Western Neo-Aramaic
Western Neo-Aramaic is the last surviving branch of Western Aramaic, kept alive for thousands of years in three remote Syrian villages. Now at great risk of extinction, this book explores the language with a detailed grammar, texts by native speakers, and a thorough dictionary.
Inductive or Deductive?
This book presents the first systematic analysis of inductive vs. deductive instruction for pragmatic competence in EFL learners. The results suggest the advantage of the inductive approach. A valuable resource for researchers and teachers, with materials and insights.
This book argues that errors in our decisions result from a ‘noun approach’ to problems. It examines reality using verbs in real time—from cause to effect—to explore the eternal issues of truth and goodness, invalidating the paradigm of 20th-century ‘noun philosophy’.
This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.
Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
Across Boundaries
This book showcases research into translation and translation teaching in contexts across the globe. Contributors from twelve countries and a variety of disciplines offer a genuinely international, multidisciplinary view of contemporary translation studies.
The Research-Practice Interface in English for Specific Purposes
This cutting-edge book on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research investigates discursive practices in academic and workplace settings. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it is essential for scholars and university teachers of ESP and applied linguistics.
This book investigates the linguistic phenomenon of blending in Arabic. Adopting a systematic and quantitative approach, it analyses how new words are formed, presenting practical findings and paving the way for further investigation in this field.
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a frontier of pedagogical research. This volume combines research from international CLIL experts with critical perspectives, deriving theoretical reflections from case studies for both academics and school instructors.
This book presents a mathematical theory on the deep structure of language, connecting Shannon’s theory with cognitive skills. It proposes a framework for researchers to devise a theory of human communication that includes meaning—the great absent element in information theory.
Science, Systemic Functional Linguistics and Language Change
This Festschrift honours the work of David Banks. The volume includes papers in the three main fields in which he has published: scientific writing, language change and systemic functional linguistics.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
Bulgarian is a pro-drop language, but German is not. This book explores how this cross-linguistic difference affects near-native learners. Because null subject contexts can superficially overlap, L1-Bulgarian speakers of German may face interlanguage deficits.
African American Women’s Language
This groundbreaking research on African American Women’s Language is long overdue. It expands a literature that has too often focused only on men, exploring the language, discourse, and identity of Black women while finally letting the sistas speak.
Focusing on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, this volume brings together a range of sources to re-evaluate the Old and New Poor Laws, questioning a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor.
Offering a wide range of theory and practice, this text examines the occurrence of manipulation in the translation of British and American press articles into Polish for Forum. Przegląd Prasy Światowej magazine in the People’s Republic of Poland, under preventive censorship.
This book addresses learning styles in second language development. It explores various models of style and their significance for educators, concluding with a discussion of the practical exploitation of learning style awareness in second language education.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden