Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics by Masahiko Minami

By Masahiko Minami

The guide of eastern utilized Linguistics displays crosscurrents in utilized linguistics, an ever-developing department of linguistics. The booklet is split into seven sections, the place every one bankruptcy discusses extensive the significance of specific themes, corresponding to L1 and L2 acquisition, bilingualism, language pedagogy/education, corpus linguistics, medical linguistics, translation, and signal language. protecting a variety of present matters in a accomplished demeanour, the e-book could be valuable for either researchers and graduate scholars who're drawn to jap linguistics and utilized linguistics.

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She has participated in developing and studying communication interventions with children who have high-functioning autism spectrum disorders or learning disabilities. In recent years, she has assisted Manabu Oi in his investigation of figurative language comprehension by children with autism (“The Relationship between Comprehension of Figurative Language by Japanese Children with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders and College Freshmen’s Assessment of Its Conventionality of Usage” in Autism Research & Treatment, vol.

He is a professor in the Department of Advanced Science and Technology at Toyota Technological Institute. He has been involved in sign language research for more than twenty years, and recently been interested in well-formedness of syllables and words of Japanese Sign Language (JSL). He has also been working on sentence-final pointing and its relation to subject and topic in a JSL sentence as well as signing systems used by non-native signers of JSL. D. at the University of Tokyo. She is Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology in the School of Education at the University of Tokyo.

Part IV then introduces specific corpus data. In Chapter 11, Jae-Ho Lee and Natsuko Nakagawa introduce the Kamada and Yamauchi (KY) corpus (chapter title: “KY corpus”) as an example of learner corpora and discuss it from the following three perspectives: (1) By positioning the KY corpus as a language resource, they provide an overview of the corpus with quantitative information including its basic design and size. (2) By positioning the KY corpus as a resource for L2 acquisition research, they review how it has been used in previous studies.

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