The essays here address the issue of the poetics of multilingualism and reflect the diversity of the phenomenon. They demonstrate the fundamental importance of multilingualism for literary and linguistic theory with studies on a number of European countries and regions.
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.
Languages in Action
This anthology includes a selection of papers on linguistics presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies. It discusses syntactic, morphological and lexico-semantic aspects of English and Romanian, issues of language contact, and the construction of meaning.
This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
13th Conference on British and American Studies
Deriving from a conference on language diversity, this book includes studies for the examination of language-related phenomena. Topics covered include the external and internal catalysts for language change and language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801
Schultz sheds light on the Spanish influence on the English vocabulary since 1801, offering the first systematic analysis of the multitude of words which have been taken over to English from Spanish and its national varieties over the past few centuries.
In this volume, 13 under-threat languages tell their own stories through their consummate battles with languages dominating their ways of thinking. The value of these languages is told through linkages with the past and present and where values with wider audiences may be shared.
This text focuses on an increasingly attractive, yet controversial topic of non-native accentedness in speech. The contributors here are aware of the complexity of the mechanisms and effects of pronunciation, but present research leading to useful answers to relevant questions.
Addressing issues of theorization in linguistics associated with systems of representation, these essays question the very concept of metalanguage and study the relationship between linguistics and cognition from a variety of perspectives.
This book offers an original view of rightward movement phenomena. It argues that some properties, previously seen as purely syntactic, are better explained by language processing. This leads to the conclusion that rightward movement rules do not exist, for entirely new reasons.
Language learning is part of the current global revolution, meaning that associated technologies play a vital role in learning English for Specific Purposes. This volume addresses various aspects of learning, technology adoption and pedagogy in such contexts.
This collection contributes to the growing body of empirical literature on materials development, adopting a reverse approach to the topic. It also gives evidence for the global diversity of materials development at different levels for different specialities and purposes.
Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings
What is the role of performance in faith practices? This collection of essays explores the complex nexus between faith and performance. Diverse scholars examine how language shapes belief, identity is negotiated, and material settings are transfigured to create sacred spaces.
Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy
This volume deals with several Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It presents new empirical findings and reflects the diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, and Balkan dialectology.
Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics
This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and provides innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The areas covered vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition.
Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life
Bringing together contributions concerning the relationship between languages and the economy, this anthology pays particular attention to the topic of “names in the economy”, opening this relationship to further fields of interest for the study of the role of language.
Statistics can be unappealing. This book brings statistical issues closer to the reader using a science-fiction world, heroes, and everyday language to present an easy-to-follow account of formulas, numbers, and symbols.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human language. This compendium promotes work on intelligent natural language processing and related models of information, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation
This book contrasts Arabic and English beyond traditional grammar, covering stylistics, cohesion, text-typology, and semantics. It develops professional translation competence in students and trainees by providing a wide range of bidirectional practice materials.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.