Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and time periods. This landmark work reflects Baker's influence on translation studies and serves both students and established scholars.

Contesting Translation honors Professor Mona Baker with eleven chapters exploring translation across contexts and time periods. This landmark work reflects Baker's influence on translation studies and serves both students and established scholars.

This book is a comprehensive contribution to debates on inter- and transdisciplinarity in SLA and the role of context in different kinds of acquisition. The chapters highlight the crucial role played by context and use in practice, as well as discussing the role of context in the acquisition of a wide range of second language competencies.

At the crossroads between philosophy of language and philosophy of mathematics, with numerous applications to philosophy of mind, logic and linguistics, this book revives the method of logical analysis which originally defined analytic philosophy. Its unifying theme, context-sensitivity, will be of interest to a wide range of philosophers.

Offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics.

This Element presents findings and theoretical advances in Control, describing different types of control and profiles in various languages. It shows that Obligatory Control features are not universal and should be in its core definition. Comparing lexical meaning postulates with embedding of speech acts provides deeper insights into OC properties.

Bringing together research from Conversation Analysis and World Englishes for the first time, this novel book explores conversation in World Englishes, focusing on how turn-taking is organised in Southeast Asian and Caribbean English. It is essential reading for advanced students and scholars exploring language, variation, and social interaction.

Spanning cognitive, social, and clinical psychology, sociolinguistics, anthropology, communication studies, and AI, this book offers a comprehensive overview of research, theories, and applications in conversational remembering. It targets advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and professionals across a wide variety of disciplines.

Spanning cognitive, social, and clinical psychology, sociolinguistics, anthropology, communication studies, and AI, this book offers a comprehensive overview of research, theories, and applications in conversational remembering. It targets advanced undergraduate students, researchers, and professionals across a wide variety of disciplines.

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