Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 36 hakutulosta
National, Regional and Minority Languages in Europe
The European linguistic diversity goes far beyond the official national languages of the present 27 member states of the European Union. In every country several languages of …
Motives for Studying German in Australia
The last comprehensive study of the motives for studying German in Australia was conducted in the late 1980s. The main objective of this thesis is not only to fill the gap of …
Scenario Negotiation in Online Debates about the European Union
For decades, the focus of Metaphor Studies laid on Conceptual Metaphor and its role in the human conceptual system. This study, however, focuses on metaphor in communication. Its …
A Dictionary of Camfranglais
This book is a simple and clear presentation of the lexis of Camfranglais, an urban youth sociolect in Cameroon. It presents this sociolect as an outgrowth of language contact …
National and European Language Policies
The diversity of the European languages is an essential component of the cultural wealth and identity of our continent. In several overview papers on the present linguistic …
Language Education in Creating a Multilingual Europe
The European Union has conceived itself as multilingual since its beginning in 1956. EFNIL, the network of the central language institutions of all states of the Union and several …
Language Use in Business and Commerce in Europe
The linguistic domains of business and commerce are especially affected by the economic and communicative globalization. Since language use in these domains has an impact on the …
Trends in Cognitive Linguistics
This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, …
Linguistic Change in Galway City English
This volume is a novel approach to the corpus-based variationist sociolinguistic study of contemporary urban western Irish English. Based on qualitative data as well as on …
Studies on Language Norms in Context
This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine …
Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa
This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn …
Translation and Interpretation in Europe
Europe is not «lost in translation». It lives in and by translation and interpretation. The 11th conference of the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL) …