Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ 2013
This volume contains 17 articles from the 2013 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is an open source linguistic development environment and corpus processor used by researchers and companies to build Natural Language Processing applications and analyze large corpora.
Language Education and the Challenges of Globalisation
This book focuses on sociolinguistic issues linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in contexts of immigration and super-diversity, providing a useful look at the current state of the art for scholars and students.
Between English and Arabic
This book is a comprehensive practical course in translation between English and Arabic, invaluable to students. It balances theory and application, covering key lexical, grammatical, and stylistic issues to help develop skills to a graduate standard.
The Friulian Language
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
This is the only study on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase by Bantu speakers. It contributes to Second Language Acquisition and Creole formation by comparing the interlanguage of Swahili speakers with Spanish-lexifier Creoles for the first time.
This volume showcases original experimental studies on language processing. It focuses on word access, vocabulary acquisition, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
The Lexical/Functional Divide in Aphasic Production – Poorly Studied Aphasic Syndromes and Theoretical Morpho-Syntax
This collection of clinical case studies on aphasic syndromes builds a bridge between clinical evidence and theoretical linguistics. It addresses debates on the lexical/functional divide in grammar and the crucial role of single case studies today.
Language Arts in Asia 2
This volume presents contemporary research in Language Arts for English teaching. Using motivating materials like literature, drama, comics, anime, and film, it explores how to develop language mastery, critical thinking, and intercultural sensitivity.
Normalization in Translation
This book provides a diachronic, corpus-based study of normalization in 20th-century English–Chinese fictional translation. It compares texts from two historical periods to explain, not just describe, how and why translation behavior has changed over time.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
Two Voices in One
This collection of essays by leading scholars opens new horizons by uniting Asian and Translation Studies. Discover why a Chinese garden can be a text, how Aristotle and Mencius are linked by translation, and how computer-aided translation is developing.
New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
This book presents a selection of papers on Language Acquisition with a special focus on Romance varieties. The volume covers a wide array of topics, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, syntax, semantics, and phonology.
This book investigates the popularization of economic discourse. Analyzing online newspapers, it explores how specialized knowledge is transformed for a general audience, revealing the realistic vocabulary and professional jargon used in economics today.
Unity in Diversity, Volume 2
This work investigates how ignoring markers of identity harms cultural groups and creates unstable unity. Drawing on linguistics, translation, and cultural and political studies, this book is a rich repository for linguists and scholars in these fields.
This collection of essays from an international conference presents important research in linguistics. It explores language theory, cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, and teaching methods. An essential volume for scholars and students.
Creative Manoeuvres
Creative Manoeuvres is a collection of writings on the role of creative practice in the formation of knowledge. Contributors, who are both academics and creative writers, explore how knowledge is embodied in art through their own ‘creative manoeuvres’.
This volume brings together multiple research perspectives on best practices for constructing spoken corpora. It unites scholars from discourse analysis and data infrastructure to address the concerns of data providers, curators, and data users.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning
This book examines contemporary issues in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), exploring the interrelationship of learners, teachers, and tools. Presenting recent findings, it is a valuable resource for researchers and language teachers.