Language and Linguistics – Page 12 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Facing the Challenges of Language Learning and Teaching in a Changing World

Edited By: Gabriela Trejo Pérez, Gabriela Juárez Pérez, Karina Godina Sepúlveda, Eduardo Altamirano Chávez

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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed education. This book showcases invaluable insights and solutions for language educators and learners, exploring the strategies that defined language learning during a global crisis and providing a roadmap for the future of education.

Recent Trends in Translation Studies

An Anglo-Italian Perspective

Edited By: Sara Laviosa, Giovanni Iamartino, Eileen Mulligan

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This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It covers historiography, literary translation, specialized translation, and multimodality through methodologically rigorous case studies.

Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

A Role and Reference Grammar Perspective

Edited By: Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

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This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory's ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.

This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory’s ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.

Conceiving Migration and Communication in a Global Perspective

Edited By: Armando Aliu, Dorian Aliu, Armando Aliu

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This volume examines diversified approaches to migration and communication, exploring policy dialogues, migration governance, and transnationalism. It sheds light on recent debates in Europe concerning socio-economic challenges, welfare rights, and social cohesion.

100 Years of Conference Interpreting

A Legacy

Edited By: Kilian G. Seeber

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Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.

The Philosophy of A.W.H. Adkins

“Virtue” and “Goodness” in Ancient Greece

By: Michael Boylan, Arthur Adkins

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Every society is shaped by the tension between cooperative and competitive values. This book explores this conflict in the ancient Greek world, using a universal model to reveal a culture's true values. These discussions are not just historical—they speak directly to us today.

Every society is shaped by the tension between cooperative and competitive values. This book explores this conflict in the ancient Greek world, using a universal model to reveal a culture’s true values. These discussions are not just historical—they speak directly to us today.

The Research-Practice Interface in English for Specific Purposes

Past, Present and Future

Edited By: Ersilia Incelli, Renzo Mocini, Judith Turnbull

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This cutting-edge book on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research investigates discursive practices in academic and workplace settings. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, it is essential for scholars and university teachers of ESP and applied linguistics.

Escaping Boredom in the Classroom

Breakouts, Breakout Boxes and Escape Rooms

Edited By: Madalina Armie, Verónica Membrive

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Gamification is a fun, educational way to teach English. This volume presents the advantages of using escape rooms and breakouts, with practical proposals adaptable to any education level for practicing vocabulary and grammar.

A Typology of Numeral Systems in South Asian Languages

By: Kumari Mamta

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A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary journey into the numerical systems of South Asian languages. This book unveils their intricate linguistic patterns and cultural significance, offering a new methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied worldwide.

The Verbal Philosophy of Real Time

By: Andrzej Jarczewski

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This book argues that errors in our decisions result from a ‘noun approach’ to problems. It examines reality using verbs in real time—from cause to effect—to explore the eternal issues of truth and goodness, invalidating the paradigm of 20th-century ‘noun philosophy’.

Real Challenges of the Classroom

The Hahas, Oh Nos, and As Ifs that Lead to Better How-Tos

Edited By: Stephanie Kelly, Suzy Prentiss

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Teaching is messy. This book turns 18 real-life classroom crises into essential learning moments. Each story analyzes what went wrong and reveals the research-backed strategies that worked, offering powerful, practical insights for your own reflective practice.

Language Assessment Literacy

From Theory to Practice

Edited By: Dina Tsagari

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This book addresses the prominent field of language assessment literacy (LAL). Bringing together 14 chapters by leading researchers, it presents high-quality studies that fill a long-standing theoretical and empirical gap for language research, teaching, and learning.

Aspects of Cameroon Englishes

Edited By: Aloysius Ngefac

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This book uses empirical evidence to challenge the monolithic picture of English in Cameroon. It argues the country harbours different World Englishes, a complex sociolinguistic landscape comparable only to South Africa that challenges nation-based World Englishes paradigms.

Literature and the Arts since the 1960s

Protest, Identity and the Imagination

Edited By: Jorge Almeida e Pinho, Márcia Lemos

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This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era's challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.

This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.

Web-Based Learning Technologies in the Studies of English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

By: Eglė Selevičienė, Nijolė Burkšaitienė

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This book explores Web-based learning technologies for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research, it highlights the effectiveness of these tools in enhancing student vocabulary acquisition and learning.

Learning from and Teaching Africans

By: Birgit Brock-Utne

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Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?

Communicating English in Specialised Domains

A Festschrift for Maurizio Gotti

Edited By: Stefania M. Maci, Michele Sala

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This volume honors Maurizio Gotti's academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.

This volume honors Maurizio Gotti’s academic career and his significant contributions to specialized discourses, lexicography, and the history of English. This collection brings together essays by scholars who have interacted with his ideas in these fields of enquiry.

A Review of the Art of Translation

An Analysis of ‘The Lament of Baba Tahir’

By: Mansoureh Bidaki

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Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran's Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen's classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet's life and the art of translation itself.

Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran’s Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen’s classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet’s life and the art of translation itself.

Translating Modern Japanese Literature by Female Authors

By: Richard Donovan

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This groundbreaking work presents literature by early 20th-century Japanese female authors. It features their first publication in English—the author’s own translations—alongside insightful commentary on key translation issues. Suitable for postgraduate or advanced self-study.

Multidimensional Translation, from Science to the Arts

Edited By: Lina Abraitienė, Žanna Daragane

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This volume offers diverse perspectives on translation as a bridge to other cultures. It provides studies on literary translation, interpreting, and idiom translation. Written by professional translators, their experience is invaluable for fellow practitioners.