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This book explores educational reform in China through the author's roles as a state-designated foreign expert, assistant professor, and senior editor. Based on fieldwork in urban and rural areas, it examines the integration of authentic literary materials into EFL instruction during a transformative period of curricular innovation.

The research spans diverse regional contexts-from capital city Beijing to semi-rural Zhaotong in the southwest and Zhuhai, a special economic zone in the southeastern coastal region-and compares key educational institutions at the university and secondary levels. Through transcript excerpts of recorded classroom conversations, focus group interviews, and surveys, it amplifies the voices of mainland Chinese EFL teachers and students. Teachers reflect on their approaches to teaching L1 literature and adapting it for EFL courses, while students engage with literary texts by a major Chinese American author, gaining awareness of cultural and generational gaps that shape their own lives. This rich ethnographic narrative provides empirical insights into progressive pedagogy within applied linguistics contexts.

This monograph is intended for researchers and practitioners in applied linguistics, TESOL, education, and Chinese studies, as well as lay readers interested in contemporary mainland Chinese classroom practices, particularly of literature.

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.

Organised into three thematic parts, it explores language as a code (focusing on its structural regularities and patterns of use), as interaction (examining the role of context, intention, and social dynamics in meaning exchange), and as representation (exploring the ways in which language constructs and conveys knowledge and reality). The book bridges gaps between these dimensions, enabling users to grasp how grammar, interactional goals, and meaning-making intersect in real-world communication. By combining established models with an emphasis on usability, the volume equips readers with analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and produce texts with greater clarity, appropriateness, and awareness.

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the book provides students, researchers, and educators with precise terminology, practical models, and analytical tools. It is an essential resource for understanding English in academic, professional, and cultural settings.

Digital Health Discourse offers a comprehensive overview of how health and illness are talked about, represented, and negotiated across contemporary digital platforms. Bringing together linguistic, discourse-analytical, and multimodal perspectives, it explores a wide range of digital contexts-including health query interfaces, online support groups, websites, social media, mobile health apps, and patient feedback systems-to reveal how digital technologies shape notions of health knowledge, expertise, responsibility, and care in the digital age.

The textbook foregrounds the role of platform affordances, participation, and design in structuring interaction, while attending closely to broader social forces such as medicalization, commercialization, neoliberalism, and inequality. By combining theoretical discussion with rich, detailed examples from existing research, it equips readers with the conceptual tools needed to critically analyze digital health communication and understand how everyday online interactions not only reflect but continually shape and reshape contemporary health practices.

Through detailed case studies, the book demonstrates how to conduct discourse analyses of interactions that use language and other visual resources, involving both health experts and non-professionals, including those with lived experience. Readers are invited to complete practical tasks designed to inspire their own research into the ever-expanding domains of digital health communication. Essential for researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of language and health, health communication, and discourse analysis.

This book explores the mediation and contestation of medical evidence in Wikipedia.

Existing scholarship in the medical sciences has highlighted Wikipedia as a key tool for medical 'knowledge translation', understood as the process of accelerating the wide dissemination and implementation of the latest scientific evidence in healthcare. Little is known, however, about the people, practices and politics involved in the production of Wikipedia's medicine and health-related content. To address this gap, this book draws on theories and methods developed in the humanities field of translation studies and over a decade of empirical research into Wikipedia to examine the social, cultural and political dimensions of medical knowledge translation in the online encyclopedia. In doing so, it not only elucidates the complexity of factors that shape what knowledge gets translated, who by, why and how. It also shows how positioning medical knowledge translation within a broader continuum of other interlingual, intralingual and inter-epistemic translational practices can open up novel transdisciplinary perspectives on the critical challenges of improving health, health literacy and healthcare worldwide.

The book is ideal for health humanities researchers and students interested in the deep entanglement of medical evidence, media, power, identity and culture in today's digital age.

This book explores examples of 'toxic language', the linguistic manifestations of societal conflicts and aggressions, that have arisen in Asian contexts.

