"The term "fascist" has been thrown around in American politics and culture for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century. It is a popular epithet that is used to brand all kinds of political opponents from left to right. What does the term mean? How is it used? How did it …
"All men are created equal" is the first "self-evident truth" of the Declaration of Independence. However clearly they are equal only in their fundamental humanity, not in their physical attributes or mental talents. These natural differences create distinctions both rational an…
"The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English Writing System, not just as a state of the art but also highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. While concentrating on the core linguistic and psychol…
This volume assembles contributions addressing clausal complementation across the entire South Slavic territory. The main focus is on particular aspects of complementation, covering the contemporary standard languages as well as older stages and/or non-standard varieties and the…
Problems in lexicography: a critical
by Adams, Michael, Saporta, Sol, Householder, Fred D.
fromWell House Books
"The majority of children acquire language effortlessly but approximately 10% of all children find it difficult especially in the early or preschool years with consequences for many aspects of their subsequent development and experience: literacy, social skills, educational qual…
"This book reports on the contrastive-semantic investigation of sadness expressions between English and Chinese, based on two monolingual general corpora and a parallel corpus. The exploration adopts a unique theoretical approach which integrates corpus-linguistic theories on me…
"Childhood multilingualism has become a norm rather than an exception. This is the first handbook to survey state-of-the-art research on the uniqueness of early multilingual development in children growing up with more than two languages in contact. It provides in-depth accounts…
The first dedicated volume of its kind, Visualizing Digital Discourse brings together sociolinguists and discourse analysts examining the role of visual communication in digital media. The volume showcases work from leading, established and emerging scholars from across Europe, …
Second Language Teaching and Learning through Virtual Exchange
by Nicolaou, Anna, Hilliker, Shannon M., Andujar, Alberto, Babická, Blanka, Bauler, Clara, Biondo Salomão, Ana Cristina, Ceballos, Óscar, Donnery, Eucharia, Fuchs, Carolin, Garant, Mikel, Gritsenko, Elena, Kogan, Esther, Kong, Kaishan, Laletina, Alexandra, Lenkaitis, Chesla Ann, Loranc-Paszylk, Barbara, Mármol Trapote, Paloma, Nevařil, Josef, Parsons, Martin, Pineda, Carlos, Samarakkody, DevindiXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Sevilla-Pavón, AnaXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Shikhova, ElizavetaXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb, Snyder, BillXX4ctbXX4https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb
fromTrends in Applied Linguistics [TAL]
Virtual exchanges provide language learners with a unique opportunity to develop their target language skills, support inter-cultural exchange, and afford teacher candidates space to hone their teaching craft. The research presented in this volume investigates the role of virtua…
This book explores language ideologies in China, which encounters the unprecedented global spread of English as a lingua franca, against the backdrop of globalisation where China emerges as a rapidly developing economy with vigorous promotion of Chinese around the world. The boo…
