Publications
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Imagining the Peoples of Europe
(2019)
This volume explores the new political order with a particular focus on discursive constructions of 'the people' and the category of populism across the spectrum.
Migration and Media
(2019)
This four-part book explores the representational strategies used to frame current migration debates as crises of identity, collective and individual. It features fourteen case-studies of varying sets of data including ...
Arabic in Contact
(2018)
The present volume provides an overview of current trends in the study of language contact involving Arabic. By drawing on the social factors that have converged to create different contact situations, it explores both ...
“Self” in Language, Culture, and Cognition
(2019)
This book explores socio-cultural meanings of ‘self’ in the Chinese language through analysing a range of conversations among Chinese immigrants to Australia qualitatively on the topics of individuality, social relationships ...
How Metaphors Guide, Teach and Popularize Science
(2020)
Metaphors are essential to scientists themselves and strongly influence science communication. Through careful analyses of metaphors actually used in science texts, recordings, and videos, this book explores the essential ...
Loan Phonology
(2009-11-30)
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the ...
Language-Learner Computer Interactions
(2016-06-14)
This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical ...
Writing(s) at the Crossroads
(2015-08-05)
This volume aims at contributing to an interpretive approach to writing and its dynamics. It offers a general scope on the process-product interface by multiplying the points of view on both the process and the product and ...
Cognition, Language and Aging
(2016-03-16)
Age-related changes in cognitive and language functions have been extensively researched over the past half-century. The older adult represents a unique population for studying cognition and language because of the many ...
Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages
(2016-06-29)
This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim ...