This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
This collection of papers by international scholars offers fresh views on education, language, literature, and culture. Viewing topical issues through a dynamic global prism, these essays will stimulate intellectual curiosity and the development of new ideas.
Language Skills
This volume offers an international perspective on language skills. It explores the development of spoken, reading, and writing skills, incorporating technology and original empirical studies. A vital resource for researchers, classroom teachers, and students.
The Three Waves of Globalization
This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
This book addresses learning styles in second language development. It explores various models of style and their significance for educators, concluding with a discussion of the practical exploitation of learning style awareness in second language education.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to Proto-Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic accentology. It summarizes the major approaches of the last thirty years and traces how accentual patterns developed from the proto-language to modern languages.
This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.
Focusing on EFL Reading
Reading in a foreign language is a puzzle, but essential for EFL students whose future may depend on it. This book’s thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice, and research is an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers.
The Semantics of Determiners
This book investigates determiners in Skwxwú7mesh Salish, which lack a definite/indefinite distinction. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic lines. A universal correlation between the syntax and semantics of determiners is proposed.
Lines of Thought
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
A guide to designing and implementing courses in English for Legal Purposes. This resource for teachers covers curriculum development, from syllabus design and materials to testing, and concludes with a complete, research-based model syllabus.
This volume presents new theoretical and empirical findings on the first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition of clitic pronouns. With an emphasis on Greek, it also covers Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Portuguese, making it a valuable reference.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
The Development of Translation Competence
This book presents cutting-edge research from psycholinguistics and cognitive science to understand the development of translation competence. It explores theories and innovative data collection methodologies, serving as a valuable reference for scholars and translators.
This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
Advances in Chinese as a Second Language
This collection of pioneering studies examines the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. Topics cover the acquisition of grammar, learner anxiety, and the processing of tones, characters, and clauses—of interest to students and scholars.
How Interculturally Competent am I? An Introductory Thesis Writing Course for International Students
This textbook helps international students develop thesis-writing skills through experiential learning. It guides you through conducting a research project using a diary study to analyze intercultural communication and report on it in a mini-thesis.