Critical Cultural Awareness
This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students’ critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.
This book adopts a fresh approach to conflict in Caribbean societies of the late 20th and 21st centuries. It brings new perspectives to the analysis of recent fiction and art by writers and artists from both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.
To prepare students for the 21st century, we must change the way we teach them to think. This book instils a love of critical thinking in students and teachers, covering its history, methods in language teaching, and providing reading and writing activities.
Most deception research is North American-centric and ignores our digital lives. This book provides insights into computer-mediated deception across cultures, namely Poland and the USA, examining how cultural values affect deceptive communication and its detection online.
This collection from international scholars reveals surprising truths about cross-cultural communication. Using authentic examples from languages like Japanese, French, and Italian, it provides insights into the competence needed for successful interaction.
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the English Language
Explore cross-disciplinary solutions to teaching English in a globalised world. This collection by Romanian researchers offers vital, practical insights for specialists, teachers, and students.
This book uses cross-linguistic analysis to explore verb constructions. It reveals how seemingly equivalent verbs can differ in meaning across languages, and how similar meanings are often expressed by completely different grammatical constructions.
This collection presents new voices discussing the linguistic complexities of post-colonial Anglophone Africa. It offers up-to-date research on language contact, identity, and policy in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria for students and researchers.
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
This volume presents cutting edge linguistic research across syntax, semantics, morphology, and translation studies. Drawing on data from English, Greek, Romanian, and other European languages, it explores challenging structures and their translation.
Cultivating Visionary Leadership by Learning for Global Success
This anthology explores pedagogical practices for graduating culturally astute, innovative, and ethical global leaders. It showcases teaching strategies from the humanities and STEM to develop critical and creative-thinking skills for a changing world.
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.
These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
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.
Culture’s Software
Geert Hofstede defined culture as collective programming of the mind. This volume, Culture’s Software, develops this idea. Born from a debate on cultural communication styles, this book offers a fresh perspective and will inspire further research into this fascinating subject.
These essays explore ‘translation’ as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
Learn about the most recent developments in English Language Teaching. Aimed at academics and educators, this book explores contemporary ideas and approaches, from creative techniques to cutting-edge technologies, providing theoretical foundations and real-world applications.
This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.
This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.
This book compiles articles on Spanish grammar, integrating up-to-date research with current theoretical syntax and semantics. It is for linguists, researchers, and students interested in Spanish, Romance languages, and generative grammar.
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