Language Acquisition
This collection of essays comprises a selection of articles about research conducted on language acquisition in the Baltic States, namely in Latvia and Lithuania, a field which has witnessed massive growth in recent years.
Language Contact
When speakers of different languages interact, their languages influence each other. This can range from exchanging words to altering grammar, sometimes leading to language death. This volume unites distinguished scholars to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field.
Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future
Corpus Linguistics is an essential methodology to approach empirical studies on languages. This volume offers an outline of the advances made in the past decade and what is yet to come, with papers that address a wide range of scholars, both corpus compilers and users.
Reverberations of Silence
Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.
This publication offers analyses of the recent shift within language and communication research from post-Newtonian transpersonal models of meaning co-creation to the systemic methods used within current studies, showing how human communication is a constantly evolving process.
Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching
This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.
Studies in Canadian English
This publication focuses on vocabulary that reflects unique Canadian traits and a fluid national identity. Focusing on multicultural Toronto, the study uses questionnaires and texts from the Toronto Sun to observe Canadianisms within everyday discourse.
A Brief History of Educational Developments in India
Once a beacon of learning, ancient India’s magnificent educational systems fell into ruin. This book uncovers the story of their rise and fall, from the Vedic era through colonial rule to the modern day.
Kermer links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning, providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures.
In the United States, minority languages are often lost within a few generations. This volume is a collection of inspiring stories from parents sharing their experiences, challenges, and suggestions for raising children bilingually, providing hope and insight.
Translation studies has been dominated by Western discourses. This volume calls for new turns in the field by examining how the themes of patronage and agency shape translation and cross-cultural exchange within Eastern intellectual traditions.
The Vocabulary of Medical English
The question of characterizing academic vocabulary has often been framed in a context that is purely determined by questions of language teaching. Panocová approaches this issue from a more general, empirical perspective, focusing on medical vocabulary.
This volume illustrates the diversity of approaches in linguistics, led by two main chapters from scholars Hans Basbøll and Stig Eliasson. Other contributions explore topics from metaphor, syntax, and language learning to the interface between language and logic.
How do mind and culture shape language? This multidisciplinary volume offers novel insights into intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics, revealing the interplay of cognitive processes and socio-cultural beliefs in communication.
Taking Stance in English as a Lingua Franca
This volume focuses on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in an Italian university. Through analysis of lectures, it reveals the complex linguistic strategies lecturers use to manage interpersonal relations and build rapport with students in the foreign language classroom.
This volume brings together established linguists, philosophers, and psychologists to explore linguistic pragmatics. The collection examines fundamental issues in the field: its explanatory power, its methodological needs, and its future direction.
Addressing issues of theorization in linguistics associated with systems of representation, these essays question the very concept of metalanguage and study the relationship between linguistics and cognition from a variety of perspectives.
Discourses in Co(n)text
This book offers a holistic view of specialised and professional discourse. It analyses the language of medicine, sports, and academia from a variety of perspectives, showing the practical applicability of its analyses and connections to other disciplines.
Language learning is part of the current global revolution, meaning that associated technologies play a vital role in learning English for Specific Purposes. This volume addresses various aspects of learning, technology adoption and pedagogy in such contexts.
Senior scholars comment on the relevance of Bernard Spolsky’s 1989 classic, *Conditions for Second Language Learning*, for teaching English in Asia. This volume of their talks highlights a major shift from linguistic to sociolinguistic and language policy conditions.