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Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006342991
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Barkhuizen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131728609X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research written by Gary Barkhuizen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on Language Teacher Identity Research is the first book to present understandings of language teacher identity (LTI) from a broad range of research fields. Drawing on their personal research experience, 41 contributors locate LTI within their area of expertise by considering their conceptual understanding of LTI and the methodological approaches used to investigate it. The chapters are narrative in nature and take the form of guided reflections within a common chapter structure, with authors embedding their discussions within biographical accounts of their professional lives and research work. Authors weave discussions of LTI into their own research biographies, employing a personal reflective style. This book also looks to future directions in LTI research, with suggestions for research topics and methodological approaches. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers interested in language teacher identity as well as language teaching and research more generally.
Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595587616
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book On Language written by Noam Chomsky and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work. On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In Part I, Language and Responsibility, Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking. In Part II, Reflections on Language, Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language. “Language and Responsibility is a well-organized, clearly written and comprehensive introduction to Chomsky’s thought.” —The New York Times Book Review “Language and Responsibility brings together in one readable volume Chomsky’s positions on issues ranging from politics and philosophy of science to recent advances in linguistic theory. . . . The clarity of presentation at times approaches that of Bertrand Russell in his political and more popular philosophical essays.” —Contemporary Psychology “Reflections on Language is profoundly satisfying and impressive. It is the clearest and most developed account of the case of universal grammar and of the relations between his theory of language and the innate faculties of mind responsible for language acquisition and use.” —Patrick Flanagan
Author : Rod Ellis
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1788920155
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Task-Based Language Teaching written by Rod Ellis and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the author’s experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved. It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.
Author : Jerry H. Gill
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816516698
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (166 download)
Download or read book If a Chimpanzee Could Talk and Other Reflections on Language Acquisition written by Jerry H. Gill and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it that chimpanzees can learn to "speak" at a higher level than some so-called wolf children? What happened that day in the pumphouse, when Helen Keller suddenly grasped the meaning of words? And picture this: a father and mother who shun the advice of professionals, who doggedly force their way into the closed world of their autistic son, and who reverse his grim prognosis, revealing him to be gifted. How to explain? In this book, a philosopher combines these famous cases with a lifetime of study to examine the threshold of language--that point "between speech and not quite speech." He provides fascinating accounts of the deaf and blind Helen Keller, of chimpanzees like Washoe, and of feral children such as Victor, the "wild boy of Aveyron," putting a new spin on their stories. When does it start, he asks, that miracle most of us take for granted? Where does it come from, that uniquely human power to transform perception and action into thought and the singular activity we call speech? Here is evidence that, for chimp or child, the crucial factors in acquiring language have less to do with intellect and everything to do with social interaction. Here is confirmation that the "give-and-take, push-and-pull" of daily life forces virtually all of us to acquire language simply to live and work together. Author Jerry Gill offers no pat answers. Rather, he emphasizes imitation and reciprocity--for example, playing pat-a-cake with a baby--as essential to becoming part of a speaking community "and thereby becoming a human being." In addition, Gill gives dozens of examples to show how gesture and facial expression both create and change the meaning of language. In compelling fashion, he underscores the point that language acquisition can be fully understood only in terms of such physical and social activity. The author exposes the flaws of research focused mainly on mental processes and gives little credit to findings based upon artificially contrived experiments. With vigor, compassion, and a broad-minded humanism, these pages invite the reader to think again about how we say what we mean, how we mean what we say, and where it all starts in the first place. Valuable to students of psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and anthropology, the book will also appeal to general readers who welcome an opportunity to explore familiar things in a new and entirely enjoyable way.
Author : Cedric Boeckx
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 3961103283
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Reflections on language evolution written by Cedric Boeckx and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay reflects on the fact that as we learn more about the biological underpinnings of our language faculty, the dominant evolutionary narrative coming out of the linguistic tradition most explicitly oriented towards biology ("biolinguistics") appears increasingly implausible. This text offers ways of opening up linguistic inquiry and fostering interdisciplinarity, taking advantage of new opportunities to provide quantitative, testable hypotheses concerning the complex evolutionary path that led to the modern human language faculty. The essay is structured around three main themes: (i) renewed appreciation for the comparative method applied to cognitive questions, leading to the identification of elementary but fundamental abstractions in non-linguistic species relevant to language; (ii) awareness of the conceptual gaps between disciplines, and the need to carefully link genotype and phenotype without bypassing any "intermediate" levels of description (certainly not the brain); and (iii) adoption of a "philosophical" outlook that puts the complexity of biological entities front and center.
Author : Robert Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Reflections on the English Language written by Robert Baker and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcel Bax
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027297169
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Language and Language Learning written by Marcel Bax and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching. While interdisciplinary in scope, the volume encompasses theoretical advances in (educational) linguistic thinking; for example, the perceptive articles written by Michael Byram, Christopher N. Candlin, Natalia Gvishiani, Peter Jordens, Jan Koster, Leo van Lier, and Bondi Sciarone — as well as a sample of the latest methodological developments in areas such as ELT, LSP, and content-based language teaching; cases in point are the useful contributions by Jeanine Deen & Hilde Hacquebord, Michaël Goethals, Paul Meara & Ignacio Rodríguez Sánchez, Rosamond Mitchell & Christopher Brumfit, and Uta Thürmer.
Author : Gerlinde Mautner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135147051
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Language and the Market Society written by Gerlinde Mautner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language plays a central role in creating and sustaining the market society - a society in which market exchange is no longer simply a process, but an all-encompassing social principle. The book examines the phenomena from a linguistic and critical perspective, drawing on critical discourse analysis and sociological treatises of market society.
Author : 中西進
Publisher : 出版文化産業振興財団
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book 英文版 『美しい日本語の風景』他所収 written by 中西進 and published by 出版文化産業振興財団. This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages change over time. No matter how hard we try to control and regulate them, they exist in a state of endless metamorphosis. This does not mean, though, that we should simply stand by and watch as language devolves into nonsense. What should we do, then? Recognizing the inevitability of change is a given, of course. But we must also navigate the delicate line between the pull of popular trends and the urge to cling blindly to the ways of the past. The ideal balance, Professor Nakanishi argues in this book, lies in being "one step behind the times," which is the best approach for wielding.
Author : Ben Kessler
Publisher : ICRL Press
ISBN 13 : 1936033240
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Rivers of Wind written by Ben Kessler and published by ICRL Press. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of ecological catastrophe, indigenous persecution, and the attempted mechanization of the living world, the beauty of the earth remains defiantly vibrant. The voice of the world still speaks in tongues of wind and water, feather and flame, whether we listen or not. Alternately lyric and scientific, critical and moving, Ben Kessler examines the relationships between nature and language, colonial and native cultures, and extinction and memory, and in doing so presents a unique vision of our place in an ancient, fragile living world. Kessler is a teacher, field biologist, gardener, activist, painter, and nurseryman. He lives in a little hollow in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia.
Author : Herman Rapaport
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289277
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Heidegger and Derrida written by Herman Rapaport and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the spell of Jacques Derrida grows stronger, with more translations and analyses appearing every season, it is possible--and necessary--to determine what in his work is truly new and what continues philosophical and literary traditions. Although Martin Heidegger ahs been mentioned before as a precursor of deconstruction, Herman Rapaport is the first to develop the connections between the writings of the German philosopher and Derrida. Heidegger and Derrida discusses the French philosopher's adoption of certain Heideggerean themes and his extension or overturning of them. But Rapaport does more than show how deconstruction builds on the philosophical foundations laid by Heidegger (and also by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud). In the most comprehensive study of Derrida's works to date, he tackles the problem of writing an intellectual history about a figure who has put into question the possibility of such a construction and acknowledges Derrida's concerns with Jewish history in relation to Western thought.
Author : Aarnes Gudmestad
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027263558
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition written by Aarnes Gudmestad and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses, variationism) have come together to identify challenges researchers face when collecting, coding, and analyzing data and to provide guidance for making advancements regarding these aspects of research method. This volume also showcases three types of critical reflection. One involves building a relevant corpus of published investigations and using that database to identify methodological issues in existing research. Another consists of recoding and reanalyzing published work, before reflecting on the impact that these decisions have on observations made about interlanguage. The third begins with a particular area of or approach to second language acquisition and then offers a critical examination on the challenges that characterize the selected area or approach. Researchers and graduate students alike will benefit from an open discussion on methodological issues that are in need of improvement.
Author : Spyros Themelis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000328740
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Critical Reflections on the Language of Neoliberalism in Education written by Spyros Themelis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to underpin these dynamics. Combining essays from over 20 internationally renowned contributors, this text offers a critical examination of key terms which have become increasingly central to educational discourse. Each essay considers the etymological foundation of each term, the context in which they have evolved, and likewise their changed meaning. In doing so, these essays illustrate the transformative potential of language to express or challenge political, social, and economic ideologies. The text’s musings on the language of education and its implications for the current and future role of education in society make clear its relevance to today’s cultural and political landscape. This exploratory monograph will be of interest to doctoral students, researchers, and scholars with an interest in the philosophy of education, educational policy and politics, as well as the sociology of education and the impacts of neoliberalism.
Author : Andy Curtis
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781800501409
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education written by Andy Curtis and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many aspects of language education that have been covered extensively in the literature, from methodologies to technologies, Leadership in Language Education (LiLE) has received very little attention - until recently.As the world saw, during the global pandemic, poor leadership at the highest levels costs lives. The world needs better leaders - at every level of society - and Reflecting on Leadership in Language Education represents the first time that Reflective Practice has been positioned at the forefront of leadership development in language education. It is also the first book ever to bring together 300 years of LiLE experience into a single volume, capturing the insights from three centuries of lived LiLE experiences for the generations of leaders to come.
Author : Abe Soheili
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527500705
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Persian Grammar written by Abe Soheili and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first authoritative survey of the historical developments of Persian grammar, from the first attested work some 200 years ago to the present day. It examines the development of Persian linguistic thought in five different periods, and analyses the underlying assumptions of the grammars belonging to each period in light of contemporary ideas on the nature of grammar and new frameworks for grammatical analysis. This historical survey shows the profound influence of Arabic and Western linguistic thinking on the development of Persian grammar, as well as a dramatic shift of perspective from a traditional grammatical analysis to new and divergent procedures adopted by more recent schools of linguistics. The end result of this transition has culminated in less reliance on foreign influence and the emergence of more self-motivated, independent researchers in the uncharted territory of Persian grammar and its sub-components. The two comprehensive Persian and English glossaries at the end of the book will enable readers to better understand the grammatical concepts covered here.
