This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings
This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.
Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
This collection brings together the practical and theoretical aspects of Lexicography, a newly accepted academic discipline.
This collection brings together the pick of our recent publishing in Applied Linguistics. This area of study has a global appeal, reflected here with authors, editors and contributors from dozens of countries.
Dyslexia in First and Foreign Language Learning
Questions are tackled in this work as to whether a dyslexic student’s impairment varies depending on levels of orthographic transparency in the language system they study. It provides answers through research on reading difficulties and existing taxonomies of dyslexia sub-types.
Definiteness Effects
This volume explores the definiteness effect in grammar from typological, diachronic, and second language acquisition perspectives. It provides an overview of syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in European and non-European languages.
Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Comprising contributions from a corpus linguistics conference, this volume explores the opportunities that corpora offer for answering questions in different domains of applied linguistics. It also studies the possible limitations and challenges of corpus-based research.
Where Theory and Practice Meet
Wong focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language. He covers language pairs and discusses, among other things, translations, such as those of Dante’s La Divina Commedia.
The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu
The focus of this monograph is loanword morphology in Urdu, particularly loanwords borrowed from Persian, Arabic and English. Primarily descriptive, the study investigates the interactions between syntax, semantics and linguistic function relative to loanword adaptation.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
English Studies from Archives to Prospects
This volume explores English Studies from the perspective of linguistics and applied linguistics. Authors provide an overview of topics from the well-established to the new, reflecting a modern approach and presenting the field as vibrant and full of novel ideas.
Training Foreign and Second Language Teachers
This book provides a comparative perspective on foreign language teacher training in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. It highlights elements of good practice found across nations and sheds light on why certain nations manage multilingualism better than others.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse
Offering integrative investigations, the contributions here show how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India and Nigeria, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices.
Challenges and Channels
This collection deals with the challenges of teaching the English language and literature in the Middle East and North Africa region, bringing together educators and scholars with first-hand experience in teaching the English language and its literatures in this region.
Showcasing a major breakthrough in interpreting studies from work on community interpreting and participant interaction, this book argues that those engaged in interpreting research should be viewed as particularly influential, reframing interpreting approaches in the process.
The syllable is the result of several viewpoints. This book draws inspiration from the quaternion scheme of Hamilton and Saussure, presenting historical observations, descriptive analyses, instrumental analysis, and theoretical considerations on the topic.
Ten prominent scholars provide a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Spanish. This volume covers key topics in the lexicon, phonetics, and syntax, from Arabisms and the confusion of b with v to the development of ser, estar, and haber.
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