A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
This book explores categorization and approximation—two often opposed, yet indissociable, operations. By comparing their expression in different languages, it clarifies the links between them and the cognitive foundations of interpretation for scholars and students.
A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.
This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.
This distinctive dictionary of Persian grammar features entries with a thorough linguistic analysis and literary usage. A valuable three-tiered compilation, it meets the needs of both instructors and students of Persian language and linguistics.
A Discourse Analysis of the ‘Trumpusconi’ Phenomenon
Is Trump our contemporary Berlusconi? This work analyses the two political figures through discourse analysis to see if their similarities go beyond personality. It confirms the ‘Trumpusconi’ idea, but shows Trump belongs to a different era of infotainment.
A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann
This book takes a new discourse perspective on the Constitution of Ireland. It explores the charter’s impact on the country’s public sphere, examining how it has been argued by the Irish press and judiciary since its enactment.
A Glasgow Voice
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
This monograph provides comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures, in addition to a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs.
Learn Italian with fun texts, dialogues, and photos covering cultural topics like cities, recipes, and famous writers. This book includes grammar and recordings with a variety of accents—a great training tool for A1-B2 level students.
This guide to medical English is for healthcare professionals and students. It covers essential grammar, medical vocabulary, and phonetics to improve your listening and speaking skills. Ideal for self-study or as a handout for specialized courses.
A History of Women’s Contributions to Linguistics
This enjoyable and pedagogical read documents the existence and contributions of more than 200 women in language-related disciplines. Drawing on overwhelming research of Western and Eastern sources, it does justice to the many women who have been practically invisible—until now.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
A Journey through Knowledge
A Journey through Knowledge is a collection of articles honouring renowned Romanian linguist Hortensia Pârlog. United by the common theme of the “journey,” these articles explore traveling across identities, time, space, languages, and cultures.
A Journey through the Content and Language Integrated Learning Landscape
As interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) grows, researchers and teachers need new studies to understand its potential and implementation. This volume covers learning, teaching, and training, providing insight into the latest research in the CLIL field.
A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
D’Acquisto explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. She reviews the English verbal system’s role in relation to modality in the institutional language of the UN and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types.
Professor Zidan explores the ways in which legal language differs from ordinary usage, investigating the difficulties of drafting English and Arabic legal texts, paying particular attention to features of such language that are often ignored in academic analysis.
Beyond its story, what makes Nineteen Eighty-Four a masterpiece? This book conducts a semiotic analysis to uncover the novel’s hidden structures, revealing how Orwell masterfully constructed its powerful and enigmatic layers of meaning.
A Local Perspective on Lexicography
This book explores dictionary-making and research in Romania. Addressing culture-specific topics for theorists, practitioners, and users, it covers paper and online, monolingual and bilingual works, explaining the challenges that have shaped the local dictionary culture.
A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts
This work contextualizes Swift’s masterpiece, A Modest Proposal, within his wider writing on Ireland. It analyzes a selection of his Irish Tracts to trace the evolution of his views, providing new insights for a better understanding of the satire.