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Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom by Judy Hochberg

Reviewed by: Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom by Judy Hochberg Carlos Benavides Hochberg, Judy. Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom. Routledge, 2021. Pp. 164. ISBN 978-0-367-11196-0. There is a scarcity of books in the market that incorporate topics in linguistics into the teaching of languages. Bringing Linguistics into the Spanish Language Classroom comes to fill this void. This book enables teachers to integrate the most interesting and important findings of Hispanic linguistics into their Spanish language classes. For each topic covered, teachers will find classroom-ready explanations and PowerPoint slides, as well as instructions and materials for in-class activities and take-home projects that will engage students. The book covers a wide variety of topics, including the “mega-preposition” en, the trilled r, the order of acquisition of consonants, por and para, the personal a, and the evolution of the Spanish verb system. The book is organized around a wide-ranging set of five linguistics-based essential questions that serve to contextualize the material: 1) How is Spanish different from other languages?, 2) How is Spanish similar to other languages?, 3) What are the roots of Spanish?, 4) How does Spanish vary?, 5) How do people learn and use Spanish? These questions are general enough for teachers of other languages to [End Page 154] easily apply them to their own target languages. The book’s introduction presents these essential questions as they apply to Spanish, and its five chapters take them up in turn. Each chapter covers several topics relevant to one of the essential questions. Crucially, the chapters provide instructors with everything they need to incorporate these topics into their teaching. Each chapter consists of an introduction and one or two major topics, each with sub-topics. For example, Chapter 1, titled “How is Spanish different from other languages?” has two major topics (“Spanish in the world” and “Language features”), and one of the sub-topics is “The variety of Spanish past tenses.” The presentation of each sub-topic begins with a brief explanation in English (“Just the facts”), which is followed by an even briefer one in simple Spanish (“Teacher talk”). These explanations are followed by detailed instructions for creative and engaging in-class activities and take-home projects that motivate, teach, reinforce, or explore the topic. Each chapter closes with a list of references. Three appendices list all in-class activities, take-home projects and slides. Each chapter has a corresponding PowerPoint presentation with slides in Spanish that are available online. The slides are an excellent complement to the explanations and activities in the book. They provide facts, examples, explanations, descriptions, word lists, sample data from research studies, quotations, and a wide range of attention-grabbing visuals, including pictures, maps, tables, diagrams and links to other images as well as articles and videos. Other slides contain instructions and supporting materials for the in-class activities and take-home projects. The material in both the chapter explanations and the slides is sure to give both students and teachers a sense of marvel at learning some of these facts for the first time. The book is full of eye-opening details, backed up by references, that even experienced linguists may not be fully aware of. Readers may even find themselves going through the contents as when reading a book from cover to cover, while consulting the slides as they read along. Reading this book is an enjoyable experience. The field of Hispanic linguistics, which serves as the basis for the book, sheds light on aspects of Spanish from phonology to grammar, from history to dialectology, and from acquisition to adult cognition. While teachers may have had some training in Hispanic linguistics, they may not necessarily know how best to apply it. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice with specific explanations, activities, assignments, and PowerPoint slides that Spanish teachers can use in their own classrooms, enabling them to enrich their practice with insights from this allied field. The linguistic insights from the book can contribute to add intellectual interest to the classroom by connecting Spanish to other languages, to general linguistic principles, and to other fields such as history...

Anthropocentrism as an important feature of modern linguistics

The article deals with the problem of study of linguistic phenomena by the anthropocentric paradigm, as well as the manifestation of man in a language and language in a man. The anthropocentric paradigm was formed as a result of the development of the cognitive-discursive direction of linguistic research. Within the framework of anthropocentric linguistics, a person as a user of a language is recognized as a subject of linguistics. The article deals with the problems of linguistic world picture, scientific world picture, linguistic personality, language and culture on the basis of theoretical analysis of anthropocentric proverbs and sayings.

Специфика психолингвистических параметров «представимость» и «сходство образа с рисунком» тувинских слов в языковом сознании тувинско-­русских билингвов

The nature and structure of the mental lexicon, as well as the process of speech reproduction, are hot topics in cognitive linguistics and other related disciplines. The results of research by scientists in this field have a significant contribution to the fight against aphasia. In this publication, we will consider the results of an experiment with 58 bilinguals to measure two psycholinguistic parameters of Tuvan words: representability and similarity of an image with a picture. Word representability determines how easily and quickly the respondent can imagine the stimulus word. In case of a speech disorder, the higher the value of this parameter for a word, the higher the probability of its preservation or restoration in the patient’s mental lexicon. The parameter “similarity of the image with the picture” reflects how the picture is equivalent to what the informant imagines when he reads the word. This parameter is important in the selection of stimulus material for speech therapy.

آلیات الاتساق المعجمی وأثرها فی ترابط النص النثری قصة (إنتَ اسمک إیه) نموذجا

تعد هذه الدراسة واحدة من نقاط البحث في اللسانيات النصية الحديثة، حيث تناولت الدراسة الترابط أو الاتساق المعجمي في أحد النصوص النثرية، آليات الاتساق المعجمي في ربط الخطاب النثري قصة (إنت اسمک إيه؟) نموذجا، وتقوم هذه الدراسة على حصر العلاقات المعجمية بين مفردات نص قصة إنت اسمک إيه؟، وذلک عن طريق دراسة لظاهرتين مهمتين لهما أثرهما في ترابط النص، وهما (التکرار والتضام)، والکشف عن دورهما المساهم في اتساق نص هذه القصة، وهي قصة ضمن مجموعة قصصية للکاتب بهاء طاهر بعنوان (لم أعرف أن الطواويس تطير)؛ ولذلک انقسم البحث إلى ثلاثة مباحث، أولهما تعريف الاتساق، وثانيهما التکرار، وثالثهما التضام، وفي الختام توصلت الدراسة إلى توفر العلاقات المعجمية في نص القصة، وقد ساهمت وسائل الاتساق المعجمي من تکرار وتضام في ربط أجزاء النص، کثر التکرار بأنواعه في القصة، مما کان له دور مهم في اتساق وربط أجزاء النص، مما أدى إلى وحدة موضوع القصة، وهذا التکرار لم يرد عفويا بل کان متعمدا لبناء نص مترابط يدل على تمرد الطفل تمردا شديدا، کما أسهم التضام بأنواعه أيضا في اتساق نص القصة، فکان للتضاد وعلاقة الجزء بالکل والجزء بالجزء الأثر الواضح في ربط أجزاء النص. Abstract This study is considered one of the topics of textual linguistics, as the study presented the lexical linking in one of the Arabic texts, the methods of lexical linking in the Arabic novel, and one of Bahaa Taher's novels was mentioned as an example of that, and the study was based on showing the lexical relationships between the words of the text of the novel. 'inta ismak iyh? This is through a study of two important phenomena that have an impact on the interconnectedness of the text, and the research revealed the role of lexical relations in linking the text of the novel, and the research was divided into three chapters, the first of which is the definition of textual interconnection, the second of which is repetition, and the third of them is collusion, and in conclusion the study found the availability of linking tools Textual (lexical) in the text of the novel, and these means helped to connect the parts of the text.

Visualizing the Knowledge Domain of Language Experience: A Bibliometric Analysis

Research on language experience (LE) has covered numerous topics in psychology, linguistics, and other relative disciplines. Such research is based on people’s experiences of the world, and substantial attention has been paid to this subject. In order to investigate the foundation and influential works of LE studies, we adopt CiteSpace software to analyze 30,045 published articles/reviews from the Web of Science by focusing on the co-citation analysis in terms of discipline, articles, and journals. The results present that (1) language systems in LE research interact mutually rather than separate from each other and (2) bilingualism is always a hot topic in the past few decades and will be popular in the next decades. These findings further indicate some issues to be resolved. One is about the relations between language systems and the other is the psychological interpretation in language experiences conflicts in practical language use.

Knowledge Mapping of Text Linguistics: Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis and Social Media

Text linguistics is becoming a significant reference source for theorist as well as practitioners in information fusion, decision making and operations, given its research focus ranging from discourse analysis, text analysis and social media-inspired analysis. This article reviews and maps academic literature in the subject of text linguistics using a cutting-edge scientometrics approach. It recognizes major research outputs, themes, and authors in this way. It compares data harvests to discuss the field’s future trends. The work is the first systematic mapping of the subject of text linguistics, and it has important implications for using the scientometrics method to review academic publications.

