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The Intersection of Philosophy and Linguistics in Understanding Language Pathologies
This chapter delves into the main theses of theoretical pragmatics, introduces the terms of the debate between minimalism and contextualism, and...
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The Philosophy and Practice of Foreign Language Education The Contribution of L. V. Ščerba
This volume brings the writings of Russian linguist Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba (1880–1944) to English-language readers for the first time. The...
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On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language
By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book...
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Philosophy, Cognition and Pragmatics
This book contains essential contributions to enrich and broaden the application field of pragmatics. It provides an example of how the fruitful...
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An Overview of Legal Language
The study of legal language should begin with an understanding of the relationship between law and language. The importance of language in the legal...
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Research on Legal Language
Overall, western philosophy has witnessed two significant turns. The first is the epistemological turn from the seventeenth century onwards, with...
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Develo** a Critical Reflection Stance Towards Language Teaching Practice: European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages and Reflective Tasks in Language Education
The European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL) is used with students undergoing an initial teacher education program at the...
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Corpus at the Core: The Epistemology of Language Planning
This chapter addresses the question of the specific epistemic role of language planning within language policy and planning (LPP) and in the larger...
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Communicative Language Teaching
The 1970s saw the emergence of Communicative Language Teaching which was widely considered to be a reaction to the more mechanical pedagogies of...
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Cognitive Approaches to Foreign Language Acquisition
In this chapter, I discuss the intricate relationship between language, culture and cognition as proposed by scholars in the fields of philosophy,...
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Halliday’s View of Language
When it comes to Systemic Functional Grammar, as well as its progenitor the earlier London School and Scale and Category Linguistics, and its cousins...
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Fuzziness and Legislative Language
Generally speaking, it’s difficult for people to associate fuzziness with law, and the emphasis on the fuzziness of legislative language may bring...
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The Hierarchical Ordering of Languages and Language Ideologies
While Chapter 2 reviews the international student mobility (ISM) literature, this chapter turns the spotlight on...
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Fuzziness and Violation of Norms in Chinese Legislative Language
China has the largest population in the world and is also a major legislation power. Since the reform and opening up more than 30 years ago, people’s...
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Semiotics, Language and Law: The Linguistic Turn in Jurisprudence
Law and language are closely related. In the latter half of twentieth century, with the development of philosophy studies, western jurisprudence...
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Dominant Language Constellation and Plurilingual Awareness: The Case of Student Language Teachers in Greece
This study explores the journey from an unconscious multiple monoglossy towards an awareness of the plurilingual self of fourteen students from two...
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The Language Certificate: Encouraging Foreign Language Proficiency for All University Students
Majoring (or minoring) in a foreign language has long been the standard way for students to have their proficiency recognized by the university. This...
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Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling
This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the...
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Chinese Language Teachers’ Beliefs About Language Pedagogy in New Zealand Universities
Increased migration and growing relationships between New Zealand and China in trade and education have contributed to raising interest in the...
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Culture in English Language Teaching: Let the Language Do the Talking
In this chapter I demonstrate how corpus linguistics can be harnessed in English language teaching to raise awareness of the embeddedness of culture...