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English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume’s 15 chapters cover a range of aspects that are central to pronunciation teaching including the teaching of different segmental and suprasegmental features teachers’ and learners’ views and practices types and sources of learners’ errors feedback and assessment tools and strategies for pronunciation instruction reactions towards accented speech as well as the connection between research and teaching. Chapters offer a fully developed section on pedagogical implications with insightful suggestions for classroom instruction. This format and the variety of topics will be informative for researchers language teachers and students interested in English pronunciation as it explores the diverse challenges learners of different L1 backgrounds face and also provides research-informed techniques and recommendations on how to cope with them.

This volume comprises a collection of contrastive studies on language and time. Languages represented include Czech French German Mandarin Norwegian and Swedish all of which are contrasted with English. While the amount of published research on temporal relations in general is considerable less work has been carried out on comparing how we talk about time in various languages and how languages change over time. Several methodological challenges are addressed and solutions proposed such as how to deal with poor quality historical data and how to identify n-grams in typologically different languages for purposes of comparison. The results of the various studies show how multilingual corpora can increase our knowledge of language-specific features as well as linguistic typological and cultural differences and similarities across languages.

The English language as spoken in Namibia has virtually been overlooked in most textbooks handbooks and surveys of varieties of English around the world or else has only been mentioned in passing. However this variety of English has recently attracted the attention of several researchers and the present volume brings together most scholars actively involved in the research on English in Namibia from various linguistic fields to present their current research. It covers a wide range of linguistic issues such as empirical analyses on various levels of linguistic description and use as well as the application of diverse methodologies from questionnaire surveys sociolinguistic interviews and focus group discussions to corpus linguistics linguistic landscaping and digital ethnography. This book represents the first comprehensive collection of articles and in-depth discussions of this emerging variety of World Englishes.

“All families and genera”: Exploring the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts aims at exploring scientific writing in late Modern English. This volume is the fourth of its kind devoted to the analysis of the relations between language and different scientific disciplines from 1700 to 1900. Here forty texts on biology and related fields as compiled in the Corpus of English Life Sciences Texts (CELiST) constitute the basis for the fifteen studies describing scientific discourse on methodological issues the period and the status of the discipline itself as well as pilot studies.

CELiST is accompanied by an updated version of the Coruña Corpus Tool (CCT) a purpose-designed software. Both the tool and the corpus are freely accessible at the Repositorio Universidade Coruña: CCT at http://hdl.handle.net/2183/21850and CELiST at https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/25720(DOI: https://doi.org/10.17979/spudc.9788497497848).

The book is addressed to an international readership. It is of interest for university libraries as well as other academic institutions/societies and individual scholars specialised in corpus linguistics and historical linguistics all over the world.

This book offers Cultural-Linguistic explorations into the diverse Lebenswelten of a wide range of cultural contexts such as South Africa Hungary India Nigeria China Romania Iran and Poland. The linguistic expedition sets out to explore three thematic segments that were thus far under-researched from a cultural linguistic perspective – spirituality emotionality and society.

The analytical tools provided by Cultural Linguistics such as cultural conceptualizations and cultural metaphors are not only applied to various corpora and types of texts but also recalibrated and renegotiated. As a result the studies in this collective volume showcase a rich body of work that contributes to the manifestation of Cultural Linguistics as an indispensable paradigm in modern language studies.

Being a testament to the inseparability of language and culture this book will enlighten academics professionals and students working in the fields of Cultural Linguistics sociology gender studies religious studies and cultural studies.

Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input processing strategies affect the acquisition of a particular linguistic feature and/or structure in the two languages. The studies use both offline (e.g. sentence and discourse-level tasks) and online tests (e.g. eye-tracking) to measure the effects of this instructional training.