By highlighting toxic language, a panoramic concept borrowed from computational linguistics, the book assesses hate speech, harassment, discrimination, cyberbullying, sarcasm, irony and other kinds of offensive, impolite and harmful language that targets individuals, groups and communities based on their gender, race and other factors. With extensive data collected from local and global social media platforms, such as YouTube, Twitter, and Weibo, and offline settings, including political debates, video bullet comments, and song lyrics, this book leverages pragmatics and sociolinguistics to analyze the specific constructions of toxic language, its culture-specific development, and its dynamics in relation to contemporary Asian societies.

Representing authentic data from Asian contexts including Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian society, culture and language as well as researchers working in pragmatics and sociolinguistics.

A Frequency Dictionary of Polish is an invaluable tool for all learners of Polish, providing an index of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language.

This dictionary is based on a 100-million-word corpus of Polish, which includes written texts and spoken material from a wide range of genres and registers, including conversation, fiction, newspapers, and e-language. It provides the user with detailed information for each of the top 5,000 entries, including English equivalents, a sample sentence and its English translation, usage statistics, and an indication of register variation. Users can access the entries either through the main frequency listing or through the alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes. Thematically organised lists of the top words from a variety of key topics such as sports, clothing, and family are presented throughout the frequency listing.

An engaging, accessible, and highly useful resource, A Frequency Dictionary of Polish will enable students of all levels to get the most out of their language study.

Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists, the full text is provided in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work at resourcecentre.routledge.com/books/9781041260639.

This book offers a holistic view of the complex dynamics of interpreter-facilitated legal interviews, elucidating insights into challenges and opportunities for effective communication in legal settings in today's multilingual world.

The volume sheds light on an underexplored area of research at the intersection of language and the law in its focus on legal interviews, a key dimension of legal communication. Xu adopts an ethnographic approach to data from authentic interviews at several legal aid institutions in Australia, supported by survey data with lawyers and interpreters from across Australia. Drawing on these different data sources, Xu explores the ethical, technological, and communicative challenges in interpreter-mediated legal interviews, from deviations in ethical standards by untrained interpreters to the difficulties of remote interpreting. In so doing, the volume puts in starker relief the importance of professional training, ethical practices, and proactive approaches in facilitating effective communication and access to justice for all clients in multilingual legal settings.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies and language and the law, as well as related areas such as legal studies and immigration studies.

This collection proposes the notion of "translation awareness," bringing together insights from different sectors to lend greater awareness to the nature, role, and effects of translation in contemporary societal life.

The book sets out translation awareness as a unifying term around recognition by various agents, from organizations to institutions and individuals, of the importance of translation. The book is organized around three thematic sections showcasing sectors where awareness of translation processes can be critical. The first section looks at public service translation and interpreting, in which translation has a direct impact on social welfare and facilitating access to key services. The second part focuses on technology and the ways in which translation is increasingly mediated by emerging digital tools, while also addressing awareness of translation in research. The final section explores paraprofessional translation, in such areas as corporate and healthcare communication, where translation can be essential but is often overlooked. Taken together, the volume showcases how "translation awareness" can elucidate important insights on the role of translation in society, encouraging future work into its further conceptual development.

This volume will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies as well as related areas, such as language and communication studies, multilingualism and health literacy.

Learning Intermediate Japanese through Anime builds Japanese learners' linguistic proficiency while deepening their cultural and historical understanding of anime.

Designed around anime-themed readings, dialogues, and activities, the textbook helps learners develop skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking as they explore anime as a significant artistic and cultural form. The book is structured around eight key topics: the origins of anime, the anime industry, anime as technology, anime as design, anime as genre, anime as language, anime pioneers, and anime fandom. Each lesson focuses on a different language skill such as describing historical events in the passive voice, interpreting and presenting data, explaining processes, describing visual and narrative elements, summarizing information, forming arguments, making comparisons, and expressing opinions. Through this integrated approach, learners gain both practical Japanese language skills and a critical framework for understanding anime as a dynamic and influential part of Japanese culture.

