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Cognitive Modelling in Language and Discourse across Cultures

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought. It also explores areas of convergence between idealised cognitive models and language across fourteen European and non-European languages (Croatian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Polish, Russian, Old Saxon, Sicilian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish). The collection foregrounds the relationship that holds between literalness and figurativeness in meaning construction, it emphasises the role of conceptual metonymy and metaphor as the main cognitive tools at work in inferential activity and as generators of discourse ties, and it also depicts the import of cognitive models in the production and interpretation of multimodal communication. In addition, a number of more specific topics are addressed from different perspectives, such as language variation and cultural models, the argumentative role of metaphor in discourse and the role of empirical work in cognitive linguistics.

This volume deals with core issues in figurative language and figurative thought.

Language History and Linguistic Modelling: Language history

This work presents a collection of some 130 contributions covering a wide range of topics of interest to historical, theoretical and applied linguistics alike. A major theme is the development of English which is examined on several levels in the light of recent linguistic theory in various papers. The geographical dimension is also treated extensively with papers on controversial aspects of a variety of studies, as are topical linguistic matters from a more general perspective.

Language. imperialism. Arthur. van. Essen. 1. Introduction. Europe has just
emerged from an era during which two great ideologies confronted each other:
that of Capitalism and that of Communism. Capitalism was (and is) often accused
of Imperialism, but if we define 'imperialism' as the kind of relationship between
nations whereby one nation dominates another, it is easy to see that not only
Capitalism is guilty of that crime and that imperialism is likely to be as old as
history itself.

A parade of lines

The way men live is a lie. I say that I get so goddamned sick Of all these pig's
rooting at each other's asses To get a bloodstained dollar — Why don't You stop
this senseless horror ! this meaningless Butchery of one another! Why don't you
at least Wash your hands of it ! There is only one truth in the world : Until we learn
to love our neighbor, There will be no life for anyone. The man who says, "I don't
believe in war, But after all somebody must protect us" — Is obviously a fool —
and a ...

Action Research

A Practical Guide for Transforming Your School Library

Are you striving or even struggling to keep your school library alive and find support for your programs? This book shows you how to perform qualitative research and use the results effectively to promote your school library and build a shared understanding of the impact of school libraries on student learning. It gives hands-on guidance for performing action research, including how to establish the context, emphasize the main issue, set goals, anticipate research outcomes, create a plan, use tools and techniques for gathering data, involve others, perform an analysis that will lead to a pattern or theme, and develop conclusions based on the data. Includes a complete, ready-made presentation in PowerPoint on an accompanying CD-ROM. A must for teacher-librarians and school library media specialists seeking to secure and transform school library operations.

Promotes the importance of adapting school libraries to better fit the needs of today's teachers and students. _

100 Must-read Crime Novels

Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the some of the finest crime novels ever published. With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you'll quickly become an expert on the world of crime. The book also allows you to browse by theme, includes 'a reader's fast-guide to the world of crime fiction' as well listing the top 10 crime characters and their creators, award winners and book club recommendations.

Writing underthe pseudonym of Edmund Crispin, he produced some ofthe most
enjoyable English crime fiction of the 1940s ... to the solution of crossword
puzzles – he created one ofthe most memor- able and likeable of all academic
sleuths.

The Story of English in 100 Words

The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages. In The Story of English in 100 Words, an entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word—‘roe'—was written down on the femur of a roe deer in the fifth century. Featuring ancient words (‘loaf'), cutting edge terms that relfect our world (‘twittersphere'), indispensible words that shape our tongue (‘and', ‘what'), fanciful words (‘fopdoodle') and even obscene expressions (the "c word"...), David Crystal takes readers on a tour of the winding byways of our language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprising.

The playful temperament has produced innumerable word games and
competitions, such as crossword puzzles and Scrabble. And one of the earliest
signs of this temperament in English appears in the form of riddles. It took a while
for the ...

Strategies for Integrating Reading and Writing in Middle and High School Classrooms

Research studies indicate that social interactions influence reading strategies (
Wilkinson & Silliman, 2000). For example, Almasi and ... Below is a sample
classroom scenario of group retellings used with a lesson on health or science ...

Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing

Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-nativescientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and filtered by frequency, key word, structure and function, and includes contextual information such as variations, authentic examples and usage notes. The first part of the volumediscusses the creation of this list based on a multimillion-word corpus of biomedical research writing and reveals the structure and functions of lexical bundles and their role in effective scientific communication. A comparative analysis of a non-native corpus highlights non-native scientists’ difficulties’ inemploying lexical bundles. The second part of the volume explores pedagogical applications and provides a series of teaching activities that illustrate how EAP teachers or materials designers can use the list of lexical bundles in their practice.

scientific. discourse. One model of vocabulary acquisition that has had
considerable influence on pedagogical research in ... This strategy is illustrated
by Activity 1, where lexical bundles from the present study's list, along with other
relevant ...