Language and Linguistics

This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production.

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory.

The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process of continual translation.

This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst.

This book provides a timely and comprehensive overview of current theories and methods in fuzzy logic, as well as relevant applications in a variety of fields of science and technology.

This book shows that reading-writing is a two-way street that is burgeoning with research activity.

This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco.

This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study.

This volume considers strategies, modalities, and styles of media use and reception.

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of 'work' and the category of 'worker'.

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students' learning outcomes.

This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices.

This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of bilingualism.

This critical textbook looks beyond the immediate data on knife crime to try and make sense of what is a global phenomenon.

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles.

This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis.

Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling.

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry.

This book argues that the dominant descriptions of the 'caste system' are rooted in the Western Christian experience of India.

This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages.

This book provides a philosophical overview of Umberto Eco's historical and cultural development as a unique, internationally recognized public intellectual who communicates his ideas to both an academic and a popular audience.

This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

This book focuses on the dynamic relationships among individual difference (ID) variables (i.

This book takes a fresh look at Tolkien's literary artistry from the points of view of both linguistics and literary history, with the aim of shedding light on the literary techniques used in The Lord of the Rings.

This volume explores the nature of discourse in secondary and upper elementary mathematics and science classrooms.

This volume examines the specific effects that schools have on the performance of immigrant students and linguistic minority groups.

This edited book explores the rising interest in minimal languages - radically simplified languages using cross-translatable words and grammar, fulfilling the widely-recognised need to use language which is clear, accessible and easy to translate.

The book provides new insights into written corrective feedback by describing students' expectations as well as mediating factors that influence their engagement with it.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom.

This textbook proposes a theoretical approach to linguistics in relation to teaching English.

This volume foregrounds the disciplinary literacy approach to college teaching and learning with in-depth discussions of theory and research, as well as extensive classroom illustrations.

This book builds on decades of research and provides contemporary theoretical foundations for practical applications to intelligent technologies and advances in artificial intelligence (AI).

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond.

In this book, application-related studies for acoustic biomedical sensors are covered in depth.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

This book focuses on dialog from a varied combination of fields: Linguistics, Philosophy of Language and Computation.

This book brings together leading academics and practitioners working in the area of language, gender, sexuality and education, consolidating recent developments and moving the field forward in a contemporary context.

This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors.

This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language.

Geflüchtete verfügen im Vergleich zu anderen Migrationsgruppen über andere Erfahrungen und individuelle Voraussetzungen zur Sprachaneignung, weshalb eine Vielzahl neuer und zielgruppenspezifisch ausgerichteter Angebote von staatlicher Seite zur Sprachförderung geschaffen wurden.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.

This book discusses situational instruction - a topic that is particularly relevant to Chinese language teaching and learning - in the context of research in the field.

This edited book is about preparing pre-service and in-service teachers to teach secondary-level mathematics to English Language Learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms.

This book introduces and explains a series of tools for curriculum renewal and revitalization in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, based on the experiences of the authors in successfully implementing a new curriculum in a large EAP program in North America.

This book explores language teacher beliefs in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) reading instruction in the context of Chinese university English instructors.

This book explores the topic of ideological manipulation in the translation of children's literature by addressing several crucial questions, including how target language norms and conventions affect the quality of a translation, how translations are selected on the basis of what is culturally accepted, who is involved in the selection of what should be translated for children in the target culture, and how this process takes place.