Sociolinguistics

This book focuses on the dynamic nature of EAP (English for academic purposes) learners' beliefs about language learning in their shift from an EFL (English as a foreign language) environment to an EMI (English as the medium of instruction) setting in mainland China.

This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language?

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "e;the Nation as a Body"e; among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

This book revisits a number of key issues in Chinese Translation Studies.

This book explores how language ideologies have emerged for gangtaiqiang through a combination of indexical and ideological processes in televised media.

This book offers a novel perspective on the intersection of translation and narration in literary translation by investigating how three translations of Shuihu Zhuan present the original narrative mode to the target readership in terms of four narrative elements-voice, commentary, point of view and motif-in different periods of history.

This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s.

Youth are, by definition, the future.

Written with an emphasis on instruction, policy, practice, and assessment, this book focuses on English literacy at the pre-primary/primary, secondary, and university level, and discusses literacy policies in the region.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.

This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax.

Analyses the current state of minority language policy in Western Europe and provides comprehensive, evidence-based policy recommendations.

This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of "e;self-identity"e; and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic fervor in colonial India.

This book explores the responses of Chinese English teachers (CETs) and learners to the Native English-Speaking Teacher/Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST/NNEST) issue by examining the self-perceptions of Chinese English teachers, the perceptions of Chinese learners, and the real practices of the two groups of teachers in the classroom.

This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia.

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions.

This groundbreaking collection represents the broad scope of cutting-edge research in Cultural Linguistics, a burgeoning field of interdisciplinary inquiry into the relationships between language and cultural cognition.

This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people's participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times.

This book is about resistance in everyday life, illustrated through empirical contexts from different parts of the world.

This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers.

This book investigates first language (L1) and second language (L2) use in Chinese university classrooms, focusing on the experiences of four Chinese EFL teachers who were teaching non-English major students at four different proficiency levels.

The papers in this volume were selected from the Silver Jubilee edition of the Annual Conference of the Linguistic Association of Nigerian (LAN) which was held at the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Abuja, Nigeria.

Tenemos una enorme capacidad verbal de lucha: nos involucramos a menudo en discusiones tensas; pero ignoramos profundamente la naturaleza de esos combates entre opiniones y voluntades opuestas.

FORMAR PALABRAS es una actividad grandiosa.

La obra tiene como objetivo principal comprender cómo se naturaliza y se racionaliza una relación de actividad masculina y de pasividad femenina sin imponerse de manera violenta en una escena local de rock en Bogotá.

Este estudio aborda temas importantes y muy discutidos en la actualidad (el matoneo, las emociones cotidianas de los niños, la relación hogar-escuela, la construcción de comunidad en el ámbito escolar, etc.

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin's seminal book on the uses of argument.

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.

Language and Language-in-Education Planning in the Pacific Basin examines and reviews the ecological context (including, e.

The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School.

Oral Discourse and Education examines spoken language as a field of study, looking at the various ways in which we can both theorise the place of talk in education, and examine the way talk is actually done in educational settings.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION This is one of eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Educa- tion published by Kluwer Academic.

Literacy is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, the first attempt to overview an area which has emerged as a coherent and exciting field of study in the last two decades.

A critical review of the literature on written expression disorders of individuals with learning disabilities.

This volume is not an attempt to give a comprehensive treatment of the many facets of intelligence.

Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation.

This volume presents evidence about how we understand communication in changing times, and proposes that such understandings may contribute to the development of pedagogy for teaching and learning.

This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy.

This book shows how Systemic Functional Linguistics may be used to explore and explain the grammar of scientific examination questions.

Every coordination within or between animals depends on communication processes.