Migration and Language Education in Southern Europe
As migrant populations change Greek schools, teachers face challenges with limited training and resources. Authored by Greek researchers, this volume maps this new educational reality and meets the need for further research on immigrant education in Southern Europe.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
In the Mind and across Minds
This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.
Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.
This book examines how language learners develop and use communication strategies (CSs). Based on a study of Japanese university students, it explores how these strategies impact their interactional competence and classroom interactions.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
Reflections on Persian Grammar Vol. II
This collection is a survey of the historical development of Persian grammar. The contributions from distinguished scholars display their deep knowledge of the Persian language, its literature, and history to illustrate its major structural properties and parametric variations.
From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.
Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.
This book analyzes multilingual academic writing through translanguaging, examining the disparity between thinking in one language and writing in another. It offers practical strategies for educators to acknowledge student voices and identities, decolonizing academic writing.
This study of medieval poetry explores the interaction between Muslim and Jewish culture in Andalusia. It sheds light on the figure of the “Other”—the Jew in Islam—through the authentic voice of poets, offering a perspective beyond the histories written about the period.
Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Syntax
This book is a contrastive analysis of Chinese and English syntax based on generative grammar. Moving from simple to complex topics, it requires no prior background knowledge. It can serve as a textbook or reference for scholars of linguistics and Chinese studies.
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.
Adventuring in Dictionaries
Adventuring in Dictionaries brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present. The diverse perspectives are united by a focus on the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities.
Mind and Second Language Acquisition
This volume explores second language (L2) acquisition using experimental designs that open the way for future research. Its insights will be useful for disciplines including linguistics, psychology, and education.
Why are the most common swear words also the most offensive? Based on 500+ real-life utterances, this book decodes the unwritten rules of swearing, challenging what we think we know about profanity, gender, and race.
This book presents new trends in teaching Spanish, focusing on Interaction and Grammar. It uses Cognitive Linguistics to clarify complex structures like the subjunctive and offers methodologies for dynamic, cooperative classroom interaction.
This book explores intercultural communication, focusing on self-understanding as the first step to appreciating diverse perspectives. It provides guidelines to build competencies, overcome challenges, and discover the rewards of connecting in a multicultural world.
This book provides new insights into English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), exploring the latest empirical research in business and academic ELF, intercultural communication, language attitudes, and code-switching. Essential for linguists and ELT practitioners.
Literature, Geography, Translation
This volume connects world literature, postcolonial, and translation studies. It approaches translation as a distinct practice that connects literatures, challenging global theory by insisting on the specificity of place and the resistance to translatibility.