Foreign Language Learning from the Perspective of Individual Well-being -- “Biasing for the Best”: Looking at New Elements in a Model of Language Learner Well-Being -- Polish Adolescents’ Perceptions of English and their Desire to Learn it -- Investigating Language Learning Motivation from an Ideal Language-self Perspective: Results of a Questionnaire Study -- Reading for Remembering: On …
- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Orienting the reader – the legacy of colonialism and cultural imperialism -- Chapter 3. The Aesthetics of beauty – commodification -- Chapter 4. For the woman who wants the world – commodified feminism -- Chapter 5. East meets West – cultural hybridity -- Chapter 6. Men’s voices in women’s magazines -- Chapter 7. Readers’ responses – multi…
- Chapter 1: Introduction; Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Dániel Kádár -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter 2: Pragmatic approaches to (im)politeness; Jonathan Culpeper and Marina Terkourafi -- Chapter 3: Socio-cultural approaches to (im)politeness; Sara Mills -- Chapter 4: Ideology and (im)politeness; Manfred Kienpointner and Maria Stopfner -- Chapter 5: Face and (im)politeness; Jim O’…
- Introduction -- PART I: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1: Discourses on discourse -- Chapter 2: Who’s involved in discourse? -- Chapter 3: What is it that’s going on here? -- Chapter 4: How do you know that? -- Chapter 5: Why that now? -- Chapter 6: What actions are being taken here, by whom and why? -- Chapter 7: How do discourse and social change drive each other? -- PART II: A MULTI-PE…
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…