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Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures

Interdisciplinary Approaches

Edited By: Liliana Ionescu-Ruxăndoiu

£49.99

This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.

Partiality and Underspecification in Information, Languages, and Knowledge

Edited By: Gemma Bel-Enguix, M. Dolores Jiménez-López, Roussanka Loukanova

£68.99

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.

Pashto Phonology

An Evaluation of the Relationship between Syllable Structure and Word Order

By: Muhammad Kamal Khan

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This book analyzes the relationship between syllable structure and word order. Using data from Pashto (an SOV language), it challenges a long-standing typological universal by comparing it with English (SVO) within the Optimality Theoretic framework.

Pathways to Professionalism in English Language Teaching

Reflection and Innovation

Edited By: Natalia Orlova, Christoph Haase

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This seventh volume on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Applied Linguistics shifts its focus to data-driven, empirical research. The assembled papers emphasize an empirically grounded approach to teaching and acquiring English, offering new Pathways to Professionalism.

Pedagogical and Technological Innovations in (and through) Content and Language Integrated Learning

Edited By: Alba Graziano, Barbara Turchetta, Fausto Benedetti, Letizia Cinganotto

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a frontier of pedagogical research. This volume combines research from international CLIL experts with critical perspectives, deriving theoretical reflections from case studies for both academics and school instructors.

Pedagogical Approaches to Intercultural Competence Development

Edited By: Christine E. Poteau

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This volume provides an overview of pedagogies and research methodologies that reflect the urgent need to develop intercultural competence in professions like law, medicine, and business. The book highlights approaches across disciplines, promoting collaborative efforts.

Pedagogical Reflections On Learning Languages In Instructed Settings

Edited By: Maria Noelia Ruiz-Madrid, Esther Usó-Juan

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This volume provides the latest pedagogical reflections from research to help language teachers update their teaching methodology. It covers key concepts, new directions like ICT, learner variables, the four skills, and a student-centred approach.

Perception of English

A Study of Staff and Students at Universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

By: Anita Dewi

£47.99

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 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.

Periphrasis, Replacement and Renewal

Studies in English Historical Linguistics

Edited By: Irén Hegedüs, Dóra Pődör

£49.99

This volume blends synchronic theory and diachronic investigations, offering novel insights on the evolution of English and solutions to persistent analytical problems. It will appeal to linguists interested in language change and grammatical theory.

Persistence and Resistance in English Studies

New Research

Edited By: Elisabet Pladevall-Ballester, Sara Martín

£58.99

This book gathers together a selection of articles by members of the Association of Young Researchers in Anglophone Studies, covering a wide range of topics dealing with English literature and culture, language and linguistics.

Perspectives in Translation Studies

Edited By: Floriana Popescu

£39.99

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.

Perspectives on Discourse Analysis

Theory and Practice

By: Laura Alba Juez

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This guide provides the theoretical knowledge and empirical tools for Discourse Analysis. Conceived as a university course, it is useful for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to analyze any type of discourse, from medical to computer-mediated.

Perspectives on Interaction

Edited By: Elena Bonta

£44.99

This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.

Perspectives on Language Research

Edited By: Marinela Burada, Oana Tatu, Raluca Sinu

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This volume brings together language research from theorists and practitioners. Drawing on authentic data, the articles analyze language structure and the construction of text and identity in teaching, writing, and translation. A valuable resource for students and specialists.

Perspectives on Lexicography in Italy and Europe

Edited By: Marina Foschi Albert, Silvia Bruti, Roberta Cella

£44.99

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.

Perspectives on Medical English as a Lingua Franca

Edited By: M. Gregory Tweedie, Robert C. Johnson

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This volume offers diverse international perspectives on Medical English as a lingua franca—a growing phenomenon with impacts on quality healthcare and patient safety. This interdisciplinary book is vital for researchers, educators, practitioners, and healthcare institutions.

Perspectives on the Popularisation of Natural Sciences in a Diachronic Overview

Edited By: Eleonora Chiavetta, Silvana Sciarrino

£39.99

This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.

Persuasion in Tourism Discourse

Methodologies and Models

By: Elena Manca

£54.99

Manca proposes an original approach to the study of tourism discourse by combining several methodologies and models, including Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. The result is a detailed linguistic and socio-cultural overview of the most common strategies of persuasion.

Philosophical Provocations

By: John G. Gunnell

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This book is a critical assessment of philosophy's history and practice, written for any educated reader. It distils complex philosophical arguments and explains key issues to individuals outside academia, unencumbered by typical academic paraphernalia.

This book is a critical assessment of philosophy’s history and practice, written for any educated reader. It distils complex philosophical arguments and explains key issues to individuals outside academia, unencumbered by typical academic paraphernalia.

Philosophy of the Act and the Pragmatics of Fiction

By: Tahir Wood

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This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.