Bücher der Reihe Linguistic Insights

Reflects the work of scholars specialising in the linguistic and legal aspects of normative texts across languages and law systems. In this book, the contributors discuss the impact of such developments on the construction, evolution and hybridisation of legal texts, analysed both linguistically and from the practitioner's standpoint.

Constitutes chapters that focus on legal language seen from cross-cultural perspectives, a topic which brings together two areas of research that have burgeoned in recent years, such as legal linguistics and intercultural studies, reflecting the changing, multifaceted world in which legal institutions and cultural/national identities interact.

Reflects Minoji Akimoto's concern with studies of change in English that are theoretically-informed, but founded on substantial bodies of data. This volume contains a bibliography of Professor Akimoto's writings and an index of linguistic terms.

Offers a collection of papers which seek to provide further insights into the way scientific and technical knowledge is communicated nowadays in the academic sphere and also in society as a whole.

Develops a theoretical framework for the investigation of intuitions about stylistic differences from a contrastive point of view. This book gives an overview of scholarly approaches to writing and reading, genre studies, contrastive rhetoric and the notions of style and stylistics, together with an assessment of several individual approaches.

Early Modern Northern English Lexis

Applies a variationist methodology to the analysis of developments in the use of the courtesy marker please, adverbs in -ly, the s- genitive and a number of phrasal combinations with the verb get. This title approaches the analysis of variation in English from diachronic, diatopic, and contrastive/comparative perspectives.

Crossed Words: Criticism in Scholarly Writing

From International to Local English - And Back Again

EIL, ELF, Global English: Teaching and Learning Issues

This volume investigates the discursive practices of arbitration proceedings in some important Asian countries. The texts taken into consideration include not only norms and awards, but also interviews with professionals in the field so as to gain direct insights into the linguistic and textual choices employed in the drafting of these documents.

This book explores the ways in which the use of English as a medium of instruction can contribute to a closer alignment between educational outcomes and the demands of the world of work in those contexts where English is used as a foreign language.

Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching

Content and Foreign Language Integrated Learning

Breaking Ground in Corpus-based Interpreting Studies

The eighteen chapters in this volume look at the use of corpus analysis for descriptive and pedagogical purposes, focusing on contexts where English is employed by specialists in the professions and academia. They also debate some of the challenges arising from the complex relationship between linguistic theory, data-mining tools and statistical methods.

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 to English, only a small number of studies have discussed such an approach for German. In this study, the exploitation of language corpora is proposed in order to arrive at authentic teaching materials which facilitate the comprehension of German modal particles, which pose numerous problems for learners of German as a foreign language. The approach is twofold: first, the frequency of those word forms which may function as modal particles is established. Secondly, concordance data of the more frequently occurring particles are analysed qualitatively. Teaching materials based on these analyses are developed referring to patterns of use which can be relayed to language learners in order to provide them with tools for the decoding of particle meaning.