At the forefront of linguistic research, this volume investigates generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. Comparing English and Romanian to other languages, it also explores the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.
Learn about the most recent developments in English Language Teaching. Aimed at academics and educators, this book explores contemporary ideas and approaches, from creative techniques to cutting-edge technologies, providing theoretical foundations and real-world applications.
This book presents a mathematical theory on the deep structure of language, connecting Shannon’s theory with cognitive skills. It proposes a framework for researchers to devise a theory of human communication that includes meaning—the great absent element in information theory.
Uncover the hidden life of words. This groundbreaking bifocal approach to lexicology maps the hierarchies of word formation and relationships with crystal-clear distinctions. An essential guide for language professionals and anyone curious about how our words are made.
This volume provides a picture of state-of-the-art studies on terminology at the European level. It also discusses the selection of languages and cultural attitudes that characterize European Union countries, challenging and productive as they can be.
This volume explores core issues in figurative language and thought across fourteen languages. It examines the relationship between literal and figurative meaning, the role of metaphor and metonymy as cognitive tools, and the import of cognitive models in communication.
Cogent argumentation is a pragmatic communicative interactional process. Employing a model of analysis which combines rhetoric, logic and dialectics, this text investigates the presence of pragmatic criteria and strategies in the context of political debates.
This volume brings together fifteen papers on the morphosyntax of Romance varieties. Using diverse theoretical approaches and modern research methods, it tackles key issues and will appeal to students and researchers in Romance and theoretical linguistics.
Conceptualizing Evolution Education
Barczewska studies the benefits of grounding corpus-assisted discourse analysis within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. This is accomplished here against the highly emotive controversy over the teaching of evolution in the US classroom.
Data-Rich Linguistics
In recognition of Professor Yiwola Awoyale’s contributions to African linguistics, this collection presents current research on the syntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics of African languages—a state-of-the-art account of contemporary issues in the field today.
This text discusses various ways of approaching the problems associated with specialist languages, such as the languages of law and business, which can be perceived as highly conventionalized and not fully autonomous communication codes limited to specific situations.
Language for Specific Purposes
This volume aligns three aspects of Language for Specific Purposes: translation, linguistic research, and domain-specific web communication. It presents work in various LSP areas, like legal discourse, highlighting issues of specialised communication and its social implications.
Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise
This volume explores various aspects of corporate communication from the viewpoint of language and discourse, giving special attention to emerging issues and recent developments in times of rapid sociotechnical evolutions.
Modal Verbs in Marlowe and Shakespeare
The findings offered here shed light on the history of modal verbs and constitute a valuable contribution to contemporary Early Modern English studies. The study investigates the usage and meaning of modal verbs in the tragedies and history plays of both Marlowe and Shakespeare.
Verbs, Clauses and Constructions
This volume offers contributions on the role of verbs, clauses, and constructions in a rich variety of languages. Using empirical data, the book contributes to current literature on functional-oriented linguistics, incorporating linguistic typology and corpus-based perspectives.
This work discusses, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages, an area not extensively covered by morphologists. Its focus, on a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled.
Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
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.
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 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.