Linguistics

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars ...

Translating and interpreting in crises is emotionally and cognitively demanding, with crisis communication in intercultural and multilingual disast...

The second edition of this important and practical text provides specific information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing ...

This edited volume represents a collaborative effort from over 20 authors worldwide, who generously shared their expertise and insights on diversit...

The cultural discourse of theatrical performance defines the theatre sign interaction as an active semiosis. This, in turn, specifies the main obje...

This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) can be linked. The cha...

In recent years, text and media linguistics have focused on genres in the new media. This is almost always accompanied by the question of the estab...

This book explores several topics in Cree morphology, syntax and discourse structure. Cree, an Algonquian language, is non-configurational: the gra...

Italian Words: A Practical Introduction to the Italian Lexical System offers a detailed description of the Italian lexicon, explaining the organiza...

Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese ...

There are three fundamental issues in the field of screen translation, namely, the relationship between verbal output and pictures and soundtrack, ...

The purpose of this volume is to make easily available a representative selection of Charles-James N. Bailey's views on linguistic theory. Several ...

In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between simila...

On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Sch...

This first-of-its kind dictionary contains: 30,000 entries; Background notes on Pulaar; Introduction to Pulaar grammatical categories; Pronunciatio...

This book, first published in 1990, is a study of both the specific syntactic changes in the more recent stages of Greek and of the nature of synta...

The ten essays in The Crucible of Carolina explore the connections between the language and culture of South Carolina's barrier islands, West Afric...

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interacti...

This work examines the practice of reading aloud in the interactional context of adult participants engaging in an interface-mediated collaborative...

"A model of academic praxis." - Public BooksElena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferr...

Les contributions à cet ouvrage s’appuient, toutes, sur des approches innovantes relevant du vaste champ des Humanités numériques. Ils accordent un...

Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of...

This book provides the first fully-fledged description of the morphological system of Dutch written in English. Inflection, derivation, and compoun...