The natural first question is: What is language policy? The question is commonly asked in
books on the topic but concrete definitions are less common than discussions of language …

Teaching & Researching Translation provides an authoritative and critical account of the
main ideas and concepts, competing issues, and solved and unsolved questions involved in …

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in
applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can provide interesting and useful …

What are the dominant theories and models for the reading of literature? What gaps or
problems exist for our knowledge, especially with regard to second or foreign language …

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: De Silva Joyce, Helen.| Feez, Susan. Title: Exploring …

This chapter will: Define business discourse as it will be referred to in the rest of this book;
Provide a brief overview of the historical development of business discourse with a number …

This case study investigates how one community college instructor in California navigated a
set of rules regarding how teachers should feel–feeling rules (Zembylas, 2006)–at the …

The decision to introduce or expand EMI programs is often accompanied by neoliberal
discourses without considering emotional effects of this on the individual. Through the lens …

Despite the inroads made by women in the professions, the glass ceiling remains a
persistent barrier to their career progression. Using a range of interactional sociolinguistic …

Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis, this book is
designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics …