This book investigates language justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, where language was a tool of conflict. It reviews the tribunal’s language laws and services to ask whether linguistic justice was truly delivered to all parties.
This collection explores the diverse landscape of heritage language education in Greece and Cyprus. Through empirical studies of community, day, and family schools, it establishes a novel evidence base to act as a catalyst for research and drive change in policy and practice.
This book offers current perspectives and research on vocabulary teaching and learning. Featuring international contributors, it reflects on theory and practice in vocabulary acquisition, strategies, technology, and testing in diverse cultural contexts.
This practical guide to English phonetics and phonology offers tips to master its sounds and prosodic features. It makes a confounding subject accessible for students, serving as a helpful introductory text for understanding the workings of English.
Inference, Consequence, and Meaning
Inferentialism holds that an expression’s meaning depends on the inferential rules governing its use. This collection of essays explores various case studies to discuss to what extent the central tenets of this theory are tenable.
Bulgarian is a pro-drop language, but German is not. This book explores how this cross-linguistic difference affects near-native learners. Because null subject contexts can superficially overlap, L1-Bulgarian speakers of German may face interlanguage deficits.
Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning addresses a surprisingly neglected topic. This volume explores self-esteem in the language classroom through theory, research, and practical activities, making it an essential resource for researchers and practitioners.
This book comprises papers on theoretical linguistics, applied language studies, literature and cultural studies, divided into three sections: Image, Identity, and Reality. A valuable resource for academic study and the general public.
This collection of essays discusses conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At its heart is a key question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of conversation still relevant to scholars and thinkers today?
Open Book
This book of essays is a meeting of minds passionate about tempting language from imagination onto the page. For writers at all levels, it will inspire your imagination and tune your craft as you make that leap from “What if?” to the page.
This volume brings together diverse perspectives to question the nature of linguistics. Experts and new theorists challenge current thoughts on language theory and application, inviting us to reconsider the methods we take for granted in our research.
This collection explores topical issues in modern linguistics, including cross-cultural communication, lexicography, and terminology. It analyzes cultural aspects of language, dictionary user needs, modern terminology, and new models for reference works.
A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
This book reviews the study and use of English in Africa. Distinguished teachers reflect on the language’s status in education and society, touching on debated issues like English as a dialect and the language question in literature. A unique contribution.
This book addresses meaning construction, showing how syntax, semantics, and pragmatics converge during interpretation. It explores the link between contextual parameters and stable linguistic systems, valuable to researchers and students of linguistics.
Since 1998, the “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” conference has attracted scientists worldwide. This volume gathers the most outstanding articles from the XIIIth conference, with studies of interest to both linguistics professionals and hobbyists.
Repetitions of Word Forms in Texts
This book explores how experienced authors use word repetition in research articles, short stories, and speeches. It reveals how repetitions form a genre’s skeleton and which types improve a text, with applications for assessing quality and writing.
On Language
Most philosophical inquiries into language remain enclosed in their own traditions. This book shows these traditions can speak meaningfully to each other, turning their differences into opportunities for fruitful inquiry and illuminating the fundamental nature of language.
This collection of essays on cognition explores cognitive processes in culture, nature, and memes. The authors introduce a dynamic approach, shedding new light on themes such as animal thought, minds and computing, and the social dimension of knowledge.
This anthology explores the concept of space in literature, film, art, and culture. The contributions invite readers to consider the function of space as symbolic representation, analytical tool, and haunting effect, demonstrating its ethical and political impact.