This volume presents recent linguistic research from Poland, using comparison and juxtaposition to explore all levels of language. Contributions range from phonology to discourse, juxtaposing generative theory with recent developments in cognitive linguistics.
Linguistics, Literature and Culture
Sixteen essays by academics explore the changing realities in Asian linguistics, literature, and culture resulting from globalization. This book showcases original research on the interface between the global and the local in a variety of multicultural settings.
Current Research in Applied Linguistics
This volume offers a selection of papers on language and cognition. The book is structured into four parts, covering syntactic studies, word formation, second language acquisition, discourse analysis, and psycholinguistics.
Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning
This volume presents papers on microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages. The essays examine dialect variation, challenge traditional descriptions of Celtic languages, and explore current topics in the formal analysis of syntax and semantics.
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
Politeness through the Prism of Requests, Apologies and Refusals
This book explores Serbian EFL learners’ pragmatic knowledge of requests, apologies, and refusals. It examines their language strategies and use of intonation, offering insights to researchers of L2 pragmatics and EFL teacher trainers.
Reverberations of Silence
Silence results from oppression, censorship, and trauma. Its provocative nature demands interpretation. This collection of scholarly essays offers answers by reading silence in literature and linguistics, from Renaissance texts to modern speech.
This corpus-based study of English and Polish surveying terminology analyzes conceptual differences and indicates translation strategies. It is directed towards terminologists, translators, and specialists seeking equivalents for problematic terms.
The English of Tourism offers a linguistic analysis of the language specific to tourism and related fields like hospitality, transportation, and advertising. It will appeal to professionals, researchers, students, and translators in these industries.
African Literacies
Moving beyond stereotypes of low literacy, this volume explores Africa’s complex and diverse multilingual literacies. It examines practices from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging, offering an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa.
Names in the Economy
Onomastic research has expanded towards names that reflect our commercial culture. Culture produces names and names produce culture. This multidisciplinary book contemplates commercial names from the viewpoints of linguistics, onomastics, marketing, and branding.
Cognitive Approaches to English
This volume presents cognitive approaches to English, discussing motivation in grammar, meaning construction, interlinguistic variation, and TEFL issues. It explores how these phenomena are motivated by metaphorical and metonymic operations.
This book offers unique perspectives on Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and sign linguistics. Covering topics from TİD’s history to grammar, this volume is a useful resource for newcomers and gives new momentum to future research.
The Development of Translation Competence
This book presents cutting-edge research from psycholinguistics and cognitive science to understand the development of translation competence. It explores theories and innovative data collection methodologies, serving as a valuable reference for scholars and translators.
This volume explores new directions in Hispanic linguistics, focusing on understudied topics and speech communities. Presenting new takes on key linguistic and sociocultural issues, its relevance reaches far beyond the confines of the Hispanic World.
What is Englishness? Is there a national character? This collection seeks to answer these questions by offering a kaleidoscopic vision of Englishness since the eighteenth century, challenging stereotypes and offering keys to understanding its diverse expressions.
This collection brings together the latest research into the syntax, semantics, and phonology of the Celtic languages. Leading linguists offer articles on Breton, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh, on a wide variety of topics.
Weaving Words
Weaving Words questions the impact of 21st-century education on creativity in writing. Combining critical perspectives with creative works, it demonstrates the power of writing to disrupt and transform personal and professional understandings.
Advances in Chinese as a Second Language
This collection of pioneering studies examines the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. Topics cover the acquisition of grammar, learner anxiety, and the processing of tones, characters, and clauses—of interest to students and scholars.
Age Effects in the Acquisition of English Onset Clusters by Turkish Learners
This book examines the acquisition of English onset clusters by Turkish learners, considering age effects in L2 phonology. Using Optimality Theory, it traces developmental paths, not just the end-state, offering insightful data for L2 theory.
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