Much has been said about online consumer reviews from both a marketing and linguistic perspective. Online peer reviews, however, have been underexplored to date. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the discursive practices found in Blablac...Lasīt vairāk
The title concept in-between (metaxu) refers to identity that remains in perpetual disjunction, dispersion and crisis. This book proves that in-between is not an empty space, but a productive mode of creating new qualities, experiences, id...Lasīt vairāk
This collected volume provides a timely reflection of the interdisciplinary field of translation, interpreting and political discourse. It offers new perspectives to disciplines of translation/interpreting studies, and linguistics and political scien...Lasīt vairāk
How do you react to an intercultural situation that you do not understand? There are four options. You wait until its over. You adjust your behavior and do as the natives do. You blame the other as strange and stupid. Or you start to wonder by th...Lasīt vairāk
How do you react to an intercultural situation that you do not understand? There are four options. You wait until its over. You adjust your behavior and do as the natives do. You blame the other as strange and stupid. Or you start to wonder by th...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a study of around seven hours of naturally occurring video data, recorded by the author in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Drawing on the methodology of Conversation Analysis, Gazin analyses instructional sequences of interact...Lasīt vairāk
The Logic of Narratives is a linguistic study of narrative discourse that contextualizes the logical rather than the stylistic aspect of narratives within the range of current issues in the interdisciplinary study of narratives being conducted i...Lasīt vairāk
A timely contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics. The nine chapters presented here expand the scope of research to date by including different contexts (i.e., formal instruction, stay-abroad, and online) and age groups which have recei...Lasīt vairāk
In Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese Tones, Hang Zhang offers a series of cross-linguistic studies to argue that there are factors influencing tone acquisition that extend beyond simple transfer of structures from learners nativ...Lasīt vairāk
In Grounding in Chinese Written Narrative Discourse Wendan Li offers a comprehensive account of how Chinese, as a morphologically challenged language, uses grammatical means to highlight (or foreground) major events of a narrative and to demot...Lasīt vairāk
The papers in this volume study how all language levels are constantly involved in promoting insignificant places as desirable tourist destinations. Drawing on different communicative practices from various cultures, the case studies show that langua...Lasīt vairāk
In Dynamics of Teaching and Learning Modern Hebrew, Yona Gileads original research into classroom interactions, offers a thick description of a successful beginner-level Modern Hebrew program at an Australian university, thus offering a model...Lasīt vairāk
Linguists mostly of English, but of other languages as well, examine a range of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communicative setting and provide insights into the role played by linguistic resources and discursive strategies in contexts where pa...Lasīt vairāk
International contributors offer the latest work on second language teacher education (SLTE). Chapters are organized in sections on theoretical approaches to L2 teacher education, emotional and cognitive dimensions of teaching, lesson plans and class...Lasīt vairāk
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has now become a feature of education in Europe from primary school to university level. CLIL programmes are intended to integrate language and content learning in a process of mutual enrichment. Yet th...Lasīt vairāk
An act of refusal can result in losing face or opportunity for all concerned, but recent studies of speech acts have largely ignored the word no. These ten essays examine the act of refusal in depth, especially when a non-native speaker of English...Lasīt vairāk
Camiciottoli (English language and linguistics, U. of Pisa) here offers a means of performing a linguistic analysis of ICT in mediated disclosure genres, starting with communication with key stakeholders. She then describes financial disclosure for I...Lasīt vairāk
As English becomes the common global tongue in more and more sectors, says Breeze (modern languages, U. of Navarra, Spain), it is ever more crucial for students to acquire written English at an appropriate academic or professional level. In conventio...Lasīt vairāk
This volume collects 13 papers that examine the field of discourse and language learning in the context of foreign language instructional contexts. The papers are organized into four sections that examine language learners discourse in second langua...Lasīt vairāk
English in academic and professional settings has received great attention over the last 50 years, as its use has become a key asset for anyone interested in improving his/her chances of communicating internationally. However, it still offers rich op...Lasīt vairāk
