Rissanen Matti Rissanen & Facchinetti Roberta Facchinetti 
Corpus-based Studies of Diachronic English [PDF ebook] 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health recommendations for physical distancing created an urgent need for new and remixed online and distance ways of preparing, teaching, and assessing learning …

Language and culture play a critical role in the teaching of mathematics and this role intensifies when considering the teaching of mathematics in dual language classrooms. This book unpacks lessons …

As the first systematic attempt to probe the linguistic strategies of Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism, this book investigates three areas: deconstructive strategy, liminology of language, and …

How Texts Work:

• explores the ways in which we categorize texts
• reveals the limitations of some of the polarisations we use to categorize texts
• analyzes a wide varie …

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like ”that wet blanket is a loose cannon”, but admire ”Life”s but a walking shadow, a poor player”, and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth”s ”Tomorrow, …

Originally published in 1993, Translation as Social Action is a varied collection of essays, which addresses translation as social action as its central theme, the book proposes a model of the transl …

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so man …

Using hundreds of clear and captivating illustrations, this resource, divided into 6 sections, housed in a ring binder provides a range of semantic therapy ideas and materials. Designed for use with …

There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world. English as a medium of communication is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse s …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner”s success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivat …