Explores the interaction of law and literature in an Irish context and illustrates the broader decolonial and intersectional role literature can play in thinking about law and legal institutions.

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.

This volume brings together work on im/politeness with identities analysis research through the study of lay understandings of im/politeness in face-to-face naturally occurring interactions.This volume will appeal to scholars interested in im/politeness, in such fields as pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis.

This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching. Moving away from grammatically driven methodologies toward a linguistically anchored approach, it demonstrates the systematic study of languages through different units of everyday language use.

This comprehensive textbook provides an accessible research-based introduction to second language learning and teaching. Moving away from grammatically driven methodologies toward a linguistically anchored approach, it demonstrates the systematic study of languages through different units of everyday language use.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy, and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

This important volume represents one of the first book-length publications to explore the styles and strategies that can be used by deaf and hard-of-hearing learners when learning English as a foreign language, highlighting unique pedagogical approaches, learning styles, and strategic interventions.