Names in the Economy
Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.
Cognitive Approaches to English
This volume presents cognitive approaches to English, discussing motivation in grammar, meaning construction, interlinguistic variation, and TEFL issues. It explores how these phenomena are motivated by metaphorical and metonymic operations.
This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.
The Development of Translation Competence
This book presents cutting-edge research from psycholinguistics and cognitive science to understand the development of translation competence. It explores theories and innovative data collection methodologies, serving as a valuable reference for scholars and translators.
This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
Weaving Words
Weaving Words questions the impact of 21st-century education on creativity in writing. Combining critical perspectives with creative works, it demonstrates the power of writing to disrupt and transform personal and professional understandings.
Advances in Chinese as a Second Language
This collection of pioneering studies examines the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. Topics cover the acquisition of grammar, learner anxiety, and the processing of tones, characters, and clauses—of interest to students and scholars.
Age Effects in the Acquisition of English Onset Clusters by Turkish Learners
This book examines the acquisition of English onset clusters by Turkish learners, considering age effects in L2 phonology. Using Optimality Theory, it traces developmental paths, not just the end-state, offering insightful data for L2 theory.
This volume presents an analysis of English legal genres in academic and professional writing. It offers insights into how writers’ discursive practices shape their membership of the legal community, and is designed for applied linguistic researchers and writing instructors.
Vagueness as a Political Strategy
Did vague UN resolutions lead to the Second Gulf War? This book offers a linguistic analysis of how strategic vagueness in Security Council texts allowed the US to interpret them as an authorization for war, and asks if this is a deliberate political strategy.
A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts
This work contextualizes Swift’s masterpiece, A Modest Proposal, within his wider writing on Ireland. It analyzes a selection of his Irish Tracts to trace the evolution of his views, providing new insights for a better understanding of the satire.
Multilingual Processing in Eastern and Southern EU Languages
This volume addresses the challenges of multilingual processing for the EU’s ‘less resourced’ languages. It offers specific solutions for translation and information retrieval for languages from south-eastern and central Europe.
Multi-disciplinary Lexicography
This book focuses on burning problems of European, Russian and world lexicography. Topics range from dictionary use and criticism to terminology and projects of new dictionaries. This book will be of interest to theoreticians, practitioners, and students.
Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.
Parliamentary Discourses across Cultures
This volume offers a deeper understanding of the diversity of parliamentary practices across space and time. It highlights the role of local social, historical, and ideological factors in building culture-specific traditions of political institutions.
Movement and Clitics
This volume gathers selected papers on movement and clitics. The authors explore a wide variety of languages, from Icelandic to Mayan, drawing on data from adult grammar, language acquisition, developmental language disorders, and language change.
Language Arts in Asia
This book explores Language Arts as an English-teaching paradigm, focusing on its recent adoption in Asian contexts. Its chapters explore current topics like multiliteracies and critical thinking, strengthening theoretical foundations for teachers and scholars.
New Directions in Language Acquisition
This volume presents new articles on the acquisition of Romance languages. Under a generative umbrella, it investigates first, second, and bilingual acquisition, as well as attrition, to advance our understanding of how languages are acquired.