Grammar Meaning And Concepts

Author : Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317665045

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Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts by Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz,Xuehua Xiang Pdf

Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts: A Discourse-Based Approach to English Grammar is a book for language teachers and learners that focuses on the meanings of grammatical constructions within discourse, rather than on language as structure governed by rigid rules. This text emphasizes the ways in which users of language construct meaning, express viewpoints, and depict imageries using the conceptual, meaning-filled categories that underlie all of grammar. Written by a team of authors with years of experience teaching grammar to future teachers of English, this book puts grammar in the context of real language and illustrates grammar in use through an abundance of authentic data examples. Each chapter also provides a variety of activities that focus on grammar, genre, discourse, and meaning, which can be used as they are or can be adapted for classroom practice. The activities are also designed to raise awareness about discourse, grammar, and meaning in all facets of everyday life, and can be used as springboards for upper high school, undergraduate, and graduate level research projects and inquiry-based grammatical analysis. Grammar, Meaning, and Concepts is an ideal textbook for those in the areas of teacher education, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, second language teaching, ESL, EFL, and communications who are looking to teach and learn grammar from a dynamic perspective.

Author : Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317646945

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Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning by Marcello Giovanelli Pdf

Teaching Grammar, Structure and Meaning introduces teachers to some basic ideas from the increasingly popular field of cognitive linguistics as a way of explaining and teaching key grammatical concepts. Particularly suitable for those teaching post-16 English Language, this book offers a methodology for teaching key aspects of linguistic form and an extensive set of learning activities. Written by an experienced linguist and teacher, this book contains: · an evaluation of current approaches to the teaching of grammar and linguistic form · a revised pedagogy based on principles from cognitive science and cognitive linguistics · a comprehensive set of activities and resources to support the teaching of key linguistic topics and text types · a detailed set of suggestions for further reading and a guide to available resources Arguing for the use of drama, role play, gesture, energy dynamics, and visual and spatial representations as ways of enabling students to understand grammatical features, this book explores and analyses language use in a range of text types, genres and contexts. This innovative approach to teaching aspects of grammar is aimed at English teachers, student teachers and teacher trainers.

Author : Geoff Barnbrook
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027296177

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Defining Language by Geoff Barnbrook Pdf

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent significance as a crucial element of language study, definitions also provide a rich potential source of the information needed for Natural Language Processing systems. This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a grammar of definition sentences and parsing software which can extract their functional components. The work is based on definition sentences used in one of the dictionaries from the Cobuild range, and the book includes a brief history of the development of monolingual English dictionaries, an assessment of the concepts of sublanguages and local grammars and a full exploration of the results of the analysis and of the present and future applications of the taxonomy, grammar and parser.

Author : Rodney Huddleston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984-09-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521297044

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Introduction to the Grammar of English by Rodney Huddleston Pdf

Written for students without knowledge of linguistics and unfamiliar with "traditional" grammar, this text concentrates on providing a much needed foundation in Standard English in preparation for more advanced work in theoretical linguistics.

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289186

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly “usage-based”?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship.

Author : Luciana C. de Oliverira,Mary J. Schaleppegrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780194002844

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Focus on Grammar and Meaning by Luciana C. de Oliverira,Mary J. Schaleppegrell Pdf

Focus on Grammar and Meaning explores how to teach grammar effectively to second or foreign language learners aged 5–18. It provides teachers with research insights that will help them to reflect on their classroom practice and enable them to experiment with different ways of teaching grammar. Taking a ‘systemic-functional’ approach, the authors emphasize the importance of linking language and meaning in teaching. Key research studies on grammar instruction are featured, examples from real classroom practice are examined, and activities are provided to help teachers relate the content to their own teaching context. Additional online resources at www.oup.com/elt/teacher/fogm Luciana C. de Oliveira is Associate Professor of TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Mary J. Schleppegrell is Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Author : Craig Hancock
Publisher : Equinox
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1904768105

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Meaning-centered Grammar by Craig Hancock Pdf

Rather than narrowly dividing language between correct and incorrect, this book promotes a respect for the power and usefulness of language in all its forms. It draws from a number of linguistic grammars, traditional grammar, and contemporary composition theory, yet achieves a unified synthesis by seeing each of these as ways to understand the language itself and its natural, inherent, meaning-making grammatical system. The book draws heavily on real world writing, including authors like Annie Dillard, Richard Rodriguez, John McPhee, Alice Walker, Tim O'Brien, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cornel West. Though the book is primarily a linguistically based exploration, the final two chapters move into the practical world of real world application in writing (including punctuation) and reading (grammatical analysis.) It does not stop at the isolated sentence, but considers ways in which grammar works in longer passages and in harmony with rhetorical purposes. Its direct focus is on developing an understanding of language and not on directly changing language behavior. It should be of great interest to writing teachers or grammar teachers looking for alternatives to narrow prescriptive approaches or the disinterested descriptions of much contemporary linguistics.

