This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical and empirical background -- Chapter 3. Long-term representation of the entire alternative set -- Chapter 4. The mechanisms of activation and competitive inhibition -- Chapter 5. What's included in the set of alternatives? -- Chapter 6. Contrastive pitch accents and focus particles -- Chapter 7. Conclusions.This book presents a novel experimental…
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
Overview of Geometric Data Analysis (‘Overview’) -- Correspondence Analysis -- Euclidean Cloud -- Principal Component Analysis -- Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) -- Structured Data Analysis -- Stability of a Euclidean Cloud -- Inductive Data Analysis -- Research Case Studies -- Mathematical Bases.Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is the name suggested by P. Suppes (Stanford University) t…
Part One -- Introduction -- Designing annotation schemes: from theory to model -- Designing Annotation schemes: from model to representation -- Community standards -- Creating annotations -- Using annotations -- Part Two: Case Studies -- General Corpora -- Treebanks -- Semantic annotation -- Discourse level annotation -- Speech (transcribed) -- Biomedical annotations.This handbook offers a thor…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Literature Review -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework and Research Methods -- Chapter 4 Heterogeneous Corporate Identities of Banks on Sina Weibo -- Chapter 5 Framing Who We Are: Impression Management Strategies of Corporate Identity Construction on the Sina Weibo -- Chapter 6 Followers' Co-Constructing Banks’ Corporate Identity on Weibo -- Chapter 7 Cross-B…
This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students. Considering the importance and necessity of motivational regulation study in foreign language learning, it systematically explores strategies used by Chinese college students to regulate motivation, taking into account student gender, specialty and English proficiency. The book considers s…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European Languages in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 3. The Translation Trade: Economies of Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Translation and Religion -- Chapter 5. Death of the Author, Birth of the Translator? Translation and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 6. Translation and the Nation -- Chapter 7. The Female Pen…
Chapter 1. Contextualising Chinese language education in the Western Context -- Chapter 2. Chinese language and Duiwai Hanyu Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 3. The debatable role of English (L1) in Duiwai Hanyu (L2) Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 4. Post-lingual pedagogical practice - Hanzi Method -- Chapter 5. Meaning-making - Hanzi orth…
- Chapter 1: Cognitive, social and psychological issues of public discourse and threat communication -- Chapter 2: Proximization: A threat-based model of policy legitimization -- Chapter 3: Health discourse: The war on cancer and beyond -- Chapter 4: Environmental discourse: Climate change -- Chapter 5: Technological discourse: Threats in the cyber-space -- Chapter 6: Immigration and anti-migr…