A Journey through Knowledge
A Journey through Knowledge is a collection of articles honouring renowned Romanian linguist Hortensia Pârlog. United by the common theme of the “journey,” these articles explore traveling across identities, time, space, languages, and cultures.
Lexicography and Terminology
This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.
Undescribed and Endangered Languages
This book offers a linguistic and phonetic analysis of undescribed and endangered languages. A contribution to the debate on linguistic diversity, it is an ideal overview for linguists, phoneticians, students, and researchers.
Beyond Postmodernism
This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.
This book explores the English lexicon as a mirror of cultural identity. Studies show how word contextualization leads to differing interpretations, revealing that language needs the cornerstone of Culture to thrive.
Language, Literature and Education in Multicultural Societies
This book presents a vivid overview of linguistic, literary and educational issues in a multicultural context. Bringing together views from specialists from several parts of the world, it handles complex themes in an accessible manner for all readers.
Formal Studies in Slavic Linguistics presents current research by young scholars on challenging phenomena in various Slavic languages. The volume expands its scope to include all areas of theoretical linguistics and will interest Slavic scholars and linguists alike.
Languages in Australian Education
Despite 20 years of language policy development, languages have not secured a place in Australian education. As Australia enters a new phase of policy activity, this book examines what has been achieved and considers a viable path for renewal.
This volume showcases original experimental studies on language processing. It focuses on word access, vocabulary acquisition, and syntax development in numerous languages, including Brazilian Portuguese, English, German, Polish, Russian, and Spanish.
Languages for Specific Purposes
This book provides an overview of solutions and current issues in teaching Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP). Containing 20 articles by teachers and researchers, it is a valuable resource for language teachers and specialists designing LSP courses.
The Politics of Translation and Transmission
This book studies the beginnings of Hungarian political thought through two 17th-century texts derived from an unlikely source: King James I’s Basilikon Doron. It reveals how Scottish ideas were re-articulated in a Central European context.
The Language of Diversity
From a Christian worldview, these essays bridge gaps among racial, cultural, and religious differences. The selections examine interfaith relations and challenge readers to probe topics like education, race, and gender.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
Linguists of Tomorrow
This collection of papers by established and up-and-coming researchers covers topics from theoretical linguistics to psycholinguistics and applied linguistics. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in current issues in linguistics.
The growth of Creative Writing has generated new ways of thinking about the craft. This book presents fresh explorations that treat writing as a dynamic activity, not a static object, offering practical ways to develop your own work.
Freond ic gemete wið
This book offers a mosaic of perspectives on medieval Britain. Its chapters present focused analyses of language, literature, and society from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late Middle Ages, offering new readings of texts and exploring language change.
Internal Structure of Verb Meaning
This study makes years of academic research on Tamazight (Berber) verbs accessible to a wide audience. It investigates the internal structure of verb meaning, revealing insights from a millennia-old language that has resisted oppression and is spoken by millions.
The Grammatical Voice in Japanese
This book’s main argument is that the Japanese passive originates from an earlier middle voice. This reframes the voice system from a conventional active-passive binary pair to a newly proposed active-middle-passive ternary pair.
Exploring Aitken’s Law, the unique Scottish Vowel Length Rule, this book argues that all vowel length distinctions are a consequence of universal, inviolable principles of grammar.
This collection addresses key issues in lexical categories, categorization, and category change. It explores defining categories, the problem of fuzziness, and nominalizations using data from numerous languages. For researchers and advanced students in linguistics.
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