"This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the First International Conference on English Historical Dialectology (ICEHD), organized at the University of Bergamo in September 2003. It includes papers on fundamental aspects of English historical dialectology, from Old English to Late Modern English. The papers discuss points in two thematically distinct but related sections, 'Methods' and 'Data'. The volume also includes the ..."
"Following the rationale that corpora have an important part to play in fostering language awareness, this monograph investigates the use of spoken corpora in the teaching of German as a foreign language. Corpus-based research has had an increasing influence on language teaching pedagogy, with regard to linguistic content as well as to teaching methodology. While the majority of studies reporting on corpus-based teaching approaches refer ..."
"Issues, Challenges and Prospects Professor Christopher N Candlin, Professor
Maurizio Gotti, Professor Vijay K Bhatia. The Lawyers The importance of the role
played by the lawyers in the ... technicality in comparison with members of the
legal profession. For example, on one occasion, one of the parties even recurs to
expressions in non-standard Italian: (14) C3: O te magni 'sta minestra o te butti
dalla finestra.6 6 Regional variat ..."
"Winner of the Association for Business Communication Award for Distinguished Publication on Business Communication. This book explores multiparty, multicultural interaction at international business meetings. It investigates discourse at an Italian company’s meetings of its international distributors, conducted mainly in English and attended by participants from different countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Data come from audio ..."
"This volume presents the results of a research team of the University of Bergamo, whose aim was the analysis of verbal modality in the Helsinki corpus. This corpus includes a large selection of texts compiled in Middle English and Early Modern En"
"This volume includes 15 papers focussing on three important aspects of the history of English in Britain and overseas since the eighteenth century: the grammatical tradition of prescriptivism, syntactic developments and sociolinguistic factors affecting language variation."
"This volume reflects the results of a workshop on the investigation of specialized discourse in a diachronic perspective. The articles deal with developments from the late medieval period to the present day, and the book encompasses studies in which the tradition of domain-specific English is highlighted."
"The aim of this volume is to present a state-of-the-art view on corpus studies. This collection of papers, presented at the XII Susanne Hubner Seminar in November 2003, comprises both quantitative and qualitative analysis and studies on both written and oral corpora.""
Classroom Talk(1st Edition) Exploring the Sociocultural Structure of Formal ESL Learning (Linguistic Insights. Studies in Language and Communication) by ProfessorMaurizioGotti Paperback, 254 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Lang Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-7561-5, ISBN: 0-8204-7561-0
"The author attempts to answer the question of why ESL classroom talk is the way it is. Basing her answer on a case study of a school in an ESL community, she argues that classroom talk may be linked in important ways to an operative sociocultural structure of ESL pedagogy over and above the classroom at the institutional level."
"The contributors to this volume analyse the topic of intercultural and international business communication from the perspective of theory, research and teaching."
"The theoretical perspectives and the individual case studies of this volume testify to the wide range of methodological tools made available by genre theory, enabling researchers to handle problems relating to the description of variations in language use."
Relativization in Early English(1st Edition) (950-1250): The Position of Relative Clauses (Linguistic Insights, Studies in Language and Communication) by Cristina Suarez Gomez, ProfessorMaurizioGotti Paperback, 149 Pages, Published 2006 by Peter Lang Pub Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8204-8904-9, ISBN: 0-8204-8904-2
"This book is concerned with the position which relative clauses occupy with respect to the main clause in the history of English. Relative clauses have evolved from adjoined clauses placed outside the main clause to clauses closely attached to the noun they modify inside the main clause. This process of incorporation took place through a stage of topicalization in which relative clauses were dislocated to the left of the main clause, le ..."
"This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the Conference on Historical News Discourse (CHIND) that was held in Florence in September 2004. The aim of the Conference was to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of recent research in the field of news discourse in early modern Britain."
"The contributors to this volume explore intercultural communication in specialist fields and its realizations in language for specific purposes, with particular attention being given to legal, commercial, political and institutional discourse."
"The research presented in the various contributions to this volume clearly indicates that terminology as an inter- and transdisciplinary field of knowledge is firmly developing its theoretical foundations and practical applications in accordance with and within the framework of its overall goal."
"This volume focuses on specialist translation - one of the areas of translation in greatest demand in our age of globalization. The 16 chapters deal not only with the classical domains of science and technology, law, socio-politics and medicine but also with lesser researched areas such as archeology, geography, nutrigenomics and others. As a whole, the book achieves a blend of theory and practice. It addresses a variety of issues such ..."
"The contributions to this volume together confirm that though context and culture are complex and difficult notions, they are crucial to understanding the professional genres of modern business communication. In today's globalised business environment, professionals of all backgrounds are under pressure to employ new and different discourse standards to allow for smoother production and reception of business documents and dialogues. In ..."
"In this volume the author examines verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts written in English. Modal auxiliaries such as shall, may and must are analysed, as well as indicative tenses such as the present simple, and also non-finite constructions such as the -ing form and -ed participles. Results are based on specially compiled corpora of prescriptive texts coming from a wide range of English-speaking countries and also internat ..."
"Normative texts are meant to be highly impersonal and decontextualised, yet at the same time they also deal with a range of human behaviour that is difficult to predict, which means they have to have a very high degree of determinacy on the one hand, and all-inclusiveness on the other. This poses a dilemma for the writer and interpreter of normative texts. The author of such texts must be determinate and vague at the same time, dependin ..."