Bilingual Advantages

Zhilong Xie

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 213
• This publication compares differences in cognitive control between bilingual individuals with heterogeneous bilingual experiences. The results clarify... Lees meer

Approche didactique du langage techno-scientifique

Mercedes Eurrutia Cavero

• Hardcover | Frans | Linguistic Insights | nr. 249
• li249 Les sciences et les techniques connaissent de nos jours une croissance exponentielle dans tous les domaines et les langues doivent être capables... Lees meer

Modality in Specialized Texts

Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 1
• This volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Bergamo (5-6 May 2000), which focussed on the semantic and... Lees meer

False Friends in Learner Corpora

M Luisa Roca-Varela

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 197
• This volume provides a practical introduction and a functional analysis of English false friends. It presents an innovative perspective on the subject... Lees meer

Resolution of Conflict of Interest in Chinese Civil Court Hearings

Yunfeng Ge

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 243
• Based on Discourse Information Theory, and the notions of Context Model Schema and Discourse Space, this study investigates how COI is resolved during... Lees meer

From International to Local English - And Back Again

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 95
• All languages encode aspects of culture and every culture has its own specificities to be proud of and to be transmitted. The papers in this book expl... Lees meer

Academic Identity Traits

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 150
• This volume investigates identity traits in academic discourse. Its main purpose is to better understand how and to what extent language forms and fun... Lees meer

Studies in Linguistics and Cognition

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 158
• Studies in Linguistics and Cognition offers a comprehensive collection of essays in the interdisciplinary fields of linguistics and cognition. These e... Lees meer

Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise.- Genres and Trends

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 134
• This book brings together a selection of papers originally presented at the fifth conference on Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise (DICOEN V)... Lees meer

Analysing English as a Lingua Franca in Video Games

Pietro Luigi Iaia

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 220
• This book focuses on the English lingua-franca uses in video-game interactions. The typographic and linguistic deviations from the standard norms are ... Lees meer

Email - SMS - Mms

Carmen Frehner

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 58
• Are email and SMS forms of writing or speech? This question cannot be answered easily because their registers are hybrid; they make use of both oralit... Lees meer

Intercultural Aspects of Specialized Communication-

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 14
• This volume explores intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realisations in language for specific purposes. Special attention is giv... Lees meer

Identifying Plosives in L2 English

Elena Kkese

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 217
• This volume investigates the difficulties adult L2 users of English encounter with plosive consonants. It presents the results of two tasks examining ... Lees meer

Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 297
• The book presents ground-breaking research on evidentiality and epistemic modality. The theoretical papers address inferential evidence and challengea... Lees meer

Textual Healing: Studies in Medieval English Medical, Scientific and Technical Texts

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 101
• The studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wi... Lees meer

Full-Verb Inversion in Written and Spoken English

José Carlos Prado Alonso

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 127
• This book presents a comprehensive corpus-based analysis of full-verb inversion in present-day English. The author examines the distribution and pragm... Lees meer

Gender issues

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 281
• This volume aims at bridging the gap between LSP translation, gender issues, and the professional world. The purpose is to broaden the discussion on g... Lees meer

Exploring discourse and ideology through corpora

• Hardcover | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 276
• This volume explores discourse mainly through corpus linguistics methods. Indeed, Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies has become a widely used methodolo... Lees meer

Agency in Arzt-Patient-Gespraechen

Jiyeon Kook

• Paperback | Duits | Linguistic Insights | nr. 193
• Um dem subjektiven Erleben von Patienten in Bezug auf Krankheit mehr Beachtung zu schenken, benötigt man wissenschaftliche Konzepte und Methoden, welc... Lees meer

Abstracts in Academic Discourse

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 187
• The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studi... Lees meer

Discourse, Identities and Genres in Corporate Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 131
• The studies collected in this volume contribute to shedding light on the multi-faceted complexity and stratification of identity within the context of... Lees meer

Corpus-based studies on language varieties

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 210
• This book is a collection of papers dealing with the study of language varieties from a corpus linguistics perspective. They focus on the analysis of ... Lees meer

Insights Into Medical Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 203
• This book analyses medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, not only from a merely linguistic angle, but also from a social and ... Lees meer

Perspectives on Prescriptivism

• Paperback | Engels | Linguistic Insights | nr. 73
• The colloquium Perspectives on Prescriptivism (20-22 April 2006) was hosted by the University of Catania - Faculty of Foreign Languages - in Ragusa. U... Lees meer