- Chapter 1: Introduction; Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Dániel Kádár -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter 2: Pragmatic approaches to (im)politeness; Jonathan Culpeper and Marina Terkourafi -- Chapter 3: Socio-cultural approaches to (im)politeness; Sara Mills -- Chapter 4: Ideology and (im)politeness; Manfred Kienpointner and Maria Stopfner -- Chapter 5: Face and (im)politeness; Jim O’…
- Introduction -- PART I: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES -- Chapter 1: Discourses on discourse -- Chapter 2: Who’s involved in discourse? -- Chapter 3: What is it that’s going on here? -- Chapter 4: How do you know that? -- Chapter 5: Why that now? -- Chapter 6: What actions are being taken here, by whom and why? -- Chapter 7: How do discourse and social change drive each other? -- PART II: A MULTI-PE…
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students. Considering the importance and necessity of motivational regulation study in foreign language learning, it systematically explores strategies used by Chinese college students to regulate motivation, taking into account student gender, specialty and English proficiency. The book considers s…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European Languages in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 3. The Translation Trade: Economies of Culture in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 4. Translation and Religion -- Chapter 5. Death of the Author, Birth of the Translator? Translation and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland -- Chapter 6. Translation and the Nation -- Chapter 7. The Female Pen…
Chapter 1. Contextualising Chinese language education in the Western Context -- Chapter 2. Chinese language and Duiwai Hanyu Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 3. The debatable role of English (L1) in Duiwai Hanyu (L2) Jiaoxue (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) -- Chapter 4. Post-lingual pedagogical practice - Hanzi Method -- Chapter 5. Meaning-making - Hanzi orth…
Chapter 1: Introduction: Refugee, Language, and Literacy -- Chapter 2: “But, we are Karenni. We are not Burmese.”: Historical Contexts and Lived Experiences of Karenni Refugees from Burma -- Chapter 3: The Three Families -- Chapter 4: Life, Liberty, and (the Pursuit of) English -- Chapter 5: Karenni Youth, Multilingual Practices, and Transnational Literacy -- Chapter 6: Digital Literacy in …
Introduction: Making Social Meanings in Contexts -- Sociocultural Differences in Children’s Genre Knowledge -- Enculturation to Institutional Writing -- Whole-Class and Peer Interaction in an Activity of Writing and Revision -- Co-Constructing Writing Contexts in Classrooms -- Prior Knowledge and the (RE)Production of School Written Genres -- Student Writing as Negotiation -- Writing from Sou…
Looking at the Perceptions, Challenges, and Contributions... or the Importance of Being a Non-Native Teacher -- Setting up the Stage: Non-Native Teachers in the Twenty-First Century -- A History of Research on Non-Native Speaker English Teachers -- Cultural Studies, Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Practices, and the NNS Practitioner -- NNS Teachers in the Classroom -- Basing Teaching on …
Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology -- Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers? -- Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground? -- Phonetic Time Maps -- Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition -- Introducing Contextual Transcri…