Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilians
This book helps Brazilian learners overcome English pronunciation difficulties. It connects theory and practice, using empirical data to inform communicative activities. Suitable for classroom or self-study, it includes an answer key and CD.
Perspectives on Discourse Analysis
This guide provides the theoretical knowledge and empirical tools for Discourse Analysis. Conceived as a university course, it is useful for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to analyze any type of discourse, from medical to computer-mediated.
Research in Second Language Acquisition
This volume provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework. It combines theoretical approaches to extend the theory with studies investigating bilingual language acquisition across typologically different languages and contexts.
Pronunciation Instruction for Brazilians
This book helps Brazilian learners overcome English pronunciation difficulties. It connects theory and practice, using empirical data to inform communicative activities. Suitable for classroom or self-study, it includes an answer key and CD.
Studies in Canadian English
This publication focuses on vocabulary that reflects unique Canadian traits and a fluid national identity. Focusing on multicultural Toronto, the study uses questionnaires and texts from the Toronto Sun to observe Canadianisms within everyday discourse.
For millennia, we have been intrigued by space and time. This book brings together eight essays exploring their expression in language and literature, using diverse linguistic and literary perspectives to reveal how culture shapes our conception of reality.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
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.
From Quentin Tarantino’s films to the Bible and legal discourse, this volume addresses diverse topics. Each chapter deploys a separate theoretical framework, offering a representative sample of developments in discourse approaches for researchers and students.
This collection of papers investigates empowerment within language, education, and technology. Researchers analyse complex educational and socio-cultural issues in developing countries, forcing readers to see them from a different perspective.
Beyond Lexical Variation in Modern Standard Arabic
This book analyzes lexical variation in Modern Standard Arabic to explore vital issues: language planning, speaker identity, and the relationship between its classical, modern, and dialectal forms, offering deep insights on the language’s present and future.
Making a Difference
Discover how applied linguistics makes a difference in a changing world. Leading experts explore language’s role in migration, media, and policy. For students, teachers, and anyone interested in the real-world impact of language.
This book explores the link between textual ideologies and real ideologies in Malaysian and Singaporean fiction. It introduces “ideological stylistics,” a linguistic approach to revealing themes of race, identity, and belonging in these literary traditions.
The studies in this volume treat language not in isolation, but as based on cognition and affecting the human mind. Covering fields from grammar and metaphor to gesture and pragmatics, this is a valuable contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Language and Cognition.
This selection of papers presents ongoing research in Greek Linguistics. Covering a wide range of topics, the contributions investigate known problems using new methods and innovative ideas, showing the application of linguistic theory to current research.
This book explores the variability of native and non-native English accents, questioning the very distinction between them. From a non-native perspective, it presents studies on pronunciation acquisition, teaching models, and pedagogical methods.
This volume presents contributions from theoretical linguists on left peripheries and their interface interpretation. It offers eleven studies on clausal and nominal phenomena across diverse languages, underscoring the importance of studying the edge of constituents.
Anglicisms in Europe
This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.
This collection presents cutting-edge research in Slavic syntax and semantics from a new generation of scholars. The papers explore a range of phenomena across various Slavic languages, of interest to both formal linguists and Slavicists generally.
Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe
An invaluable guide to freelance English teaching in Eastern Europe, with exclusive insights on combining work with travel. This information-rich account is essential for teacher-travelers, career-minded graduates, and ELT entrepreneurs.