Communication as a Life Process
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.
Communication as a Life Process, Volume Two
International linguistic scholars respond to 21st century holism in language studies. This volume discusses topics from interpersonal communication to religious discourse, drawing on a theoretical base in quantum theory to depart from traditional materialistic perspectives.
This book introduces ‘ELF Transcultural Competence,’ a new model of skills for communicating successfully in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It explores key strategies and offers practical pedagogical examples for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
This volume brings together fifteen papers on the morphosyntax of Romance varieties. Using diverse theoretical approaches and modern research methods, it tackles key issues and will appeal to students and researchers in Romance and theoretical linguistics.
This book presents a tool for legal translation that compares concepts across legal cultures. Based on their overlap, it navigates translators toward reasoned solutions. Includes case studies from English common law and Slovak continental law. For practitioners and academics.
This volume reports on bilingual practices in contemporary societies worldwide. Researchers discuss topics including language learning, education, media, and social change, with a special focus on Malta as an excellent laboratory for the scientific study of bilingualism.
A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
This book examines contemporary issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), exploring the interrelationship of learners, teachers, and tools. Presenting recent findings, it is a valuable resource for researchers and language teachers.
This volume examines diversified approaches to migration and communication, exploring policy dialogues, migration governance, and transnationalism. It sheds light on recent debates in Europe concerning socio-economic challenges, welfare rights, and social cohesion.
Conceptualizing Evolution Education
Barczewska studies the benefits of grounding corpus-assisted discourse analysis within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. This is accomplished here against the highly emotive controversy over the teaching of evolution in the US classroom.
Conceptualizing Semantic Relevance between Word Roots
Uncover the hidden semantic links between word roots. This book reveals how similar core components create shared meanings across diverse language families, offering profound insights into the nature of language and culture.
Senior scholars comment on the relevance of Bernard Spolsky’s 1989 classic, *Conditions for Second Language Learning*, for teaching English in Asia. This volume of their talks highlights a major shift from linguistic to sociolinguistic and language policy conditions.
This monograph explores how linguistic categories unify syntax, semantics, and information structure. It places grammaticality at the core, showing how categories link syntactic form with social reference to create meaning, carving out a new landscape of possible human language.
This study investigates the validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) from the classroom to society. It addresses pedagogical issues in CSL teaching, provides implications for the HSK’s development, and helps test developers and users build assessment literacy.
The concept of “constraint” is used across linguistics, computer science, and psychology. This book builds an extended overview of the use of constraints to model and process language, making it useful for researchers and as a class book for advanced courses.
Constructing Interpersonality
This edited volume focuses on interpersonality in academic discourse. Its eighteen contributions explore this key issue across many genres and from various analytical approaches. A valuable tool for applied linguists, discourse analysts, students, and EAP instructors.
Constructing Legal Discourses and Social Practices
This title looks descriptively and interpretatively at the various existing forms of legal discourse and how these are framed and organised by social practices within distinctive sites of legal communication.
Constructing Professional Discourse
This book explores the role language plays in professional communities by providing an integrative, multi-perspective approach to domain-specific discourse. It links textual analysis to the social context of its production, offering fresh insights.
Constructive Adpositional Grammars
This book presents a new grammar paradigm based on adposition. Using Constructive Mathematics, it offers a different perspective on topics like grammaticalization and dependency, validated with examples from diverse languages and a real-world application.
This book provides insight into advances in English language teaching, focusing on technology and the individual learner. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who wish to keep abreast of the latest developments in techniques and understanding of learners.
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