This book explores the variability of native and non-native English accents, questioning the very distinction between them. From a non-native perspective, it presents studies on pronunciation acquisition, teaching models, and pedagogical methods.
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
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.
Between English and Arabic
This book is a comprehensive practical course in translation between English and Arabic, invaluable to students. It balances theory and application, covering key lexical, grammatical, and stylistic issues to help develop skills to a graduate standard.
News as Changing Texts
This book focuses on the interrelation between ‘news’ and ‘change’, exploring the evolution of news as a textual type across the centuries in Britain. Through linguistic analyses of corpora, it examines news in its continuous process of adjustment and renewal.
This collection brings together seven papers by editors of historical dictionaries. The contributions offer a rare set of insights into ongoing lexicographical work, addressing both methodological and practical issues such as funding and publication media.
This volume analyses how seventeenth-century English news writers shaped their discourse. Examining corantos, newsbooks, and gazettes, it reveals the strategies they used to inform, persuade, and entertain a news-obsessed readership.
Foreign Language Anxiety and the Advanced Language Learner
Does anxiety about learning a foreign language decline as learners become more competent, or is it also relevant at higher levels of proficiency? This book explores the role anxiety plays in the learning and communication processes of advanced language learners.
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.
This book investigates how Chinese adolescents construct and negotiate gender identity while learning English. It shows how the EFL classroom can open a space for students to become aware of gender, highlighting a new educational function for language learning.
How Interculturally Competent am I? An Introductory Thesis Writing Course for International Students
This textbook helps international students develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning. It guides you through conducting a research project using a diary study to analyze intercultural communication and report on it in a mini-thesis.
A guide to designing and implementing courses in English for Legal Purposes. This resource for teachers covers curriculum development, from syllabus design and materials to testing, and concludes with a complete, research-based model syllabus.
This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
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.
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.
The Grammatical Nature of Minimal Structures
This monograph presents a linguistic examination of an aphasic speaker, viewing grammar as elementary computations. It supports the hypothesis that linguistic deficit is an impoverishment of procedural capacities, manifesting in reduced syntactic structures.
In an age of multimedia communication, the need for advanced study in writing and critical thinking has never been greater. These essays explore how the classical art of rhetoric is still relevant and how it connects to modern technologies and teaching.
Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible. With this audio course, you’ll pick it up naturally while relaxing or commuting. Forget classrooms, grammar, and exercises. Just listen, imitate, and put the language to use.
The Texture of Internet
Language transforms to meet the demands of our digital world. The Texture of Internet explores these linguistic changes in texting, email, blogs, and websites, becoming a key reference for anyone interested in language use in our technological environment.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
For those who doubt that the actor from Stratford wrote the works of Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe has always been the leading candidate. This book’s research firmly supports the theory that Marlowe, living on after he supposedly died, was the main hand behind the works.