Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a selection of papers on language and cognition. The book is structured into four parts, covering syntactic studies, word formation, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics.
New Language Technologies and Linguistic Research
This collection of papers from the 11th Corpus Linguistics Symposium will inspire readers interested in Linguistics and motivate further research in the interdisciplinary area of Language Technologies and Linguistic Research.
In times of great change, this collection of articles examines the need to redefine values. Authors approach the challenge of reconstructing histories, moralities, and social relationships from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Weaving Words
Weaving Words questions the impact of 21st-century education on creativity in writing. Combining critical perspectives with creative works, it demonstrates the power of writing to disrupt and transform personal and professional understandings.
Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching
This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.
Talk in Institutions
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
Around the Point
This unique collection brings together scholars to explore Jewish literature across numerous languages. A significant endeavor, this volume tackles essential questions of Jewish identity, literary history, cultural influence, and Holocaust literature.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
ELT
This volume gathers international scholars to explore ELT, applied linguistics, and cultural studies. It covers diverse topics from cognitive grammar and teaching culture to technology in the classroom, reflecting both global trends and local research.
With increasing demand for Asian languages, this book addresses key issues in teaching Chinese, Russian, Farsi, Japanese, and Malaysian. Contributors from several countries explore future directions in language teaching for the 21st century.
EFL teachers and researchers in Asia share successful teaching techniques and new methodologies. This collection offers practical suggestions for the classroom and unique insights for teaching English where students have limited informal language exposure.
This book studies how Polish students acquire the English article system. Based on studies of beginner to advanced learners, the results prove that L2 acquisition is better in advanced groups, while less advanced groups have tremendous difficulties.
This book argues that language combines symbols with the iconicity of mental events, and that imaginability is central to meaning. It traces this idea through Western thought, from Aristotle’s resemblance relations to Frege, Wittgenstein, and cognitive linguistics.
AUSIT 2012
This volume collects papers from an Australian Institute for Interpreters and Translators conference. The presentations explore training, community interpreting, and translation, combining the practical with the theoretical to address key professional questions.
Languaging Experiences
This book explores languaging—the concept that language is a way of knowing, making personal sense of the world, and creating one’s identity. It offers new insights and unique interpretations on its implications for second language teaching and pedagogy.
This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
This book addresses key issues in second language acquisition within the generative framework. Based on studies of Romanian learners of English, it explores the critical question of parameter resetting: can adult learners truly acquire new grammatical settings?
Idiom Translation in the Financial Press
This book addresses English-Greek idiom translation in the news press. It presents a new, genre-sensitive translation model based on a novel typology from psychology, exploring the strategies and parameters that govern how idioms are translated.
This unique volume presents essays by international specialists in phraseology. It reflects numerous aspects of phraseological research, from semantic, pragmatic, and comparative fields to the practical problems of paremiology and phraseography.