Language in Uniform
Around the globe, police and military personnel face language challenges. Language in Uniform brings together papers on language analysis, teaching, and assessment for defence, security, and law enforcement, extending our understanding of this vital field.
The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
Languaging Diversity
This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.
This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering fresh perspectives on theory and practice. Written by researchers from around the world, it suggests ways of dealing with translation problems in areas like machine translation and training.
Who is What and What is Who
This book offers an in-depth, micro-parametric analysis of wh-question formation in modern Arabic dialects. The approach is based on the morphology-syntax and syntax-phonology interfaces, placing findings in the context of Universal Grammar.
Current Trends and Issues in Higher Education
A collection of papers by international scholars, this book synthesises theoretical and practical insights into the issues facing educators today. It will help all involved in higher education keep up with constant transformations in the field.
This book presents the first interdisciplinary approach to evaluative morphology. It provides the first large-scale typological research based on 200 languages, introduces new cognitive models, and includes the first psycholinguistic experimental research.
Exploring (Im)politeness in Specialized and General Corpora
This unique volume advances (im)politeness scholarship using corpus linguistic methods. It showcases studies employing specialized and general corpora, with methodologies ranging from speech act to discourse-analytic traditions, to unite different research streams.
Learning and Using Multiple Languages
This volume presents the latest research on multilingual language learning. Adopting a multilingual perspective, it analyzes grammatical, social, and affective factors across diverse age groups and global settings. Essential for both researchers and teachers.
Shifting Visions
This global, interdisciplinary collection explores how gender and language create lived experience. Studies analyze topics from religion and politics to education and sexuality, with scholarship from Britain, Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa.
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.
Language Contact
This volume discusses theoretical and methodological models of language contact, focusing on mobility and borders. It explores the social effects of migration on multilingualism, and the relation between language, culture, and identity from different perspectives.
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.
Perception of English
This book examines perceptions of English in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim community. Studying universities, it reveals English is viewed as a tool for advancement, yet creates tensions with the Indonesian language and national identity, demanding a new balance.
This book explores the creation of writing systems where dialect variation exists. Authors examine how social and political factors drive standardization and question its value, revealing the conflicts that arise in language planning worldwide.
The philosophical debate on truth has exploded in recent years. Sparked by the struggle over deflationism, the discussion has broadened and deepened. The essays in this book highlight how much is left to explore and how real progress can be achieved.
Bringing Back the Child
This book investigates three older Romanian orphans who experienced extreme deprivation and were effectively without language. It presents a study of their remarkable linguistic progress, which defies the predictions of the Critical Period Hypothesis.
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.
A Sociolinguistic Insight into the Italian Community in the UK
This study of three generations of Italians in Bedford reveals their complex language dynamics. It uncovers why the youngest generation uses a mixed pronunciation: a conscious attempt not to accommodate to British culture, but to distance themselves from it.
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.
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