This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles).
This new text is a guide for understanding, envisioning, and acting on the lessons of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research in English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms.
This book explores how women make meaning at various health flashpoints in their lives, overcoming fear, anxiety, and anger to draw upon self-advocacy, research, and crucial decision-making.
This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.
This book describes and analyses experiences of teaching and learning language, culture and literature based on telecollaboration, an approach that creates interactions between groups of learners from different countries through the integration of a series of virtual and intercultural collaborative tasks to the curricula of undergraduate and graduate courses.
This interesting book of the unique writer Abi Mansour Al -Thaalabi includes many proverbs that concern the Islamic, the ignorant, the Arab, the Ajami, the royal, the market, the private and the public, and it includes the publication of their course of their words, and includes what takes its outlets from the vocabulary of prose, the necklaces of systems, the benefits of the grandfather, and the anecdotes of humor, There is what is represented by the Qur'an, the Torah, the Gospel and the Zabour, the mosques of the Prophet, may God's prayers and peace be upon him, the words of the prophets, peace be upon them, and the words of the Companions and the followers, may God be pleased with them, the eyes of the likes The wise, the brightness of the modern and the jurists, the rule of philosophers and the doctors, and the fragrance of the jelly.
Le but de cette étude est à la fois de faire connaître des textes anciens en créole réunionnais ou mauricien et de présenter un essai d'interprétation des données ainsi mises au jour.
Ce travail, rédigé en 1967 et mis à jour pour la publication, est une analyse synchronique du créole de Sainte-Lucie (Antilles), inconnu jusqu'à cette date.
Die Woordenlijst ist das älteste zugängliche Wörterbuch der Kreolsprache Papiamentu, die auf der niederländischen Antilleninsel Curacao sowie auf den Nachbarinseln Aruba und Bonaire verwendet wird.
This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.
This book describes language testing practices that exist in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in language testing literature.
This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars.
Ein Buch über Spiele der Sprache darf selbst ein Spiel mit ihr sein: Der Frankfurter Philosoph Martin Seel liefert mit »Spiele der Sprache« ein eindrucksvolles Plädoyer dafür, die Rolle der Sprache innerhalb der menschlichen Welt aus der gleichberechtigten Vielfalt ihrer Gebrauchsweisen zu verstehen.
Drawing on a total of 8,308 haiku poems written by 834 English as a foreign language (EFL) university students in Japan, this book explores the value, possibility, and potential of teaching and researching English-language haiku in second and foreign language (SFL) contexts.
This collection represents the first of its kind, bringing together the latest research on danmu, the fast-growing phenomenon of live comments overlaid on audiovisual media changing the shape of audience participation on video-streaming platforms and of audiovisual translation research today.
This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental education, underpinning the vital role the language arts play in expanding this engagement for a better future.
As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.
As the first volume of a two-volume set that re-examines nouns and verbs in Chinese, this book proposes the verbs-as-nouns theory, corroborated by discussions of the nature and relationship between nouns and verbs in Chinese.
In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation.
In this volume, originally published in 1977, the authors describe the relevance of figurative language for the psychology of language and present a methodological approach best described as naturalistic in orientation.
Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted.
Semiótica en Chile constituye un ejercicio de reconstrucción de la memoria de quienes han cultivado la semiótica en Chile desde la década de los noventa del siglo XX hasta la segunda década del siglo XXI, continuando el relato de las y los pioneros, recogido por publicaciones previas donde se documenta la década precedente.
