Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics
This book is the first of two volumes containing selected papers from the international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, which brought together scholars with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication.
“How we’re going about it”
This book connects research and practice by outlining innovative language teaching approaches from real teachers in real classrooms. It synthesizes theory and practice in an accessible way, providing authentic, grass-roots experiences from across the globe.
This volume explores translation and censorship, focusing on the Iberian dictatorial regimes of Spain and Portugal. Presenting new case studies, it offers a critical view of censorship from Brazil and China to Victorian England and examines self-censorship.
How do colonial experiences shape identity in contemporary Europe? This timely volume explores the impact on migrant diasporas, new EU states, and regional groups. Multi-disciplinary contributors offer new analyses within a post-colonial framework.
“Talkin’ Different”
This book explores linguistic change among Irish Travellers, focusing on the influence of the educational system. It analyses whether increased school attendance by young Traveller women influences their speech patterns as a strategy for survival.
Yesterday’s Words
Yesterday’s Words explores scholarly issues in historical lexicography and lexicology. Contributions discuss dictionaries of former ages, the vocabulary of the past, current projects, and the modern technology essential for studying yesterday’s words.
This collection of essays discusses conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At its heart is a key question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of conversation still relevant to scholars and thinkers today?
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.
This book addresses the emergence of linguistic abilities during the critical first three years of life. Experts examine the continuity between language components, broadening the discussion with perspectives from phylogeny, pathology, and animal communication.
Breakcore
This interdisciplinary ethnography examines interaction and exchange within the ‘bedroom producer’ culture of ‘breakcore’ electronic music. It explores the cultural politics and aesthetics of identity in this environment, highlighting gender, ethnicity, and technology.
This book presents a selection of papers from an international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, fostering an exchange of knowledge on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. It covers diverse topics and research perspectives.
This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.
Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages covering Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages.
An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.
Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
This collection of essays on cognition explores cognitive processes in culture, nature, and memes. The authors introduce a dynamic approach, shedding new light on themes such as animal thought, minds and computing, and the social dimension of knowledge.
New applications of Role & Reference Grammar
This book applies RRG to diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, and Romance languages. Articles analyze topic-focus structure, case assignment, the syntax-semantics interface, and different aspects of verbs and the structures they involve.
Language Acquisition and Development
This volume gathers fifty papers on the syntax and phonology of child language from the perspective of generative grammar—the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.