The Development of Conceptual Socialization in International Students
This volume introduces “conceptual socialization,” a new framework for analyzing how L2 learners blend their native culture with a new one. It explores the untold trajectories of long-term international graduate students’ linguistic and social development.
The Texture of Internet
Language transforms to meet the demands of our digital world. The Texture of Internet explores these linguistic changes in texting, email, blogs, and websites, becoming a key reference for anyone interested in language use in our technological environment.
Adventuring in the Englishes
International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.
Language in Focus
Presenting papers from an applied linguistics conference, this book addresses the issues that emerge from the need to apply new approaches, theoretical concepts and methods to educational issues.
The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
Intersections
This book presents applied linguistics as a meeting place. Featuring 16 papers by global researchers, it focuses on the field’s intersections with diverse disciplines like education, law, medicine, and technology, extending the boundaries of the field.
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.
Teaching Languages and Cultures
Explore diverse perspectives on language and culture teaching in a globalized world. This volume offers insights into foreign language instruction, intercultural competence, and learning strategies for researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond.
Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.
Earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent had unclear perceptual bearing. This book uses production and perception experiments to show some acoustic properties are not used by listeners in word identification, underscoring the need to study both.
Language and Languages
This collection of papers by international academics explores the massive changes globalisation brings to language. Synthesizing theory and research, it addresses the tensions in ELT, ICTs, and minority languages for academics, researchers, and educators.
“The EU is Not Them, But Us!”
This corpus-driven analysis of political speeches on EU integration from Finland, Hungary, and the UK reveals how language reflects power positions. It offers insights into articulations of collective identity and shared European patterns of identification.
Webs of Words
Webs of Words brings together ten studies on the history of words and vocabulary, covering languages from Chinese and Czech to Māori and Russian. These essays focus on empirical evidence, placing words in the social and cultural lives of their users.
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.
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.
The Magic of Innovation
This volume focuses on innovative approaches to teaching foreign languages to non-language students. It offers best practices and theoretical insights valuable to teachers, course designers, and researchers interested in current trends in language teaching.
News Discourse and Digital Currents
This book investigates the under-researched genre of news tickers. Based on a year-long collection from BBC World News, it uses corpus-based analysis to define tickers as a mixed genre that combines headlines and leads to achieve specific marketization strategies.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays for teachers of modern languages. The essays cover three main approaches: theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, with examples from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
This volume explores cultural differences in academic discourse, contrasting Balkan conventions with Anglo-Saxon norms. By shedding light on the standards of international academic writing, it offers readers a chance to become better equipped for publishing abroad.
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a selection of papers on language and cognition. The book is structured into four parts, covering syntactic studies, word formation, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics.