ROY HARRIS (ed.), The language myth in Western culture. Pp. 227. London: Curzon Press, 2002. Hb $90.00.

Review of: Ted Briscoe (ed.), Linguistic Evolution through Language Acquisition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002

In 1990, when Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom proposed that ‘there is every reason to believe that a specialization for grammar evolved by a conventional neo-Darwinian process’ (Pinker and Bloom, 1990), the consensus in linguistics had been, for a long time, quite the opposite: ‘It is perfectly safe to attribute this development to “natural selection”, so long as we realize that there is no substa...

Obituary: Roy Sydney Porter (1946-2002).

Review of An Interaction: Creativity, Cognition and Knowledge, Terry Dartnall (Ed.); Praeger, London, 2002, 337 pages

In common parlance, creativity is understood as an extraordinary ability, with which only few are gifted. However, the book ‘An Interaction: Creativity, Cognition and Knowledge’ emphasizes the idea that creativity can be better understood as common cognitive phenomena. It poses a challenge to our understanding of the knowledge and performance of our cognitive systems. Drawing on the theoretical...

Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture . New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. 475 pp

focus on communication in iranian high school language classes: a study of the role of teaching materials in changing the focus onto communication in language classes

چکیده ارتباط در کلاس به عوامل زیادی از جمله معلمان، دانش آموزان، برنامه های درسی و از همه مهم تر، مواد آموزشی وابسته است. در تدریس ارتباطی زبان که تاکید زیادی بر توانش ارتباطی دارد، کتاب درسی به عنوان عامل موثر بر پویایی کلاس محسوب میگردد که درس ها را از طریق فراهم آوردن متن ارتباط کلاسی و هم چنین نوع تمرین زبانی که دانش آموزان در طول فعالیت های کلاسی به آن مشغول اند، کنترل می کند. این حقیقت ک...