An Interactive Approach to Enhancing Early Word Learning
This volume translates complex research on child language into accessible strategies for parents and professionals. It informs best practices for building vocabulary from the ground up, enhancing word learning even before infants produce their first words to prevent delays.
This book explains how language works, introducing the science of linguistics. Using real-world examples, it discusses linguistic issues scientifically by considering findings from research studies, allowing the reader to understand how they are embedded in real contexts.
This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.
Dombrovan provides an introduction to some basic concepts of linguistic synergetics, viewed here as a new research approach to language studies. She considers human language as an open, dynamic, non-linear, and self-organising system, and sheds new light on language development.
Designed for EFL students, this textbook builds a solid foundation in English literature. It covers literary terms, a brief history, and selected fiction, poetry, and drama. With comprehension questions for EFL learners, this is an excellent resource for students and teachers.
This book considers the diachronic development of the Chinese and Naxi languages, focusing on contentious linguistic issues. It provides new methods to analyze these issues, using cross-linguistic data from Tibeto-Burman to resolve debates.
Why do the school stories of P.G. Wodehouse, Richmal Crompton, and Enid Blyton endure? This book explores their classic tales, examining themes of camaraderie, mischief, and moral growth, revealing why these beloved authors continue to captivate generations of readers.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
Analysing Media Discourse
Combining theory with interdisciplinary analysis, this study of media discourse enables readers to understand media communication and provides producers with effective instruments to understand the role of media in social life.
Until now, there has not been a book which examines the syntactic and semantic mechanisms of secondary predication in East Asian languages. Shibagaki’s lucid survey is of great value to those interested in secondary predication, syntax, and semantics.
This book validates the language in sitcoms and dramas for teaching pragmatics in English. Through transcript analysis of speech acts, politeness, and interactional patterns, it offers results to confirm the usefulness of audiovisual input for developing classroom activities.
This volume’s ten studies on Greek Conversation Analysis (CA) fill a key gap in Greek linguistics. Topics range from grammar and storytelling to code-switching and mobile talk, offering a vital reference for scholars and students of talk-in-interaction.
Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.
Anglicisms in Europe
This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.
Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
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.
This book explores the complexities of academic writing in English for graduate students and researchers. It clarifies how to communicate discipline-related content and is ideal for non-native speakers studying for master’s and PhD qualifications or academic publishing.
Applications of Finite-State Language Processing
NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.
Applications of Relevance Theory
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy
This book bridges current research in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics with language pedagogy. It informs debates on teaching by presenting discoveries about grammar, the mind, and learning, allowing L2 teachers to adopt this knowledge for their own classroom.