Language and Linguistics

Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices is designed for prospective or in-service Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) teachers.

This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam - the 19th sura of the Qur'an - according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and LinguisticsOrality in Written Texts provides a methodologically and theoretically innovative study of change in Irish English in the period 1700-1900.

Code-switching and related phenomena have met with linguists' increasing interest over the last decade.

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues.

This book advocates for a new model of describing the practices of language revitalization, and decolonizing the research methods used to study them.

The poet really means his title.

This is one of two volumes by the same editors that explore historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives on literacy in China.

Few concepts are as ubiquitous in the physical world of humans as that of identity.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

WRITING PROGRAMS WORLDWIDE offers an important global perspective to the growing research literature in the shaping of writing programs.

Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c.

The World Wide Web constitutes the largest existing source of texts written in a great variety of languages.

This Element presents the main ideas to help readers understand the role of interaction in language learning.

Number one in the worldNumero uno en el mundoVox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary has helped speakers of Spanish and of English around the world find the right word quickly and easily.

A landmark survey of Turkic by a leading expert, covering structural, functional, historical, sociolinguistic, and literary aspects.

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Drawing from rich, naturally occurring language data and synthesizing insights from the fields of interpersonal pragmatics and Chinese interpersonal communication, this book presents a compelling exploration of the management of negative emotions through an interpersonal pragmatics lens.

Developing Notetaking Skills in a Second Language combines theoretical perspectives with an analysis of empirical classroom studies and offers a detailed discussion that increases pedagogical awareness of factors impacting second language (L2) notetaking performance and instruction.

A revaluing of rhetoric in the educational model of the father of humanistic studiesSpeaking for the Polis considers Isocrates' educational program from the perspective of rhetorical theory and explores its relation to sociopolitical practices.

In 1621, in one of the earliest campaigns of the Thirty Years' War, the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate was invaded and annexed by Maximilian of Bavaria, director of the Catholic League.

Gives a theoretical and empirical grounding for quantitative corpus linguistic research in first and second language writing development.

This book examines the primary biblical themes in the lyrical theology of Charles Wesley, the master hymn writer and cofounder of the Methodist movement.

While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying.

Contemporary legal reasoning has more in common with fictional discourse than we tend to realize.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

In a stimulating and novel approach, this book explains why metaphors are persuasive, suggesting that they are ideologically effective because they are cognitively plausible and evoke an emotional response.

Translation is stigmatized as a form of writing, discouraged by copyright law, deprecated by the academy, exploited by publishers and corporations, governments and religious organizations.

Presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism.

Today's multilingual classrooms challenge even the best teachers' skills.

Foreword by award-winning illustrator Smriti Prasadam-Halls.

Das Muss für erfolgreiches Vokabellernen- 9000 Wörter, Wendungen und Beispielsätze nach Themen gegliedert- Wörter nach Häufigkeit und Aktualität ausgewählt – mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des digitalen Wortschatzes- Farbig hervorgehobene Einteilung in Grund und Aufbauwortschatz- Mit Lautschrift, grammatikalischen Angaben und wertvollen TippsFür Anfänger (Niveau A1) bis Fortgeschrittene (Niveau B2)

When viewed through a political lens, the act of defining terms in natural language arguably transforms knowledge into values.

This book presents a collection of papers on clusivity, a newly coined term for the inclusive-exclusive distinction.

Assessing English Language Learners explains and illustrates the main ideas underlying assessment as an activity intimately linked to instruction and the basic principles for developing, using, selecting, and adapting assessment instruments and strategies to assess content knowledge in English language learners (ELLs).

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point.

The increasing popularity of digitally-mediated communication is prompting us to radically rethink literacy and its role in education; at the same time, national policies have promulgated a view of literacy focused on the skills and classroom routines associated with print, bolstered by regimes of accountability and assessments.