This textbook is intended for students of Japanese language at intermediate high to advanced low level on the ACTFL proficiency scale and CEFR level B1 to B2.

Accompanying online resources include audio recordings of readings from the book and sample grammar worksheets to facilitate classroom planning. These materials can be accessed at www.routledge.com/9781041089636.

This book elucidates the communicative practices of multilingual international students in university classrooms, charting how they employ not only speech but also a rich set of nonverbal semiotic resources for successful communication.

Matsumoto scrutinizes multilingual multimodal interactional sequences in which distinct multimodal features, such as gesture, laughter, or mobile technology, play key roles in enacting agency in multilingual international students. Supported by data drawn from face-to-face classroom interactions as well as virtual settings that were crucial means of communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, the volume argues that, in expanding the borders of what we consider "classroom interaction," we can uncover new insights into learner agency and interactional norms in multilingual university classrooms.

This volume is intended for students and scholars interested in multilingual international students, multimodal and multisensory communication, applied linguistics, language education, and classroom discourse analysis.

This monograph uses critical discourse analysis to examine warning posts shared within an online community of self-identified escorts in the UK. Combining the discourse-historical approach with the narrative practice paradigm it examines how escorts position clients and themselves across three levels: as characters within stories, as members of a professional community, and in relation to broader societal discourses surrounding sex work.

The monograph shows how escorts collectively name, categorise, and circulate knowledge about problematic client conduct from boundary violations and economic harm to verbal abuse and privacy violations, developing sophisticated community practices for managing occupational risk in the absence of formal institutional protection. It examines both stories that explicitly name harassment and those describing experiences that align with legal and scholarly understandings of sexually harassing conduct, identifying what the book terms the grey areas of sexual harassment in sex work: forms of conduct that constitute significant violations of dignity yet remain inadequately captured by existing frameworks.

Moving between the specificity of individual linguistic choices and the broader structures of stigma, legal precarity, and gendered inequality within which escorts' narratives are embedded, the monograph ultimately argues for a contextually grounded and community-informed understanding of workplace sexual harassment and contributes to broader conversations on gendered violence, labour precarity, and sex worker rights.

This book examines creative new ways in which legal and administrative information are communicated to diverse audiences. Using a range of theoretical frameworks, it explores these transformations within broader societal issues such as legal activism, access to justice, and citizen participation.

Increasingly, there has been widespread recognition that non-specialists need to be able to understand legal information. Although plain language campaigns have made considerable progress in ensuring that legal texts are now less dense and more readable, such measures are often shown to be insufficient. For this reason, many institutions such as parliaments and courts have made considerable efforts to present this information in more attractive digital formats, and to disseminate the core messages via other media including video and virtual reality. In addition to addressing the social and political trends underlying these changes, the volume provides evidence of various cognitive and multimodal strategies used in different languages and cultures, investigating discourse practices in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

The collection will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and professionals working in the areas of law, public administration, communication, and applied linguistics.

Creative Thinking Toolbox for the Language Classroom provides language teachers with a comprehensive, research-based toolkit to develop multidimensional creative thinking abilities, including idea generation, originality, and flexible thinking, in themselves and their students through practical, classroom-ready strategies.

The text provides concrete tools and assessments drawn from real-world K-16 classroom examples that demonstrate how creativity can be systematically taught and nurtured. Each chapter deconstructs a core creative strength and presents four detailed tools that leverage the inherent playfulness of language learning, guiding educators through specific pedagogical moves to prepare students for a future of challenge and change. Reflective questions at the end of each chapter encourage deeper engagement with the tools and facilitate meaningful discussion.

Written in an accessible style, the book is designed for language teachers at all career stages, from pre-service teachers exploring creative pedagogy to seasoned educators in higher education seeking innovative strategies to enhance their practice.

