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Author | : Anne Marie Goodfellow |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2005-07-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0773572767 |
Talking in Context demonstrates the importance of cultural contact on the structure of languages and addresses the socio-cultural aspects of indigenous language use in the modern world. Goodfellow's analysis of linguistic data from three generations of Kwak'wala speakers shows that English has greatly influenced grammar and phonology. Even though Kwak'wala is being replaced by English as the language of communication, Goodfellow found that speakers with varying degrees of fluency use the native language tactically to signal Kwak'wala identity and for ceremony.
Author | : Amy Baldwin |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2020-03 |
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ISBN | : 9781951693169 |
Author | : Robyn Brinks Lockwood |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press ELT |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0472037161 |
This text was written for students who want to live, study, and/or work in an English-speaking setting or are already doing so. Its goal is to help students survive interactional English in a variety of social, academic, and professional settings—for example, how to make small talk with recruiters at a job fair or when invited to dinner at their advisor’s house. The text provides language to use for a variety of functions as they might related to life on a university campus: offering greetings and goodbyes, making introductions, giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, using the phone, offering assistance, asking for advice, accepting and declining invitations, giving and receiving compliments, complaining, giving congratulations, expressing condolences, and making small talk. Users are also taught to think beyond the words and to interpret intonation and stress (how things sound). Each of the 10 units includes discussion prompts, language lessons, practice activities, get acquainted tasks (interacting with native speakers), and analysis opportunities (what did they discover and what can they apply?).
Author | : Andrew Hinton |
Publisher | : "O'Reilly Media, Inc." |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1449326579 |
To make sense of the world, we’re always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever—starting with "where" and "who" we are. This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. You’ll discover not only how to design for a given context, but also how design participates in making context. Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environments See how labels, relationships, and rules work as building blocks for context Find out how to make better sense of cross-channel, multi-device products or services Discover how language creates infrastructure in organizations, software, and the Internet of Things Learn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience
Author | : Lida Baker |
Publisher | : Allyn & Bacon |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2008-08 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780135037997 |
Real Talk 2 , by Lida Baker and Judith Tanka, helps teachers transport high-intermediate to advanced students out of the language classroom and into the world of authentic English. Each of the book's eight thematic chapters has four parts: In Person, On the Phone, On the Air, and In Class. With Real Talk 2 , teachers can expose students to spontaneous face-to-face conversations, phone conversations and messages, radio broadcasts, and academic lectures. Features Instruction and practice in language skills for everyday use and for academic situations. Clear explanations and activities to teach natural use of intonation, stress, reductions, thought groups, and difficult-to-pronounce sounds Structured and graduated note-taking activities that prepare students for university and college-level lectures Recorded speakers with a variety of accents, both native and nonnative End-of-chapter synthesizing activities that help students prepare for TOEFL® speaking tasks and academic speaking situations All of these features guide students to communicate confidently and successfully in a wide variety of settings. For intermediate to high-intermediate students, see Real Talk 1.
Author | : Anita Fetzer |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027254061 |
This book departs from the premise that context and appropriateness represent complex relational configurations which can no longer be conceived as analytic primes but rather require the accommodation of micro and macro perspectives to capture their inherent dynamism. The edited volume presents a collection of papers which examine the connectedness between context and appropriateness from interdisciplinary perspectives. The papers use different theoretical frameworks, such as situation theory, speech act theory, cognitive pragmatics, sociopragmatics, discourse analysis, argumentation theory and functional linguistics. They reflect current moves in pragmatics and discourse analysis to cross disciplinary and methodological boundaries by integrating relevant premises and insights, in particular cognition, negotiation of meaning, sequentiality, recipient design and genre.
Author | : Donna R. Vocate |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1136601848 |
Intrapersonal communication is a relatively new phenomenon for communication study and still lacks the grounding of a sound theoretical base. The first to present a developed theory of this discipline, this book's goal is to provide graduate students and professionals with an organized point of departure for their research. The theoretical section begins with an intrapersonal communication theory derived from the sociogenetic views of George Herbert Mead and L.S. Vygotsky. This theory emphasizes social interaction, the developmental nature of mind, and the crucial role of speech in creating a self, a culture, and a mind which then interact in human intrapersonal communication. This section also provides the reader with a coherent interdisciplinary knowledge base taken from speech communication, biology, neurology, cultural psychology, anthropology, sociology, speech pathology, and linguistics. The integrated theoretical perspective that results makes the study compatible with communication scholarship focusing on the social, cultural, cognitive, or performance aspects of communication phenomena. The applications section examines neurophysiological/intrapersonal communication research methods and studies to date, together with specific applications of intrapersonal communication theory to childhood language acquisition, to the establishment of gender identities, and to intrapersonal competence. The final chapter presents pedagogical guidance on how we can influence intrapersonal competence and performance as well as commenting on the current state of this study and its future prospects. The editor's interstitial commentary facilitates access by readers wishing to constuct their own theory.
Author | : James A. Anderson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2000-02-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780262511117 |
Surprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the workings of the human brain. Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the brain's abilities. Many of the early workers in this field of neural networks came from cybernetics; others came from neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, psychology, even economics. In this collection of interviews, those who helped to shape the field share their childhood memories, their influences, how they became interested in neural networks, and what they see as its future. The subjects tell stories that have been told, referred to, whispered about, and imagined throughout the history of the field. Together, the interviews form a Rashomon-like web of reality. Some of the mythic people responsible for the foundations of modern brain theory and cybernetics, such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Frank Rosenblatt, appear prominently in the recollections. The interviewees agree about some things and disagree about more. Together, they tell the story of how science is actually done, including the false starts, and the Darwinian struggle for jobs, resources, and reputation. Although some of the interviews contain technical material, there is no actual mathematics in the book. Contributors James A. Anderson, Michael Arbib, Gail Carpenter, Leon Cooper, Jack Cowan, Walter Freeman, Stephen Grossberg, Robert Hecht-Neilsen, Geoffrey Hinton, Teuvo Kohonen, Bart Kosko, Jerome Lettvin, Carver Mead, David Rumelhart, Terry Sejnowski, Paul Werbos, Bernard Widrow
Author | : Robert Stalnaker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199645167 |
Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they play in explaining the interpretation and dynamics of speech. His central thesis is the autonomy of pragmatics: the independence of theory about structure and function of discourse from theory about mechanisms serving those functions.
Author | : Nicolas Ruytenbeek |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108483178 |
Explores the fascinating phenomenon of indirect speech acts, highlighting the situations they are used in, and how they are understood.