Beyond the Frontier, Volume II
This compilation presents the latest research in first-year composition, including pedagogy, praxis, debate, and assessment. It will benefit anyone who studies or engages with first-year composition, including graduate students, instructors, and administrators.
The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
Word-Formation in Context
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a new perspective. Words emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. The book draws from a vast spectrum of texts and provides a key to help readers check their answers.
On Language
Most philosophical inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own traditions. This book shows these traditions can speak meaningfully to each other, turning their differences into opportunities for fruitful inquiry and illuminating the fundamental nature of language.
This study provides a theoretical and practical framework for understanding the writing strategies used by Singapore primary school students and strategy-based writing instruction conducted in Singapore primary schools.
This collection of generative work on Modern Greek morpho-syntax shows how the study of Greek feeds generative theory. The analyses contribute to comparative syntax and cross-linguistic variation, making it essential for scholars of Greek and theoretical linguistics.
This book addresses key issues in second language acquisition within the generative framework. Based on studies of Romanian learners of English, it explores the critical question of parameter resetting: can adult learners truly acquire new grammatical settings?
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the English Language
Explore cross-disciplinary solutions to teaching English in a globalised world. This collection by Romanian researchers offers vital, practical insights for specialists, teachers, and students.
This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
Undergraduate ELT in Sri Lanka
This book examines English language education in post-colonial Sri Lanka. It reveals how post-colonial attitudes hinder teaching and argues that the general principles of teaching English need specific modifications for South Asian societies.
From Language to Discourse
This volume presents ongoing research in phonology, language acquisition, syntax, and terminology. Evaluated by an academic committee, these papers by young researchers are presented alongside work from senior researchers João Costa and Maria Antónia Coutinho.
This book presents recent research in anaphora resolution and co-reference using computational and machine-learning models. It covers novel approaches, applications like Q&A systems, and includes an extensive annotation guideline for large corpora.
Ornia uses medical brochures in the United Kingdom and Spain to determine the features that these texts present in each country and to check if medical brochures published in Spain and translated into English include all relevant features typical of original English texts.
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.
Most deception research is North American-centric and ignores our digital lives. This book provides insights into computer-mediated deception across cultures, namely Poland and the USA, examining how cultural values affect deceptive communication and its detection online.
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.
Reflections
Twelve essays explore “reflections” in literary and visual culture—from Italian theatre to Cuban film. For students and scholars, this volume provides a fresh, interdisciplinary look at Modern Language Studies, highlighting the dialogue between language and culture.
This definitive guide to the Korean National Standards presents a four-level curriculum for high schools and colleges, complete with assessment guidelines adapted from the ACTFL’s renowned 5Cs framework.
Rhetorical Criticism in Communication Studies
Gabor focuses on seven entries in Carl R. Burgchardt’s Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, to which she adds a complementary effort. She also offers personal narrative about guidance by specific critics such as Edwin Black, Forbes Hill, and Kenneth Burke.