This collection of papers explores interfaces in language, including diachronic and synchronic approaches, generative and non-generative frameworks, as well as typological and theory-driven perspectives. The result is a truly eclectic mix.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
Language Studies
Language is a cornerstone of human identity and culture. This collection explores its centrality across an array of subjects—from social psychology and forensics to computer science—demonstrating that the study of language offers limitless possibilities to understand our world.
This collection of articles presents the most important research in Pragmalinguistics and Speech Practices. The book consists of two parts and will be of interest to philologists, teachers, and students.
Literature, Geography, Translation
This volume connects world literature, postcolonial, and translation studies. It approaches translation as a distinct practice that connects literatures, challenging global theory by insisting on the specificity of place and the resistance to translatibility.
This volume provides new insights into the dynamic nature of coherence in spoken and written discourse. Combining theoretical insights with practical analyses, it will be of interest to researchers, scholars, and students of English.
Studying Language through Literature
This book invites readers to reconsider literary texts for language study. Arguing that literary language is language in its utmost form, it offers insights and suggestions on using fiction, poetry, drama, and translation for your greatest benefit.
This book explores the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. It introduces “ideological stylistics,” a linguistic approach to revealing themes of race, identity, and belonging in these literary traditions.
Based on recent research, this book provides fresh perspectives on translation studies. It combines theory and practice with commented examples, examining literary works, comparative language patterns, and the challenges of film translation into English.
Empowered Femininity
This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women’s fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, “empowered femininity,” which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.
Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic
This book analyzes lexical variation in Modern Standard Arabic to explore vital issues: language planning, speaker identity, and the relationship between its classical, modern, and dialectal forms, offering deep insights on the language’s present and future.
Emotions from a Bilingual Point of View
This book explores the influence of personality and emotional intelligence on second language learning. It is the first systematic exploration of the role of emotional intelligence and offers new insights into how personality affects specific language skills.
Once dismissed as linguistic ornamentation, rhetoric re-emerged as a vital tool for communication in modern society. This book analyzes its use across political, journalistic, and organisational discourse, showing how rhetoric shapes human action and interaction.
This volume explores Francophone cinema’s place between Bollywood and Hollywood and examines the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in Francophone countries. The book brings together contributions by outstanding authors on 21st century Francophonie.
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 book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.
This collection of papers investigates empowerment within language, education, and technology. Researchers analyse complex educational and socio-cultural issues in developing countries, forcing readers to see them from a different perspective.
New Voices in Linguistics presents diversified work from a new generation of researchers who question traditional assumptions. This unique book offers a rare glimpse of ongoing projects, an excellent opportunity to be ‘ahead of the curve’ in linguistics.
These papers challenge the rigid division of linguistics into sub-disciplines. They probe the frontiers between semantics, pragmatics, syntax, speech, and writing, producing an eclectic, thought-provoking collection of rare originality and quality.
This volume brings together established linguists, philosophers, and psychologists to explore linguistic pragmatics. The collection examines fundamental issues in the field: its explanatory power, its methodological needs, and its future direction.