This book presents new trends in teaching Spanish, focusing on Interaction and Grammar. It uses Cognitive Linguistics to clarify complex structures like the subjunctive and offers methodologies for dynamic, cooperative classroom interaction.
This book presents a collection of papers on syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression. Renowned researchers present cutting-edge research on topics from the nature of time to tense-aspect structures, a valuable contribution for any syntactician or semanticist.
This collection from international scholars reveals surprising truths about cross-cultural communication. Using authentic examples from languages like Japanese, French, and Italian, it provides insights into the competence needed for successful interaction.
Language Acquisition and Development
This volume gathers fifty papers on the syntax and phonology of child language from the perspective of generative grammar—the theoretical outlook which first placed language acquisition at the centre of linguistic inquiry.
This book argues that language combines symbols with the iconicity of mental events, and that imaginability is central to meaning. It traces this idea through Western thought, from Aristotle’s resemblance relations to Frege, Wittgenstein, and cognitive linguistics.
(M)Other Tongues
The differentiation between languages is both necessary and impossible. Literary texts question this distinction, revealing the inherent strangeness of one’s own mother tongue. What separates the mother tongue from other tongues is a precise uncertainty.
Bringing Back the Child
This book investigates three older Romanian orphans who experienced extreme deprivation and were effectively without language. It presents a study of their remarkable linguistic progress, which defies the predictions of the Critical Period Hypothesis.
To Define and Inform
This path-breaking study advances a radical argument about how learner’s dictionaries are used and should be improved. Supported by comparative research with learners of English, it makes a vital contribution to lexicographical theory and practice.
This collection presents selected papers on the acquisition of Romance languages from a generative perspective. It reflects a diversity of learning contexts, linguistic properties in syntax and phonology, and languages, including comparative studies.
Critical Cultural Awareness
This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students’ critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.
Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning
This unique volume offers an international perspective on English language teaching. It provides solutions to current ELT problems from global experts on topics like teacher training, classroom practice, new technologies, and learner language research.
Contest(ed) Writing
This collection explores writing contests as a cultural practice, asking if they over-emphasize individual achievement over shared goals. Taking a cultural-rhetorical approach, it examines contests from ancient Greece to modern podcasting competitions.
A Glasgow Voice
This book examines how leading Scottish author James Kelman presents a spoken Glasgow working-class voice in his literature. It analyzes his key textual strategies, showing how he breaks the traditional distinction between speech and writing.
This volume presents original research on grammar and discourse in modern Lithuanian and Latvian. Moving beyond historical-comparative linguistics, these studies explore the languages from a synchronic, non-normative point of view.
This first monograph on Old English adnominal adjectives draws on empirical data to analyze their syntax. The author argues that differences between prenominal and postnominal adjectives go beyond surface placement, requiring two different theoretical treatments.
This volume expands on orthodox distinctions in language study to explore a wider concept of linguistic interfaces. It examines clashes between languages and politics, contact between languages, and language as influenced by cognitive and other factors.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
This book is one of the first extensive cross-linguistic investigations on epithets (like “the bastard”). It analyses them from the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface, arguing they are a type of pronoun subject to restrictions in attitude reports.
Composed of a series of studies about various trends in stylistics, this compendium serves to bring stylistic analyses closer together, thus demonstrating the potential of stylistics as a research area that can benefit from other disciplines.
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