Xue-guanhua 學官話
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
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.
Professor Chandrasoma’s book critically explores academic interdisciplinarity in student writing. It offers a comprehensive study of how student writers grapple with interdisciplinary knowledge and proposes critical interdisciplinarity as a sustainable pedagogical practice.
This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
Multilingual Europe
This volume explores the relationship between language and identity in an expanding, multicultural Europe. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it combines sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema.
Across Boundaries
This book showcases research into translation and translation teaching in contexts across the globe. Contributors from twelve countries and a variety of disciplines offer a genuinely international, multidisciplinary view of contemporary translation studies.
Earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent had unclear perceptual bearing. This book uses production and perception experiments to show some acoustic properties are not used by listeners in word identification, underscoring the need to study both.
The study of Thracian has been hindered by outdated methods that caused various misunderstandings. This book introduces a new method resting on phonological analysis of onomastics, providing a more rigorous and convincing account of the language.
Pronouns as Elsewhere Elements
Why do young children misuse pronouns? This study offers a unifying account, arguing their non-adult behavior stems from processing difficulties related to limited working memory, rather than a lack of linguistic knowledge.
This selection of papers presents ongoing research in Greek Linguistics. Covering a wide range of topics, the contributions investigate known problems using new methods and innovative ideas, showing the application of linguistic theory to current research.
This book explores the intricate relationships between language, culture and social connectedness in our diverse local and transnational communities. Language education is no longer about memorization, but using language to connect to others around the globe.
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.
Studies in Canadian English
This publication focuses on vocabulary that reflects unique Canadian traits and a fluid national identity. Focusing on multicultural Toronto, the study uses questionnaires and texts from the Toronto Sun to observe Canadianisms within everyday discourse.
a Wilderness of Signs
While postmodernism displaced “grand narratives,” it evaded ethics, beauty, and the environment. At its dusk, this collection tackles critical issues for the good of humanity and the non-human world, from global capitalism to extending agency to the voiceless.
Processability Theory (PT) explains the developmental sequences in second language learning, providing insights into what learners are ready to acquire. Taking PT as its point of departure, this book applies, tests, and extends the theory.
The Management of Intercultural Academic Interaction
This book examines how six Japanese exchange students manage intercultural academic interaction at an Australian university. It analyzes the impact of program structures and provides insights on how universities can better support students’ transition between cultures.
Gender and Sexual Identities in Transition
This volume offers an international panorama of how gendered and sexualized identities are created, challenged, and refused across the globe. As unstable constructions in permanent transition, gender and sexual identities are never at rest.
Translating Identities on Stage and Screen
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
Second Language Competence
This volume analyzes the acquisition of complex syntax by non-native learners of Spanish. It examines native language transfer and proficiency changes, focusing on key grammatical structures to bridge the gap between linguistic theory and its applications.
A Cognitive Approach to Adverbial Subordination in European Portuguese
This book challenges the traditional structural analysis of Portuguese adverbial clauses. It argues that the choice between infinitive and finite verb forms is not merely structural, but evokes different meanings determined by context and conceptual content.