Idioms through Time and Technology
What is an idiom? This book offers a game-changing answer, revealing new categories like similidioms. Witty and deeply researched, it will captivate scholars and any reader curious about the expressions we use every day.
This book comprises papers on theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, literature and cultural studies, divided into three sections: Image, Identity, and Reality. A valuable resource for academic study and the general public.
Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
This book challenges common views on autism and implicit meaning. Using a novel test with video-based conversational exchanges, this study’s results contradict previous findings, showing that people with ASD can understand non-literal meaning.
Are all literary texts interpretable? This volume explores the borderline of sense and nonsense, where literary studies and linguistics converge. Contributors tackle anomaly and absurdity, drawing from cognitive studies, pragmatics, and philosophy.
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.
This book explores adults reclaiming their ancestral language and what it means to be indigenous. It covers identity, belonging, and new methods for recording indigenous voices and experiences, using the Sámi people in Finland as an example of political identity and status.
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 documents the changing language situation in urban China, gauging the impact of industrialization on communication. Studies demonstrate the interplay of the standard language, Putonghua, and dialects, contrasting China with post-industrial Europe.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
Informational Linguistics
This book describes the innovative paradigm of informational linguistics. Informational knowledge is in high demand, particularly in information technologies. This book is oriented toward improving the skills of structuring knowledge and distinguishing priorities.
Ingressive and Egressive Verbs in English
The first study to consider the language-external factors responsible for the configurations of English aspectual verbs, this title explores the semantic-pragmatic and cognitive causes of the various structural representations of ingressive and egressive verbs.
Innovation in Methodology and Practice in Language Learning
This state-of-the-art volume presents 24 papers on the challenges and innovations in university language centres, from new technologies to evolving pedagogy, revealing how these vital institutions adapt and thrive.
This interdisciplinary textbook integrates Translation Studies, Linguistics, Literary Studies, and Education. It closes the gap between theory and practice, offering researchers new frameworks and practitioners practical approaches for a globalized world. An invaluable resource.
How, where, and when does innovation occur in creative writing teaching? This volume explores such innovation, gathering contributors whose teaching stories provide direction, stimulus, and encouragement for those seeking to innovate in how creative writing is taught and learnt.
Input a Word, Analyze the World
Comprising contributions by scholars from across the globe, this collection represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines. It will be of particular interest to language specialists.
EFL teachers and researchers in Asia share successful teaching techniques and new methodologies. This collection offers practical suggestions for the classroom and unique insights for teaching English where students have limited informal language exposure.
This first overview of Romanian political discourse analyzes genres from parliamentary debates to protest memes. The analysis reveals the specifics of the lesser-known Romanian style of political communication, fostering cultural awareness for an international readership.
Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences
This book offers a critical overview of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). As a novel contribution, it frames ICC in relation to learner variables like motivation and communication apprehension, proposing and testing a new, data-driven model for L2 communication.
Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching
This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.
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