This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
Studies in Language Variation and Change 2
This collection of essays traces the history of the English language, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly the influence of Scandinavian, French, and Latin, which are all considered here.
Linguistics and the Parts of the Mind
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
Language processing is considered as an important part of cognition, with an ever-increasing amount of studies conducted on this field. This book gathers together research on language processing and disorders presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Madrid.
Italian Communities Abroad
This volume provides an overview of research on Italian communities abroad, and, thus, represents an important contribution to the recent wave of paradigm renewal in the field of migration (socio)linguistics of Italian.
To prepare learners for global citizenship, language teaching must be intercultural. This book offers a collection of successful, bottom-up experiences rooted in praxis, sharing activities and methods that can be informative to the realities of all readers.
Metonymy and Word-Formation
This book explores the interplay between word-formation and metonymy, arguing they are distinct linguistic components that complement and mutually constrain each other. Using data from a variety of languages, it is essential reading for scholars and advanced students of grammar.
This book addresses teaching and assessing foreign language for academic purposes in a plurilingual context. Based on a research project, it describes a model LAP test and shows findings on the performance of students from both Indo-European and non-Indo-European languages.
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.
Rhetorical Criticism in Communication Studies
Gabor focuses on seven entries in Carl R. Burgchardt’s Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, to which she adds a complementary effort. She also offers personal narrative about guidance by specific critics such as Edwin Black, Forbes Hill, and Kenneth Burke.
This title addresses several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed, and will be useful to experts on language studies.
By focusing on language learners’ self-concept, this publication foregrounds the role of the learner in the process of language learning. It presents a number of empirical studies that bring into focus various aspects of the self in the learning of languages.
This publication makes a unique contribution to studies on materials development for language learning. It focuses on issues related to authenticity in materials development and includes research-based position statements and applications of theory to practice.
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.
Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the publication brings together various approaches to identity as seen through translation. It offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices.
Jean Liébault (1535–1596) contributed to the emergence of modern gynaecology by rescuing the Hippocratic medical tradition that recognized the specificity of the female body. Bernal presents the semi-diplomatic edition of the only known English version of Liébault’s work.
This title introduces a number of different types of writing taken from various periods in history and from well-known authors. It serves as an introduction to English-language prose. The texts compiled here are relevant to current social issues and problems.
From fan-generated translation to user-generated translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. This volume provides a comprehensive review of the current state of play of this user-generated subtitling phenomenon.
Politics within Parentheses
Gabor mediates between various culturally determined profiles of the discipline of Communication Studies. While directing attention to landmark American texts in intercultural communication, she also signals the potential to make reading a relational praxis.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human language. This compendium promotes work on intelligent natural language processing and related models of information, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
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