Author : Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225052
This essay is an attempt to build up a plausible model of the cognitive processes behind the behavior exhibited by speaker-hearers in a specific discourse situation.
Author : Michael D. Fortescue
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588110589
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead's philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of language as the 'systematization of expression', and relates meaning to feeling (in the broadest sense). The Whiteheadian perspective allows a synthesis of the psychological and the social approaches to language that does not fall into one or another fashionable form of reductionism. The volume represents a first application of Whitehead's thinking to a broad range of linguistic phenomena, ranging from speech act theory to the production and comprehension of texts, from language acquisition to historical change and the evolution of language. It is argued that Whitehead's holistic philosophy is uniquely suited to the view of language as an emergent phenomenon - regardless of whether one's approach to cognition is via the 'nativist' or the 'functionalist' route.
Author : Stella Vosniadou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136488901
In recent years, the use of technology for the purposes of improving and enriching traditional instructional practices has received a great deal of attention. However, few works have explicitly examined cognitive, psychological, and educational principles on which technology-supported learning environments are based. This volume attempts to cover the need for a thorough theoretical analysis and discussion of the principles of system design that underlie the construction of technology-enhanced learning environments. It presents examples of technology-supported learning environments that cover a broad range of content domains, from the physical sciences and mathematics to the teaching of language and literacy. The emphasis in this book is not on the design of educational software but on the design of learning environments. A great deal of research on learning and instruction has recently moved out of the laboratory into the design of applications in instructional settings. By designing technology-supported learning environments instructional scientists attempt to better understand the theories and principles that are explicit in their theories of learning. The contributors to this volume examine how factors such as social interaction, the creation of meaningful activities, the use of multiple perspectives, and the construction of concrete representations influence the acquisition of new information and transfer.
Author : Michael Fortescue
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441111433
An engaging study of the mental lexicon: the way in which the form and meaning of words is stored by speakers of specific languages.
Author : Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286523
This essay concerns the analysis of speech act verbs. It offers a range of ideas which form theoretical preliminaries to the analysis of this phenomenon.
Author : Rosemarie Schmidt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225559
The research reported in this volume attempts to refine our understanding of persuasive messages of television advertising by studying the role of language in persuasion in two ways. First, it comprises an attempt to refine our understanding of how language might function in persuasion by examining relevant work from a variety of related disciplines, potentially germane either in terms of their theoretical approaches to the process or in terms of the actual linguistic techniques which they have suggested as enhancing the persuasive impact of a message. Second, a comparative study was undertaken in order to test the generalizability of the linguistic features found to characterize persuasive language in television advertising.
Author : H. Borkent
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 1985-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789024731428
Author : Yukio Tsuda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,39 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027225575
This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages, especially English, and speakers of minority languages in the context of international and intercultural communication. Based on a theoretical framework of Distorted Communication developed by J. Habermas and C. Müller, the analysis focuses on a critical description, definition, and interpretation of Distorted Intercultural Communication, and exposes the ideology that legitimates linguistic inequality and distortion in communication.
Author : Jan Prucha
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027286450
This volume describes and evaluates the latest theories, empirical findings, and applications in the field of pragmalinguistics developed in some socialist states of Europe – mainly in Czechoslovakia, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, and the USSR. The results of the author’s own research in pragmatically oriented psycholinguistics are included as well. The main approaches through which the pragmalinguistic studies have been performed in Eastern Europe are those of functional stylistics, textlinguistics, rhetorics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, social communication theory, and semiotics. Much attention is devoted in the book to applied research, mainly in the spheres of education and instruction, mass communication and propaganda.
Author : Jan Nuyts
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027250324
This book is about a theory of language that combines two observations (1) that language is based on an extensive cognitive infrastructure (cognitivism) and (2) that it is functional for its user (functionalism). These observations are regarded as two dimensions of one phenomenon that both need to be accounted for, simultaneously and coherently, in accounting for language. Chapter 1 presents the cognitivist and functionalist points of view and their interrelation and discusses the integration of language research under a cognitive umbrella; the issue of defining 'functions of language', and the formalism-functionalism debate. Chapter 2 criticizes the Chomskyan formalist conception of language and cognition from the perspective of cognitive-pragmatic theory. The focus is on different aspects of the competence-performance dichotomy, and in particular on the nature of linguistic knowledge. The ontogenesis and phylogenesis of language are also discussed. Chapter 3 deals with the potential contribution of a functional-linguistic grammar to an integrated conception of the cognitive systems of language, viz. Dik's Functional Grammar, and introduces the concept of a Functional Procedural Grammar as a more integrative model for language production. Special attention is also paid to the nature of conceptual knowledge and the relationship between language production and interpretation. The debate is illustrated by an analysis of negative-raising.
