New Trends in Foreign Language Teaching
Language teaching approaches, methods and procedures are constantly undergoing reassessment. This publication discusses the latest developments in the field and emerging patterns in the foreign language classroom.
On one of the world’s great cultural fault-lines, issues of politics, culture, and identity are played out daily in the English language classrooms of the Arab world. This volume explores these concerns from the perspectives of teachers, students, and researchers.
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.
Didactics of Translation
Bnini gathers empirical evidence for the didactic value of translating texts in context through an experiment involving students who study translation as part of their curriculum. A number of theoretical frameworks are invoked in the study.
This book argues that language combines symbols with the iconicity of mental events, and that imaginability is central to meaning. It traces this idea through Western thought, from Aristotle’s resemblance relations to Frege, Wittgenstein, and cognitive linguistics.
This book provides new insights into hybrid place-names in England. It uncovers patterns of formation, investigating the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman French layers of toponymy. It will appeal to historians, linguists, and local history enthusiasts.
This peer-reviewed volume is a selection of papers from an international symposium. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it offers an excellent overview of the current state of research in linguistics and related disciplines.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
Englishes Today
Reflecting current trends in English linguistics research, this volume contributes to the increasingly fashionable, but still under-explored body of literature on the spread and globalisation of English, utilising ideas from different frameworks dealing with English today.
New Trends in Lexicography
This book develops new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography. It presents analysis of cultural issues, phraseology, idioms, and non-equivalent lexis, with a focus on innovations in specialized, bilingual, and monolingual dictionaries.
Emotions from a Bilingual Point of View
This book explores the influence of personality and emotional intelligence on second language learning. It is the first systematic exploration of the role of emotional intelligence and offers new insights into how personality affects specific language skills.
Subtitling Today
Subtitling now serves many purposes, and comes in various forms. The contributions to this volume discuss these different manifestations, and offer a snapshot of this dynamic field of study, considering various languages, such as Chinese, Finnish, French, Japanese and Polish.
New Literacies
The notion of change is central. As new technologies accelerate, the traditional definition of literacy as just reading and writing is too simplistic. This calls for a reorientation in how we teach, learn, and view literacy for the 21st century.
Foreign Women Authors under Fascism and Francoism
This collection highlights cultural features and processes which characterized translation practice under the dictatorships of Mussolini and Franco. It brings to the fore the “microhistory” that exists behind every publishing proposal, whether collective or individual.
Mapping Africa in the English Speaking World
This book grapples with the relationship between Africa and the English speaking world. It addresses misrepresentations of the continent in literature and film, the marginalization of its people and cultures, and ongoing debates on language and identity.
Uniting linguistics, nursing, and speech pathology, this collection uses discourse analysis to explore communication in dementia, challenging our understanding of language, cognition, and the human self.
Showcasing the powerful NooJ linguistic environment, this volume presents 18 articles from the 2012 conference, exploring topics from morphology and syntax to semantics and real-world applications.
Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures
This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.
Automatic Processing of Various Levels of Linguistic Phenomena
This volume contains papers from the NooJ 2011 Conference. Researchers use the NooJ linguistic environment to analyze diverse corpora, from ancient texts to astronaut conversations, covering topics like machine translation and information extraction.
Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.