This book explores the grammaticalization of the French verb voir ('to see') and its derived forms (voici, voila), offering new insights into how lexical entities integrate into grammatical paradigms.

Through diachronic and synchronic corpus analysis, the study traces the evolution of voir into diverse paradigms, including verbal categories (aspect, mood, and voice), pragmatic markers (presentatives, focus constructions, discourse markers), and particles (vu, vu que). By adopting a paradigmatic approach, it demonstrates how grammar consists of structured sets of elements sharing common syntactic and semantic features, moving beyond traditional linear models of grammaticalization. The research highlights how grammatical reanalysis leads to functional diversification, illustrating the dynamic interplay between syntax and semantics in language change. The volume provides a precise and systematic framework for analyzing linguistic change, demonstrating the broader applicability of paradigmatic structuring to understanding the integration of lexical items into grammatical systems.

This book will appeal to linguistics scholars interested in grammaticalization, historical linguistics, and language change.

This sixth volume co-published with the International Federation for the Teaching of English offers a timely examination of English as an inspirational and emancipatory subject in times of global crisis, exploring how teachers enable students to face contemporary challenges while remaining resilient, critical and optimistic about the future.

Positioned in the post-Covid world, the book presents 24 chapters from IFTE countries and beyond, addressing urgent contemporary themes including the climate crisis, misinformation and censorship, nationalism and populism, education in neoliberal environments, and the impact of social media and AI. Contributors explore how literature provides endless sources of hope and fear, utopias and dystopias, offering young people vital reflective space in an age of ultra-anxiety and existential crisis. Topics covered include teacher preparation and resilience, the significance of literature in fostering critical thinking and personal response, and the dystopian challenges of patriarchy, racism, censorship and antidemocratic pressures. The volume recognizes work that is distinctive and local whilst celebrating international innovations and best practices, demonstrating how English remains the subject where urgent issues can be explored and the joy of human expression celebrated.

This international volume serves as an essential resource for English teachers, teacher educators, researchers and policymakers seeking to understand how the subject offers a rich environment for overturning despair, maintaining optimism and improving social justice in education.

This book presents the concerns, concepts and methodologies of Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA) based on the shared positions and practices of previous undertakings of discourse analysis. EDA is regarded as an emerging paradigm in discourse studies which undertakes ecologically motivated study of discourses that influences ecological relations.
The authors propose a multifaceted ecosophy that incorporates Chinese ethical and philosophical traditions and ecological principles. The ecosophy of 'Diversity and Harmony, Interaction and Co-existence' describes the features of ecological dynamics, providing a basis for the evaluation of the ecological meaning represented in discourses. This ecosophy contributes to such efforts with its origin in Chinese philosophies, therefore offering new opportunities for East-West dialogues on ecological values.
An ecogrammar built on Systemic Functional Linguistics is provided as the analytical tool and is applied in the analysis of textbooks, news reports and advertisements. The book also examines the provision of EDA for other fields of study, inspiring research possibilities that are beneficial for an ecological future and inspiring interdisciplinary and multi-methodological studies to be integrated with EDA.

Linguistic Reconstruction and Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim explores human-environmental interactions in the Northern Pacific Rim over the last 10,000 years. It introduces students and researchers to linguistic methods for reconstructing how humans have managed and modified landscapes over millennia. The chapters cover a variety of temporal and geographical ranges, including the coastal areas on both sides of the Pacific from Neolithic to medieval times.

This book engages a multitude of Indigenous languages, such as Sinitic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Turkic, Koreanic, Japonic, Ainuic, Amuric, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Yukaghiric, Eskaleut, Na-Dene and Salishan languages. As such, archaeolinguistics is showcased as a truly new frontier in Historical Ecology, bridging the natural and social sciences. The volume adds linguistics to a wide array of windows into the ecological past.

This volume is ideal for advanced students and researchers in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, ecology, and geography.

This book investigates the linguistic features and translation strategies of English-to-Chinese film translation from a comparative, corpus-based perspective.