Leibniz’s Last Letter on Linguistic Matters

We reproduce in what follows the last writing published in life by G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) on linguistic topics. Together with other works by scholars of the time, Leibniz’s essay served as an introduction to an important collection of versions of the Pater noster in many different languages (Chamberlayne ed. 1715). In his critical remarks, the philosopher not only summarises his main ideas about the importance and method of linguistic comparison, but also integrates them with interpretative insights from neighbouring fields, such as numismatics, archaeology, and the history of writing systems. The editor’s commentary gives information on the historical and theoretical context in which Leibniz writes and on the numerous authors and works mentioned in the text.

Kommunikative Textarbeit am Beispiel zweier Texte für den Anfängerunterricht (A1 Niveau)

The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which teaching through games can be successfully applied to a text that is to be taught to A1 level learners of German as a Foreign Language (DaF). The term “text work” is used increasingly in the didactics of foreign language teaching. The description of texts is the subject of text linguistics, media studies or literary studies. In addition to linguistic-structural features, since the communicative-pragmatic turn, the contexts of use and thus the functional and situational features of texts have also been the focus of attention. There is an impressive array of texts ranging from areas of everyday communication to scientific communication, which can be successfully exploited for the language class. Playful learning in class is fun and knowledgeable and is closely linked to action-based learning. Through play, students acquire the learning content interactively, engage in new challenges and train their psychomotor skills. Creative, exciting, mysterious and open-ended task formulations are another component of play-based learning. The aim of such tasks is that children individually or in small groups acquire a certain topic over a certain period of time in different traps of the learning process. In doing so, they assume their own responsibility for learning through play.

TILSHUNOSLIKDA YURIDIK DISKURS O‘RGANILISHI: MAQSAD VA VAZIFALARI

This article is devoted to the legal discourse and its study in linguistics, and contains essential information on the stages and approaches to the study of legal discourse. In fact, although this type of institutional discourse, considered a subject of forensic linguistics, has so far been examined by many foreign linguists and lawyers, it is not yet studied in Uzbek linguistics based on a pragmalinguistic approach. Indeed, this shows the relevance of the topic. Therefore, the article initially provides examples of the study of legal discourse within the framework of three approaches, as well as an overview of its goals and objectives, which are different aspects from other types of discourse. Undoubtedly, the linguistic analysis and scientific resesarch of legal discourse is of great importance today since it covers all aspects of life. Thus, the study of the relationship between language and law has become a subject of research in many fields, including linguistics. Legal discourse is a kind of institutional discourse, which consists of all legal structures; both oral and written legal texts applied within them and their specific professional terms, and follows all the rules and norms of legal language and legal speech.

ENGLISH, GERMAN AND FRENCH LOANWORDS IN UZBEK LANGUAGE

It is possible that each small change can make great importance in our modern life. Like this, loanwords which we never pay attention in usual conversations are also regarded as significant units the subject of linguistics. Mainly, the process of borrowing them is special theme, having many strategies and ways and generally they are called as a adaptation. Such kind of adaptations are noted in Uzbek language also and these are so much efficient for professional language learners.

THE SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION OF LANGUAGE BY GENDER

Human beings are the creators and the users of the language. Therefore, people-oriented study on linguistics should be vital as the studies from the perspective of symbol. But the most significant difference between human beings is the gender difference, so people of different genders from either physiology or psychology in the use of language will have their own gender characteristics that leads to the gender differences in language. Language gender difference has always been complex. It becomes the popular subject of linguistics and sociolinguistics. Gender differences in language are regarded as a linguistic phenomenon as well as being a social phenomenon. It is known that the use of gender in a different way from language has become a new field of research for linguistics since the second half of the twentieth century. With the advent of feminist linguistics in the 1960s and 1970s, gender studies became more widespread. In the development of certain features of the "language" of men and women J. Gremel-Plestini, L. Pushuni, E. Groshko, A. Nielseni, R. Lakoff, R. Vardaufu, and others can be shown as scientists in world linguistics. The linguists from different countries have made a lot of profound significant exploration to explain the cause of gender difference in sociolinguistics. The gender difference can differentiate for society, culture, customs and other considerations of language users. Gender differences widens our research horizon, deepens our cognition of the universal law of language; at the same time, it helps us to better explain the factors in the internal change of language development.

