The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland
What makes a society happy? This book explores well-being from a new angle by analysing letters to the editor from newspapers in late-modern Ireland. It provides empirical evidence of the major themes of well-being from the public’s viewpoint and sheds light on their concerns.
Stemming from a corpus linguistics and language variation workshop, this text brings together studies on specialist knowledge dissemination in English. It describes how knowledge dissemination’s essential aspect is the analysis of the language that builds trust in interactions.
This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners focusing on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts, using a selection of humorous, English-language media.
This book offers a transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s hitherto unedited Early Modern English remedy-book, Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Accompanied by linguistic and codicological analysis, it is a primary source for historical linguistics and the history of medicine.
This empirical study explores how gender, culture, and context influence the language of native speakers and learners. Arguing these factors must be considered together, it reveals how gender’s influence differs across Western Anglo-Saxon and Middle-Eastern Persian cultures.
Which tasks are most successful for language learning, and what instructions work best? This book examines the effects of different task types on both immediate performance and long-term acquisition, revealing surprising results with major implications for teaching.
The English Language and Anglo-American Culture
This book explores the impact of the English language and Anglo-American culture on Spanish language and society. It compiles studies on shop windows, film titles, and magazines, providing evidence of the pervasive presence of English in Spanish daily life.
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.
The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
This volume shows that genre literature is not escapist, but a field for ethical reflection. It explores how science fiction and fantasy dramatize encounters with otherness, raising a crucial question: how can human language describe what escapes humanity?
This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.
The Fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350)
This book provides the first English translation of Ulrich Bonerius’s The Gemstone, a popular 14th-century collection of fables. Through didactic animal tales in the Aesopian tradition, Bonerius instructs his audience on vices and virtues, warning of human shortcomings.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
As the field of ELT studies sees continued horizontal and vertical diversification, from new forms of online learning to a greater depth of analysis, a new sophistication has emerged. This increasing sophistication is reflected in the research papers in this volume.
The Friulian Language
What is the place of a minor language in a global world? This is the first comprehensive study in English of Friulian, exploring its history, culture, literature from medieval ballads to Pasolini, and the migration of its people.
The Future of Italian Teaching
This volume of essays brings together innovative approaches to teaching Italian language, literature, culture and the arts. Featuring diverse perspectives, it proposes language as a tool for social mobility and incorporates trends like social media and technology.
The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
The Generative and the Structuralist Approach to the Syllable
This book offers analyses of English and Slovak from structuralist and generative viewpoints. Focusing on the syllable, it contrasts phonological theories where syllabification is not always exhaustive with those where it is, bridging the gap between these linguistic traditions.
The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
This book describes the morphology and syntax of the verb phrase (VP) in Embosi. It provides a syntagmatic analysis of the Embosi VP in keeping with argument structure, tackling the dichotomy between verb types and examining syntactic processes and thematic roles.