Author: Beverly Derewianka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780190333881
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Language in Context
Author: Jason Stanley
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191527556
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals. Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defence of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191527556
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Natural languages all contain constructions the interpretation of which depends upon the situation in which they are used. In Language and Context, Jason Stanley presents a series of essays which develop a theory of how the situation in which we speak interacts with the words we use to help produce what we say. The reason we can so smoothly operate with sentences that can be used to express very different items of information, Stanley argues, is that there are linguistically mandated constraints on the effects of the situation on what we say. These linguistically mandated constraints are most evident in the cases of sentences containing explicit pronouns, such as 'She is a mathematician', where interpretation of the information expressed is guided by the use of the pronoun 'she'. But even when such explicit pronouns are lacking, our sentences provide similar cues to allow our interlocutors to determine the information expressed. We are, in the main, confident that our interlocutors will smoothly grasp what we say, because the grammar and meaning of our sentences encodes these constraints. In defending this theory, Stanley pays close attention to specific cases of context-sensitive constructions, such as quantified noun phrases, comparative adjectives, and conditionals. Philosophers and cognitive scientist have appealed to the dependence of what is intuitively said by a sentence on the situation in which it is uttered to argue against the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language. The theory developed in this book is a vigorous defence of the possibility of a systematic theory of meaning for natural language against these influential tendencies.
Teaching Language in Context
Author: Beverly Derewianka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780190333881
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780190333881
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Language in Context in TESOL
Author: Joan Cutting
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699287
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book covers the relevance of theories on language analysis to TESOL, showing students how to understand and evaluate TESOL methodology, curriculum, and materials in terms of theories including conversation structure, ideology and power.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748699287
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book covers the relevance of theories on language analysis to TESOL, showing students how to understand and evaluate TESOL methodology, curriculum, and materials in terms of theories including conversation structure, ideology and power.
Words in context : a Japanese perspective on language and culture
Author: Takao Suzuki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784770027801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784770027801
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Context in Language Learning and Language Understanding
Author: Kirsten Malmkjær
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521633550
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The papers in this volume represent varied views on the role of context in language learning.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521633550
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The papers in this volume represent varied views on the role of context in language learning.
Teaching Language in Context
Author: Alice Omaggio Hadley
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9780838417058
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT, THIRD EDITION is the essential methods text for anyone teaching or learning to teach a foreign language. TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT combines an updated, comprehensive, readable review of the literature, a thorough bibliography, and sample activities and approaches that effectively model the methodology.
Publisher: Heinle & Heinle Pub
ISBN: 9780838417058
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT, THIRD EDITION is the essential methods text for anyone teaching or learning to teach a foreign language. TEACHING LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT combines an updated, comprehensive, readable review of the literature, a thorough bibliography, and sample activities and approaches that effectively model the methodology.
Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning
Author: Michael Byram
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853596575
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The chapters in this book all address the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. Some consider the implications for the ways in which we research language teaching; others present the results of research and development work.
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853596575
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The chapters in this book all address the significance of the relationship between the aims and methods of language teaching and the contexts in which it takes place. Some consider the implications for the ways in which we research language teaching; others present the results of research and development work.
Language, Meaning and Context
Author: John Lyons
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Context in the System and Process of Language
Author: Ruqaiya Hasan
Publisher: Equinox
ISBN: 9781904768395
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The concept "context of situation" introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining and changing human relationships.
Publisher: Equinox
ISBN: 9781904768395
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The concept "context of situation" introduced by Malinowski some eighty years ago has now become an essential element of the vocabulary of any linguistic theory whose aim is to reveal the nature of language. With the abandonment of the spurious distinction between competence and performance, the process of language, i.e., language use, has claimed its rightful place in the study of language. The chapters of this book focus on the relations of context and text, conceptualising the latter as language operative in some recognizable social context. It is argued that context is not simply a backdrop for the occurrence of words; rather, it is an active element which on the one hand plays a crucial role in the progression of human discourse and on the other enters into and shapes the very nature of language as process and as system, furnishing the foundation for functionality in language. Acting as the interface between language and society, context analysis reveals the power of language for creating, maintaining and changing human relationships.
Language, Context, and Text
Author: Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday
Publisher: Deakin University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher: Deakin University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description