Language and Linguistics

This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity-that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things.

Basic Emirati Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook is an elementary-level grammar book of the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates.

This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), uncovering the ways in which institutional practices have inhibited knowledge creation and encouraging stakeholders to continue to challenge the assumptions and epistemics which underpin the field.

This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy.

Die Termini "übersetzen" und "sprachmitteln" bezeichnen komplexe Phänomene, die in den Fremdsprachendidaktiken immer schon intensiv thematisiert wurden.

History is full of examples of how the skilful use of language is a fundamental aspect of charismatic leadership.

This book covers major topics in the Anglo-American tradition, including deixis, presupposition, implicature, speech acts, and (im)politeness.

The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language.

The Badia researcher is a literary symbol that embodies the strong identity and social participation, expressing himself in a unique and bold style.

This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders, Belgium, to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language in Flemish public life.

This edited book analyses current trends in science communication and gathers research on practices related to the construction of digital identity and visibility, emerging conflicts related to the public availability and appropriation of scientific culture, and ways of validating and disseminating scientific knowledge in new digital contexts.

This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic.

This edited book presents a critical vision of language and education policies and practices in Colombia, examining neoliberal perspectives which influence the promotion of English at all levels in the Colombian educational system.

This dictionary contains terms from the fields of automatic control, which includes mathematical modelling, simulation of dynamic systems, automation technology with its corresponding elements, and robotics.

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills.

This book provides real-world examples of incorporating gamified learning into elementary school classrooms.

This book covers major topics in the Anglo-American tradition, including deixis, presupposition, implicature, speech acts, and (im)politeness.

The ground-breaking, behind-the-scenes look at a working writer continues with Vol.

The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language.

This collection contains Volumes 4-7 of the groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes series of a working writer's journey!

This edited book analyses current trends in science communication and gathers research on practices related to the construction of digital identity and visibility, emerging conflicts related to the public availability and appropriation of scientific culture, and ways of validating and disseminating scientific knowledge in new digital contexts.

This edited collection, follows on from 'Communicating COVID-19: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' (2021) and brings together different scholars from around the world to explore and critique the ongoing advances of communicating COVID, two years into the pandemic.

This dictionary contains terms from the fields of automatic control, which includes mathematical modelling, simulation of dynamic systems, automation technology with its corresponding elements, and robotics.

This book describes the role of eye contact in human communication by investigating the relationship between the eye gaze and the development of language and pragmatic skills.

This book provides real-world examples of incorporating gamified learning into elementary school classrooms.

This book provides readers with a brief account of the history of Language Identification (LI) research and a survey of the features and methods most used in LI literature.

This book provides readers with a brief account of the history of Language Identification (LI) research and a survey of the features and methods most used in LI literature.

This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching.

This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching.

This book contains 1000 words and English reformers used in daily life by accountants and methods working in the field of banks.

Toute personne vivant a l'exterieur et dependant du bulletin meteo connait la situation : vous essayez de comprendre le bulletin meteo dans la langue du pays.

This book contributes to growing debates on transcreation, applying an appraisal framework to texts from luxury brands in Chinese and English to reveal new insights into marketing transcreation and set out transcreation as an area of study in its own right.

As the first book in the Making Disciplinary Language Visible series, this practical toolkit helps teachers promote disciplinary literacy development for Multilingual learners and their peers in the 5-12 social studies classroom.

As the first book in the Making Disciplinary Language Visible series, this practical toolkit helps teachers promote disciplinary literacy development for Multilingual learners and their peers in the 5-12 social studies classroom.

This book contains 1000 English words used in the daily life of human resources employees.

This book provides an analysis of acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program based on the phonetic information.

This book provides an analysis of acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program based on the phonetic information.

This book introduces the new paradigm of lifelong and continual learning dialogue systems to endow dialogue systems with the ability to learn continually by themselves through their own self-initiated interactions with their users and the working environments.