It establishes an English-Chinese parallel corpus of 50 Oscar-winning or -nominated English films, alongside a reference corpus of 215 original Chinese films. This provides a foundation for exploring how translated film dialogue can be made more natural and colloquial. Focusing on character usage, vocabulary, syntactic patterns and cultural elements such as honorifics, idioms and vulgar language, the analysis reveals the distinctive differences between translated and original Chinese film texts. It also compares official dubbing translations with online fan subtitles. Using quantitative metrics such as frequency, lexical grade and multiplier values, the book provides practical translation strategies and stylistic benchmarks for English-Chinese film translation.

This book will serve as an invaluable reference for researchers and students of translation studies interested in English-Chinese translation, audiovisual translation and corpus linguistics. It will also provide translation professionals with a valuable guide to improving the quality and audience acceptance of film translation through evidence-based strategies and methodological approaches.

This volume explores how emotions are constructed, expressed, and commodified in digital environments through language and discourse.

Examining the multifaceted nature of online emotional communication across personal, intersubjective, and collective dimensions, an international and interdisciplinary group of authors analyse diverse digital contexts, from WhatsApp conversations and TikTok videos to online mourning practices and food imagery, using frameworks from pragmatics, discourse analysis, and digital communication studies. Organised into three sections - Personal Area, focusing on individual emotional expression, Intersubjective Area, examining emotions in sustained online interactions, and Collective Area, exploring emotions in group identity formation - the book provides new perspectives on how digital technologies are reshaping our emotional landscapes in the 21st century.

This volume will offer valuable insights for researchers, educators, and students in communication studies, sociolinguistics, digital media and digital marketing.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of translation and its concern with the problem of truth across the work of nine authors.

The volume is grounded in the idea of the philosophy of translation as the philosophical discourse about translation written within the European and Anglo-American traditions in the last two centuries. Each chapter presents the central tenets of one author on translation and the concepts of language and society underlying those tenets within the wider body of the author's work. The book examines the discipline's origins with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Subsequent sections explore the truth of art and hermeneutics as discussed by Walter Benjamin and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the problem of meaning and truth as conceived by W.V.O. Quine and Donald Davidson, and the political and ethical dimensions of translation as seen by Jacques Derrida and Barbara Cassin - with a brief consideration of translation theorists Antoine Berman and Henri Meschonnic. While translation theory focuses on the how of translation, the philosophy of translation explores the what of translation and, in turn, provides tools for future challenges.

This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies and philosophy of language as well as to those working in the history of ideas, and the political theory of language.

A Coursebook on English-Chinese Translation provides practical strategies to ensure natural Chinese translation whilst highlighting how integral language learning strategies are to translation teaching.

After setting the stage of what translating is as a linguistic activity, the book explains and identifies the intrinsic features of the Chinese language in order to strengthen students' translation competence. It demonstrates how the characteristics are interlinked, and in what ways they are intertwined with Chinese culture. Activities are provided within each chapter for students to consolidate their understanding. Students will enhance their written Chinese and gain a solid foundation for further development of the skills required to become a professional translator.

This book offers a novel and much-needed approach to teaching and learning Chinese translation and is also suitable for advanced students of Chinese language.

Chan Sin-wai and contributors explore the latest advancements in culture and language within the realm of techno-humanities.

Featuring contributions from renowned scholars and emerging specialists across diverse regions, the book spans a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, drama, education, fine arts, gender studies, history, language, language learning, literature, machine translation, medicine, and robotics. Each chapter showcases cutting-edge research findings that highlight the dynamic interplay between technology, culture, and language. The book offers insightful and inspiring perspectives in the application of technology to cultural and linguistic studies. By presenting innovative approaches and groundbreaking research, it provides a deeper understanding of how technology is transforming these fields and shaping new possibilities for exploration and development.

An essential book for scholars and researchers in the humanities, digital humanities, technology, and computing as well as those interested to explore the intersection of technology, culture, and language