The basic tenet of cognitive linguistics is that every linguistic expression is a construal relation. The first section of this volume focuses on issues of such construal and presentation of information, including figure-ground relations, image-schematic structures, and the role of syntactic constructions in information structure.In sections two and three papers are presented on cross-categorial polysemy between lexical and grammatical uses of a morpheme, and between different grammatical senses, and on the relationship between earlier lexical senses and later grammatical ones.
The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the identities we invent and the true selves we discover along the way. Olivia Laguni is half-Chinese, but typically American in her uneasiness with her patchwork family. And no one in Olivia's family is more embarrassing to her than her half-sister, Kwan Li. For Kwan speaks mangled English, is cheerfully deaf to Olivia's sarcasm, and sees the dead with her "yin eyes."...
Pingu loves English 2 is the second part of a series which is a terrific example of how learning can be interactive and child friendly.It is adopted to the young age and makes it interesting and lots of fun to learn English for kids. It consists of funactivities which every child will enjoy involving all the senses. The whole complex includes Fun Book, Student's book, Teacher's book and audiocassettes. Audio added
Pingu loves English 2 is the second part of a series which is a terrific example of how learning can be interactive and child friendly.It is adopted to the young age and makes it interesting and lots of fun to learn English for kids. It consists of funactivities which every child will enjoy involving all the senses. The whole complex includes Fun Book, Student's book, Teacher's book and audiocassettes.
Reading and writing go hand in hand, as kids match pictures with words, cut and paste, and make their own fun-to-read mini-dictionaries. Words are drawn from favorite themes—Transportation to Farm Animals, Senses to Seasons. Kids will delight in collecting all 15 of these fun, interactive learning tools! 96 pages.
