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  • Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

    The State of the Field

    by Sara M. Beaudrie, Marta Fairclough, Guadalupe Valdés, Susana V. Rivera-Mills, Jennifer Leeman, Glenn Martínez, Andrew Lynch, Silvina Montrul, Derrin Pinto0, Ana M. Carvalho1, Cynthia M. Ducar2, Kim Potowski3, Maria M. Carreira4, M. Cecilia Colombi5, Joseph Harrington6 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Spanish Linguistics series
    There is growing interest in heritage language learners—individuals who have a personal or familial connection to a nonmajority language. Spanish learners represent the largest segment of this population in the United States.In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States. They also address the central ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Meme Machine

    by Susan Blackmore ...
    Series series Popular Science
    Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an investigation of whether this link between genes and ... Read more

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  • The Language Myth

    Why Language Is Not an Instinct

    by Vyvyan Evans ...
    Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human 'instinct' pre-programmed in us from birth. In this book, Vyvyan Evans argues that this received wisdom is, in fact, a myth. Debunking the notion of a language 'instinct', Evans demonstrates that language is related to other ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Interpreting Figurative Meaning

    by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr, Herbert L. Colston ...
    Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated with interpreting figurative language. There is now a huge, often contradictory literature on how people understand figures of speech. Gibbs and Colston argue that there may not be a single theory or model that adequately ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language

    Edited by Edith L. Bavin ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development. Grouped into five thematic sections, the handbook is organized by topic, making it easier for students and researchers to use when looking up specific in-depth information. It covers a wider range of subjects than any other ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • The Psychology of Language

    From Data to Theory

    by Trevor A. Harley ...
    Now in full colour, this fully revised edition of the best-selling textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language for undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers. It contains everything the student needs to know about how we acquire, understand, produce, and store language.Whilst maintaining both the structure of the previous editions and the ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas

    Papua New Guinea Studies

    by Geoffrey B. Saxe ...
    Series series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
    Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community. In traditional life, the Oksapmin used a counting system that makes use of twenty-seven parts of the body; there is no evidence that the group used arithmetic ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Referential Communication Tasks

    by George Yule ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Referential communication is the term given to communicative acts, generally spoken, in which some kind of information is exchanged between one speaker and another. This information exchange is typically dependent on successful acts of reference, whereby entities (human and non-human) are identified (by naming or describing), are located or moved relative to other entities (by giving instructions ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • on Becoming A Language Educator

    Personal Essays on Professional Development

    Edited by Christine Pears Casanave, Sandra R. Schecter ...
    These personal essays by first and second language researchers and practitioners reflect on issues, events, and people in their lives that helped them carve out their career paths or clarify an important dimension of their missions as educators. Their narratives depict the ways in which professionals from diverse backgrounds and work settings have grappled with issues in language education that ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Reading in a Second Language

    Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Issues

    by Xi Chen, Vedran Dronjic, Rena Helms-Park ...
    Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ourselves

    Why We Are Who We Are

    by Frank Smith ...
    This book delves into how we come to terms with ourselves, with other people, and with the world in general. It is about how we come to be what we are, and to think the way we do. It is a book about influences on this process. A particular influence to which Smith gives central consideration is language, not just in terms of the communicative networks in which it engages us--the “information” that ... Read more

    $52.99 USD