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Staging Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Matei Vișniec’s How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients
This chapter examines the theatrical re-enactment of “the wooden language” pertaining to Communism as a cultural and political practice that...
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Co-occurrence and cognitive basis of low language and low reading skills in children speaking a transparent language
We investigated the comorbidity of low language and reading skills in 6- to 8-year-old monolingual Polish-speaking children ( N = 962) using three...
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Understanding the nature and severity of reading difficulties among students with language and reading comprehension difficulties
This study investigated the presence of word reading difficulties in a sample of students in Grades 1–4 ( n = 357) identified with language and...
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Introduction
This chapter begins by defining the concept of social support and examining the situations of people suffering from anxiety and/or depression in...
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Pressing Need for Chinese Translation of Mental Health Scales
People from different cultural backgrounds express mental disorders diversely. Investigating mental health disorders in different cultures is...
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National Narratives as Language Myths
This chapter is devoted to a widespread and deeply entrenched narrative that metonymically links languages to nations and to issues of national...
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The Cognitive Substrates of Pragmatics
This chapter explores how language is organized within the human mind. Initially, clinical observations of language disorders associated with...
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Do we really need a new definition of dyslexia? A commentary
We provide a commentary on current debates about the definition of dyslexia. We agree with others that dyslexia is best thought of as a dimensional...
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Positive Institutional Policies in Language Education Contexts: A Case Study
Positive psychology in education, labelled as Positive Education (PE), puts well-being at the centre of education together with academic subjects....
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Aphasia, Sub-Sentential Speeches and Pragmatic Enrichment
This chapter explores various issues about agrammatism, aiming to identify a unifying factor that elucidates the underlying problems of aphasia. Due...
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Rhythm Metrics and the Perception of Rhythmicity in Varieties of English as a Second Language
While rhythm metrics have been widely used to quantify speech rhythm, direct evidence of their perceptual validity is currently very limited. If it...
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Effects of parents’ questioning and feedback strategies in shared reading on Children’s language development
This study aims to compare the effects of questioning with minimal evaluation (PE) and prompt-evaluate-expand-repeat (PEER) used in dialogic reading...
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‘I Am a Man but I Can Cry Right Now’: Representations of Masculinity in an Anxiety Support Forum
Anxiety disorders include disorders that share features of excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural disturbances (APA, 2013). Anxiety...
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Exploring the Neurological Substrates of Pragmatics: Insights from Neuroscience
In most cases, when the left hemisphere suffers damage, there is a loss of language use. In the past, this evidence has led doctors to speculate on...
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Pragmatics disorders and indirect reports in psychotic language
In this paper I deal with both direct and indirect reports. Direct reporting in schizophrenic discourse has to be interpreted in context and thus...
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Discourse prominence effects on interpretation of reflexive pronoun “ziji” in children with ASD
The core of language disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the loss of social function in language communication.Futher, the...
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Spanish adaptation of a cloze procedure to assess reading comprehension beyond the sentence level
The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553–572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has...
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Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics
This book contains essential contributions to enrich and broaden the application field of pragmatics. It provides an example of how the fruitful...
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Key language, cognitive and higher-order skills for L2 reading comprehension of expository texts in English as foreign language students: a systematic review
This systematic review addressed the following question: Which are the relations between L1 and/or L2 foundational and upper-level language skills,...
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Family language policy in retrospect: Narratives of success and failure in an Indian–Iranian transnational family
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical...
