Language and Linguistics

This volume features current, innovative, and effective ways of developing instructional materials for diverse English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts.

As the first volume of a two-volume set on the history of Chinese phonology, this book introduces the basics of the discipline and charts the history of phonology from the pre-Qin period to the Song dynasty.

The field of translation and interpreting (T&I) training has been undergoing rapid and far-reaching transformation in recent years, as a result of technological advances and sweeping shifts in the international environment within which T&I seeks to mediate.

This volume features current, innovative, and effective ways of developing instructional materials for diverse English Language Teaching (ELT) contexts.

By the early 13th century the use of seals in Northern Europe was a generalized phenomenon which involved society as a whole, crossing boundaries of gender, age, religion, and social and professional status.

These 2 volumes consist of some 100,000 headwords in both Spanish and English, including 3,000 abbreviations.

Learn how to read with Dandelion World Extras decodable books for beginner readers.

Is Your Biggest Ministry Obstacle Writer's Block?

›Die Erfindung des westlichen Weltbildes‹ ist eine fesselnde Reise durch die Geschichte und Entwicklung des westlichen Denkens.

If pictures are worth a thousand words, what kinds of words might they inspire?

Dem Fremdsprachenunterricht wohnt ein enormes Bildungspotenzial inne, welches häufig aufgrund äußerer Zwänge kaum berücksichtigt wird.

This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.

Language was the Italian humanists' stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline.

Applying the framework of the Prosodic Model to naturalistic data, this book presents a systematic study of the phonological structure of Shanghai Sign Language (SHSL).

Ce Dictionnaire est un outil didactique et usuel, qui théorise le français camerounais, appelé Camfranglais.

The classification of words in this rhyming dictionary is based on the idea that grouping vocabulary according to sound structures is very helpful for rhyming in poetry and for effective German learning (effective vocabulary work).

This is the second volume of the First Italian Reader for Beginners series, which features easy-to-read texts that are both simple and amusing.

This book critically examines the ways in which translation studies can offer a conceptual framework for understanding and researching international affairs, drawing on examples from China's Belt and Road Initiative.

The Manual of Galician Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current situation of the Galician language and introduces its readers to the most important topics of current linguistic research on Galician.

First Published in 1944, Colloquial Hindustani is intended to supply the beginner in the language not only with the common rules of grammar and their exemplification with sentences of a practical nature, but to assist him towards a correct pronunciation, with a phonetic system of spelling designed as part of an All-India system of romantic orthography.

This book offers the first sustained investigation of the phenomenon of retraction - the "e;taking back"e; of the conventional or deontic effects of a previous speech act - bringing together issues and solutions from the semantics of perspectival expressions and from the framework of Speech Act theory.