As a subject of universal appeal, spatial demonstratives have been studied extensively from a variety of disciplines. What marks the present study as distinct is that it is an English-Chinese comparative study set in a cognitive-linguistic framework and that the methodology features a parallel corpora-based, discourse analysis approach. The framework illuminates the nature of the demonstratives’ basic and extended meaning and use, the connections between them, and the mechanisms that govern and constrain their trends of extension.
Product Description In the humanities and social sciences, context is one of those terms which is frequently used and frequently referred to, but hardly made explicit. This book proposes a model for describing the multifaceted connectedness between language and language use, and between cognitive context, linguistic context, social context and sociocultural context and their underlying principles of well-formedness, grammaticality, acceptability and appropriateness.
Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology
The second edition of Multiple Intelligences and instructional Technology offers additional insights into the relationship between human intelligence, technology and effective instruction. The teachers are generally very excited about the possibilities of MI theory. The aim of this book is to help teachers dig deeper and and realize the implications of Gardner's theory for diversifying their teaching practices in the classroom. There remains a huge void between Gardner's vision and its successful implementation in instruction.
Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language
This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices.
This brand-new edition has been improved and updated in direct response to feedback from teachers.English learners between the ages of 9/10 - 15 years.
