This volume underlines a scientific, data-based approach to language teaching. The contributions gathered here offer versatile perspectives from the disciplinary categories of linguistics, methodology of teaching English, and cultural and literary studies.
War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia
This book explores the syntactic structures of Khasi through a comparative analysis of its War-Khasi and War-Jaiñtia varieties. It uncovers unique grammatical features, offering insights for linguists and anyone interested in the cultural diversity of Northeast India.
Weaving Words
Weaving Words questions the impact of 21st-century education on creativity in writing. Combining critical perspectives with creative works, it demonstrates the power of writing to disrupt and transform personal and professional understandings.
This book explores Web-based learning technologies for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in higher education. Presenting results from quasi-experimental research, it highlights the effectiveness of these tools in enhancing student vocabulary acquisition and learning.
Webs of Words
Webs of Words brings together ten studies on the history of words and vocabulary, covering languages from Chinese and Czech to Māori and Russian. These essays focus on empirical evidence, placing words in the social and cultural lives of their users.
Western Echoes in Arabic Voices
This book delves into the socio-cultural journey of dubbing Western content into Arabic. From ‘Monsters Inc.’ to ‘The Simpsons’, it uncovers the intricate process of transcreating visuals, irony, and stereotypes in a unique blend of academic research and engaging storytelling.
Western Neo-Aramaic
Western Neo-Aramaic is the last surviving branch of Western Aramaic, kept alive for thousands of years in three remote Syrian villages. Now at great risk of extinction, this book explores the language with a detailed grammar, texts by native speakers, and a thorough dictionary.
In an age of multimedia communication, the need for advanced study in writing and critical thinking has never been greater. These essays explore how the classical art of rhetoric is still relevant and how it connects to modern technologies and teaching.
Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.
Where Theory and Practice Meet
Wong focuses on the translation process, on theory formulation, on getting to grips with translation problems, and on explaining translation in language. He covers language pairs and discusses, among other things, translations, such as those of Dante’s La Divina Commedia.
Who is What and What is Who
This book offers an in-depth, micro-parametric analysis of wh-question formation in modern Arabic dialects. The approach is based on the morphology-syntax and syntax-phonology interfaces, placing findings in the context of Universal Grammar.
Why are the most common swear words also the most offensive? Based on 500+ real-life utterances, this book decodes the unwritten rules of swearing, challenging what we think we know about profanity, gender, and race.
Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I)
This volume presents current research surpassing contemporary linguistic theories to gain new insights into language. Drawing on data from typologically distinct languages, it addresses hotly debated issues in syntax, morphology, phonology, and more.
Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume II)
This volume of linguistic research surpasses contemporary theories to provide new insights into language. It addresses key issues in language learning, acquisition, and translation, formulating original solutions based on data from numerous languages.
Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume III)
This book offers new insights into linguistics by surpassing contemporary theories. It presents new voices in discourse analysis, pragmatics, and corpus-based studies, testing theoretical models against data from English, Estonian, and Polish.
This collection explores Wittgenstein’s early work, focusing on his Tractatus. It examines the relation between language and the world, the distinction between saying and showing, and considers the topics of logic, ontology, metaphysics, and the work’s moral aspects.
Most new medical concepts are first named in English. This volume explores the naming strategies adopted, their consequences for the transparency of English terms, and the challenges of their translation and borrowing into other languages.
This work discusses, on contrastive principles, important questions of word-formation in a sample of 26 languages, an area not extensively covered by morphologists. Its focus, on a whole, is on typological features of word-formation in the languages sampled.
Word-Formation in Context
This fascinating book treats the use of words from a new perspective. Words emerge from an interaction between morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic components. The book draws from a vast spectrum of texts and provides a key to help readers check their answers.
International scholars uncover the history of English words and dictionaries. From Chaucer’s creativity to OED crises and modern slang, this essential volume offers new discoveries and groundbreaking analysis for this developing field.