This volume on Munda linguistics makes a major contribution after a long gap in research. Combining diverse scholarship, it is an essential reference for scholars interested in Munda languages, typological studies, and the cultural and linguistic dynamics of South Asia.
Despite a 21st-century job market that calls for proficiency in multiple languages, enrollments in university language courses have steadily declined. This timely collection of essays addresses this issue, suitable pedagogical approaches, and lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adventuring in Dictionaries
Adventuring in Dictionaries brings together seventeen papers on the making of dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present. The diverse perspectives are united by a focus on the making and reading of dictionaries as human activities.
Adventuring in the Englishes
International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.
This book identifies grammatical constraints on adverbs, proposing a novel syntactic hierarchy with five distinct classes to explain their distribution. Unlike with adjectives, adverb ordering is not predictable from a single factor, but is connected to meaning and usage.
This text celebrates Professor Olasope Oyelaran, bringing together papers by international scholars influenced by his work. It presents current research on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad.
African American Women’s Language
This groundbreaking research on African American Women’s Language is long overdue. It expands a literature that has too often focused only on men, exploring the language, discourse, and identity of Black women while finally letting the sistas speak.
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.
Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron
NACAL is an academic nexus where students rub shoulders with titans of the field. This volume contains sixteen contributions from these scholars, covering a broad cross-section of topics in Afroasiatic linguistics.
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.
Translation studies has been dominated by Western discourses. This volume calls for new turns in the field by examining how the themes of patronage and agency shape translation and cross-cultural exchange within Eastern intellectual traditions.
Agency in the British Press
This title examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved and their agency. In doing so, it reveals the ideological burden affecting power relations within society.
Agricultural English is a collection of essays analyzing the English of agriculture and related fields from various linguistic points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, professors, researchers, students, and translators.
Ain’thology
Language critics call ain’t “lazy” or “stupid,” yet it’s used by speakers of all dialects. Why? This first book-length collection dedicated to the shibboleth analyzes the history and life of this taboo word in English speech, writing, and media.
This book investigates the alternation of L1 and L2 in CLIL and EMI contexts in Italy at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. It shows that alternation plays a mainly lexical role and that its use is very similar across the three educational levels.
This book investigates language alternation in Italian CLIL and EMI contexts across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The results reveal its key lexical function, a surprisingly similar use across all levels, and its role in preserving multilingualism.
Alternative Voices
This volume presents Alternative Voices, exploring the complex links between language, culture, and identity in our globalised world. This research challenges the “monolingual bias” in the Language Sciences, analyzing complexities inadequately covered.
American English(es)
American English is plural, shaped by diverse ethnic groups. Using multiple points of view, this book tackles key language debates: minority vs hegemonic varieties, the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts.
This book investigates the identity and literacy development of an international graduate student. It finds that interactions with people and texts are the primary factor underlying disciplinary socialization, fundamentally shaping how a scholar’s identity is formed.
This book explores intercultural communication, focusing on self-understanding as the first step to appreciating diverse perspectives. It provides guidelines to build competencies, overcome challenges, and discover the rewards of connecting in a multicultural world.