Movement and Clitics
This volume gathers selected papers on movement and clitics. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, drawing on data from adult grammar, language acquisition, developmental language disorders, and language change.
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.
Multicultural Language Education
This collection of essays for modern language teachers bridges research and practice. It highlights the latest developments and methods in Foreign Language Teaching to equip learners with the cross-cultural communication skills essential in a changing world.
This volume offers diverse perspectives on translation as a bridge to other cultures. It provides studies on literary translation, interpreting, and idiom translation. Written by professional translators, their experience is invaluable for fellow practitioners.
Multidisciplinary Humane Perspectives on Education
How can education help humanity realize its full potential? This book addresses equality, inclusiveness, and conflicting pressures in education, arguing that it must make every member of the human community accountable to the others.
Multilingual Europe
This volume explores the relationship between language and identity in an expanding, multicultural Europe. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it combines sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema.
Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages
This volume addresses the challenges of multilingual processing for the EU’s ‘less resourced’ languages. It offers specific solutions for translation and information retrieval for languages from south-eastern and central Europe.
Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics
This book is the first of two volumes containing selected papers from the international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics, which brought together scholars with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication.
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.
Multilingualism and Education in Africa
An essential resource for understanding multilingualism and education in Africa. Written by leading authorities, this book examines policies and practices across the continent, combining theoretical, empirical, and personal experiences to show what works.
Multilinguality, Vitality, and Endangerment
Languages are not lost; they are displaced. This book challenges conventional narratives by exploring why the Toda language is declining while Kota remains resilient. It demonstrates that language endangerment is a consequence of systemic marginalization, not modernization.
This volume explores multimodality in communication, showing how non-verbal elements like gaze and gestures reinforce speech. It covers educational and specialized domains, offering new perspectives on how to exploit multimodal resources to enhance English language learning.
This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
Multiple Voices in Academic and Professional Discourse
This book provides a global view of interdisciplinary research and innovative proposals in teaching specialized languages for the sciences and other professions. Chapters cover discourse analysis, specialized translation, terminology, and ICT.
This book explores the lexical borrowing between English and Arabic, tracing their historical contact. It describes the role Arabic played in enriching early English and shows how the hegemony of English can be seen in its modern impact on Arabic.
My Utopia
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
Name and Naming
This book analyses names and the act of naming from an intercultural, synchronic, and diachronic perspective. Its originality lies in a multi-disciplinary approach, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, literature, pragmatics, and more.
Names in the Economy
Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.
Names are powerful vehicles for human goals. This volume focuses on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, revealing how names play a role in identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations.
Narrative and Multimodal Approaches to Corporate Discourse
This book investigates the narrative and multimodal strategies traditional Italian family firms use to promote their corporate identity abroad. It offers linguistic perspectives on corporate discourse for students and scholars in marketing, business, and applied linguistics.
Processing Your Order
Please wait while we securely process your order.
Do not refresh or leave this page.
You will be redirected shortly to a confirmation page with your order number.