The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes with Thomas Nashe, appears to have become Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. Documenting a sharp learning curve, she presents a case that open-minded readers are likely to find surprisingly convincing.
Language Contact
When speakers of different languages interact, their languages influence each other. This can range from exchanging words to altering grammar, sometimes leading to language death. This volume unites distinguished scholars to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field.
Language Teaching and Learning
This collection addresses language teaching and learning dilemmas, especially with the advent of the digital revolution. It provides new perspectives, pedagogies, and approaches to shape sustainable policies and empower critical and successful language users.
Assessing Pragmatic Competence in the Japanese EFL Context
Examines how Japanese and American listening styles can cause miscommunication and investigates if listener responses can be taught, providing language teachers with practical classroom strategies.
French through Corpora
This book offers studies on the French language—its forms, variation, and acquisition—through the use of corpora. It provides an up-to-date account for researchers and students, linking data, theory, and methods in French and general linguistics.
This collection of scholarly articles from an international workshop features world-class papers analysing Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures, including Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, Chadic and Semitic.
Prosodic and Rhythmic Aspects of L2 Acquisition
This is the first survey of interlanguage prosody research in L2 Italian. Prosodic competence is crucial for non-native pronunciation and message understanding. The volume covers L1 transfer, pragmatics, and technology in second language teaching.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays for teachers of modern languages. The essays cover three main approaches: theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, with examples from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
The Three Waves of Globalization
This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?
Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.
This volume presents recent linguistic research from Poland, using comparison and juxtaposition to explore all levels of language. Contributions range from phonology to discourse, juxtaposing generative theory with recent developments in cognitive linguistics.
Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Sixteen essays by academics explore the changing realities in Asian linguistics, literature, and culture resulting from globalization. This book showcases original research on the interface between the global and the local in a variety of multicultural settings.
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a selection of papers on language and cognition. The book is structured into four parts, covering syntactic studies, word formation, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics.
Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning
This volume presents papers on microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages. The essays examine dialect variation, challenge traditional descriptions of Celtic languages, and explore current topics in the formal analysis of syntax and semantics.
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
Reverberations of Silence
Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.
This corpus-based study of English and Polish surveying terminology analyzes conceptual differences and indicates translation strategies. It is directed towards terminologists, translators, and specialists seeking equivalents for problematic terms.
The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.
African Literacies
Moving beyond stereotypes of low literacy, this volume explores Africa’s complex and diverse multilingual literacies. It examines practices from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging, offering an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa.