These papers challenge the rigid division of linguistics into sub-disciplines. They probe the frontiers between semantics, pragmatics, syntax, speech, and writing, producing an eclectic, thought-provoking collection of rare originality and quality.
Literary Translation
This manual applies linguistic pragmatics to literary translation. Using Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy as a guide, it bridges theory and practice to show how translators can preserve implied meaning and improve their work.
This book provides new insights into English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), exploring the latest empirical research in business and academic ELF, intercultural communication, language attitudes, and code-switching. Essential for linguists and ELT practitioners.
This book introduces Implicit Pragmalinguistics, a new branch of linguistics, to analyze prosecutors’ forensic speech. It compares the individual and stereotyped speech behaviors of English- and Russian-speaking prosecutors based on experimental results.
How to Do Things with Tense and Aspect
In Slovene, performative acts like promising use the imperfective verb, which implies the act isn’t complete. How, then, is a promise made? This book uncovers a 19th-century debate that laid the foundations of performativity half a century before Austin.
This book presents current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), investigating controversial areas of linguistic theory in a variety of languages. It also illustrates RRG’s application to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation.
Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.
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.
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.
Banned in China for its truthfulness, this book reveals why “most Chinese are learning English like one learning swimming ashore”—a damning critique of a broken system.
This collection of essays on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) highlights the latest developments in Foreign Language Teaching. Presenting new research from leading practitioners, this is an essential survey for teachers, teachers-in-training, and researchers.
This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.
This volume is a meeting point for scholars in English Phonetics worldwide. It explores language varieties, research methods, and the challenges of teaching English to non-native speakers, offering intriguing results from original research.
A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
This book explores intercultural communication, focusing on self-understanding as the first step to appreciating diverse perspectives. It provides guidelines to build competencies, overcome challenges, and discover the rewards of connecting in a multicultural world.
This book contains original empirical studies in Applied Linguistics, revolving around the concepts of stability and variability. It investigates classic and current topics, from communicative competence to intercultural identity, in diverse learning contexts.
This collection of original empirical studies explores the dynamic nature of language learning and teaching. It covers classic and recent topics, from communicative competence to intercultural identity, within a framework of stability and variability.
On Words and Sounds
On Words and Sounds explores the theme “Variants, Variability, Variation.” These articles will appeal to an academic readership, investigating interrelationships among phonetics, syntax, and other disciplines, as well as between language and music.
Constructing Professional Discourse
This book explores the role language plays in professional communities by providing an integrative, multi-perspective approach to domain-specific discourse. It links textual analysis to the social context of its production, offering fresh insights.
Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future
Corpus Linguistics is an essential methodology to approach empirical studies on languages. This volume offers an outline of the advances made in the past decade and what is yet to come, with papers that address a wide range of scholars, both corpus compilers and users.