Languaging Diversity
This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.
Languaging Diversity Volume 2
This collection explores the relationship between language and identity from various perspectives. The chapters deal with such issues as professional, cultural, ethnic and social identities and national stereotypes in language practice and discourse.
Languaging Diversity Volume 3
Languages, diversity and power. This volume explores how power relations are expressed and enforced through language. From TV courtrooms to post-war cinema and filmmaking in Africa, the contributions span decades and continents, providing in-depth analyses of diverse contexts.
Languaging Experiences
This book explores languaging—the concept that language is a way of knowing, making personal sense of the world, and creating one’s identity. It offers new insights and unique interpretations on its implications for second language teaching and pedagogy.
This book provides new insights into English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), exploring the latest empirical research in business and academic ELF, intercultural communication, language attitudes, and code-switching. Essential for linguists and ELT practitioners.
Learning Across Borders
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
Learning and Using Multiple Languages
This volume presents the latest research on multilingual language learning. Adopting a multilingual perspective, it analyzes grammatical, social, and affective factors across diverse age groups and global settings. Essential for both researchers and teachers.
Drawing on a life of work in Africa, this book explores cross-cultural communication. It dismantles myths about African languages, arguing that Africans are not “anglophone” or “francophone,” but afrophone. Why do some international projects succeed while others fail?
This book addresses learning styles in second language development. It explores various models of style and their significance for educators, concluding with a discussion of the practical exploitation of learning style awareness in second language education.
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.
Legitimisation in Political Discourse
How did the Bush administration persuade Americans to go to war in Iraq? This book shows it was through “proximization”—a strategy that presents distant events as a direct, personal, and negative threat to legitimize pre-emptive action.
Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy
This book presents new paradigms in Hispanic literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. It explores artistic manifestations of social change and democracy alongside groundbreaking research on topics from Puerto Rican identity to the pragmatics of humor in film.
Learn Japanese characters and beginner vocabulary step by step with illustrations for visual learning. This book teaches sentence writing and includes exercises. The attached CD contains character sounds, vocabulary exercises, and typing instructions.
Given increasing interest in lexical issues in second language acquisition studies in recent years, and the importance of words to every instance of communication, this volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, with a particular focus on academic settings.
Lexical Issues of UNL
This book explores the Universal Networking Language (UNL), an artificial language designed for machines to represent knowledge independently of human languages. It highlights UNL’s fundamental principles and shows how their materialization has evolved over time.
Lexicography and Terminology
This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.
This volume investigates world lexicography and its cultural contexts, with special reference to projects of new dictionaries. The book will be of interest to theoreticians, lexicographers, and students of linguistic faculties.
Lights! Camera! Action and the Brain
This book details an innovative pedagogy using film in education. It bridges neurological theory with practical applications from worldwide scholars, showing how film can be a powerful pedagogical tool for all learners, including those with special needs.
Lines of Thought
In this innovative book, philosopher Claudio Costa argues that old philosophical ideas should be reworked, not dismissed. He challenges contemporary analytical philosophy’s views on language, knowledge, and free will, aiming to restore a broader, more comprehensive perspective.
This volume offers new approaches to multilingualism and identity in postcolonial societies. It explores the complex interplay of indigenous and ex-colonial languages—embraced as socio-economic assets or treated as alienating colonial legacies.
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