Why do bilinguals code-switch? This book proposes a model where one language builds the grammatical frame while the other is activated at a lexical level. This view is tested by analyzing natural speech and second language acquisition data, treating both as predictable outcomes.
Scholars and educators present their experiences with authentic experiential learning in translation and interpreting programmes. This collection will inspire educators to consider this pedagogical option. This updated second edition includes new chapters.
Explorations in Humor Studies
This book explores the various dimensions of humor and its applications. It provides important insights into humorous language through theoretical discussions complemented by case studies in linguistics, culture, literature, translation, and visual and media studies.
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.
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.
This study examines the language in historical accounts of discovery, exploration, and settlement from the 16th to 19th centuries. It analyzes how genres like journals and travel books were used to inform and persuade, conveying factual, personal, and ideological knowledge.
L2 Writing Assessment
When reading and spelling problems are not detected early, they can become lifelong disabilities. Early intervention is the key. This book is a practical guide for educators to identify such problems and use active writing programmes for instruction and assessment.
This volume adopts diverse approaches to pragmatics, comparing a wide selection of languages like English, German, and Japanese. Contributions analyze grammatical expressions, speech acts, and prosody across different social interactions and multicultural environments.
Introduction to a Negative Approach to Argumentation
This book critiques the common view of argumentation as a dispute to be won. It proposes a negative approach that modifies the ethics of philosophical discussions, moving towards pluralism, a diversity of perspectives, and a panoramic view of one’s own position.
Classroom language tests are an everyday feature of teaching, yet they remain under-studied. This volume illuminates this area by featuring teachers’ own tests and commentary, identifying the expert reasoning behind them. An accessible resource for teachers.
Rethinking Presuppositions
This book overturns the study of presuppositions. Arguing that mainstream debate has focused on how presuppositions are made, not what they are, it reveals a new model: a curve ranging from natural ontology to the lexicon. A challenging and essential read for scholars.
This volume gathers international, bilingual contributions on Metaphor and Translation. It explores themes from theory to literature and culture, offering useful conclusions on how metaphor is translated. An essential read for scholars, students, and professional translators.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.
This book analyses the terminology of marine plastic pollution. By observing its use across scientific, informative, and normative texts, it reveals how this specialized language functions in expert-to-expert communication and how its concepts are simplified for other audiences.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
This book explores meaning in language, uniting linguistics, semantics, and computer science. It examines the rapid emergence of meaning in the digital world of social media and memes, using authentic corpus data to show why human language understanding is essential today.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption
This volume discusses contemporary audiovisual seriality, analyzing series like Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. It reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender transformation, exploring reception, authorship, and intertextuality.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
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