Linguistics category: 5616 books
The Future of Translation Technology
Towards a World without Babel
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Technology has revolutionized the field of translation, bringing drastic changes to the way translation is studied and done. To an average user, technology is simply about clicking buttons and storing data. What we need to do is to look beyond a system’s interface to see what is at work and what...
Zooming In
Micro-Scale Perspectives on Cognition, Translation and Cross-Cultural Communication
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book explores the influence of culture and cognition on translation and communication and brings together revised versions of papers delivered at the First International TransLingua Conference, organized in 2015 by the Institute of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Department of...
The Spanish-Speaking World
A Practical Introduction to Sociolinguistic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006
This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of Spanish but who have...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Culture has a significant influence on the emerging trends in translation and interpretation. By studying language from a diverse perspective, deeper insights and understanding can be gained. Redefining Translation and Interpretation in Cultural Evolution is a pivotal reference source for the latest...
The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are...
Meaning Making in Text
Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Meaning Making in Text presents new insights into forms of communication in a range of contexts: cultural, linguistic, multimodal and educational. The thirteen chapters are all linked theoretically by advances in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motivation from a complex dynamic systems perspective. The contributors include some of the most well-established scholars from three continents, all addressing...
Local Literacies
Reading and Writing in One Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...
Language Online
Investigating Digital Texts and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In Language Online, David Barton and Carmen Lee investigate the impact of the online world on the study of language.
The effects of language use in the digital world can be seen in every aspect of language study, and new ways of researching the field are needed. In this book the authors look...
Academics Writing
The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance...
Bilingualism
The Sociopragmatic-Psycholinguistic Interface
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
In the past 30 years, the study of bilingualism processing has been conducted independently by two fields, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics. This volume merges these two fields, addressing one of the tough problems dividing researchers in bilingualism, conceptually as well as methodologically....
Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration
The British in the Ariège
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning strategies to demonstrate links...
by John Mark Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
"Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen...
Children’s Knowledge-in-Interaction
Studies in Conversation Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This book is a collected volume that brings together research from authors working in cross-disciplinary academic areas including early childhood, linguistics and education, and draws on the shared interests of the authors, namely understanding children’s interactions and the co-production of knowledge...