Language, Culture and Business explores their essential intersection from an international perspective. It provides practical insights into topics like management, marketing, and intercultural communication, making it vital for educators, researchers, and business professionals.
Digital English as a Lingua Franca
This book investigates the aesthetics of informal online communication. Using sentiment analysis, it demonstrates that the style of these texts is influenced by how we associate emotions and opinions with specific words and syntactic patterns.
The Undecidable
This book offers an engagement between philosopher Jacques Derrida and author Paul Howard. It uses deconstructive theory to critique Howard’s depiction of Ireland during the Celtic Tiger era, providing an accessible overview of critical theory.
Dealing with Multilingualism in TV Series
This book analyzes multilingualism in TV series and explores how dubbing affects the plot and characterisation of the original shows. A specific focus on Italian dubbing provides detailed insight into this complex and fascinating phenomenon.
How to Get a Paper Published in Academic Journals
This book provides a step-by-step guide to the thinking, writing, and polishing of a paper. It pinpoints what journals look for and covers common mistakes in data analysis and writing and how to rectify them. For students and those new to publishing, this book is invaluable.
Legal Machine Translation Explained
This book bridges a gap in the literature with an in-depth analysis of machine translation in legal practice. It explores whether MT is reliable for legal documents and how practitioners can use it as a draft for post-editing, tackle its shortcomings, and supplement the tools.
This book explores the complexities of academic writing in English for graduate students and researchers. It clarifies how to communicate discipline-related content and is ideal for non-native speakers studying for master’s and PhD qualifications or academic publishing.
Professional Discourse across Medicine, Law, and Other Disciplines
This volume explores the interface between medicine, law, and other disciplines through the lenses of language, discourse, and communication. Contributions cover issues in bioethics and law, nursing ethics, risk management, social inclusion, and environmental ethics.
News-Reporting and Ideology in 17th-Century English Murder Pamphlets
This book explores how 17th-century murder pamphlets evolved from moralizing tales into political propaganda. It analyses how persuasive discourse was used to bias people’s perception of crime and justice in relation to the ideological imperatives of the time.
COVID-19 Discourse in African Contexts
This book offers a diverse approach to discourse on COVID-19 in African contexts. Analyzing perspectives from educational to political discourse, it reveals pandemic challenges and sustainable possibilities for experts, researchers, and policy-makers to explore.
This book introduces ‘ELF Transcultural Competence,’ a new model of skills for communicating successfully in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). It explores key strategies and offers practical pedagogical examples for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
This collection of essays highlights education’s role as a cornerstone of society, crucial for human and social development. The book explains various pedagogical prescriptions for improving the human condition by exploring the key relationship between the school and society.
Tones in Zhangzhou
This book explores tones in Zhangzhou, an under-described Southern Min variety, based on quantitative analyses. It overturns previous studies by finding Zhangzhou has eight tones, not seven, and will interest linguists as an exemplar in using statistical methods in phonology.
Drawing from experience and analysis of TED talks, Ran Fan presents a groundbreaking approach to turning presentations into career-launching showcases. This guide offers educators practical strategies to foster confident speakers ready to captivate any audience.
This book investigates the identity and literacy development of an international graduate student. It finds that interactions with people and texts are the primary factor underlying disciplinary socialization, fundamentally shaping how a scholar’s identity is formed.
Master the teaching of listening and speaking. This guide provides practical techniques to overcome challenges, engaging assessment tools to build on student strengths, and innovative ways to use technology. An essential, resource-rich springboard for boosting these core skills.
Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia
Insular Southeast Asia’s extraordinary cultural diversity is matched by its heterogeneous oral traditions. This volume explores oral poetry and storytelling from different corners of the region through perspectives including ecocriticism, poetics, linguistics, and politics.
This volume presents papers from AICED 24, delving into language structure. Contributions explore the syntax, phonology, and semantics of Romanian and other European languages, as well as topics like translation and L2 learning. For all linguists interested in these fields.
EFL Learners’ Acquisition of the English Article System
This book addresses controversies in second language acquisition, including the role of the first language and universal grammar, by investigating how speakers of Arabic and Japanese acquire English articles. Useful for researchers, students, and teachers in language education.
The uncanny is what is frightening, yet it arises from the familiar, disturbing our sense of home and self as unresolved pasts resurface. This book explores representations of the uncanny in language, literature, and culture.
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