《语言与理解》由Gillian、Brown等编著。
What does it mean to understand
language? This volume assembles
contributions from a wide range of related
areas and addresses issues in
psycholinguistics,pragmatics, second
language acquistion, syntax, text
linguistics, language testing, and
sociolinguistics, as well as educational and
applied linguistics. These contributions
from leading researchers enable the applied
linguist to keep up to date with current
thinking in diverse fields.
The editorial introductions to the
papers show how their contents relate to
each other and discuss some of the practical
implications for language teaching,
learning,and assessment.
目录
Preface
Introduction
1 Modes of understanding
by Gillian Brown
2 Understanding, language, and educational processes
by Christopher Brumfit
3 Relevance and understanding
by Deirdre Wilson
4 Syntactic clues to understanding
by Keith Brown
5 Understanding words
by Jean Aitchison
6 Psychological processes and understanding
by Alan Garnham
7 Towards an explanation of second language acquisition
by Ellen Bialystok
8 Comprehension testing, or can understanding be measured?
by Bernard Spolsky
9 Sociolinguistics and second language learning
by Lesley Milroy
10 Understanding texts: point of view
by Michael Short
Bibliography
Author index
Subject index
