This volume explores the ‘living’ usage of language in building and performing the law across academic and professional contexts. These contributions offer multiperspectival approaches to legal discourse, providing an invaluable resource for academics and students.
Current Issues in Reading, Writing and Visual Literacy
Representing papers presented at the 2014 World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, this collection explores current efforts to tease out the variables involved in the development of literacies.
Of the Students, By the Students, and For the Students
Millions of Chinese college graduates study English for years yet remain unable to communicate. This book exposes a 30-year-old failed program, a practice of insanity, and presents a proven solution: the successful remedial program, Holistic English.
Multi-disciplinary Lexicography
This book focuses on burning problems of European, Russian and world lexicography. Topics range from dictionary use and criticism to terminology and projects of new dictionaries. This book will be of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and students.
The Social Action-Oriented Approach in Language Teaching
First introduced by the CEFR, the social action-oriented approach is a new methodology for language teaching. This book explains its origins, development, and how to implement it in textbooks, classrooms, and curricula. A useful resource for all language professionals.
This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.
Language across Languages
Translation has always played a pivotal role in human societies. This volume tackles today’s challenging translation issues from two viewpoints: linguistics and anthropology, exploring translation as a basic cognitive strategy of the human mind.
Advances in Chinese as a Second Language
This collection of pioneering studies examines the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. Topics cover the acquisition of grammar, learner anxiety, and the processing of tones, characters, and clauses—of interest to students and scholars.
This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary journey into the numerical systems of South Asian languages. This book unveils their intricate linguistic patterns and cultural significance, offering a new methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied worldwide.
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.
This volume presents recent linguistic research from Poland, using comparison and juxtaposition to explore all levels of language. Contributions range from phonology to discourse, juxtaposing generative theory with recent developments in cognitive linguistics.
A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
D’Acquisto explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. She reviews the English verbal system’s role in relation to modality in the institutional language of the UN and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types.
Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts
This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa
In southern Africa, language policy is central to identity, power, and politics. This book traces the colonial and postcolonial history of these policies, questioning whose interests they serve and challenging the dominance of theories from the Global North.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
This book discusses adult learners of Japanese and English-Japanese bilingual children, addressing gaps in the literature. Its goal is to integrate theoretical concepts and research findings and apply them to the teaching and learning of Japanese.
Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.
Investigating Lexis
This book shows how lexical research responds to modern challenges, from legal language to video game terminology and pop music. This collection of essays combines cutting-edge research in lexicography and terminology with a user-friendly approach.
This volume offers an overview of state-of-the-art lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions on historical and synchronic dictionaries for major European languages and the profound effects of information technology on designing and using them.