the formal classroom. The text is arranged in two parts. Part I, "Contexts of Language Learning and Teaching," contains seven chapters that report on investigations into specific contexts of language learning and teaching. The chapters in Part II, "Implications for Theory and Practice," present broader discussions on second and foreign language learning using Bakhtin's ideas as a springboard for thinking.
This is a groundbreaking volume for scholars in applied linguistics, language education, and language studies with an interest in second and foreign language learning; for teacher educators; and for teachers of languages from elementary to university levels. It is highly relevant as a text for graduate-level courses in applied linguistics and second- and foreign-language education.
Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax Syntactic Carpentry: An Emergentist Approach to Syntax
presents a groundbreaking approach to the study of sentence formation.
Building on the emergentist thesis that the structure and use of
language is shaped by more basic, non-linguistic forces—rather than by
an innate Universal Grammar—William O'Grady shows how the defining
properties of various core syntactic phenomena (phrase structure,
co-reference, control, agreement, contraction, and extraction) follow
from the operation of a linear, efficiency-driven processor. This in
turn leads to a compelling new view of sentence formation that subsumes
syntactic theory into the theory of sentence processing, eliminating
grammar in the traditional sense from the study of the language
faculty. With this text, O'Grady advances a growing body
of literature on emergentist approaches to language, and situates this
work in a broader picture that also includes attention to key issues in
the study of language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and
agrammaticism. This book constitutes essential reading for anyone interested in syntax
and its place in the larger enterprise of cognitive science. The primary objective of this book is to advance the emergentist thesis
by applying it to a difficult and important set of problems that arise
in the syntax of natural language. The particular idea that I explore
is that the defining properties of many important syntactic phenomena arise from the operation of a
general efficiency-driven processor rather than from autonomous
grammatical principles. As I will try to explain in much more detail in
the pages that follow, this sort of approach points toward a possible
reduction of the theory of sentence structure to the theory of sentence
processing.
The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
The Handbook of Second Language Acquistion presents an integrated discussion of key, and sometimes controversial, issues in second language acquistion (SLA) research.
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