Provides a systematic description of the various statistical tests used in Corpus Linguistics which can be used in translation research. This book describes how to undertake quantitative studies, with a suitable level of technical and relevant case studies.
Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. This volume is of interest to both students of signed language interpreting and practitioners working in community, conference, and education settings.
This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory chapter, foreword and afterword, ethnography-related concepts like thick description, deep theorizing, participatory research, research reflexivity or ethics are discussed against the affordances of ethnography for the study of academic writing. The book is key reading for scholars, researchers and instructors in the areas of applied linguistics, academic writing, academic literacies and genre studies. It will also be useful to those lecturers and postgraduate students working in English for Academic Purposes and disciplinary writing. The volume provides ethnographically-oriented researchers with clear pointers about how to incorporate the telling of the inside story into their traditional main role as observers.
The papers in this volume (21 chapters), by leading researchers in bilingualism and cognition, investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects (or lack thereof) of bilingualism on cognition in children, adults, and the elderly.
The aim of this book is to provide both theoretical insights and practical suggestions to improve motivation in the classroom.
Represents the advances in literary linguistics, cognitive poetics and literary critical practice. In this book, the contributors provide an analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas among others.
Proto-Japanese is the reconstructed language stage from which various later varieties of Japanese, including Ryukyuan, descend. This volume singles out key areas in the reconstruction of proto-Japanese where salient progress has been or promises to be made since Martin.