Lexicography

This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners' awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners' contextual lexical inferencing competence (CLIC).

This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

This volume focuses on detailed studies of various aspects of Construction Morphology, and combines theoretical analysis and descriptive detail.

Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.

This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do.

On the train, on the beach, on the sofa .

Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical and practical perspective.

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish.