Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
This volume presents a rich mosaic of current strategies for teaching English as a Second Language (ESL). International educators highlight the diversity of present-day teaching processes in a global environment where English is a lingua franca.
Travellers’ Tales
The experiences of English language teachers are often overlooked. This volume explores the complexity of ELT as global ‘work’ through teacher narratives, revealing the personal, pedagogical, and cultural dimensions of their work in overseas contexts.
Ethnographic Discourse of the Other
This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.
Kaleidoscopic Grammar
This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.