On Translating Arabic and English Media Texts
A must-read coursebook for students of media translation between English and Arabic. Adopting a practical approach, it introduces the linguistic features of news stories and media texts. Packed with extensive vocabulary, exercises, and seven types of media texts.
Metaphor is a complex phenomenon whose realizations vary across languages, text genres, and cultures. This book gathers a collection of studies that adopt different theoretical views to explore the uses of metaphors, providing a diversified yet coherent view of current research.
This volume on Language for Specific Purposes (LSP) presents innovative methodology and technology-integrated approaches. It’s a pragmatic tool to enhance student motivation, benefit teacher development, and inspire both new and seasoned researchers and language practitioners.
Explorations in Humor Studies
This book explores the various dimensions of humor and its applications. It provides important insights into humorous language through theoretical discussions complemented by case studies in linguistics, culture, literature, translation, and visual and media studies.
This book investigates the linguistic phenomenon of blending in Arabic. Adopting a systematic and quantitative approach, it analyses how new words are formed, presenting practical findings and paving the way for further investigation in this field.
This book offers insights into the latest research in applied linguistics and language acquisition. For scholars and practitioners, it presents empirical findings from researchers in over 10 countries, reporting on various languages and communities in multilingual contexts.
This volume explores the implications of Chinese for linguistic theory and second language acquisition. Selected papers shed light on under-documented topics in theoretical and applied research, unpacking the significance of Chinese for mainstream linguistic theory.
Names are powerful vehicles for human goals. This volume focuses on the intersections of naming, identity and tourism, revealing how names play a role in identity-formation by shaping and promoting tourist attractions, be they topographical or metaphorical locations.
This book reveals the multi-layered influences—from national policy to local practice—on team-teaching in Japanese English classes. It offers essential insights and a research model for scholars and policy makers interested in team-teaching in Japan and wider contexts.
Language Planning and Policy
This volume offers cross-cultural perspectives on language planning and policy in diverse African and Middle Eastern contexts, including the diaspora in Brazil. It inspects the intersection between language policy and its social, political, and educational functions.
Challenges and Initiatives in Refugee Education
When over 50,000 refugees were stranded in an unprepared Greece, this collection of papers presents educational initiatives for teaching them Greek. The studies highlight challenges and argue for innovative, holistic approaches that empower students through the learning process.
English as a Foreign Language
This book introduces the reader to ongoing research on teaching English as a foreign language, highlighting recent trends in acquisition, pedagogy, and the development of communication and intercultural skills from a wide variety of global perspectives.
The World of Languages and Literatures
This book offers contemporary perspectives on the evolving world of languages and literatures. Using contemporary research, these essays highlight the dynamic global prism through which scholars view these issues, allowing educators, researchers and students to stay current.
English in Non-English-Speaking Countries
This book presents English teachers’ practices and challenges of teaching non-native students. These experiences provide a perspective on contemporary teaching in a non-English-speaking country and serve as a guidebook for new scholars in the field.
Shifting Toponymies
Place-names are dynamic tools used to shape our surroundings and identities. This book explores the fascinating and often controversial relationship between toponyms and identity, showing how (re)naming practices convey values and visions of the world across space and time.
Verb and Object Order in the History of English
This study tackles the long-debated question of Verb-Object order in English history. Combining linguistic theory with analysis of Old and Middle English syntax, information structure, and prosody, it sheds new light on language change for scholars, students, and linguists.
This book covers research on native and second language processing, bilingualism, and syntax. It explores key linguistic phenomena and details the most representative experimental methods used in the field, from eye tracking and reaction times to event-related potentials.
Model United Nations Simulations and English as a Lingua Franca
Model United Nations (MUN) simulations develop negotiation skills for a globally connected world, especially in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) contexts. This volume provides researchers, practitioners, and language teachers with best practices to enrich the MUN experience.
Idioms through Time and Technology
What is an idiom? This book offers a game-changing answer, revealing new categories like similidioms. Witty and deeply researched, it will captivate scholars and any reader curious about the expressions we use every day.
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.