Applied Linguistics Books

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21. Working with Multimodality

    Rethinking Literacy in a Digital Age

    By Jennifer Rowsell

    In today’s digital world, we have multiple modes of meaning-making: sounds, images, hypertexts. Yet, within literacy education, even ‘new’ literacies, we know relatively little about how to work with and produce modally complex texts. In Working with Multimodality,...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
22. Language and Intercultural Communication in the New Era

    Edited by Farzad Sharifian, Maryam Jamarani

    Series: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication

    Studies of intercultural communication in applied linguistics initially focused on miscommunication, mainly between native and non-native speakers of English. The advent of the twenty-first century has witnessed, however, a revolution in the contexts and contents of intercultural...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
23. Second Language Learning Theories

    3rd Edition

    By Rosamond Mitchell, Florence Myles, Emma Marsden

    Second Language Learning Theories is a clear and concise overview of the field of second language acquisition (SLA) theories. Written by a team of leading academics working in different SLA specialisms, this book provides expert analysis of the main theories from multiple perspectives to offer a...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
24. The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

    Edited by Carmen Millán, Francesca Bartrina

    Series: Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics

    The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the complex field of translation studies. Written by leading specialists from around the world, this volume brings together authoritative original articles on pressing issues including: the...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
25. Translation in the Digital Age

    By Michael Cronin

    Series: New Perspectives in Translation Studies

    Translation is living through a period of revolutionary upheaval. The effects of digital technology and the internet on translation are continuous, widespread and profound. From automatic online translation services to the rise of crowdsourced translation and the proliferation of translation Apps...

    Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
26. The Elliptical Noun Phrase in English

    Structure and Use

    By Christine Günther

    Series: Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics

    This book presents a detailed analysis of structural as well as pragmatic aspects underlying the phenomenon of noun ellipsis in English. Here Günther examines the structure of elliptical noun phrases to account for the conditions on noun ellipsis and those on one-insertion, with special emphasis on...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
27. Interpreting Justice

    Ethics, Politics and Language

    By Moira Inghilleri

    Series: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies

    In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and the geo-political context of war. The book...

    Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
28. Translingual Practice

    Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations

    By Suresh Canagarajah

    Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations introduces a new way of looking at the use of English within a global context. Challenging traditional approaches in second language acquisition and English language teaching, this book incorporates recent advances in multilingual...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
29. The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000

    Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals

    Edited by Luis Gabriel-Stheeman, José del Valle

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Linguistics

    This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to the construction of national identities and...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
30. Christian Faith and English Language Teaching and Learning

    Research on the Interrelationship of Religion and ELT

    Edited by Mary Shepard Wong, Carolyn Kristjansson, Zoltan Dornyei

    Ideological and educational-political aspects of the link between language and faith—especially between Global English and Christianity—is a topic of growing interest in the field of English language teaching. This book explores the possible role and impact of teachers’ and students’ faith in the...

    Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge