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Subject(s)

• Applied linguistics [Browse]

Related name

• Behrens, Susan J., 1959- [Browse]
• Parker, Judith A. [Browse]

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"Companion @ website: Professors and students will benefit from the interactive companion website that includes a student section featuring comments and hints on the chapter exercises within the book, a series of flash cards to test knowledge, details of further reading, and links to key web resources. Material for professors includes multi-choice and essay style questions based on each chapter that can be used or adapted to test their students."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Section I: Language, education, and cultural change: 1. Language variation: students and teachers reflect on accents and dialects / Susan J. Behrens and Rebecca L. Sperling
• 2. Speech communities: language as a mediator of messages and perceptions / Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth
• 3. Teaching pronunciation: using phonology in the ESL and foreign language classroom / Joanna Labov
• Section II: Literature, translation, and computers: 4. Lexicography: what dictionaries reveal about language and dictionary makers / Paul D. Fallon
• 5. Text translation: approaching otherness / Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero
• 6. Machine translation: the challenge of ambiguity / Nan Decker
• 7. The n-word, the f-word, and and all that jazz: race, sex, and transgressive language in contemporary American literature and popular culture / Carmen Gillespie --^ Section III: Language, power, and identity: 8. Language, power, and sexual assault: women's voices on rape and social change / Judith A. Parker and Deborah Mahlstedt
• 9. Gender, language, and power: surname or sirname? / Diana Boxer
• 10. Linguistics as a forensic science: the case of author identification / Carole E. Chaski
• Section IV: Forms of language and communication: 11. First language acquisition: developing native linguistic competence / Janine Graziano-King and Helen Smith Cairns
• 12. ASL: a visual language / Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Leigh Wood
• 13. Animal communication: the "language" of honey bees / Wyatt A. Mangum
• Section V: Language and communication science: 14. Communication disorders: a personal perspective / Ann D. Jablon
• 15. Analyzing narratives: an example of cross-cultural research methods / Cecile L. Stein --^ 16. Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics: contributions to understanding healthy aging and dementia / Yael Neumann, Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou
• 17. Language of children with autism: the two worlds underlying verbal communication / Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull.

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ISBN

• 9780415774673 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 0415774675 (hbk : alk. paper)
• 9780415774680 (pbk : alk. paper)
• 0415774683 (pbk : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009031835

OCLC

428926510

RCP

H - S

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