Discourse: A Critical Introduction (Key Topics in by Jan Blommaert

Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory (Routledge Leading Linguists)

Professor Howard Lasnik is without doubt one of the world's major theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and significant paintings in components comparable to syntactic idea, logical shape, and learnability. This choice of essays attracts jointly a few of his most sensible paintings from his gigantic contribution to linguistic idea.

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Opposed to a backdrop of the ethnic strife within the Balkans and the cave in of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro got here into being and exhibits how their genesis displays ethnic, non secular, and political identification. His first-hand observations prior to and after Communism supply insights into the character of language swap and the relation among language and id.

Learning Languages, Learning Life Skills: Autobiographical Reflexive Approach to Teaching and Learning a Foreign Language: 8 (Educational Linguistics)

Studying Languages, studying lifestyles talents bargains an autobiographical reflexive method of international language schooling. The orientation of the booklet is functional, containing wealthy descriptions of language studying events together with actual language use and pupil tales. educating, together with making plans, equipment, school room paintings and evaluate, and case reviews of 'good' language studying and the way discussion in accordance with reminiscing can be utilized to advertise scholars’ overall healthiness within the language school room are defined intimately.

The Welsh Language in the Digital Age (White Paper Series)

This white paper is a part of a sequence that promotes wisdom approximately language expertise and its power. It addresses educators, newshounds, politicians, language groups and others. the provision and use of language expertise in Europe varies among languages. for that reason, the activities which are required to additional aid learn and improvement of language applied sciences additionally fluctuate for every language.