Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education
When over 50,000 refugees were stranded in an unprepared Greece, this collection of papers presents educational initiatives for teaching them Greek. The studies highlight challenges and argue for innovative, holistic approaches that empower students through the learning process.
100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
Granting Our Students an Engaging Learning Experience Online
A practical guide for language teachers to successfully develop and deliver online courses. This book offers strategies to engage students, foster collaborative learning, and improve the online experience, sharing the author’s most successful personal techniques.
This book investigates the alternation of L1 and L2 in CLIL and EMI contexts in Italy at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. It shows that alternation plays a mainly lexical role and that its use is very similar across the three educational levels.
Biliteracy and Multiliteracies
This volume introduces ongoing research on biliteracy and multiliteracies. It explores where research is heading in view of multilingualism, with chapters discussing these issues in a wide variety of countries, from Brazil and Cyprus to Portugal and the USA.
Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory’s ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.
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.
This book explores proper names: what they are, why we need them, and how they work. It focuses on the use of names in our thoughts and in communication, as tools we use to single out objects of discourse and convey information about them.
This volume on Munda linguistics makes a major contribution after a long gap in research. Combining diverse scholarship, it is an essential reference for scholars interested in Munda languages, typological studies, and the cultural and linguistic dynamics of South Asia.
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.
Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
Using Literature for Language Learning
This book offers language teachers an innovative approach to engage and motivate students through guided readings of literary texts. It provides practical tools, like sample lesson plans, to help students develop linguistic, cultural, and motivational competences.
This book investigates the linguistic phenomenon of blending in Arabic. Adopting a systematic and quantitative approach, it analyses how new words are formed, presenting practical findings and paving the way for further investigation in this field.
Deconstructing Language Structure and Meaning
Explore the latest research on Romanian syntax, semantics, phonology, and acquisition. This comparative volume draws on diverse theoretical frameworks, making it a vital resource for linguists in Romance studies and beyond.
This book covers research on native and second language processing, bilingualism, and syntax. It explores key linguistic phenomena and details the most representative experimental methods used in the field, from eye tracking and reaction times to event-related potentials.
Explore Romanian and English syntax, professional settings, and second language pedagogy. Drawing on the Romanian context, this volume investigates structural peculiarities, translatability, and learnability, offering useful insights for theorists and practitioners.
Metaphor is a complex phenomenon whose realizations vary across languages, text genres, and cultures. This book gathers a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views to explore the uses of metaphors, providing a diversified yet coherent view of current research.
This volume explores the vibrant interaction between figurative language, embodiment, and culture. Discover how our physical and social worlds shape language, impacting everything from grammar and discourse to the expression of emotions.
The Language of Corporate Blogs
This book provides a state-of-the-art account of corporate blogs as a new form of communication. Using a large corpus of blog posts, it examines how language works in this online context, exploring vocabulary, phraseology, stance, and structure to characterize the genre.
This book is a comprehensive investigation of the morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber. One of its most significant findings is that Tarifit has undergone a grammatical shift from VSO word order to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and causatives.
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