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Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict
This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and US institutions on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus in order to identify regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, and qualitative context-based discourse analysis.
The Practice and Politics of Reading, 650-1500
A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée. Even as it transforms human cultures, routines, attention spans, and the wiring of our brains, the media revolution of the last few decades also urges a reconsideration of the long history of reading. The essays in this volume take a new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, using texts from Aldhelm to Malory and Wynkyn de Worde, arguing that whether unpicking intricate Latin, contemplating image-texts,...
English-Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Universities
This edited book examines English-Medium Instruction (EMI) language policy and practice in higher education around the world, highlighting how English language usage affects the internationalization of universities, the way that disciplines are taught and learned, and questioning whether internationalization through EMI achieves the values of global citizenship and inclusivity/diversity to which it aspires. Written by experts in the field, the book includes data-based research from universities around the globe, with three chapters on Asia and the Far East (Malaysia, Japan and China), four on Europe (Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy) and one each on Africa (Ethiopia) and Central America (Mexico). Sources include policy documents, questionnaire surveys, focus groups and semi-structured interviews involving university policymakers, lecturers, students, and administrative staff. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of language and education policy, internationalization and applied linguistics, particularly English-Medium Instruction (EMI), academic English and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).
English as a Lingua Franca
The study of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has grown considerably in the last decades, and a wide number of issues related to this field have been addressed through a variety of lenses. These range from the changes occurring in spoken English, to the much-debated notion of the native-speaker; from the threat that English represents for minority languages, to the metadiscourse(s) contributing to the myth of English as a language equally accessible to speakers of all nationalities. Adopting different perspectives and positions, the articles in this special issue of The Interpreter and Translator Trainer all demonstrate that ELF poses many challenges to the teaching of translation and that, ...
Communicating English in Specialised Domains
This volume is dedicated to Maurizio Gotti, in honour of his long and noteworthy academic career. Having served as Full Professor of History of the English Language and of English Language and Translation for more than two decades at the University of Bergamo, Italy, Gotti made significant contributions to multiple areas of study including specialized discourses, lexicography, history of the English language and language teaching. This wide-ranging collection brings together essays from these fields of enquiry authored by scholars whose academic input have interacted in various ways with ideas and topics introduced or extensively discussed by Gotti. The contributions are grouped into four theme-based sections representing the main threads in Gotti’s research, from the macro area of specialised discourse to the more specific fields of research in academic and legal languages, while the fourth section includes contributions dealing with the history of English language, and is followed by a miscellaneous section which concludes the collection.
Organic Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book
Let Mother Nature inspire your quilting with this guide full of inspiring ideas, techniques, and tips from the acclaimed fabric and quilt designer. Following the success of her Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book and Rulerwork Quilting Idea Book, Amanda Murphy shares an all-new volume packed with exciting designs. This handy guide provides more than one hundred original ideas inspired by the elements around you—water, air, feathers, ferns, leaves, sticks, stones, flowers, and fire. Amanda’s step-by-step instructions will help you gain confidence in your free-motion work. Then she offers a myriad of ideas organized by element and design type for you to you branch out and get creative. With Organic Free-Motion Quilting Idea Book, you can add texture, movement, and a sense of the natural world to your quilting, whether you're sewing on a domestic sewing machine or a longarm.
Rulerwork Quilting Idea Book
A basic introduction to reulerwork, featuring fifty-nine designs using six basic quilting ruler shapes, including straight lines, circles, and squiggles. Quilting rulers have long been used by longarm quilters to make uniform shapes, but now, with the advent of the domestic ruler foot, domestic quilters can join in on the fun, too! Amanda starts with how to use six basic shapes of machine quilting ruler to lay a foundation for your quilting, then moves on to executing fifty-nine different designs. Finish up by following Amanda’s suggestions for filling in background space with free-motion quilting.
