Images of the Lisbon Treaty Debate in the British Press
This book analyses metaphors in the UK press discourse on the Lisbon Treaty. Using Critical Metaphor Analysis, it reveals how metaphors function in political debate, identifying stereotyped roles and exposing journalistic and political attitudes.
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.
Change of Object Expression in the History of French
This study explains why the object of certain French verbs shifted from indirect to direct in the 15th-16th century. It argues a change in the prepositional system drove the shift, linking it to other major grammatical changes of the period.
Transitivity Alternations in Diachrony
This book offers a new approach to change in argument structure and voice morphology. It investigates the diachrony of transitivity in Greek and English, providing new answers to burning questions in Historical and Theoretical Linguistics.
American English(es)
American English is plural, shaped by diverse ethnic groups. Using multiple points of view, this book tackles key language debates: minority vs hegemonic varieties, the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts.
This book pioneers corpus design for Setswana lexicography, filling a major research gap in African languages. It explores the crucial question of whether linguistic variability from diverse text types is essential for compiling dictionaries.
While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept’s origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.
What linguistic traits contrast public from private communication in English? This ground-breaking volume examines the question from the late middle ages to the modern era, with contributions from top international scholars exploring a range of historical sources.
This collection presents diverse papers from the 4th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics. With authors from nine countries, the papers explore subdisciplines including syntax, cognitive and historical linguistics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.
This collection explores how ideological changes in the 19th-21st centuries shaped Spanish language, literature, and film in Spain and Latin America, analyzing how these media spread ideas on capitalism, patriarchy, identity, and resistance.
AUSIT 2012
This volume collects papers from an Australian Institute for Interpreters and Translators conference. The presentations explore training, community interpreting, and translation, combining the practical with the theoretical to address key professional questions.
Bridge traditional and student-centered Chinese teaching with a research-based Task-Based PBL approach. This guide offers proven classroom strategies, teacher insights, and 20 ready-to-use tasks.
Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation
This collection asserts that literary representations of conflict offer insights into reconciliation. It charts a course from theory to practice, offering perspectives on storytelling as a way to address human-rights injustices and move from the classroom to the world.
Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology
This volume presents seventeen empirical studies on the perception and production of second language sounds. These findings will be of great interest to anyone in second language phonological acquisition, and also to those with a broader interest in language learning.
Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators’ strategies and stylistic choices.
Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.
Intercultural Dialogue on English Language Teaching
This book follows five multilingual English teacher educators as they reconstruct their professional identities. Their narratives reveal a “struggle for voice” against dominant discourses, calling for pedagogical reform that honors learners’ linguistic and cultural identity.
Convergent Approaches to Mediaeval English Language and Literature
This volume is a conversation between pioneering research and traditional medievalism. These crucial essays offer multiple perspectives on the English Middle Ages, covering linguistics, literature, and translation, proving the dark ages provide foundations for new ideas.
Showcasing the powerful NooJ linguistic environment, this volume presents 18 articles from the 2012 conference, exploring topics from morphology and syntax to semantics and real-world applications.