This book is an enquiry into memory in the Western world. Specifically memory is the framework of culture because it links the present to the past - or tradition - and projects it into the future. For this reason any work focusing on memory involves a double challenge: (1) to reveal the origin of concepts and (2) to glimpse the course of thoughts.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>This is the case of the present volume in which the authors make several tastings of Europe's intellectual heritage by taking into account both the Greek origin of this legacy and its relevance for understanding the European philosophical heritage.<br/>In particular these papers focus on the Aristotelian tradition the true keystone of Europe and on other currents of thought that have also played an essential role in the intellectual evolution of the Old Continent. In the latter field there are contributions for instance on philosophical-religious traditions such as Orphism or on certain fundamental aspects of Neoplatonism both in the Classical World and in Christian authors.<br/>The volume concludes with various works on the survival of these intellectual trends from the Renaissance to the present day. Consequently this work offers the opportunity to delve deeper into some of the aspects that define Western civilisation observed both from its origin and its evolution over the centuries.<br/>The volume contains papers in Spanish Portuguese Italian and English.<br/>Este libro es una indagación en la memoria del mundo occidental. Específicamente la memoria es el armazón de la cultura porque liga el presente al pasado —o tradición— y lo proyecta al futuro. Por ello toda obra centrada en la memoria entraña un doble reto: (1) revelar el origen de los conceptos y (2) atisbar el rumbo de los pensamientos.<br/>Este es el caso del presente volumen en el que realizan diversas catas en el patrimonio intelectual europeo. Lo hace teniendo en cuenta tanto el origen griego de ese legado como su relevancia para comprender el acervo filosófico europeo.<br/>En concreto se centra en la tradición aristótelica verdadera clave de bóveda de Europa y en otras corrientes de pensamiento que también han jugado un papel esencial en la evolución intelectual del viejo continente. En éste último ámbito hay contribuciones por ejemplo sobre tradiciones filosófico-religiosas como el orfismo o sobre determinados aspectos fundamentales del neoplatonismo en el mundo clásico y en autores cristianos.<br/>Concluye el volumen con diversos trabajos sobre la pervivencia de esas tendencias intelectuales desde el renacimiento hasta nuestros días. <br/>En consecuencia esta obra ofrece la oportunidad de profundizar en algunos aspectos que definen nuestra civilización observados tanto desde su origen como desde su evolución a lo largo de los siglos.

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive approaches to language acquisition. The book integrates sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic issues by bringing together scholars who have been developing conceptions of language acquisition across the lifespan that take into account language-internal and cross-linguistic variation in contexts of both first and second language acquisition as well as of first and second dialect acquisition. The volume brings together theoretical and empirical research and provides an excellent basis for scholars and students wanting to delve into the social and cognitive dimensions of both the production and perception of sociolinguistic variation. The book enables the reader to understand on the one hand how variation is acquired in childhood or at a later stage and on the other how perception and production feed into one another thus building up our understanding of the social meanings underpinning language variation.

This book provides a view of where the field of morphology has been and where it is today within a particular theoretical framework gathering up new and representative work in morphology by both eminent and emerging scholars and touching on a very wide range of topics approaches and theoretical points of view. These seemingly disparate articles have a common touchstone in their focus on a word-based paradigmatic approach to morphology.<br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>The chapters in this book elaborate on these basic themes from the further exploration of paradigms to studies involving words stems and affixes to examinations of competition inheritance and defaults to investigations of morphomes to ways that morphology interacts with other parts of the language from phonology to sociolinguistics and applied linguistics. <br/>The editors and contributors dedicate this volume to Prof. Mark Aronoff for his profound influence on the field.

The objective of this book is to develop a deeper understanding of the form and interpretation of number. Using insights from Generative syntax and Distributed Morphology we develop a theory of distributed number arguing that number can be associated with several functional heads and that these projections exist depending on the features they specify. In doing so we make a strong claim for a close mapping between the syntactic structure and the semantics in the noun phrase since each node corresponds to a different interpretation of number. Despite some technical implementations the book is accessible to linguists working outside any particular syntax-semantic framework since we propose generalizations that are applicable in many if not all models of grammar. The book focuses on Arabic but also discusses a number of languages including English French Ojibwe Blackfoot Hebrew Japanese Korean Chinese Turkish Persian and Western Armenian.