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This edited volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining the teaching and learning processes in science classrooms in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It is a timely contribution to the rapidly growing body of CLIL research in response to scholars’ consistent calls for more classroom-based research on the issues in integration of content and language teaching in lessons. With the dual goal of content and language learning students in CLIL programmes are also facing double challenges – mastery of abstract cognitively demanding content knowledge and unfamiliar academic language. Focusing on the notion of “scaffolding” this edited volume demonstrates how science teachers can provide appropriate and timely scaffolding for their students to overcome the challenges in CLIL science classrooms. With studies from different educational settings (Hong Kong Mainland China Singapore and Australia) and epistemological paradigms and adopting a variety of research designs this volume will provide key insights into CLIL pedagogy and teacher education. Originally published as special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 (2019).

This interdisciplinary volume explores the unique role of the sociohistorical factors of isolation and contact in motivating change in the varieties of Spanish worldwide. Recognizing the inherent intersectionality of social and historical factors the book’s eight chapters investigate phenomena ranging from forms of address and personal(ized) infinitives to clitics and sibilant systems extending from Majorca to Mexico from Panamanian Congo speech to Afro-Andean vernaculars. The volume is particularly recommended for scholars interested in historical linguistics sociolinguistics history sociology and anthropology in the Spanish-speaking world. Additionally it will serve as an indispensable guide to students both at the undergraduate and graduate level investigating sociohistorical advances in Spanish.

Language is a social space an aesthetic a form of play and communication a geographical reference a jouissance a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy) language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment slang taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities place-names from indigenous languages the fellowship and parody of children's songs and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese.

Becoming effective hunters of manipulative communicative moves is far from an easy capacity to develop. This book aims at offering a guide to the most dangerous traps of deceptive language as triggered by implicit communication strategies such as presupposition implicature topicalization and vague expressions. A look at different contexts of language use highlights some of the most remarkable implications of using indirect speech and of how it affects the correct comprehension of a message. Within the remit of communication and pragmatics studies this work marks an advancement in the direction of delving into the linguistic manifestations of manipulative discourse its most common contexts of use and the educational paths that can be undertaken to master it in everyday interactions.

This book is a collection of contemporary essays and squibs exploring the mental representation of Spanish and other languages in the Romance family. Although largely formal in orientation they incorporate experimental and corpus data to inform questions of synchronic and diachronic importance. As a whole these contributions explore two areas of particular interest to linguistic theorizing. The first is linguistic interfaces with chapters on syntax-information structure syntax-prosody syntax-semantics and lexicon-phonology. The second consists of explorations of noun phrases of all sizes—from clitics to nominalized clauses. The results and conclusions of these studies encourage researchers to continue to explore individual languages in particular in order to gain insight on human language in general. This edited volume in honor of Dr. Paula Kempchinsky is reflective of the diversity of approaches that inspired her teaching research and mentoring for over thirty years at the University of Iowa and beyond.

Molinismus ist heute ein Kapitel Philosophie. Das Thema dieses Buchs ist jedoch nicht die Renaissance der Scientia Media-Hypothese in der modernen angloamerikanischen Religionsphilosophie sondern ihre scholastische Ausgestaltung in dem auf Molina folgenden Jahrhundert: Ohne den Kalkül mit den möglichen Welten z.B. kein Leibniz mit seinem Optimismus. Die vorliegende Studie bahnt sich den Weg durch die Gnadenstreitigkeiten zur Metaphysik des Faktenwissens. Hier zeigt sich die Grundlagenkrise des Molinismus. <br xmlns="http://pub2web.metastore.ingenta.com/ns/"/>Das molinistische Faktum hat drei Merkmale: Es ist kontingent es ist Teil einer möglichen Welt es ist vom Allwissenden notwendig gewußt. Traditionell beruht die Lehre von Gottes Faktenwissen auf dem Dogma vom Vorsprung der göttlichen Willensaktivität. Dieses Dogma ist durch die Scientia Media-Hypothese erschüttert. Worauf beruht es aber dann daß Gott A vorherweiß nicht nonA?<br/>Der Streit der Schulrichtungen wird zusätzlich durch eine lateinische Textedition illustriert. Von dem Jesuiten Luke Wadding (1593-1651) dem Autor dieses schwierigen Texts ist bisher nur bekannt daß er der Lehrer des Scientia Media-Historikers Gabriel de Henao gewesen ist.<br/><br/>Molinism formerly an invective is nowadays a topic of philosophy. This book however does not deal with the modern renaissance of Middle Knowledge rather it explores its proliferation during the 17th and 18th centuries. The focus shifts from reviewing current trends in Church History to rehearsing the metaphysics that backed up Middle Knowledge.<br/>Fact in Molinism is threefold: It could have been otherwise it belongs to some possible world it is necessarily known by the Omniscient. Whereas the classical account of God’s foreknowledge rests on its being postvolitional the Molinist qualification of this account denies that it applies to the counterfactuals. On what else then does it prevolitionally depend that God knows for sure something to happen rather than not to happen?<br/>The Salmantine Treatise on God’s foreknowledge edited here provides some additional piece of evidence of a deep Molinist disagreement. Though the manuscript was ready for print in 1653 this business failed and the manuscript fell into oblivion along with its author. The Jesuit Luke Wadding (1593-1651) belongs to a number of men from Waterford who at a time when intolerance forced Catholics into large scale emigration hopefully turned towards Spain. He must not be confounded with his famous namesake the Franciscan friar who was his cousin.

