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Tension-filled english at the multilingual university
This book explores the idea that English in the multilingual university is filled with and surrounded by tensions. Drawing on Bakhtin’s theory and examples from Sweden, it offers the reader a novel way of tracing the links between language perceptions and practices on the ground, and the forces a...
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The affective dimension in english-medium instruction in higher education
This book offers a timely investigation into the impact of affective factors on learning in English-medium instruction. It explores topics including motivation, anxiety, emotions, willingness to communicate and teacher beliefs, providing insights into the field from Anglophone, non-Anglophone, mo...
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The anti-racism linguist
This book explores language at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the institutional practices that still make for uneven access to education, resources and a sense of belonging. The book is a thoughtful reflection on how teachers and scholars can incorporate anti-racism pedagogy and thoug...
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The columbia guide to standard american english
In the most reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the Americans of today, Wilson answers questions of meaning, grammar, pronunciation, punctuation, and spelling in thousands of clear, concise entries. His guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as...
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The discourse community of electronic dance music
Anita Jóri considers the world of electronic dance music as a discourse community. She gives an overview on the language use and discourse characteristics of this community while applying a mixed methodology of linguistic discourse analysis and cultural studies.
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The domestication of language
A provocative investigation into the making of human languages and the exceptional nature of human adaptation.
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The dynamics of complexity, accuracy and fluency in second language development
?This book looks at the development of language skills in Swedish as a second language in young adults, beginning from the first months of their second language instruction and ending after three years of intensive language courses. The focus is on three proficiency dimensions: complexity, accura...
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The fall of language in the age of english
An award-winning novelist composes a multifaceted critique of the politics of personal expression.
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The language of the english street sign
This book opens readers’ eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern English streets: what they look like, who and what they are for, how they link to English history and how they form part of life in multilingual England today.
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The legal recognition of sign languages
This book presents the first comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, their impacts and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. Each chapter is grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislati...
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The logic of sense
Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze de...
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The politics of language
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as ...
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The politics of researching multilingually
This book offers a unique understanding of how researchers’ linguistic resources, and the languages they use, are politically and structurally constrained, with implications for the reliability of the research. The book will help readers to make theoretically and methodologically informed choices...
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The power of voice in transforming multilingual societies
Drawing upon the framework of linguistic citizenship, the chapters in this book link questions of language to sociopolitical discourses of justice, rights and equity, as well as to issues of power and access. They present powerful evidence of how marginalized speakers reclaim their voices and cha...
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The present personal
Is philosophy deaf to the sound of the personal voice? While philosophy is experienced at admiring, resenting, celebrating, and, at times, renouncing language, philosophers have rarely succeeded in being intimate with it. Hagi Kenaan argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguis...
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The sounds of poetry viewed as music
Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” This book gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics and music theory to propose a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.
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The writing of spirit
Contemporary thought has been profoundly shaped by the early-twentieth-century turn toward synchronic models of explanation, which analyze phenomena as they appear at a single moment, rather than diachronically as they develop through time. But the relationship between time and system remains une...
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Theoretical and applied perspectives on teaching foreign languages in multilingual settings
This book aims to advance multilingual research in foreign language education. It contributes to a discussion of how to foster the acquisition of subsequent foreign languages by engaging learners’ existing linguistic resources in an optimal way, and how to strengthen the connection between resear...
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Transcultural pedagogies for multilingual classrooms
This book explores the ways in which transcultural pedagogies can support learning and literacies in critical, creative and socially just ways, highlighting research initiatives from across the globe. Chapters present innovative perspectives for language/literacy education focusing on Indigenous,...
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Transformative translanguaging espacios
This book shows the transformative power of placing translanguaging at the center of teaching and learning. It shows how the centering of racialized Latinx bilingual students, including their knowledge systems and cultural and linguistic practices, transforms the monolingual-white supremacy ideol...
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Translanguaging and english as a lingua franca in the plurilingual classroom
This book explores the use of multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization by speakers of less commonly taught languages. It investigates how students use these languages alongside English as a lingua franca to participate in classroom tasks and social interactio...
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Translanguaging and epistemological decentring in higher education and research
Using data from universities in Asia, Central and North America, Europe and the Maghreb, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring, and argues that decentring cannot happen until learners are able to identify which sorts of centring dynam...
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Translanguaging in translation
This book brings applied linguistics and translation studies together through an analysis of literary texts in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese and Korean and their translations. It brings a new dimension to the burgeoning field of translanguaging studies and highlights the role of translation in the dev...
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Translanguaging, coloniality and decolonial cracks
In this ethnography of bilingual science learning, the author connects microanalyses of classroom discourse to broader themes of de/coloniality in education. The author examines the linguistic landscape of the school and the attitudes of staff and students which produce both coloniality and crack...
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Translation and global asia
Translation and Global Asia: Relocating Cultural Production Network explores the richness of non-Western discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges among non-Western languages and Asian translation traditions. The volume provides insight into the translation trad...
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Translation and information technology
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Translation in hong kong
Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city where international communication is a fact of everyday life. Translation has thus always been essential in bridging the social and cultural gap between Chinese and Western civilizations. Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future tries to assess the role ...
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Twelve lectures on multilingualism
This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to the most interesting areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twelve lectures, written by leading researchers, each dedicated to a particular topic of importance and accompanied by questions for student reflection and sugge...
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Using corpora for language teaching and learning
How can you use corpora in your classroom? With the increasing use of corpora in classrooms, the need to understand how to use corpora in language teaching is essential for today’s teachers. Using ample concrete examples, this book offers a step-by-step hands-on introduction to the use of corpor...
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Using linguistically appropriate practice
This book provides an accessible guide to multilingual teaching in diverse classrooms world-wide. It is grounded in the latest research and takes a realistic approach to the challenges found in the modern school. The author argues that multilingual teaching is an option for all teachers, and that...
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Visualising language students and teachers as multilinguals
This book fosters an awareness of multilingualism as lived or as subjectively experienced from the perspective of those involved in language education and teacher education. It illustrates how visual methods can be used to explore individual multilingualism, identify language ideologies and suppo...
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Voice assistants in private homes
This book discusses voice assistants and how they have transformed everyday linguistic, media, and data practices thanks to platformized conditions and new interfaces.
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What kind of creatures are we?
Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflectio...
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What's in a name
Claude Lévi-Strauss shows that the way we name animals reveals a hidden structure of thought.
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Womansword
A linguistic portrait of Japanese womanhood, in a new edition that reveals how things have—and haven't—changed in 30 years
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Young linguists in dialogue
This volume contains selected papers on linguistics from the conference organized by the Jagiellonian University Student's English Society from April 7 to 8 in 2008 in Kraków. The authors were all students of the Jagiellonian University and the university of Lódz at the time of the conference. Th...
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