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Reading acquisition involves connections between the spoken language and the writing system. The English-language writing system holds an inconsistent alphabetic system, thus encouraging readers to develop representations between the grapheme and the word. Reading in English as a Foreign language su...
Arguments for context-sensitivity are often based on judgments about the truth values of sentences: a sentence seems true in one context and false in another, so it is argued that the truth conditions of the sentence shift between these contexts. Such arguments rely on the assumption that our judgme...
This article provides a comparative study of the underlying cognitive structures laid out in Arthur Machen’s decadent novella The Great God Pan (1894) and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (1873). It scrutinizes the images of the “chamber of consciousness” a...
The objective for beginning writers is to learn how to generate alphabet-letters which are recognisable and easy to read. This study investigated the accuracy of Year 1 and 2 children’s alphabet-letter-writing by evaluating their alphabet and orthographic knowledge, following evidence which identi...
This paper sees Neil Gaiman’s Coraline as following a darker tradition in children’s literature, most commonly found in the fairy tale. It explores some of the existential issues that concern us all: to do with identity, s*x, death, ontology, evil, desire and violence. The article takes a largel...
Pratchett’s narratives tend to portray not only multicultural but also multireligious societies. In contrast to earlier writers of fantasy, however, Pratchett writes from a decidedly atheistic point of view, an issue Daniel Scott explores in depth in this...
In this study, we examine how mobility and on-going changes in sociocultural contexts impact family language policy (FLP) in the UK. Using a questionnaire and involving 470 transnational families across the UK, our study provides a descriptive analysis of different family language practices in Engla...
This paper discusses a set of observations, many of which are novel, concerning differences between the adjectival modals certain and possible and their adverbial counterparts certainly and possibly. It argues that the observations can be derived from a standard interpretation of certain/certainly a...
This paper analyses the Australian children’s picture books The Gender Fairy, by Jo Hirst and Libby Wirt, and Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship, by Jess Walton and Dougal MacPherson. Both are examples of a rare engagement by Australian children’s authors and illustrat...
This article presents the study of Migrants (2019), a wordless picturebook by Peruvian author Issa Watanabe, developed to answer the following research question: To what extent can this visual text become a resource for the learning of multiliteracies? A visual discourse analysis of the narrative wa...
The Home Literacy model predicts different outcomes depending on formal and informal literacy practices carried out at home. However, this model does not explicitly consider the potential differences that the media (paper vs. tablets) in which these practices are carried out can have on performance....
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This paper discusses the morpho-syntax of phrasal proper names like Deutsche Bahn ‘German Railway’ and Norske Skog ‘Norwegian Forest’ in German and Norwegian. As regards determiner elements, there are three types of phrasal proper names in German: some proper names do not have a definite art...
11/09/2023
We are thrilled to share an exclusive introduction to Linguistics and Philosophy's special issue "Super linguistics", written by the guest editor Emar Maier himself!
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Linguists study language. But what is language? Paraphrasing De Saussure's (1916) influential definition, a language is a system of signs used for communication. But that definition already takes us beyond the traditional objects of linguistic study, viz. verbal languages like German or ASL. In everyday human (or animal) communication, much information is conveyed iconically, i.e., not through structured constituents built from arbitrary lexicons via recursive grammars, but through arguably more natural, but no less systematic relations of resemblance between sign and denotation. Given the evident progress our field has made in understanding the underlying systems generating forms and relating them to meanings in all kinds of verbal language fragments, the time has come to broaden our horizons and explore the natural extension of linguistics to other types of sign systems.
Enter Super Linguistics, defined in this special issue as the extension of linguistic theory beyond traditional linguistic objects. These non-traditional objects include wholly or primarily iconic sign systems like pictures, comics, film, and music -- all of which feature prominently in this special issue. But even for linguists who want to stick with verbal languages it's obvious that meaning expression is often multimodal, and that verbal sign systems exhibit linguistically interesting interactions with iconic systems, like gesture and emoji, likewise covered here. Finally, super linguists in this special issue also explore human artifacts and activities like music, dance, and powerlifting whose representational status is less immediately obvious, but whose structure and/or cognition are essentially language-like and amenable to linguistic analysis.
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Purpose This study examines the developmental interplay between silent reading fluency and reading comprehension from Grade 1 to Grade 9 (age 7 to 15) in a large Finnish sample (N = 2,518). Of particular interest was whether the associations are bidirectional or unidirectional. Methods Children....
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