Author : Vyvyan Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199234660

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How Words Mean by Vyvyan Evans Pdf

In this book, Vyvyan Evans builds a framework for the understanding and analysis of meaning that is at once descriptively adequate and psychologically plausible. In so doing he also addresses current issues in lexical semantics and semantic compositionality, polysemy, figurative language, and the semantics of time and space.

Author : Ronald W. Langacker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110800524

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Grammar and Conceptualization by Ronald W. Langacker Pdf

Grammar and Conceptualization documents some major developments in the theory of cognitive grammar during the last decade. By further articulating the framework and showing its application to numerous domains of linguistic structure, this book substantiates the claim that lexicon, morphology, and syntax form a gradation consisting of assemblies of symbolic structures (form-meaning pairings).

Author : Robert Lawrence Trask
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9780415413596

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Language and Linguistics by Robert Lawrence Trask Pdf

"The new edition of this A-Z guide explores the main concepts and terms used in the study of language and linguistics. Containing over 300 entries, thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this book includes entires in: cognitive linguistics; discourse analysis; phonology and phonetics; psycholinguistics; sociolinguistics; and syntax and semantics." "Beginning with brief definition, each entry is followed by a comprehensive explanation of the origin and usage of the term. The book is cross-referenced throughout and includes further reading for academics and students alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Michele Prandi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027223653

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The Building Blocks of Meaning by Michele Prandi Pdf

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources internal to language, inferencing essentially depends on a layered system of autonomous shared conceptual structures, which include both cognitive models and consistency criteria grounded in a natural ontology. Inference guided by coding is not a residual pragmatic device but it is a direct way to long-term conceptual structures that guide the connection of meanings. The interaction of linguistic forms and concepts is particularly clear in conceptual conflict where conflictual complex meanings provide insights into the roots of significance and the linguistic structure of metaphors. Complementing a formal analysis of linguistic structures with a substantive analysis of conceptual structures, a philosophical grammar provides insights from both formal and functional approaches toward a more profound understanding of how language works in constructing and communicating complex meanings. This monograph is ideally addressed to linguists, philosophers and psychologists interested in language as symbolic form and as an instrument of human action rooted in a complex conceptual and cognitive landscape.

Author : Thomas E. Payne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521763295

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Understanding English Grammar by Thomas E. Payne Pdf

Unlike other textbooks, it helps students to understand grammar rather than see it as a set of facts and rules.

Author : Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Meaning (Psychology)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111280165

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Meaning and the Components of Grammar by Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach Pdf

Author : Holden Härtl,Heike Tappe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110919585

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Mediating between Concepts and Grammar by Holden Härtl,Heike Tappe Pdf

Researchers with backgrounds in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and psychology have contributed to the interdisciplinary discussion of the interface between conceptual representations and linguistic structures. This book fills a critical gap in cognitive science. The study implements the objective of determining the impact that adjoining non-linguistic cognitive systems have on linguistic encoding, the mapping between representations, and the requirements of language processing. In this setting event conceptualization and verbalization is treated as one central phenomenon from the different interdisciplinary viewpoints. Theoretical analyses are confronted with psycholinguistic findings about the processing of event representations. Further empirical issues like the influence of visual perception on speech become apparent since we are primarily concerned with the overall architecture of the language processing system as an integral part of the cognitive endowment. Here, the lexicon is recognized as a mediator between linguistic and non-linguistic, semantic and syntactic components. The volume constitutes a major contribution to knowledge in the field and will be of value to an interdisciplinary audience.

Author : James E. Purpura
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521802819

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Assessing Grammar by James E. Purpura Pdf

This book provides an accessible treatment of the issues surrounding the assessment of language learners' grammatical abilities.