This book describes an investigation of the subset of general language used in definition sentences and the development of a taxonomy of definition types, a gra

Definition is a basic activity of language, of particular importance to linguists because of its use of language to describe itself. Beyond this inherent signif

This book follows four emergent bilingual students in an English-medium pre-kindergarten in the US as they navigate the social and linguistic demands of school.

This text goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a foreign language. It looks at dif