Assessing the Language of TV Political Interviews
This book presents a corpus-assisted investigation into the language of British and American TV political interviews. It analyzes interviewers’ and interviewees’ speech to unveil their linguistic strategies and the salient traits distinguishing UK and US styles.
Communicating Specialized Knowledge
This book explores knowledge communication strategies for peers and lay audiences. Chapters examine dissemination in medicine, health, corporate communication, cultural heritage, and tourism, using corpus linguistics, genre studies, and multimodal analysis.
Traditional doctrine finds limitations in doxastic dialectics—the exchange of opinions. This book affirms doxa’s cognitive autonomy, arguing that it opens conditions for an alternative truth and is the exclusive procedure for establishing the fundaments of axiology.
What is gesture? What is multimodality? This volume provides answers through an eclectic set of recent studies. It investigates gesture in relation to speech, language acquisition, the performing arts (music, dance, theatre), and Artificial Intelligence.
This collection explores linguistic, cultural, and cognitive diversity. Contributors from linguistics, literary studies, and more offer insights on topics from the relationship between eye contact and mindfulness to the universality of critical thinking.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
Expand your academic vocabulary with the 570 most frequent words from university and school textbooks. Each word includes pictorial illustrations to aid memorization, plus parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and an example sentence to show it in its proper context.
From Linguistic Theory to the Classroom
This book shows how to use linguistic research in foreign language teaching. Featuring a practical case study on teaching phrasal verbs, it is essential for educators and researchers who want to apply linguistic findings practically in the classroom.
Basics of Translation
An essential coursebook for Arab students of translation. It combines discussion with practical exercises and examples tuned for beginners, making it ideal for undergraduates.
This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
Offering a wide range of theory and practice, this text examines the occurrence of manipulation in the translation of British and American press articles into Polish for Forum. Przegląd Prasy Światowej magazine in the People’s Republic of Poland, under preventive censorship.
Educational Bilingualism
This book makes the case for “educational bilingualism,” challenging the outdated monolingual tradition. It proves that in our era of global migration, English is a key to innovative knowledge when integrated with a learner’s own language and cultural self-identity.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
Seriality Across Narrations, Languages and Mass Consumption
This volume discusses contemporary audiovisual seriality, analyzing series like Black Mirror, Game of Thrones, and Stranger Things. It reflects on seriality as a process of social, linguistic and gender transformation, exploring reception, authorship, and intertextuality.
Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and worldviews. This book analyses variations in folklore and language—from myths and motifs to dancing and singing—as signifiers of culture, exploring issues of creativity, intertextuality, and transmediality.
This book explores meaning in language, uniting linguistics, semantics, and computer science. It examines the rapid emergence of meaning in the digital world of social media and memes, using authentic corpus data to show why human language understanding is essential today.
This volume explores words, the building blocks of language, from multifaceted perspectives. Bringing together linguistics, neuroscience, and psycholinguistics, it tackles key questions on how to define, measure, and teach vocabulary.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
This book analyses the terminology of marine plastic pollution. By observing its use across scientific, informative, and normative texts, it reveals how this specialized language functions in expert-to-expert communication and how its concepts are simplified for other audiences.
Tale, Performance, and Culture in EFL Storytelling with Young Learners
This book explores the link between storytelling, language learning, culture, and emotions in the young EFL classroom. Discover how oral retellings of picture books can foster intercultural understanding and enhance foreign language teaching for all young children.