Collaborative group work and increased diversity through Wikipedia editing

This paper details how a collaborative assignment to edit Wikipedia entries on linguistic topics can help students practice and improve their research skills and navigate group work through an engaged learning task. It describes strategies for group formation, types of cognitive skills that were deployed in the task, equitable distribution of workload and ways that individual student contributions to the project were tracked and assessed, along with project feedback from student reflections. The editing task is also shown as a way to increase gender diversity and widen the language background of the site’s editors.

ADA compliance and teaching linguistics online

Only 8.8% of faculty have reported receiving formal training for develop-ing ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) compliant online courses (Gould & Harris, 2019), yet in any given semester, faculty may be required by federal law to make their course accessible for a student that has enrolled with a disability. Linguis-tics faculty face many of the same challenges (namely time and resources) as other disciplines with implementing ADA federal guidelines. However, there are further obstacles with linguistic specific topics (such as dialect illustrations, phonology, morphology) that require special attention when devising accessible material for those that are either visually or hearing impaired. Through the exploration of an un-dergraduate linguistics course (LING 2050: Language of Now), this paper reflects on best practices, suggested modifications, barriers in developing an ADA compliant online linguistics course, and presents a resource developed by the author aggregat-ing resources that facilitate making a course ADA compliant.

Мультимодальность и основы визуальной лингвистики в работах Х. Штекла

The research objectives are as follows: to reveal H. Stöckl‘s understanding of the terms “multimodality” and “multimodal competence”, to popularize visual linguistics as a scientific trend. The author analyses the existing interpretations of the notion “multimodality”, relying on H. Stöckl‘s works clarifies the subject and problematics of visual linguistics, identifies its place among linguistic disciplines devoted to multimodal text, which constitutes scientific originality of the study. The findings indicate that multimodality is an inherent feature of communication process, image is considered as a key element influencing the modeling and perception of multimodal texts. Visual linguistics is a relatively new branch of linguistic science focused on analysing non-homogenous texts containing verbal and static visual components.

ПСИХОЛОГІЧНА АДАПТАЦІЯ СТУДЕНТІВ-ІНОЗЕМЦІВ У ПРОЦЕСІ КОМПЛЕКСНОГО ВИВЧЕННЯ УКРАЇНСЬКОЇ МОВИ ТА ІСТОРІЇ ЇЇ СТАНОВЛЕННЯ

The article presents a research of the peculiarities of the psychological adaptation of foreign students to the language and national environment in the process of comprehensive study of peculiar topics of linguistics and the history of its formation. The research was conducted on the basis of the use of a comprehensive experimental training program for learning Ukrainian as a foreign language and the history of Ukraine in one academic group of foreign students (12 people). Another group of students studied according to the standard program. The research objective is to demonstrate the positive dynamics of psychological adaptation of students from different countries to the language and national environment in the process of learning Ukrainian as a foreign language and particular aspects of its formation, namely the influence of Poland on the Ukrainian literary language in Western Ukraine in the 20s and 40s of the 20th Century. The urgency of studying this historical period is that the new edition of the “Ukrainian orthography” of 2019 partially intensifies the use of lexical tokens borrowed from the Polish language and orthographic norms of the “Orthography” of 1928. The research results showed that the average score of the final testing of students who studied through the experimental program is 3 points higher than that of students who studied through the standard program. In addition, students of the first group have much higher results from diagnosing the psychological characteristics of adaptation to the national environment. By studying the language and history of Ukraine, foreign students not only much better mastered language phenomena and understood their origins, but also learned about the complex past of our country. The conclusions of the experiment show that the proposed methodology proved itself to be a tool of improving the psychological adaptation of foreign students to the language and national environment of the country in which they receive professional education.

