Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1999: Language in Our Time
Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001-09-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781589018549

Marking the return — after a two-year hiatus — of this annual collection of essays on linguistics and language education, the 1999 volume speaks to the most pressing social issues of our time. More than thirty contributors from around the world take up longstanding debates about language diversity, language standardization, and language policy. They tackle such controversial issues as the Official English movement, bilingual education, and ideological struggles over African American Vernacular English.

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1994: Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1994: Educational Linguistics, Cross-Cultural Communication, and Global Interdependence
Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1995-03-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781589018143

The essays in this volume explore communication across cultures using an interdisciplinary approach to language teaching and learning, mediated by the growing field of educational linguistics. Topics include the use of English as a medium of wider communication and the growth of national varieties of English throughout the world. An international array of distinguished contributors includes scholars from China, Great Britain, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nigeria, Singapore, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the United States. This collection suggests that language diversity is a unifying force in a globally interdependent world.

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1996: Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation
Author: James E. Alatis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1996-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781589018532

This volume examines linguistics, language acquisition, and language variation, emphasizing their implications for teacher education and language education. A majority of the essays consider issues in second language acquisition, dealing specifically with learners and instructors, or concentrating on the larger social and societal context in which learning and acquisition occur. Topics highlighted include the current and often controversial debate over bilingual education, language variation, and the past, present, and future role of linguistics in language pedagogy.

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics
Author: Anne Barron
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588113429

The Longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production questionnaires and a variety of metapragmatic instruments.

New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies

New Knowledge in Information Systems and Technologies
Author: Álvaro Rocha
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 642
Release: 2019-03-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030161870

This book includes a selection of articles from The 2019 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’19), held from April 16 to 19, at La Toja, Spain. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges in modern information systems and technologies research, together with their technological development and applications. The book covers a number of topics, including A) Information and Knowledge Management; B) Organizational Models and Information Systems; C) Software and Systems Modeling; D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; E) Multimedia Systems and Applications; F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; H) Big Data Analytics and Applications; I) Human–Computer Interaction; J) Ethics, Computers & Security; K) Health Informatics; L) Information Technologies in Education; M) Information Technologies in Radiocommunications; and N) Technologies for Biomedical Applications.

Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics

Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics
Author: Klaus P. Schneider
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 737
Release: 2020-08-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 311043105X

This handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of a wide range of developmental and clinical issues in pragmatics. Principally, the contributions to this volume deal with pragmatic competence in a native language, in a second or foreign language, and in a selection of language disorders. The topics which are covered explore questions of production and comprehension on the utterance and discourse level. Topics addressed concern the acquisition and learning, teaching and testing, assessment and treatment of various aspects of pragmatic ability, knowledge and use. These include, for example, the acquisition and development of speech acts, implicatures, irony, story-telling and interactional competence. Phenomena such as pragmatic awareness and pragmatic transfer are also addressed. The disorders considered include clinical conditions pertaining to children and to adults. Specifically, these are, among others, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease.