Language learning: speaking skills Books

This book contains all kinds of real talks and exciting stories which can be shared among the teachers, parents, grand parents, siblings, friends, and relatives in various daily life environments like school activities, parties, traveling, fun games,...

Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. The...

This volume discusses two distinct perspectives on the analysis of argumentative discourse: the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. It intends to open a thorough discussion of the two approaches, their commonalities and...

Is googly a metaphor for surprises of all sorts? Can hat tricks turn contrarian to transform into a metaphor for successive defeats? Where do you use umpire and referee as metaphors? Are they really two different metaphors? As you sprint towards the...

SELF IMPROVEMENTWhat do getting a job, earning a promotion, making the right friends, and boosting your confidence all have in common? Doing each one of those things is a whole lot easier when you can speak and write without making grammatical mistakes...

The focus of this volume is on how language is used between adults and children. The results is a volume that will appeal to readers in language development and narrative discourse. Has the potential to become a classic graduate-level text/reference.

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging. Although these advances are each highly relevant to the determination...

This book uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children.

Created as the text book for the Speaking Canadian English course at Sheridan College, English is Crazy (EiC), (Originally English is Stupid), is a manual for learning spoken English. English conversation follows different rules from...

Die Metonymie im Deutschen ist ein bislang vernachlässigtes Thema. Bei dieser Forschungslücke setzt das Buch an und befasst sich mit dem deutschsprachigen Migrationsdiskurs. Die Arbeit ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und verbindet...

Die Analyse untersucht die fragesatztypischen Modalpartikeln denn, eigentlich, etwa, wohl, überhaupt, bloß, doch und schon. Diese werden in ihrer Funktion analysiert und in zwei Gruppen nach ihrer Bedeutung unterteilt. Für jede Partikel werden...

Über Sprechakte reden bedeutet für Sprechakttheoretiker in der Regel über Illokutionen reden. Seltsamerweise, denn sprechend zu wirken ist der wesentliche Antrieb für verbale Kommunikation. Eine der interessantesten Fragen dürfte doch wohl sein, wie...

When we use a language we are always aware of our audience. This awareness is reflected, for example, in changes to the way we speak to the same person in different contexts or to different people in the same context. This book explores the way in which...

Während der Kunde in Deutschland seit 50 Jahren über sämtliche Medien beworben wird, steckt die kommerzielle Werbung in Armenien noch in den Kinderschuhen. Wie sich die erheblichen wirtschaftlichen, politischen und soziokulturellen Unterschiede zwischen...

Die Arbeiten zu Goethe und Thomas Mann spüren der Ranghöhe ihrer Sprachkunst nach. Diese wird an der Wortverwendung sichtbar gemacht und durch Textvergleiche verdeutlicht. Bei der Untersuchung des Tierepos vom Reineke Fuchs erweist sich das textbezogene...

El objetivo de este libro es el análisis semantico-formal del componente morfológico de la lengua española. Para ello se ha recurrido a la semántica europea de Benveniste, Hjelmslev, Coseriu, etc. Siguiendo sus principios metodológicos, se han logrado...

Das Thema Fremdwortbildung gehört erst seit kurzem zum Forschungsgegenstand der germanistischen Wortbildungslehre. In traditionellen Arbeiten blieb dieser Bereich - auch aus puristischen Gründen - dagegen weitgehend ausgespart. Die Bestrebungen, diese...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, ...

This volume represents the culmination of an extensive research project that studied the development of linguistic form/function relations in narrative discourse. It is unique in the extent of data which it analyzes--more than 250 texts from children and...

Throughout the world, there are phoneticians who have been influenced by the teaching, research, and writings of John Laver. Many have worked with him personally, and most of the contributors to this book are people with whom he has had special links or...

I contributi esplorano il ruolo della linguistica contrastiva nel lavoro del traduttore e si concentrano sui problemi posti dal contatto di tre lingue europee: francese, tedesco e italiano. Più in particolare, trattano alcuni "punti di conflitto" che...

Diese Arbeit analysiert den Einfluss von verschiedenen Faktoren auf die Grußformelwahl der Deutschen und der Russen und ermittelt via Fragebogenerhebung und mithilfe von kontrastiv-pragmatischen und deskriptiv-inferenzstatistischen Methoden - t-Test und...

Das Arzt-Patient-Gespräch wurde als das Herz der Medizin bezeichnet. Unbestritten ist die Bedeutung für die Gesundung und das Wohlbefinden der Patientinnen und Patienten, aber auch der Ärztinnen und Ärzte selbst. Wie viel wissen wir über...

Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this latter dimension that has been at the centre of recent...

Este volumen recoge una selección de las comunicaciones presentadas en el Congreso Internacional sobre Descortesía y violencia verbal en español, organizado por el Grupo de investigación Argumentación y persuasión en Lingüística en la Universidad de...

L'auteur propose une description syntaxique et sémantique des parémies au prisme d'outils linguistiques comme la généricité implicative, la médiativité, les matrices lexicales, rimiques et rythmiques, permettant d'établir les limites et les libertés des...

We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the...

Lessons On Elocution And Good Reading For Girls: Based On Grammatical Analysis (1870) is a book written by Alexander Kennedy Isbister that provides a comprehensive guide on elocution and good reading for girls. The book is aimed at helping girls improve...

The book investigates the morphology and phonology of the nominal domain in Tagbana of the Senufo group of Côte d'Ivoire. The nominal domain is the locus of a phenomenon called 'alliterative concord', a special kind of concord expressed by consonantal...

El suroccidente de la Península Ibérica ha producido un Sprachbund entre el español y el portugués que se refleja sobre todo en las formas de tratamiento. Este trabajo estudia la evolución en el último siglo de los pronombres de cortesía en dicha zona,...

Il volume approfondisce in maniera sistematica il funzionamento sintattico dei nomi commerciali (o marchionimi) come Adidas o Barilla nell'italiano scritto, ponendo le basi per una grammatica del marchionimo. L'indagine si fonda sull'analisi sintattica...

Gen Z slang is everywhere!There's no point denying it. It's not like Klingon, either. You can't ignore it into oblivion. It's here to stay (and evolve).Pop culture, digital marketing, movies, TV shows, books, and the entire internet, in general, is...

Improve Your Child's Italian Skills in no Time with the Most Amusing Book for Kids and Beginners!Would you like your child to:Help your child improve their Italian?Learn proper Italian pronunciation?Discover the most commonly used phrases in daily...

La evolución del español es una re-edición ampliada y corregida. Como su título indica, este trabajo logra mostrar una gradual evolución del español respecto del latín, tanto en términos lingüísticos como históricos.

El Poder de Persuadir con tus PalabrasLa Guía Definitiva para Convertirte en un Maestro de la Comunicación PersuasivaDescubre las Claves del Éxito para Desatar tu Potencial Comunicacional. ¿Quieres aprender a hablar en...

Les auteurs tentent d'expliquer, dans un cadre pluridisciplinaire, l'expansion rapide de voilà en français aujourd'hui. Voilà est une unité polysémique et plurifonctionnelle : elle peut être adverbe, préposition, ou encore présentatif . Ses...

El presente libro en honor al Profesor Rolf Eberenz reúne veintiún artículos sobre una de las temáticas que el homenajeado ha explorado por caminos poco transitados: la oralidad en los textos antiguos. Siguiendo la senda abierta por sus Conversaciones...

Often, families and educators ask for carryover ideas or suggestions for what to do with children between their speech therapy appointments. This guide was developed to do just that. It will provide you with ideas on how to incorporate your child's...

This is the first book devoted to the phoronym, a largely overlooked grammatical category that includes measures such as cup in a cup of tea, classifiers such as head in ten head of cattle, and other types, all of which occur in the pseudopartitive...

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little...

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts. Much of this research deals with the markers that underline the connections and the breaks between clauses and...

It is now well established that phonological -- and orthographic -- codes play a crucial role in the recognition of isolated words and in understanding the sequences of words that comprise a sentence. However, words and sentences are organized with...

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interaction of innate biologically-based mechanisms devoted to language, other non-linguistic cognitive and social...

This book presents a new theoretical framework -- what Gernsbacher calls the Structure Building Framework -- for understanding language comprehension in particular, and cognitive processing in general. According to this framework, the goal in...

This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve...