Anglistics in Lithuania
This collection offers diverse accounts of English and Lithuanian studies, with a particular focus on the contrastive aspect. Presenting a wide variety of empirical data, these essays have profound implications for both translation and teaching.
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 book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.
My Utopia
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
How Peripheral is the Periphery? Translating Portugal Back and Forth
This volume reflects on Portugal’s position through the literary assets imported and exported via translation. Scholars question the peripherality of the Portuguese cultural system in essays honoring prominent scholar João Ferreira Duarte.
12th Conference on British and American Studies
This publication represents a selection of papers presented at the 12th Conference on British and American Studies. They are grouped in two main theme clusters, “Languages in Contact and Languages in Use” and “Multidisciplinarity and Multiculturalism in Literary Studies”.
This book examines agrammatism in Moroccan Arabic, challenging prominent syntactic theories. Based on new data, it argues that the deficit is not a loss of structural knowledge, but a processing issue where access to entirely intact grammar is blocked.
Promotion, Popularisation and Pedagogy
This study investigates the Council of Europe’s human rights campaigns, identifying the linguistic and visual means of persuasion used. The analysis highlights how Promotion, Popularisation, and Pedagogy overlap to raise awareness and promote the Institution itself.
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.
Challenges and Channels
This collection deals with the challenges of teaching the English language and literature in the Middle East and North Africa region, bringing together educators and scholars with first-hand experience in teaching the English language and its literatures in this region.
A Sociocultural Study of Intercultural Discourse
This book unites the theories of Bernstein, Vygotsky, and Halliday with empirical analysis of classroom interaction. It explores the relationship between group processes and individual learning through the language used by Italian and immigrant adolescents.
Learn Italian with fun texts, dialogues, and photos covering cultural topics like cities, recipes, and famous writers. This book includes grammar and recordings with a variety of accents—a great training tool for A1-B2 level students.
In this dictionary, 300 Greek maxims and proverbs are given, accompanied by their counterparts in 8 European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. Moreover, the introduction relates the history, origin and importance of proverbs.
Xue-guanhua 學官話
The historical Chinese educational manuscript Xue-guanhua reveals cross-cultural interactions between Okinawans and locals in China. A rare source on Chinese communication and social customs, this volume provides a detailed introduction and annotated translation.
Young Scholars’ Developments in Philology
Young international scholars explore variation as an essential feature of meaning-producing communication. This volume examines cross-cultural discourse through literary analysis, translation studies, and language acquisition, revealing how meaning is negotiated across cultures.
A Review of the Art of Translation
Unlocking the dialect poetry of ancient Iran’s Baba Tahir. This analysis revisits Edward Heron Allen’s classic translation, exploring the gap between literal words and implied meaning while illuminating the poet’s life and the art of translation itself.
Children, Their Schools and What They Learn on Beginning Primary School
This pioneering study of education in Cameroon highlights how Anglophone and Francophone colonial legacies shape language socialization in schools, exposing a critical gap between official bilingualism policy and classroom reality and its impact on identity.
Explore the epic history of Hebrew, from the Dead Sea Scrolls to its modern renaissance. This volume examines its deep connections to Aramaic and Arabic, telling the remarkable story of an ancient language reborn in the State of Israel.
This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
Bush Telegraph
A “bush telegraph” is an informal communication network. The concept describes what this book provides: a discussion of salient points in English language use. Its 20 chapters teach, analyse, and discuss crucial aspects of English writing culture.
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