This book charts the history of Romanian semiotics before introducing new concepts like conversational history—for analyzing literary texts—and existential rereading. It also features a collaborative linguistic study and a unique Database of Romanian Love Charms.
Language and Communication
Go beyond just speaking and listening. True communication is understanding the meaning behind the words and the power of how things are said. This collection analyses the process in various contexts, examining the transition from form to meaning to improve all relationships.
Communicating Medical Science in the Digital Age
The internet and social media have transformed medical science communication, making it more open and responsive. This book brings together academics and practitioners to critically discuss emerging trends and genres, and how they shape knowledge, expertise, and identity.
Real Challenges of the Classroom
Teaching is messy. This book turns 18 real-life classroom crises into essential learning moments. Each story analyzes what went wrong and reveals the research-backed strategies that worked, offering powerful, practical insights for your own reflective practice.
This book explores how public institutions in multilingual Europe ensure efficient communication with an international public. It analyzes the challenges of website translation and localization, comparing public bodies with cultural institutions and multinational companies.
COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts
This book offers a diverse approach to discourse on COVID-19 in African contexts. Analyzing perspectives from educational to political discourse, it reveals pandemic challenges and sustainable possibilities for experts, researchers, and policy-makers to explore.
Exploring the English Language
This guide to structure-based writing explains the ‘why’ behind the language. Rather than a set of rules, it presents grammar as a way to produce more effective writing. With engaging exercises, it is ideal for both native and intermediate non-native speakers.
This accessible introduction to language variation provides critical accounts of key topics in sociolinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. Illustrated with compelling examples, it serves as a valuable reference for students of linguistics and communication.
This book analyses the transposition of irony and humour as cultural translation, bridging different worldviews. Exploring underrepresented cultures like Finland and Romania, this transdisciplinary volume will interest translation scholars, linguists, teachers, and practitioners.
This book introduces a new analytical framework for cultural linguistics. By incorporating semiotics into cultural conceptualization, it offers new insights into the interplay between language and culture, shedding light on culturally-constructed concepts.
The World of Coronaspeak
This book explores Coronaspeak, the global language born from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering jokes, slang (‘jab’), and new coinages (‘elbow bump’), it highlights the capacity of words to adapt to shock and social disorder, arguing they are part of disaster management.
Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines
This volume explores the interface between medicine, law, and other disciplines through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Contributions cover issues in bioethics and law, nursing ethics, risk management, social inclusion, and environmental ethics.
Language, Power and Intercultural Communication
This book examines how power imprints on language in intercultural communication. It considers translation as discourse and practice, connected to politics and contemporary media, and broadens translation studies using cultural studies and critical discourse analysis.
This volume demonstrates how Chinese speakers use meta-level expressions to manage meaning, relationships, and discourse. It sheds light on how they monitor their speech, providing an important reference for researchers conducting cross-linguistic metapragmatic research.
Analysing Media Discourse
Combining theory with interdisciplinary analysis, this study of media discourse enables readers to understand media communication and provides producers with effective instruments to understand the role of media in social life.
This volume offers diverse international perspectives on Medical English as a lingua franca—a growing phenomenon with impacts on quality healthcare and patient safety. This interdisciplinary book is vital for researchers, educators, practitioners, and healthcare institutions.
Mirrors and Windows in Language Teacher Education
This book on language learning and interculturality invites educators to look in the mirror at their own practice and out the window at others’ research. It’s for all who want to support every learner in classes where inclusion and cooperation are the norm, not competition.
This book explores the ontological foundation of signs, a semiotic perspective that opens the way to culture. It extends the reader’s understanding by moving beyond classical definitions of the “sign” and will appeal to anyone concerned with understanding human nature.
Explore stancetaking’s theory and practice across diverse contexts, from political trials to informal chats. Analyzing events like the COVID-19 pandemic, this interdisciplinary volume offers key applications for teaching and improving inter-ethnic communication.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.