The Focusing Hypothesis: The theory of left hemisphere lateralised language re-examined
Alison Wray
[Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, 3] 1992. xiv, 207 pp.
Alison Wray
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alison Wray plays a role.
Title
Subjects Evolution of language | Language disorders & speech pathology | Neurolinguistics | Psycholinguistics
Articles
2024 Determiners of social inclusion and exclusion in the dementia context: The perspective of family carers Pragmatics of Active Social Inclusion, Matsumoto, Yoshiko and Heidi E. Hamilton (eds.), pp. 17–32 | Article
People living with a dementia and their family carers are at high risk of being excluded from the contact, activities, information and services that help them remain resilient. Using interview data from family dementia carers, this article explores the sources of enablement and inhibition in… read more
2016 Mechanisms of conflict and aggression in the dementia context Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression, Davis, Boyd (ed.), pp. 114–140 | Article
It is proposed that conflict is an almost inevitable outcome, when, as in dementia communication, the delicate relationship between linguistic processing and pragmatics is upset. This relationship has been little researched, even though much is known about the two components in isolation. Making… read more
2015 Developing research expertise in applied linguistics: Capacity-building for today’s interdisciplinary challenges ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 166:1, pp. 3–36 | Article
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… read more
2014 Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy: The challenge of hybridity The Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco Gonzálvez-García and Angela Downing (eds.), pp. 19–36 | Article
Butler (2009a, b) argues that an adequate model of the language system should
accommodate cognitive, sociocultural, discoursal, acquisitional, typological
and diachronic dimensions, and observational evidence from corpora, experiments
and intuition. This paper asks if such reconciliation is… read more
2010 Choosing the best tools for comparative analyses of texts International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 15:4, pp. 429–473 | Article
What measurements should linguists use when comparing texts written by different writers? We report aspects of a systematic evaluation of 381 different language measures derived from 200 analytic tools, carried out during the pilot for a study exploring genetic contributions to language variation.… read more
2009 Review of Hurford (2007): The origins of meaning: Language in the light of evolution Functions of Language 16:2, pp. 298–308 | Review
2009 Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities Formulaic Language: Volume 1. Distribution and historical change, Corrigan, Roberta, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 27–52 | Chapter
Identifying examples of formulaic language in text is a non-trivial challenge, but the difficulties can be much alleviated by the use of an appropriate definition. Three types of definition are distinguished. Type (i) lays out an analytic working space. Type (ii) derives from an analysis and… read more
2008 Why can't you just leave it alone? Deviations from memorized language as a gauge of nativelike competence Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching, Meunier, Fanny and Sylviane Granger (eds.), pp. 123–147 | Article
This chapter reports an investigation into the capacity of language learners to improve their performance through the memorization of specifically targeted linguistic material. Six intermediate/advanced learners of English memorized nativelike versions of conversational turns that they anticipated… read more
2004 ‘Here’s one I prepared earlier’: Formulaic language learning on television Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use, Schmitt, Norbert (ed.), pp. 249–268 | Article