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Variation in Language and Language Use
This volume grew out of the 34th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2010 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. The symposium was dedicated to …
Cultural Linguistics Applied
This book offers a range of empirically-based case studies in the field of cultural linguistics and neighbouring disciplines such as intercultural pragmatics and language pedagogy. …
Explorations into Language Use in Africa
As the title suggests, this collection explores some of the many facets of the language question as experienced by Africans today. This language question in Africa involves, in one …
«No, they won’t ‘just sound like each other’»
Can two non-native speakers (NNSs) work together to improve their L2 pronunciation? This book explores this question by extending task-based learning research into the field of L2 …
Linguistic Impoliteness in (Translated) Children’s Fiction
This book presents the first large-scale investigation of the structure and functions of linguistic impoliteness and impoliteness metalanguage in contemporary British children’s …
Language, Languages and New Technologies
The development of smaller and more powerful computers and the introduction of new communication channels by the interlinking of computers, by the Internet and the World Wide Web, …
Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism in Yaoundé, Cameroon
Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaoundé’s Linguistic Landscape …
Vanishing Languages in Context
This volume grew out of the 36th International LAUD Symposium, which was held in March 2014 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany. There is general consensus among …
Internationalization of Universities and the National Language
Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language in higher education when the …
English(es) in Post-Independence Namibia
This volume contributes to the fields of World Englishes, English Language Teaching and Second Language Acquisition, assessing the English(es) spoken in post-Independence Namibia …
«Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)
This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author …
The Role of (Deliberate) Metaphor in Communicating Knowledge in Academic Discourse
While the relatively recent notion of ‘deliberate’ metaphors – metaphors that supposedly play a special role in communication – is contested among researchers, the debate lacks …