Paolo Casalegno was a brilliant and probing philosopher and one of the best minds in a generation. His essays in the philosophy of logic and language are remarkable for their rigour, originality, and fundamental insights.
In the Mind and across Minds
This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.
Clusivity
This book develops an original framework for analyzing inclusion and exclusion in political discourse. It proposes a model explaining how speakers create ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ through tactics of association and dissociation to legitimize their power.
This book presents current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), investigating controversial areas of linguistic theory in a variety of languages. It also illustrates RRG’s application to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation.
This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.
English Tags
This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.
Language Education Today
For modern language teachers, these essays explore the tension between linguistic identity and multilingualism, covering language education, English language teaching, and key linguistic issues.
Discover ancient Chinese theories of knowledge, where a structured cosmos mirrors the mind. This book offers a vital epistemological alternative, challenging the dominance of Euro-American models and filling a crucial gap in Western thought.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
New applications of Role & Reference Grammar
This book applies RRG to diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, and Romance languages. Articles analyze topic-focus structure, case assignment, the syntax-semantics interface, and different aspects of verbs and the structures they involve.
This collection of essays on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) highlights the latest developments in Foreign Language Teaching. Presenting new research from leading practitioners, this is an essential survey for teachers, teachers-in-training, and researchers.
Constructing Interpersonality
This edited volume focuses on interpersonality in academic discourse. Its eighteen contributions explore this key issue across many genres and from various analytical approaches. A valuable tool for applied linguists, discourse analysts, students, and EAP instructors.
This peer-reviewed volume is a selection of papers from an international symposium. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it offers an excellent overview of the current state of research in linguistics and related disciplines.
CLIL in Spain
A significant contribution to CLIL, this book links classroom initiatives with teacher education. It provides practical suggestions and raises issues for reflection, noting that without proper teacher education, the full potential of CLIL cannot be realised.
Promotion, Popularisation and Pedagogy
This study investigates the Council of Europe’s human rights campaigns, identifying the linguistic and visual means of persuasion used. The analysis highlights how Promotion, Popularisation, and Pedagogy overlap to raise awareness and promote the Institution itself.
Research in Second Language Acquisition
This volume provides an overview of current research within the Processability Theory framework. It combines theoretical approaches to extend the theory with studies investigating bilingual language acquisition across typologically different languages and contexts.
This book considers the diachronic development of the Chinese and Naxi languages, focusing on contentious linguistic issues. It provides new methods to analyze these issues, using cross-linguistic data from Tibeto-Burman to resolve debates.
Britain and Britishness in G. B. Shaw’s Plays
This book offers a fresh insight into G. B. Shaw’s plays by highlighting ethnicity and Britishness as their core structuring elements. Using an innovative, multidisciplinary linguistic approach, it analyses cultural differences in works like Pygmalion.
Specialised Languages in the Global Village
This book examines the impact of globalisation on intercultural communication within specialised communities. It provides discussion on professional communication and identity, and offers useful pedagogical proposals for researchers, specialists, and language teachers.
Generative Investigations
This volume is a collection of studies in generative (morpho)syntax and phonology by leading scholars. Drawing on recent advances, these papers test theoretical frameworks against data from languages like Polish, Russian, and English to highlight new facts.
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