Europe
EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.
CLIL pedagogy is a revolution in language education but involves complex challenges. This publication provides a collection of original papers covering essential aspects of CLIL. It is a helpful handbook for teachers, student teachers, and teacher trainers.
Academic writing instruction is often boring. This self-help guide addresses this by discussing essay components in terms—such as film—familiar to today’s generation, enabling students to see the subject from a new perspective and develop their skills.
Constructive Adpositional Grammars
This book presents a new grammar paradigm based on adposition. Using Constructive Mathematics, it offers a different perspective on topics like grammaticalization and dependency, validated with examples from diverse languages and a real-world application.
Explore Afghanistan’s inaccessible secret codes and their intricate threads across Eurasia. This book offers crucial insights for scholars and provides vital intelligence for military and political affairs.
This book lays the foundations for an approach to online language learning which draws on the analysis of digital texts and new literacy practices. It combines theoretical reflections with pedagogical research to link digital genres, learner autonomy, and webtask design.
Florida Studies
This volume contains essays about Florida literature and history. Topics range from slave shipwrecks and Zora Neale Hurston to Stephen King and the “Dexter” novels, as well as Florida ecocriticism, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
On Meaning
This work explores individuation and the definition of identity through the semiotic process of cognition. It examines how symbolic forms define our world and how languages like English and European Portuguese develop unique strategies for naming and referring.
Contemporary Phonology in Brazil is a collection of phonological studies in Brazilian Portuguese and Indigenous Brazilian Languages covering Prosodic Phonology, Historical Change, Segmental Phonology, First Language Acquisition and Indigenous Languages.
Bilingualism and Multiculturalism in Greek Education
This book investigates language maintenance among second-generation Albanian and Egyptian migrant pupils in Athens. It explores how ethnolinguistic vitality, family attitudes, and the Greek school system influence whether children remain bilingual.
Discourse Interpretation
This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
This book offers an up-to-date overview of current trends in teaching translation. The innovative articles will appeal to students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike, offering universal conclusions that are applicable worldwide.
Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse
This phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English reveals how speakers make new information prominent and extensively use the falling tone. These findings challenge sociolinguistic theories from native English, which do not always apply in postcolonial settings.
This book examines agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic, challenging prominent syntactic theories. Based on new data, it argues that the deficit is not a loss of structural knowledge, but a processing issue where access to entirely intact grammar is blocked.
English in Southeast Asia
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
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.
Teaching English in Multilingual Contexts
This collection of innovative papers discusses the teaching of English in multilingual countries. Written by experienced practitioners, it examines how English can be more effectively taught to students in Asia. A powerful resource for language educators.
“Talkin’ Different”
This book explores linguistic change among Irish Travellers, focusing on the influence of the educational system. It analyses whether increased school attendance by young Traveller women influences their speech patterns as a strategy for survival.
Webs of Words
Webs of Words brings together ten studies on the history of words and vocabulary, covering languages from Chinese and Czech to Māori and Russian. These essays focus on empirical evidence, placing words in the social and cultural lives of their users.
ELT
This volume brings together diverse researchers and educators to optimize English Language Teaching worldwide. As both practitioners and investigators, the authors present research that reflects back on teaching, connecting theory with practice.