An exhaustive guide to translating tenses between Arabic and English. Using hundreds of examples, this volume presents a text-oriented model for translating verb forms, making it a useful reference for translators, linguistics researchers, teachers, and students.
Grammatical Development of Chinese among Non-native Speakers
Bridging theory and practice, this book unlocks the science of learning Chinese. It reveals the universal path to CSL acquisition, offering practical applications for teachers and a clear, effective roadmap for learners.
Vision is not just perception, but is deeply rooted in human physiology, psychology and culture. This book challenges the Anglo-centric view that vision is a universal source for metaphor, exploring languages worldwide where other senses are preferred.
Caribbean Without Borders
In a Caribbean fragmented by colonization, this book calls for a “submarine” unity that defies borders. Featuring essays on linguistics, literature, art, and more, it re-envisions a Caribbean aesthetics to convey the limitless nature of the region.
A Name To Exist
The use of a name allows objects to be included within the human paradigm, meaning nomination and pseudonyms on the internet raise certain problems. This monograph investigates this through a study of nomination and two surveys of Internet users and pseudonyms collected online.
This book presents a collection of papers on syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression. Renowned researchers present cutting-edge research on topics from the nature of time to tense-aspect structures, a valuable contribution for any syntactician or semanticist.
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.
This volume brings together findings on the disputed role of non-standard dialects in education. It offers insights on policy, classroom use, and bidialectalism to help create an environment that respects the linguistic rights of all speakers.
Due to a dearth of academic references in the area of English-Arabic audiovisual translation, this monograph represents a unique resource, in that it explores dubbing and subtitling into Arabic, a topic hardly discussed academically both in the Arab world and across the globe.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Morocco
This book explores the teaching of English in Morocco, providing insightful findings for secondary and tertiary education. Useful for teachers, researchers, and stakeholders, it addresses recent trends designed to meet the expectations of the 21st century learner.
Contest(ed) Writing
This collection explores writing contests as a cultural practice, asking if they over-emphasize individual achievement over shared goals. Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach, it examines contests from ancient Greece to modern podcasting competitions.
New technologies and emerging human roles have become key resources in language learning. This book offers research from different authors assessing the potential of these resources for an optimum learning experience.
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education
This book investigates language maintenance among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. It explores how ethnolinguistic vitality, family attitudes, and the Greek school system influence whether children remain bilingual.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
American English(es)
American English is plural, shaped by diverse ethnic groups. Using multiple points of view, this book tackles key language debates: minority vs hegemonic varieties, the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts.
This guide to English Author Lexicography traces its development from early concordances to modern resources. It analyzes linguistic dictionaries (e.g., Shakespeare’s insults) and encyclopedic works for writers like Chaucer, Milton, and Dickens.
This book reveals how apocryphal stories shape collective memory. It traces an Irish myth through generations to a convict’s play in Australia and a modern novel, drawing on unpublished sources to solve the historical mystery of the playwright’s disappearance.
13th Conference on British and American Studies
Deriving from a conference on language diversity, this book includes studies for the examination of language-related phenomena. Topics covered include the external and internal catalysts for language change and language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
Supporting the Training of Aviation English Trainers and Assessors
This guide helps train Aviation English experts and assessors to meet ICAO language requirements. Its ready-to-apply guidelines enhance flight safety by minimizing communication misunderstandings. A compact text for trainers, aspiring experts, and self-study.
While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept’s origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.