Linguistics

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning (RL) and bandits methods, specifically tailored for advancements in speech and language technology.

This book provides a critical examination of the English-only policy of ASEAN, the Association of the ten Southeast Asian nations.

This book presents an exploration of autoethnography in language education research as a qualitative method with the potential to decolonize language education practices and include marginalized scholars in knowledge generation.

Since the last edition of this book (2014), progress has been astonishing in all areas of Natural Language Processing, with recent achievements in Text Generation that spurred a media interest going beyond the traditional academic circles.

This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America.

This book offers an introduction to the multidisciplinary subject of evolutionary linguistics, which seeks to explain the biological origins of language and its subsequent development in humans.

Using top Chinese and American airlines as examples, this book approaches the construction of corporate identities on social media, a critical issue in corporate communication, from a cross-cultural multimodal perspective.

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of bilingualism and multilingualism with focus on education.

This edited book presents the integration of Critical Media Literacy (CML) principles into teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the importance of ESL/EFL vocabulary and corpus studies.

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the importance of ESL/EFL vocabulary and corpus studies.

This book tracks changes in the use of metadiscourse in Chinese scholars' English and Chinese research articles, discusses how these changes reflect changes in Chinese scholars' interactions with their peers in China and outside China, and analyzes how Chinese scholars are responding to changes in the academic context that embrace and shape rhetorical practices in the academic world.

This book tracks changes in the use of metadiscourse in Chinese scholars' English and Chinese research articles, discusses how these changes reflect changes in Chinese scholars' interactions with their peers in China and outside China, and analyzes how Chinese scholars are responding to changes in the academic context that embrace and shape rhetorical practices in the academic world.

This book is an accessibly-written guide to international communicating and teaching practices.

Swedish children's cinema has a long and rich history.

Essential questions about the skills teachers need for effective classroom practice have raised by researchers such as Shulman, Schon, Altrichter & Posch and Hattie, and discussions still continue.

This book covers several related topics anchored in the idea of how meaning is created.

This volume provides a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the phenomenon of verbal irony and sarcasm and the methodological aspects of its study.

This book delves into extensive research regarding the identification and characterization of academic literacies constructs, encompassing academic literacy, quantitative literacy, mathematics comprehension, and reasoning skills, with a specific focus on their relevance within South African educational contexts.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Islamic ethical issues within a wide spectrum of philosophy of science topics, examining the development of the model of moral inclusiveness in economics, science and society from ontological, epistemological and analytical perspectives.

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the learning and listening skills of a foreign language from the perspectives of cognitive load theory and second language acquisition theories.

This book explores the interwoven relationship between language, media, and society in post-Apartheid South Africa.

This edited volume explores how digital humanities can address critical societal challenges in social media, health, education, archives, heritage, and the arts.

This book explores the interwoven relationship between language, media, and society in post-Apartheid South Africa.

This edited volume explores how digital humanities can address critical societal challenges in social media, health, education, archives, heritage, and the arts.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Islamic ethical issues within a wide spectrum of philosophy of science topics, examining the development of the model of moral inclusiveness in economics, science and society from ontological, epistemological and analytical perspectives.

This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his "e;Four Trends in Current African Philosophy"e; (1981), which he later expanded to six trends (1998).

This book explores African philosophic sagacity, or wisdom philosophy, as proposed by Odera Oruka in his "e;Four Trends in Current African Philosophy"e; (1981), which he later expanded to six trends (1998).

CLIL is a pedagogical approach which has gained traction in different educational and geographical contexts as a key tool in language learning and teaching.

CLIL is a pedagogical approach which has gained traction in different educational and geographical contexts as a key tool in language learning and teaching.

Empirical - data-driven, neural network-based, probabilistic, and statistical - methods seem to be the modern trend.

Empirical - data-driven, neural network-based, probabilistic, and statistical - methods seem to be the modern trend.

This book investigates language choices in different domains among Syrian Arab Muslim families who came to Malaysia after war broke out in their country.

This book investigates language choices in different domains among Syrian Arab Muslim families who came to Malaysia after war broke out in their country.

This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to existing paradigms such as Steven Krashen's Natural Approach, and Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach.

This book proposes an innovative pedagogical approach, Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, which continues the tradition of challenges to existing paradigms such as Steven Krashen's Natural Approach, and Michael Lewis' Lexical Approach.

This book explores the linguistic landscape of various cities in China, systematically examining the intricate relationship among language policy, language ideologies, and visible multilingualism in the public space.

This book explores the linguistic landscape of various cities in China, systematically examining the intricate relationship among language policy, language ideologies, and visible multilingualism in the public space.

This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists.

This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists.

This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South.

This book illuminates the complex relationship between social media, identity, and youth in the Global South.

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Bearn, southwestern France.

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression.

This book sheds light on the communication of social support, language use, and therapeutic effects in the context of online self-help groups for anxiety and depression.

This book offers a systematic acoustic phonetic analysis of both language and dialect death in the region of Bearn, southwestern France.

This book uses sociolinguistic approaches to explore how media discourse on undocumented migration informs Morocco-Spain political relations.

This book looks at deep-seated elements of racism in Indigenous-settler relations through detailed analyses of the October 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia and its outcome---and discusses what might come next.

This book uses game theory to analyze the strategies developed in negotiation processes.

This volume explains how scientometrics can be used in understanding the research studies in applied linguistics and will assist applied linguists to examine different aspects of the research performed in their field.