Master English phrasal verbs. This comprehensive resource provides a list of verbs with easy definitions, usage examples, and exercises. It’s an essential tool for non-native speakers seeking to achieve native-like fluency and master an unpredictable part of the language.
This unique volume presents essays by international specialists in phraseology. It reflects numerous aspects of phraseological research, from semantic, pragmatic, and comparative fields to the practical problems of paremiology and phraseography.
Poetry Translation through Reception and Cognition
This book treats poetry translation as an interdisciplinary field, combining linguistics with reader response and cognitive science. It outlines a cognitive approach to translation and presents a new model for poetry translation criticism.
Policies, Principles, Practices
Globalization challenges university language teaching in non-anglophone countries. Using Denmark as a case study, this book offers remedies applicable to all universities aiming to stay competitive in the global market of university education.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.
Politics within Parentheses
Gabor mediates between various culturally determined profiles of the discipline of Communication Studies. While directing attention to landmark American texts in intercultural communication, she also signals the potential to make reading a relational praxis.
Popularizing Learned Medicine in Late-17th-Century England
This book explores the popularization of learned medical knowledge in late 17th-century England. It analyzes the translation of key texts from Latin into English—from Nicholas Culpeper’s famous work to more obscure publications—to show how medicine reached a wider audience.
This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores topics from teacher motivation and technology to student speaking anxiety, perfectionism, cultural influences, and linguistic analysis in English Language Teaching.
Power and Truth in Political Discourse
Anastassov deals with the linguistic base of political discourse, providing a theoretical model of the imbalance of power in human interaction. He also uses the basic principles of social semiotics to create a match between sociolinguistics and political science.
Power in the EFL Classroom
Critical Pedagogy is a way of ‘doing’ learning. In these studies, teachers from across the Middle East address questions of power in education, arguing that we must respect students and enable their empowerment by providing space and honoring their dignity.
Does glossing actually improve L2 reading comprehension? This definitive reference cuts through academic jargon to explore the effects of glossing on L2 reading and vocabulary learning. It outlines variables, theories, and strategies for improving and measuring L2 reading.
This collection contributes to the growing body of empirical literature on materials development, adopting a reverse approach to the topic. It also gives evidence for the global diversity of materials development at different levels for different specialities and purposes.
To prepare learners for global citizenship, language teaching must be intercultural. This book offers a collection of successful, bottom-up experiences rooted in praxis, sharing activities and methods that can be informative to the realities of all readers.
Pragmatic Aspects of L2 Communication
This volume addresses pragmatic aspects of L2 communication from the perspectives of researchers, practitioners, and learners. It shows how pragmatic awareness is crucial for social competence and can be applied to language teaching and assessment.
Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume I
This collection of essays critically examines linguistic action and how we “do things with words”. Representing different pragmatic approaches, the texts include theoretical discussions, case studies, reports on experimental pragmatics, and corpus studies.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics Volume II
This volume focuses on pragmatics-oriented analyses of semantically-restricted domains. It addresses phenomena from a variety of perspectives, exploring politics, ideology, humour, power, media, and specialized communication in business, law, and science.
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.
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