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Language as Information

This volume contains twelve papers presented at the 26th International Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society, which was held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2012. The articles deal with the way in which information appears in language, specifically with the relationship between meaning and structure, and the way it is constructed by language users, particularly in foreign language learning and teaching situations. All the articles illustrate the claim that investigating language and its information value hinges on language structure, meaning and sociocognitive factors. The analysis of one cannot be complete without analyzing the other two, based on a functional perspective. Contents: Renata Geld/Anita Čutić: Salience of topology in the strategic construal of English particle verbs in blind users of English – Renata Šamo: L1/L2 reading as information processing – Kristina Cergol Kovačević: Language switching in auditory processing and Croatian speakers of English – Sanja Ćurković Kalebić: Discourse markers in EFL teacher talk: the case of okay – Gloria Vickov: Investigating L1 influence on the acquisition of L2 discourse markers – Regine Hampel: Making meaning online: computermediated communication for language learning – Neda Borić: Kuća ‘house’ as a conceptual and lexical category in the semantic space of specialist architecture discourse – Mateusz-Milan Stanojević/ Ivo Tralić/Mateja Ljubičić: Grammatical information and conceptual metaphors: the case of anger – Anita Peti-Stantić: Informativity of sentence information structure: the role of word order – Jelena Parizoska/Zvonimir Novoselec: Idiom variation and grammaticalization: a case study – Jurica Polančec/Tena Gnjatović: The indeclinable relativizer što - an analysis of examples from contemporary spoken Croatian – Leonard Pon: Zu einem Typ des was-Satzes.

language; information structure; language learning; sociocognitive factors

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