Second Language Competence
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
Second Language Learning and Cultural Acquisition
This volume focuses on cultural influences in language teaching and learning, shedding light on how cultural differences can hinder learners seeking native-like competence. It offers scholars and language teachers a new direction in language acquisition.
Second Person Plural Forms in World Englishes
While Modern English uses a single “you,” many dialects have plural forms like “yous.” This investigation, based on a 1.9 billion-word corpus, explores these forms across 20 varieties of English, uncovering their distribution and role in the speaker-hearer relationship.
Explore Afghanistan’s inaccessible secret codes and their intricate threads across Eurasia. This book offers crucial insights for scholars and provides vital intelligence for military and political affairs.
Freeman teaches academics and graduate students how to write seductive academic prose by learning a literacy rarely taught in academic writing or style handbooks. He details how to use literary devices and figures of speech to meet ideals of stylish communication.
This volume is a selection of papers from the SinFoniJa 3 conference, representing quality research in linguistics. It covers cutting-edge topics in syntax, phonology, semantics, and NLP, with analyses grounded in data from various languages.
This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.
This collection presents selected papers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. It reflects a diversity of learning contexts, linguistic properties in syntax and phonology, and languages, including comparative studies.
This collection of essays explores educational issues from various disciplines, including Business Economics, Linguistics, Education, and History. Topics range from urban theory and bilingualism to Socratic teaching techniques. Essential for educators, researchers, and students.
Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning addresses a surprisingly neglected topic. This volume explores self-esteem in the language classroom through theory, research, and practical activities, making it an essential resource for researchers and practitioners.
Semantic Traces of Social Interaction from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Tracing the changes in the meaning of “conversatio” and its modern language derivatives, Plotke illustrates the productivity of historical semantic analysis for cultural studies.
This book represents the first systematic, cross-linguistic analysis of how toddlers learn adjectives. It provides valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition in a field that has received relatively little attention.
Distinguished scholars offer fresh insights into the latest developments in linguistics and translation studies, challenging existing ideas with depth and lucidity.
This book charts the history of Romanian semiotics before introducing new concepts like conversational history—for analyzing literary texts—and existential rereading. It also features a collaborative linguistic study and a unique Database of Romanian Love Charms.
Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption
This volume discusses contemporary audiovisual seriality, analyzing series like Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. It reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender transformation, exploring reception, authorship, and intertextuality.
Shifting Toponymies
Place-names are dynamic tools used to shape our surroundings and identities. This book explores the fascinating and often controversial relationship between toponyms and identity, showing how (re)naming practices convey values and visions of the world across space and time.
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.
Simplification, Explicitation and Normalization
This study tests for proposed “universal features” of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children’s books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.
Situational English Level I
This book immerses students in lifelike contexts that integrate the four core language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Engage with thought-provoking passages and dialogues to build grammar, vocabulary, and fluency for confident, effective communication.
Social-Ecological Resilience to Climate Change
This book offers fresh insight into climate change communication. It investigates the online discourse of grassroots activists, exploring the positive outlook of social-ecological resilience compared to other narratives in the ongoing climate debate.
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