Language in Use
This collection of studies analyzes the discourse of youth entertainment magazines, revealing distinctive features that may exert a manipulative influence. It aims to develop media literacy, equipping young readers to become responsible and less vulnerable.
To Define and Inform
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
A Theory of Literary Explication
This book forges a middle way between the postmodern view of infinite interpretations and the intentionalist view of one. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, it provides a foundation for judging some explications of a literary work to be better than others.
Discoursal Construction of Academic Identity in Cyberspace
This book explores how academic identity is constructed in computer-mediated communication. Using an e-seminar, it shows how the medium enhances individuality, distinctive voice, and self-disclosure, extending the repertoire for academic self-promotion.
(Dis)Agree
This book challenges the existence of Agree as a grammatical operation. It argues that Agree is not conceptually necessary, and that what appears to be long-distance agreement in diverse languages is, on closer inspection, an instance of a local relation.
Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
This faith-based exposition investigates Bible translations, the color lineage of Jesus, and the role of Africa in his ministry. It interrogates racism in Christianity, showing how it stems from versions of the holy book that deliberately present Jesus Christ as Caucasian.
Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning
This volume presents papers on microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages. The essays examine dialect variation, challenge traditional descriptions of Celtic languages, and explore current topics in the formal analysis of syntax and semantics.
Internal Structure of Verb Meaning
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
This book explores the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. It introduces “ideological stylistics,” a linguistic approach to revealing themes of race, identity, and belonging in these literary traditions.
This corpus-based study of English and Polish surveying terminology analyzes conceptual differences and indicates translation strategies. It is directed towards terminologists, translators, and specialists seeking equivalents for problematic terms.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 2007 NooJ conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to build libraries of linguistic resources and Natural Language Processing applications.
In times of great change, this collection of articles examines the need to redefine values. Authors approach the challenge of reconstructing histories, moralities, and social relationships from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
This book explores the unbreakable relationship between teaching, learning, and assessment. A range of articles scrutinizes assessment from a wide spectrum: from teacher assessment literacy and technology in the classroom to the role of the CEFR and empirical data analysis.
Local Contextual Influences on Teaching
In this collection of personal narratives and research, ESL/EFL teachers worldwide reflect on how local contextual factors shaped their approach to language teaching, curriculum, and classroom organization, and how they exercised their agency in the classroom.
Faultlines in Postcoloniality
This collection of scholarly articles addresses fundamental postcolonial concerns. The chapters explore the social and literary fragmentation caused by cultural and political tensions, aiming to bridge the gaps across these faultlines.
This pioneering study applies generative grammar to Lithuanian in a contrastive analysis of small clauses in English and Lithuanian. The work addresses whether these constructions express a subject-predicate relationship and function as a clause.
The Undecidable
This book offers an engagement between philosopher Jacques Derrida and author Paul Howard. It uses deconstructive theory to critique Howard’s depiction of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, providing an accessible overview of critical theory.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.