This volume brings together language research from theorists and practitioners. Drawing on authentic data, the articles analyze language structure and the construction of text and identity in teaching, writing, and translation. A valuable resource for students and specialists.
Iconicity in Language
This book covers all aspects of linguistic iconicity—the similarity between a sign’s form and meaning—in spoken and signed languages. It contains 678 entries and over 8,500 examples from 400 languages, for scholars and students of linguistics, typology, and semiotics.
Technology-Enhanced and Corpus Based Language Learning and Teaching
This pivotal resource explores how AI reshapes EFL education. It provides educators with practical, data-driven strategies from corpus linguistics to enhance student autonomy and learning outcomes, creating more adaptive and personalized teaching frameworks.
This book studies translation’s identity, politics, and scientific terminology. It discusses translations using various theoretical approaches and strategies, adding to the knowledge of translation studies, comparative literature, and applied linguistics.
Using Literature for Language Learning
This book offers language teachers an innovative approach to engage and motivate students through guided readings of literary texts. It provides practical tools, like sample lesson plans, to help students develop linguistic, cultural, and motivational competences.
A sequel to the well-received *Schools of Linguistics*, this book shows how the subject has changed. Old “schools” have made way for a more diverse field, and Sampson offers a sampler describing two dozen of the most interesting innovations to emerge in the present century.
This book offers a glimpse into Romanian interaction, a style developed at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures. Rooted in oral tradition, it paradoxically blends local specifics with imported acts. Through in-depth analyses, it will appeal to researchers of discourse.
Classroom Practice and Teacher Cognition
This collection bridges the gap between abstract research and classroom practice. Written by full-time language educators, it presents accessible findings from their own teaching that will resonate with both practicing teachers and academics.
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday
This collection of essays offers contemporary approaches to literature and linguistics. Exploring genres from fantasy to film, it addresses issues like posthumanism, gender, and identity, making it a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
In a world torn between globalization and nationalism, how are cultural identities defined? Focusing on Central and South-eastern Europe, this book reveals how tourism, education, and literature shape identity in our complex, interconnected society.
Spoken English and Spoken Italian
This book investigates the grammar of spoken English and Italian and how to translate them. Using corpus-based evidence from real dialogues, it proposes Italian equivalents of English discourse markers and English versions of Italian clitics. It is the first work of its kind.
This collection explores evidentiality—marking the information source in a sentence—in Indo-European, Turkic, and Amerindian languages. Blending theory and discourse analysis, it highlights the overlap of evidential and epistemic values for linguists and social scientists.
The Linguistic Sophistication of Morphological Decomposition
How do we recognize words? Challenging the idea that we rely solely on visual patterns, this book proposes a novel model of lexical access. It posits a mechanism where the brain generates multiple decomposition patterns in parallel, then evaluates them to choose the optimal one.
Jean Liébault (1535–1596) contributed to the emergence of modern gynaecology by rescuing the Hippocratic medical tradition that recognized the specificity of the female body. Bernal presents the semi-diplomatic edition of the only known English version of Liébault’s work.
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.
Most deception research is North American-centric and ignores our digital lives. This book provides insights into computer-mediated deception across cultures, namely Poland and the USA, examining how cultural values affect deceptive communication and its detection online.
This book explores staff and student perceptions of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Pakistani universities. It examines attitudes towards Pakistani English and exposes the gap between EMI policy and practice, revealing multi-layered issues.
This study explores the feature inheritance hypothesis, arguing that only the number feature is inherited in the CP phase, and the person feature in the vP phase. Drawing on English and Spanish, it discusses implications for Agree, Case, A-movement, phases, and Transfer.
Does glossing actually improve L2 reading comprehension? This definitive reference cuts through academic jargon to explore the effects of glossing on L2 reading and vocabulary learning. It outlines variables, theories, and strategies for improving and measuring L2 reading.
This book presents a tool for legal translation that compares concepts across legal cultures. Based on their overlap, it navigates translators toward reasoned solutions. Includes case studies from English common law and Slovak continental law. For practitioners and academics.
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