The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.
This collection of essays on cognition explores cognitive processes in culture, nature, and memes. The authors introduce a dynamic approach, shedding new light on themes such as animal thought, minds and computing, and the social dimension of knowledge.
Once dismissed as linguistic ornamentation, rhetoric re-emerged as a vital tool for communication in modern society. This book analyzes its use across political, journalistic, and organisational discourse, showing how rhetoric shapes human action and interaction.
This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.
What linguistic traits contrast public from private communication in English? This ground-breaking volume examines the question from the late middle ages to the modern era, with contributions from top international scholars exploring a range of historical sources.
This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.
Armenia has long been a cultural bridge in the Southern Caucasus. While preserving its unique identity, it has been shaped by its neighbors. This volume offers an interdisciplinary view of the linguistic and cultural properties Armenians share with them.
On Meaning
This work explores individuation and the definition of identity through the semiotic process of cognition. It examines how symbolic forms define our world and how languages like English and European Portuguese develop unique strategies for naming and referring.
This book explores intercultural communication, focusing on self-understanding as the first step to appreciating diverse perspectives. It provides guidelines to build competencies, overcome challenges, and discover the rewards of connecting in a multicultural world.
Language Studies
Language is a cornerstone of human identity and culture. This collection explores its centrality across an array of subjects—from social psychology and forensics to computer science—demonstrating that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to understand our world.
Contest(ed) Writing
This collection explores writing contests as a cultural practice, asking if they over-emphasize individual achievement over shared goals. Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach, it examines contests from ancient Greece to modern podcasting competitions.
This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.
Alternative Voices
This volume presents Alternative Voices, exploring the complex links between language, culture, and identity in our globalised world. This research challenges the “monolingual bias” in the Language Sciences, analyzing complexities inadequately covered.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
Talk in Institutions
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
This book argues that language combines symbols with the iconicity of mental events, and that imaginability is central to meaning. It traces this idea through Western thought, from Aristotle’s resemblance relations to Frege, Wittgenstein, and cognitive linguistics.
Intersections
This book presents applied linguistics as a meeting place. Featuring 16 papers by global researchers, it focuses on the field’s intersections with diverse disciplines like education, law, medicine, and technology, extending the boundaries of the field.
Communication and Information Technology in Society
This book explores the role of media in our modern, globalized world. Investigating communication through social sciences, cultural studies, and education, it offers unique insights from European countries in transition.
Grammar, Expressiveness, and Inter-subjective Meanings
How do we use words to express sensations? This book examines Wittgenstein’s philosophy of psychology, exploring the connection between inner states and outward language. It clarifies this process by drawing on his recently published and little-known last writings.