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81. Expert Talk and Risk in Health Care

    A Special Issue of research on Language and Social interaction

    Edited by Christopher N. Candlin, Sally Candlin

    This special issue identifies three interrelated constructs--discourse, expertise, and the definition and management of risk--located in various healthcare sites: genetic counseling, nursing, and medical practice. The papers highlight the relationship between the management of risk situations and...

    Published May 31st 2002 by Routledge
82. Talking to Adults

    The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition

    Edited by Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Catherine E. Snow

    This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic...

    Published March 31st 2002 by Psychology Press
83. The Psychology of Science Text Comprehension

    Edited by Jose Otero, Jos‚ A. Le¢n, Arthur C. Graesser

    This volume's goal is to provide readers with up-to-date information on the research and theory of scientific text comprehension. It is widely acknowledged that the comprehension of science and technological artifacts is very difficult for both children and adults. The material is conceptually...

    Published February 28th 2002 by Routledge
84. Argumentation in Psychology

    A Special Double Issue of Discourse Processes

    Edited by James F. Voss

    This special issue of Discourse Processes addresses the topic of argumentation, with a number of articles illustrating how individuals employ argumentation in various contexts. It discusses a number of general issues relevant to recent psychological research on argumentation including the...

    Published January 31st 2002 by Routledge
85. Literary Practices As Social Acts

    Power, Status, and Cultural Norms in the Classroom

    By Cynthia Lewis

    This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. It considers how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community affect four classroom practices involving literature--read aloud, peer-led literature discussions...

    Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge
86. New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms

    Edited by Eli Hinkel, Sandra Fotos

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    New Perspectives on Grammar Teaching in Second Language Classrooms brings together various approaches to the contextualized teaching of grammar and communicative skills as integrated components of second language instruction. Its purpose is to show from both theoretical and practical perspectives...

    Published June 30th 2001 by Routledge
87. Mediated Discourse

    The nexus of practice

    By Ron Scollon

    Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice sets out a discursive theory of human action.Language and action are intimately related. The difficult question to answer is how they are related. Mediated Discourse Theory looks into social relationships to see how the use of language is both a form of...

    Published April 11th 2001 by Routledge
88. Teacher Education and the Cultural Imagination

    Autobiography, Conversation, and Narrative

    By Susan Florio-Ruane, Julie deTar

    Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author's investigation of teacher book club discussions of ethnic literature, specifically ethnic autobiography--as a genre from which teachers might learn...

    Published March 31st 2001 by Routledge
89. Children's Language

    Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

    Edited by Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡, Carolyn E. Johnson, Ayhan Aksu-Koc

    These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child...

    Published December 31st 2000 by Psychology Press
90. Gender Construction in Children's Interactions

    A Cultural Perspective. A Special Issue of Research on Language and Social Interaction

    Edited by Amy Kyratzis

    This special issue examines gender construction by children in some of its rich cultural and contextual complexity and in some of its interactions with power. The first two articles are about preschool children's language. One examines preschoolers' socialization into Japanese--a language in which...

    Published December 31st 2000 by Psychology Press