This collection challenges the view that translanguaging should only be used by language teachers. Through practical descriptions of its use in science and maths classrooms, it shows how this pedagogy can be a vehicle to help students understand difficult academic concepts.
A Discourse Analysis of the ‘Trumpusconi’ Phenomenon
Is Trump our contemporary Berlusconi? This work analyses the two political figures through discourse analysis to see if their similarities go beyond personality. It confirms the ‘Trumpusconi’ idea, but shows Trump belongs to a different era of infotainment.
A Discourse Perspective on Bunreacht na hÉireann
This book takes a new discourse perspective on the Constitution of Ireland. It explores the charter’s impact on the country’s public sphere, examining how it has been argued by the Irish press and judiciary since its enactment.
This volume explores how acclaimed literary texts of the 19th and 20th centuries reflect a distinctive Catholic sensibility, shedding light on profound spiritual experiences in imaginative and memorable ways.
A Local Perspective on Lexicography
This book explores dictionary-making and research in Romania. Addressing culture-specific topics for theorists, practitioners, and users, it covers paper and online, monolingual and bilingual works, explaining the challenges that have shaped the local dictionary culture.
This valuable contribution to teaching languages to young learners offers new global perspectives on policy, theory, research, and pedagogy. It covers cognitive learning, teacher education, and classroom practices, making it essential for policymakers, researchers, and teachers.
This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.
This study explores representations of mental health in literature, focusing on works by 21st-century French women writers. It situates these portrayals in relation to current attitudes and practices, and discusses the benefit of their translation for an Anglophone readership.
This book deals with foreign language pronunciation, analyzing the problems non-native learners face and the factors affecting learning. Approaching the subject from both linguistic and pedagogical viewpoints, it appeals to all foreign language learners, teachers, and linguists.
A practical guide for academics and practitioners on using corpora in advanced foreign language teaching. Through a detailed case study, this book illustrates how to integrate analysis tools into university education, revealing both potential and pitfalls.
This book investigates the alternation of L1 and L2 in CLIL and EMI contexts in Italy at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. It shows that alternation plays a mainly lexical role and that its use is very similar across the three educational levels.
An Interactive Approach to Enhancing Early Word Learning
This volume translates complex research on child language into accessible strategies for parents and professionals. It informs best practices for building vocabulary from the ground up, enhancing word learning even before infants produce their first words to prevent delays.
Paul C. Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism reveals language’s dual role: to capture reality and structure our world, even as we use ego-centered discourse to defer meaning.
This ground-breaking work explains the power of literary fiction. It expands the field of pragmatics to give due to the three fictional actors—author, character and reader—by bringing together Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy.
This book discusses the development of Hebrew poetry in Andalusia and the Arab influence on its motifs. It shatters existing myths about the region during the period of Muslim rule.
Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet
Learn to transcribe English sounds with the International Phonetic Alphabet to improve your pronunciation. Ideal for students and English language learners, this handbook assumes no prior knowledge and includes exercises with solutions, making it perfect for individual study.
Readings in Language and Identity
This collection studies the complex relations between language and identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives. It brings together researchers from a range of fields to advance debates about the meanings of language and identity in contemporary cultural contexts.
This book explores the connection between information structure and syntax, examining phenomena like topic and focus fronting in English and Spanish. It argues that differences in word order across languages are the consequence of feature inheritance in the sentence periphery.
The Naxos Papers, Volume I
This volume synthesizes modern linguistics and traditional scholarship for the study of historical English. It presents studies on Old and Middle English, casting doubt on old antagonisms and making the subject accessible to scholars and students of both backgrounds.
This collection of current, forward-looking research tackles key issues in the interplay between cognition and language learning. Responding to the need for innovative work, this volume brings researchers together to open new debates. For students, teachers, and researchers.
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