Tones in Zhangzhou
This book explores tones in Zhangzhou, an under-described Southern Min variety, based on quantitative analyses. It overturns previous studies by finding Zhangzhou has eight tones, not seven, and will interest linguists as an exemplar in using statistical methods in phonology.
Education and Society in the Middle East and North Africa
A growing number of thinkers are generating new approaches to the past, present, and future of the Middle East and North Africa. This book reflects on education and society, providing a platform for regional voices to join the global conversation and challenge outdated theories.
English as a Foreign Language
This book introduces the reader to ongoing research on teaching English as a foreign language, highlighting recent trends in acquisition, pedagogy, and the development of communication and intercultural skills from a wide variety of global perspectives.
Informational Linguistics
This book describes the innovative paradigm of informational linguistics. Informational knowledge is in high demand, particularly in information technologies. This book is oriented toward improving the skills of structuring knowledge and distinguishing priorities.
This book argues that errors in our decisions result from a ‘noun approach’ to problems. It examines reality using verbs in real time—from cause to effect—to explore the eternal issues of truth and goodness, invalidating the paradigm of 20th-century ‘noun philosophy’.
Errors in English Pronunciation among Arabic Speakers
This book analyzes Arabs’ errors in English pronunciation, covering consonants, vowels, and word stress. It explains the reasons behind these errors, which stem from applying Arabic rules to English, and presents teaching suggestions for surmounting them.
This study explores representations of mental health in literature, focusing on works by 21st-century French women writers. It situates these portrayals in relation to current attitudes and practices, and discusses the benefit of their translation for an Anglophone readership.
Spoken political and journalistic texts are a rich data source, but their unique features pose significant challenges for processing and translation. This volume proposes strategies for their analysis by humans and by Natural Language Processing applications.
This book offers insights into the latest research in applied linguistics and language acquisition. For scholars and practitioners, it presents empirical findings from researchers in over 10 countries, reporting on various languages and communities in multilingual contexts.
This collection of current, forward-looking research tackles key issues in the interplay between cognition and language learning. Responding to the need for innovative work, this volume brings researchers together to open new debates. For students, teachers, and researchers.
Studies in Linguistic Variation and Change 3
This volume traces the complex history of the English language from its beginnings to the present day. Using diverse theoretical standpoints, it addresses changes in fields from semantics to syntax, and will be of interest to scholars and students of historical linguistics.
Language Planning and Policy
This volume offers cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including the diaspora in Brazil. It inspects the intersection between language policy and its social, political, and educational functions.
Classroom Assessment for Language Teaching
This book focuses on classroom assessment in language learning. Each chapter reports on issues teachers face, their choices, and the consequences. This collection of teacher voices and stories provides solutions to promote assessment literacy.
This volume provides new insights into the complex contexts of legal discourse across digital media. It addresses topical issues of web technologies and social media in professional communication, providing a multifaceted overview of ongoing research and knowledge in the field.
This book focuses on applying Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. CLIL combines language learning with professional subjects, building bridges between higher education and the professional world.
This book shows how formal, non-formal, and informal education shape bilingual minds. It examines how societies influence language education, covering foreign language schooling, native bilingualism, and societal stances towards bilingualism.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.
This book offers a glimpse into Romanian interaction, a style developed at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures. Rooted in oral tradition, it paradoxically blends local specifics with imported acts. Through in-depth analyses, it will appeal to researchers of discourse.
This book explores how university language centres drive internationalisation, focusing on language policy, specialised training, and accreditation. Written by policy makers and instructors, it presents the first national higher education language policy in Europe (Spain).
Pashto Phonology
This book analyzes the relationship between syllable structure and word order. Using data from Pashto (an SOV language), it challenges a long-standing typological universal by comparing it with English (SVO) within the Optimality Theoretic framework.