Published by Orient BlackSwan
ISBN 10: 9354420583 ISBN 13: 9789354420580
Seller: Books Puddle, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New.
Published by Orient BlackSwan
ISBN 10: 9354420583 ISBN 13: 9789354420580
Seller: Biblios, Frankfurt am main, HESSE, Germany
Condition: New.
Published by Orient Blackswan, 2022
ISBN 10: 9354420583 ISBN 13: 9789354420580
Seller: Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, India
Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents: Introduction/Rama Kant Agnihotri and Rajesh Kumar. 1. Language Defined/Edward Sapir. 2. Nature and Structure of Language/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 3. Child Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Evidence for Universal Grammar/Ayesha Kidwai, Benu Pareek and Yangchen Roy. 4. Language Analysis.Rajesh Kumar. 5. How Language Works/Steven Pinker. 6. Knowledge of Language: The Chomskyan Perspective/K. A. Jayaseelan. 7. Language and Cognition/Catherine Caldwell-Harris. 8. Linguistic and Communicative Competence/Rama Kant Agnihotri and Rajesh Kumar. 9. Issues of Language Proficiency/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 10. Towards a Pedagogical Paradigm Rooted in Multilinguality/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 11. Social Influences on the Choice of a Linguistic Variant/John L. Fischer. 12. Identity and Multilinguality: The Case of India/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 13. Politeness and Language/Suranjana Barua. 14. Constituent Assembly Debates on Language/Rama Kant Agnihotri. 15. Teaching a Native Language/Jerome S. Bruner. 16. Linguistics and the Teaching of English/M. A. K. Halliday. 17. Language and Learning in Education/Rajesh Kumar and Rama Kant Agnihotri. Conclusion/Rama Kant Agnihotri and Rajesh Kumar. Language, Mind and Society: A Language and Education Reader is a collection of essays that has been curated to create awareness about the interactional nature and structure of language, and to explore and examine its relationship with mind, society and education. This reader covers a wide range of topics including the structuring of language, language acquisition in children, multilingualism, the nature of language variation, and the ways in which language is related to social power structures, among others. The essays have been grouped under four sections: the nature of language, language and the human mind, language and society, and language and education. The selections represent the diverse and multifaceted views held by scholars renowned in their respective fields, and will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the topics discussed and help them form their own ideas on these topics.