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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key...
Linguistic Modeling of Information and Markup Languages
Contributions to Language Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2010
This book covers recent developments in the field, from multi-layered mark-up and standards to theoretical formalisms to applications. It presents results from international research in text technology, computational linguistics, hypertext modeling and more.
Learner Corpus Research
New Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy.
The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking...
Textuality and Contextuality
Cross-Cultural Advertising from the Perspective of High- vs. Low-Context Cultures in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This study offers a contrastive analysis of culturally grounded differences in discourse by comparing advertising strategies in three European languages: (British) English, French and Polish. Taking a critical stance and considering changes through globalisation, the author aims to find out to what...
Minimal English for a Global World
Improved Communication Using Fewer Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues. Based on research findings from cross-linguistic semantics, it contains essays and studies by leading experts...
The Bilingual Advantage
Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The Bilingual Advantage draws together researchers from education, economics, sociology, anthropology and linguistics to examine the economic and employment benefits of bilingualism in the US labor market, countering past research that shows no such benefits exist. Collectively, the authors draw on...
Political Discourse Analysis
A Method for Advanced Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative approach to analysing political discourse.
Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of arguments into critical discourse analysis and political discourse analysis. The book is grounded in a view...
by Ronald Wardhaugh, Janet M. Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Thoroughly updated and revised, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, 7th Edition presents a comprehensive and fully updated introduction to the study of the relationship between language and society.
Building on Ronald Wardhaugh’s classic text, co-author Janet Fuller has updated this seventh...
Hong Kong English
Exploring Lexicogrammar and Discourse from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of ‘Hong Kong English’. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track the ways in which the English...
The English Language in Hong Kong
Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years. Using substantial sets of diachronic and synchronic data, it traces the changing status and functions of English in relation to spoken Cantonese, Mandarin and written Chinese...
by Paul Kockelman
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as computation replaces interpretation,...
by Cedric Boeckx
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The phenomenon of the syntactic 'island' - a clause or structure from which a word cannot be moved - is central to research and study in syntactic theory. This book provides a comprehensive overview of syntactic islands. What are they? How do they arise? Why do they exist? Cedric Boeckx discusses...
Aviation English
A lingua franca for pilots and air traffic controllers
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Aviation English investigates the key issues related to the use of English for the purpose of communication in aviation and analyses the current research on language training, testing and assessment in the area of Aviation English. Based on a series of recent empirical studies in aviation communication...
by Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This volume shows how the psychology and power of language can create realities. It examines the psychological implications of language as a way of being and not just as an instrument of communication. It discusses how a shift in language gives rise to an existential transformation, and shows how...