This anthology brings together cutting-edge research and insightful analysis from experts in linguistics and foreign language education. Applying different methodological approaches to the analysis of social media, researchers from different fields explore how platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are reshaping communication, language learning, and teaching methodologies. From the powe…
Ngaturaken agunging panuwun ingkang tanpa pepindhan dhumateng ngarsanipun Gusti Ingkang Maha Agung, awit saking sedaya barokahipun pramila anggen kawulo angupadi cara kados pundi supados saget memetri basa Jawi tetep lestari. Buku ingkang sampun kahimpun pinaringan judul "Pepak Basa Jawi" ingkang isinipun sampun langkung komplit ngrewat babagan : kawruh basa, kasusastran, parama-sastra, asal-us…
Buku ini ditulis dengan pendekatan nontradisional agar pembaca mendapatkan gambaran yang menyeluruh tentang kajian linguistik. Pendekatan nontradisional merupakan upaya penyampaian yang lebih bersifat ensiklopedis dan juga dengan pemunculan topik yang berbeda dengan buku pengantar linguistik lainnya, yang pada umumnya memulai dengan pembahasan fonologi. Buku ini justru berupaya memberikan terle…
Have you ever read a manga comic in English or watched a dubbed or subtitled movie on Netflix? Or maybe you’ve even tried subtitling one of your favourite anime or K-drama programs yourself? Perhaps you’ve helped a friend or family member who speaks another language to fill out a form, decipher an email, or communicate with someone else? Or used a tool such as Goog…
In its 15 chapters, this edited volume explores translation-related training in institutional settings on a global scale. It is divided into three parts which cover the following: (1) Competences expected and/or required on the part of institutional translators and surveyed by several survey exercises, (2) Practices of translator training at university level, and (3) actual Practices …
This Festschrift, Arabic in Context, is a tribute to the remarkable scholarly legacy of the Reverend Professor Martin R. Zammit. It celebrates his extensive contributions to the fields of Semitic Studies, Arabic linguistics, and comparative Semitic philology. Spanning decades of dedicated research and teaching, Professor Zammit’s career has been marked by a profound engagement with the Arabic…
Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans’ colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, “Oriental language teachers” – as they were termed prior to the Second World War – were fundamental. European state nationalisms influenced and increasingly competed with each other by promoting their languages and cultures abroad, by means of…
Of course, languages are not in contact. We could say that speakers of languages are, but even this would be misleading, as we would bestow an undue role to in-dividuals in their capacity as speakers, and at the same time forget that words and patterns spread when they are heard, rather than when they are uttered. As Thomason (2001: p. 2) puts it, “in the simplest definition, language contact…
This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia in the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-?Ul? in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula between the sixth to first centuries BC. It offers a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them. It is the first work to perform a systematic study of the linguistic variatio…
Elfdalian is the language traditionally spoken in Övdaln (Älvdalen), central Sweden. Due to its linguistic differences to Swedish, coupled with the determination of the speech community, several attempts have been made to acquire an official recognition of Elfdalian as a minority language in Sweden. However, despite growing interest in documenting and revitalising Elfdalian, it is still regar…