This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the da...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192868862)
This volume presents a paradigm shift in the worlds knowledge about childrens speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, faci...Loe edasi...
This book addresses contemporary translator training, discussing the various ways translators (and other language professionals) acquire and perfect their skills in rapidly evolving markets and a complex global context. The authors examine formal an...Loe edasi...
This book uses corpus analysis and experimental methods to examine the structural characteristics and cognitive mechanisms of Chinese-English code-switching. It also compares the syntactic and pragmatic features of code-switching in children and a...Loe edasi...
This book fosters a global scholarly dialogue on teaching and researching Vietnamese as a second language, with particular attention to pedagogy, identity, and research innovation. It positions Vietnamese within the framework of Less Commonly Taught...Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...Loe edasi...
This book is Volume 1 of The Linguistic Landscape of Higher Education Internationalisation, a project examining the role of English as a Language of Globalisation and Internationalisation (ELGI), a term first introduced in this work, to describe the...Loe edasi...
This book integrates perspectives from different scholars and practitioners to examine issues relating to mental health education in multilingual academic settings and communities. It offers insight into the intricate interplay between language, cul...Loe edasi...
Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten, Ana Fernández Dobao, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
Sari: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009400671)
With contributions from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) experts, this Handbook provides cutting-edge synopses of all sub-areas in the field. Now in its second edition, it has been thoroughly updated to include the latest developments, research, an...Loe edasi...
With contributions from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) experts, this Handbook provides cutting-edge synopses of all sub-areas in the field. Now in its second edition, it has been thoroughly updated to include the latest developments, research, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009587396)
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Loe edasi...
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Loe edasi...
Through a mixed research synthesis of high-quality empirical studies, Jackson and Takahashi examine both widely reported and understudied psychological factors underlying foreign language learning in Japan, with an ecological approach framing the...Loe edasi...
Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Second Edition is the eagerly awaited, expanded update of a landmark text. It explores alternative perspectives on second language acquisition, offering a critical challenge to the domi...Loe edasi...
Alternative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition: Second Edition is the eagerly awaited, expanded update of a landmark text. This volume explores alternative perspectives on second language acquisition, offering a critical challenge to...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981, Adult–Child Conversation explores the dynamics of communication between adults and children and examines the structure, function, and implications of conversational exchanges in various contexts. It prov...Loe edasi...
This book investigates how d/Deaf learners engage with reading in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and whether explicit reading strategy instruction can support their comprehension. Focusing on the unique challenges and linguistic circumstances o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009676052)
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
Higher education faculty differ in age from their students, and these age differences may relate to social and cultural differences. As an aspect of culture, different social groups adopt different slang vocabularies. This Element explores the natur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198879640)
This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of linguistics as currently practised. It provides an advanced introduction to some topics in the philosophy of linguistics and offers fresh approaches to new problems in the language sciences....Loe edasi...
Combining bilingualism, gender studies, and conversation analysis, this book explores the storytelling practices and language choices of several married heterosexual Spanish-English bilingual couples, all residing in Texas but each representing diff...Loe edasi...
This book offers a profound interdisciplinary exploration of haunting, absencing, and the violent transformation of words into voids. It argues that the erasure of language is never simple: when words are replaced by silence, not only messages but...Loe edasi...
Employing a sociological lens and and building on data from interviews with twenty-six freelance conference interpreters and two focus groups, this book offers a systematic and comprehensive account of freelance conference interpreters’ experience...Loe edasi...
Understanding the Brain: A Short Guide is an essential read for anyone fascinated by the science of the brain and its impact on human life. Whether you are a student, researcher, or simply curious about neuroscience, this book offers an accessible...Loe edasi...
Understanding the Brain: A Short Guide is an essential read for anyone fascinated by the science of the brain and its impact on human life. Whether you are a student, researcher, or simply curious about neuroscience, this book offers an accessible...Loe edasi...
Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the “monolingual bias” and the common assumptio...Loe edasi...
Multilingualism and Wellbeing is an innovative text that combines sociolinguistic, psychological and philosophical approaches to explore multilingualism as a source of wellbeing. It challenges the “monolingual bias” and the common assumptio...Loe edasi...
This cross-cultural edited volume presents a rich tapestry of experiences, challenges, and innovations, focusing on assessment, course and curriculum design, approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development in Computer-assisted Language L...Loe edasi...
Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their L2 academic writing and creative w...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to explore the history of self-translation in Chinese. It reveals how self-translation was widespread among literary authors during one of the most fertile periods of translation in human history, an era that marks both the da...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192868862)
This volume presents a paradigm shift in the worlds knowledge about childrens speech development, with 80 chapters covering 75 languages and language varieties or dialects from across the globe. Each of the chapters follows the same structure, faci...Loe edasi...
The second edition of this essential guide for parents raising their children multilingually reflects the latest research on childhood language learning and use. This realistic and inspirational guide also provides parents with suggestions for up-to...Loe edasi...
This volume investigates the ways in which Q methodology contributes to language education and language policy research, demonstrating how this research approach can be used to explore topics including identity, motivation, cognition, emotion, pre-s...Loe edasi...
This book provides the most comprehensive overview to date of multilingualism in Israel, spanning Hebrew-only ideologies, immigrant and heritage languages, and grassroots initiatives. It offers essential insights for scholars, students and those int...Loe edasi...
The second edition of this essential guide for parents raising their children multilingually reflects the latest research on childhood language learning and use. This realistic and inspirational guide also provides parents with suggestions for up-to...Loe edasi...
This longitudinal study explores young childrens language acquisition in Korean-English multilingual households, investigating how children acquire multiple strategies of verbal and non-verbal communication and use a range of multimodal resources to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111557519)
This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from...Loe edasi...
This book addresses contemporary translator training, discussing the various ways translators (and other language professionals) acquire and perfect their skills in rapidly evolving markets and a complex global context. The authors examine formal an...Loe edasi...
This book uses corpus analysis and experimental methods to examine the structural characteristics and cognitive mechanisms of Chinese-English code-switching. It also compares the syntactic and pragmatic features of code-switching in children and a...Loe edasi...
This book fosters a global scholarly dialogue on teaching and researching Vietnamese as a second language, with particular attention to pedagogy, identity, and research innovation. It positions Vietnamese within the framework of Less Commonly Taught...Loe edasi...
This book presents a new way of understanding verbal humour. Drawing on contemporary theories of language and mind, it explores and explains how the language of humour works both in a text and in a reader. Through investigation of carefully consider...Loe edasi...
This book is Volume 1 of The Linguistic Landscape of Higher Education Internationalisation, a project examining the role of English as a Language of Globalisation and Internationalisation (ELGI), a term first introduced in this work, to describe the...Loe edasi...
This book integrates perspectives from different scholars and practitioners to examine issues relating to mental health education in multilingual academic settings and communities. It offers insight into the intricate interplay between language, cul...Loe edasi...
Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten, Ana Fernández Dobao, Alex Ho-Cheong Leung
Sari: Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009400671)
With contributions from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) experts, this Handbook provides cutting-edge synopses of all sub-areas in the field. Now in its second edition, it has been thoroughly updated to include the latest developments, research, an...Loe edasi...
With contributions from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) experts, this Handbook provides cutting-edge synopses of all sub-areas in the field. Now in its second edition, it has been thoroughly updated to include the latest developments, research, an...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009587396)
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Loe edasi...
What is language? Where did it come from? How do babies learn it from scratch? How do we pick up languages beyond our mother tongue? This eye-opening book answers big questions about language and the mind, explaining how we use and understand langua...Loe edasi...
