This book offers an original view of rightward movement phenomena. It argues that some properties, previously seen as purely syntactic, are better explained by language processing. This leads to the conclusion that rightward movement rules do not exist, for entirely new reasons.
Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
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.
Reflections on Persian Grammar
Soheili presents the first authoritative survey of the historical developments of Persian grammar, from the first attested work some 200 years ago to the present day. He examines the development of Persian linguistic thought in five different periods.
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators’ strategies and stylistic choices.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
ELT
This volume brings together diverse researchers and educators to optimize English Language Teaching worldwide. As both practitioners and investigators, the authors present research that reflects back on teaching, connecting theory with practice.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
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.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
Commanding Words
Encompassing subjects as varied as politics, culture, literature, history, and pedagogy, the twenty chapters of this book discuss the role authority plays in political, social, and academic organisation, postulating the interconnectedness between authority and discourse.
New Voices in Linguistics presents diversified work from a new generation of researchers who question traditional assumptions. This unique book offers a rare glimpse of ongoing projects, an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’ in linguistics.
How do colonial experiences shape identity in contemporary Europe? This timely volume explores the impact on migrant diasporas, new EU states, and regional groups. Multi-disciplinary contributors offer new analyses within a post-colonial framework.
New Horizons in the Study of Motion
Recent studies in lexicalization patterns have attracted attention in fields such as linguistics regarding the online/offline verbalization of motion. These essays depart from such research to offer insights into new ways of applying motion and widening theoretical perspectives.
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.
Reflection, Change, and Reconstruction in the Context of Educational Reform and Innovation in China
This book explores how reflective teaching transforms the thinking and classroom practice of Chinese university EFL teachers. It offers a new perspective on professional development and is a unique resource for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
Revolutionize your EFL classroom with educational escape rooms! This book offers nine creative, gamified scenarios inspired by literary works like Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. Captivate secondary students while enhancing language skills, teamwork, and critical thinking.
Language and State
This book argues that language shapes human society. By enabling media for mass communication, language allows us to form large societies, nations, and states. These states are then governed through linguistic mechanisms like constitutions, elections, and representation.
Communication as a Life Process
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.