Language Skills
This volume offers an international perspective on language skills. It explores the development of spoken, reading, and writing skills, incorporating technology and original empirical studies. A vital resource for researchers, classroom teachers, and students.
ELT
This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
Knowledge, Differences and Identity in the Time of Globalization
The discourse of globalization in higher education reform is troubling. It fails to name a human subject—the student—and its very language antagonizes and marginalizes them. This book explores how this discourse constructs and deconstructs identities.
Besides providing a thorough overview of advances in the concept of identity in Translation Studies, the publication brings together various approaches to identity as seen through translation. It offers first-hand insights into such topics as post-communist translation practices.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human language. This compendium promotes work on intelligent natural language processing and related models of information, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
Based on recent research, this book provides fresh perspectives on translation studies. It combines theory and practice with commented examples, examining literary works, comparative language patterns, and the challenges of film translation into English.
Freeman teaches academics and graduate students how to write seductive academic prose by learning a literacy rarely taught in academic writing or style handbooks. He details how to use literary devices and figures of speech to meet ideals of stylish communication.
Since 1998, the “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” conference has attracted scientists worldwide. This volume gathers the most outstanding articles from the XIIIth conference, with studies of interest to both linguistics professionals and hobbyists.
Language Acquisition and Development
This collection provides impressive insights into state-of-the-art research in first and second language acquisition and developmental impairments. The studies cover a wide variety of languages, focusing on phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.
COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts
This book offers a diverse approach to discourse on COVID-19 in African contexts. Analyzing perspectives from educational to political discourse, it reveals pandemic challenges and sustainable possibilities for experts, researchers, and policy-makers to explore.
Current methods of teaching language are failing because we lack a holistic understanding of how language shapes human interaction. Orthodox science sees language as a tool, but there is no humanness without languaging. This volume forges a new path.
World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
This volume incorporates responses to the charge that there is something irrational about believing in God, given all the evil in the world. It critiques the problem of evil, offers a narrative response, and relates the problem of evil to developments in modern analytic theology.
This book uses cross-linguistic analysis to explore verb constructions. It reveals how seemingly equivalent verbs can differ in meaning across languages, and how similar meanings are often expressed by completely different grammatical constructions.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
On and Off the Page
This collection of essays explores the pervasive and alluring concept of place. Including research from a broad range of fields, it reveals the complex cultural interplay between place and identity, and how we make sense of our own “places” in the world.
Censorship, Indirect Translations and Non-translation
This study of Czech literature’s destiny in 20th-century Portugal investigates indirect translations, censorship evasion, and non-translation, revealing the impact of political ideology on book exchanges between two non-dominant European cultures.
This volume brings together contributions on recent developments in dialectology, offering a panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. Chapters explore quantitative methods and the growing field of dialect syntax.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse
Offering integrative investigations, the contributions here show how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India and Nigeria, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices.