This collection from international scholars reveals surprising truths about cross-cultural communication. Using authentic examples from languages like Japanese, French, and Italian, it provides insights into the competence needed for successful interaction.
This book presents a collection of papers on syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression. Renowned researchers present cutting-edge research on topics from the nature of time to tense-aspect structures, a valuable contribution for any syntactician or semanticist.
This book presents new trends in teaching Spanish, focusing on Interaction and Grammar. It uses Cognitive Linguistics to clarify complex structures like the subjunctive and offers methodologies for dynamic, cooperative classroom interaction.
Grammatical Development of Chinese among Non-native Speakers
Bridging theory and practice, this book unlocks the science of learning Chinese. It reveals the universal path to CSL acquisition, offering practical applications for teachers and a clear, effective roadmap for learners.
Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
A trilingual compendium of English, French, and Romanian technical terms for forages. It covers key topics in plant biology, physiology, and cultivation. An essential resource for agriculturists, researchers, students, and translators.
Are all literary texts interpretable? This volume explores the borderline of sense and nonsense, where literary studies and linguistics converge. Contributors tackle anomaly and absurdity, drawing from cognitive studies, pragmatics, and philosophy.
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.
From Language to Discourse
This volume presents ongoing research in phonology, language acquisition, syntax, and terminology. Evaluated by an academic committee, these papers by young researchers are presented alongside work from senior researchers João Costa and Maria Antónia Coutinho.
From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.
The Dancer and the Dance
This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.
Exploring the deep connections between language, brain, and mind, this book surveys key trends in 21st-century linguistics. It unites diverse scholarly traditions on topics from broad theory to specific analysis.
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.
Reconstructing Pain and Joy
How are pain and joy constructed, represented, and socially determined? This is the first interdisciplinary collection of essays to investigate how these multi-faceted experiences are reconstructed in language, literature, art, and culture.
This phonetic investigation of the vowel system of Civili, an indigenous language of Gabon, analyzes articulation and perception. It contributes to establishing a credible orthography, with findings significant for linguistics and human language technologies.
An essential resource for scholars, teachers, and students. This collection of articles offers a multicultural reflection on translation and cultural identity from diverse perspectives, fostering the intercultural communication crucial to our “global village”.
African American Women’s Language
This groundbreaking research on African American Women’s Language is long overdue. It expands a literature that has too often focused only on men, exploring the language, discourse, and identity of Black women while finally letting the sistas speak.
Teaching Translation and Interpreting
With no strict regulations on who can become a translator, this volume explores a vital question: are translators taught or trained? Contributors examine what current teaching programmes are like and how they can be improved.
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.
Language Politics under Colonialism
This book explores the interplay between caste power and colonialism in Western India. It offers a nuanced understanding of the collusive role indigenous elites played to preserve their dominance, strengthening the colonial regime without altering existing hierarchies.