Design and application of computer conference+Thai corpus-oriented word segmentation consistency checking system

The construction of deep processing corpus is one of the hot topics in corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, and the quality of corpus directly affects the subsequent research based on this corpus. It is a very effective way to build a corpus of questions in restricted areas to help understand users’ questions. In view of the inconsistent results of word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging in Thai corpus, this paper puts forward a proofreading method and strategy based on computer conference, and designs a consistent proofreading system. This method extracts grammatical and semantic collocation information between words, judges candidate sequences by using the theory of support vector machine, and gives a segmentation result, thus improving the segmentation accuracy of Chinese corpus.

Greeting in the speech of the Duhok Region

   Greeting is one of the most important topics in linguistics and has a prominent role in pragmatic studies. This research was conducted according to the (Kirdasi -2013) point of view to study the formulas and strategies for using greeting among the inhabitants of the Duhok Region  by observing their use of the greeting in (12) different situations. This paper aims to know the percentage of strategies used in each of the selected situations, using the statistical method. The research consists of two chapters. The first chapter spoke about the Greeting, and then dealt with it specifically in pragmatic framework. The second chapter is devoted to apply greeting strategies among the speakers of the Duhok Region.                                                                                      &nbsp

PROFILE OF STUDENT'S MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING ABILITY BASED ON LINGUISTIC INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICAL LOGICAL INTELLIGENCE

The process of solving problems carried out by students in stages, namely understanding problems, planning solutions, carrying out solutions and checking again. Solving student problems varies according to the basic characteristics of students' interests, talents and potential. Learning will be more optimal if it is adjusted to the intelligence possessed by students. The goal is that teachers can facilitate learning according to the intelligence possessed by students, so the teacher must know the intelligence possessed by students. This research is a qualitative study using two subjects, namely the subject of linguistics and the subject of mathematical logic. The results showed that at the problem-understanding stage, SLM completed using formulas, completed according to plan and checked by recalculating. SL uses more trial-and-error reasoning, understanding information by reading sentences quickly as well as checking again.

The Enlightenment at the End of the Republic of Dubrovnik. Patriotic Society (1793–1794)

The Patriotic Society, founded in February 1793 by the learned Dubrovnik aristocrat Miho Sorgo (1739-1796), is considered the first true Enlightenment society in the Republic of Dubrovnik. Unlike the previous humanistic and baroque societies, which bore the name “academy” and were all dedicated to literary and linguistic topics, Sorgo’s society of amateur scholars was focused on practicality and social engagement. This meant a critical attitude towards the reality of Dubrovnik, and especially towards the ruling aristocratic oligarchy gathered in the Senate, which held a monopoly on political decision-making. Although Europe was undergoing profound social and political transformations at the time, the static nature of Dubrovnik’s conservative circles did not allow for any attempts at reform. Owing to this, the society of reformists was very short-lived, lasting only a year. This paper will present an overview of academic sociability in Dubrovnik up to the eighteenth century, as well as the establishment and goals of the Patriotic Society and its members. The topics of preserved speeches will be presented and the role of the aristocrat Tomo Bassegli (1756–1806), whose Enlightenment profile was formed during his stays in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРНОЕ ИЗМЕРЕНИЕ ТЕКСТА В СВЕТЕ ЭВОЛЮЦИОННОГО КОНСТРУКТИВИЗМА

Traditional interpretations of linguoculture as a subject of anthropocentric linguistics, as an integral unit of language and culture, today are expanding significantly along with the expansion of national boundaries to a planetary scale. In these conditions with a new positioning of textual activity, there are no intelligible terminological and categorical tools for the description and analysis of the text. In this regard, it is proposed to introduce the concepts "linguocultural dimension of the text" and "textual linguoculture". The article is devoted to the consideration of the philosophical, theoretical and methodological foundations of textual linguoculture. The linguocultural dimension of the text allows us to discover its cultural and prognostic potential and to assess its functionality in the sociocultural strategies of our time. The link between the text and socio-cultural dynamics requires mastering the higher (cultural) criteria for organizing textual activity. The methodology of the text "cultural distinction" represented in this article is founded on the evolutionary constructivistic approach, which opens up the prospect of a scientifically significant transition to the anthropocosmic paradigm in cultural studies in general. The transition is proved necessary for developing an evolutionary strategy in relation to language and speech.