The diachronic description of a language is not complete unless one considers the linguistic substrata and adstrata spoken beforehand by a population that then came to coexist with the language in question.
Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as second language (L2) within contemporary SLA research.
Enacting the Reformation in Germany brings together sixteen essays and articles written over a thirty-year period by a historian who has made it his special scholarly concern to trace and analyze the social consequences of the German Reformation's salient ideas and positions.
This handbook explores language policies and their impacts in Africa, examining the different language policies in each country from pre-colonial to post-colonial times.
A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
This book presents recent advances in foreign language education as well as recent work on Chinese language education and CFL teacher development in international contexts.
The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language provides a ground-breaking overview of the research on the global spread of English with pedagogical implications.
The relationship between diachronic change and synchronic variation at the articulatory, auditory, acoustic and social level is one of the greatest puzzles in the study of language.