This volume brings together seven empirical studies about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) i.e. about how (second language) learners with different aptitudes match or don’t match with different educational treatments; and aptitude-testing interactions i.e. about how learners with different aptitudes perform better or worse depending on the way their knowledge and skills are tested. The authors are all established researchers or rising stars in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) who believe that little can be said about the effectiveness of teaching and testing methods or techniques without taking individual differences into account. Many of the studies corroborate in SLA what has become a central finding in the psychological and educational research about ATI: the more a method puts the burden of information processing on the student the bigger the role of the corresponding aptitudes. The kinds of findings documented in this volume contribute to a scientific basis for the art of language teaching that will become increasingly useful as emerging technologies make adaptation to individuals and groups more feasible. Originally published as special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 (2019).

The contributions in this collection offer a wide range of stylistic perspectives on landscape place and environment by focusing on a variety of text-types ranging from poetry the Bible fictional and non-fictional prose to newspaper articles condo names online texts and exhibitions. Employing both established and cutting-edge methodologies from among others corpus linguistics metaphor studies Text World Theory and ecostylistics the eleven chapters in the volume provide an overview of how landscape place and environment are encoded and can be investigated in literary and non-literary discourse. The studies collected here stand as evidence of the possibility of and the need for a “stylistics of landscape” which emphasises how represented spaces are made manifest linguistically; a “stylistics of place” which focuses on the discursive and affective qualities of those represented spaces; and a “stylistics of environment” which reiterates the urgency for environmentally-responsible humanities able to support a change in the anthropocentric narrative which poses humans as the most important variable in the human-animal and human-environment relationships.

The collection of articles in Discourse Studies in Public Communication illustrates that public communication is a fascinating evidence-based storehouse for research in discourse analysis. The contributions to this volume — in the spheres of political rhetoric gender and sexuality and corporate and academic communication — provide good evidence of contemporary social structure social phenomena and social issues. In this way following the parameters of different analytical frameworks (critical discourse analysis cognitive metaphor theory appraisal theory multimodality etc.) the contributors address not only the linguistic aspects of texts but also and more importantly the cultural and cognitive dimensions of public communication in a range of real life communicative contexts and kinds of discourse. Although the volume is addressed first and foremost to readers with diverse interests in English linguistics it may also prove valuable to scholars in other non-linguistic research fields like communication studies social theory political science or psychology.

This volume extends and deepens our understanding of Translator Studies by charting new territory in terms of theory methods and concepts. The focus is on literary translators their roles identities and personalities. The book introduces pertinent translator-centered approaches in four sections: historical-biographical studies social-scientific and process-oriented methods and approaches that use paratexts or translations to study literary translators. Drawing on a variety of concepts such as identity role self posture habitus and voice the various chapters showcase forgotten literary translators and shed new light on some well-known figures; they examine literary translators not as functioning units but as human beings in their uniqueness. Literary Translator Studies as a subdiscipline of Translation Studies demonstrates how exploring the cultural social psychological and cognitive facets of translatorial subjects contributes to a holistic understanding of translation.