Alison Wray
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3817656 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison Wray |
| PRENOMES | Alison |
| SOBRENOME | Wray |
| ASSINATURA | WRAY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 192 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Formulaic Sequences
Formulaic sequences are strings of words jointly representing a meaning or function that is often, though not always, different from the literal meaning of the component words. There is evidence from clinical linguistics, psychology, and neurology that they are processed, stored, or accessed (or a combination of these) differently from other word strings that do not have the same “formulaic” properties. However, the extent of their presence in la…
Dementia and Language
Dementia refers to a set of conditions affecting aspects of cognitive processing, caused by damage to the brain's cerebrum. The cerebrum is composed of four major regions, or lobes, which between them manage higher mental functions including sensory perception, movement, memory, thought, recognition, attention, consciousness, and language. It also has two hemispheres, left and right, and while some functions, such as motor movement, are bilateral…
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
Developing research expertise in applied linguistics
This paper explores the ambiguous nature of applied linguistics as a field of enquiry, to contextualise the interpretation of data from an empirical study into how research expertise in applied linguistics is conceptualised, and how it develops during an academic’s career. Key findings from the study include the importance of being willing to work at the boundaries of one’s knowledge, the capacity to communicate one’s ideas effectively, and the r…
Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
Formulaic Sequences
A “formulaic sequence” is broadly defined as a string of words with a meaning or function different from that of its component parts and which, for that reason, is hypo‐thesized to be processed holistically.
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
The consequences of talking to strangers
One word or two? Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
One word or two? Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
A formulaic approach to translation at the post office
The transition to language
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation…
The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous l…
The functions of formulaic language
Apes, language and the human mind
Formulaic language in learners and native speakers
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Projects in Linguistics
Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction
The Focusing Hypothesis
The functions of formulaic language
The consequences of talking to strangers
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation…
Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction
Formulaic language in learners and native speakers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Apes, language and the human mind
The Focusing Hypothesis
Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction
Formulaic language in learners and native speakers
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Projects in Linguistics
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it emerge? The contributors to this volume - linguists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and others - adopt a modern Darwinian perspective which offers a bold synthesis of the human and natural sciences. As a feature of human social intelligence, language evolution is driven by biologically anomalous l…
The functions of formulaic language
Apes, language and the human mind
The transition to language
Formulaic Language and the Lexicon
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation…
The Fall and Rise of Linguists in Education Policy-Making
A formulaic approach to translation at the post office
One word or two? Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
One word or two? Psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic interpretations of meaning in a civil court case
What relative weighting should be given to court case, to psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic explanations of an alleged offence? We review the case of an African-American plaintiff, who claimed that her receipt of work of a framed document with the title "Temporary Coon Ass Certificate" from a white mailer supervisory-level employee in the same agency constituted racial discrimination in the workplace. Dialect research conducted by JJS, as expe…
The consequences of talking to strangers
Accelerating the development of Expertise
It is argued that future research capacity building for the social sciences needs to incorporate methods to accelerate the acquisition by researchers of holistic expertise relevant to their roles as researchers and as developers of others. An agenda is presented, based on a model of learning that highlights missing elements of current provision, and two approaches currently under development are described
Formulaic Sequences
A “formulaic sequence” is broadly defined as a string of words with a meaning or function different from that of its component parts and which, for that reason, is hypo‐thesized to be processed holistically.
Formulaic language
Creating a timeline for formulaic language is far from simple, because several partially independent lines of research have contributed to the emerging picture. Each exhibits cycles of innovation and consolidation over time: domains take a leading role in developing new knowledge and then fall back, while another area comes to the fore. Thus, some of the first observations about formulaic language, back in the nineteenth century, were in the clin…
Establishing the Reliability of Word Association Data for Investigating Individual and Group Differences
This article argues that, across different psychological contexts, the methods of data collection, treatment, and analysis in word association tests have hitherto been inconsistent. We demonstrate that this inconsistency has resulted from inadequate control, in previous studies, of certain important variables including the basis of norm comparisons, and we present a principled method for collecting, scoring, and analysing association responses, t…
Developing research expertise in applied linguistics
This paper explores the ambiguous nature of applied linguistics as a field of enquiry, to contextualise the interpretation of data from an empirical study into how research expertise in applied linguistics is conceptualised, and how it develops during an academic’s career. Key findings from the study include the importance of being willing to work at the boundaries of one’s knowledge, the capacity to communicate one’s ideas effectively, and the r…
The Language of Dementia Science and the Science of Dementia Language
Language is a balance of precision and flexibility, and scientific dialogue across disciplines faces challenges in how terms are used and how phenomena, including language itself, are described and explained. Taking dementia as its focus, this article offers linguistic perspectives on causes of inherent difficulty with terminological exactness. Attention is paid to the interface between the positivist imperatives of clinical evaluation and the re…
Dementia and Language
Dementia refers to a set of conditions affecting aspects of cognitive processing, caused by damage to the brain's cerebrum. The cerebrum is composed of four major regions, or lobes, which between them manage higher mental functions including sensory perception, movement, memory, thought, recognition, attention, consciousness, and language. It also has two hemispheres, left and right, and while some functions, such as motor movement, are bilateral…
Formulaic Sequences
Formulaic sequences are strings of words jointly representing a meaning or function that is often, though not always, different from the literal meaning of the component words. There is evidence from clinical linguistics, psychology, and neurology that they are processed, stored, or accessed (or a combination of these) differently from other word strings that do not have the same “formulaic” properties. However, the extent of their presence in la…
Linguistics (18 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Computer Science (15 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 obras) · Cognitive science (5 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (5 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras)