The volume explores the transformative impact of English as a medium of instruction in higher education across Eastern Europe. It delves into the motivations, challenges, and strategies of institutions adopting English-medium instruction, highlighting its role in fostering internationalization, enhancing academic mobility, and promoting global competitiveness.

Drawing on a diverse range of perspectives, the book presents the voices of educators and administrators, providing a comprehensive understanding of EMI's implications on teaching practices, curriculum design, and student outcomes. It addresses critical issues, such as linguistic diversity, cultural identity, and the balancing act between local languages and English, ensuring a nuanced discussion of the benefits and drawbacks of this educational shift. It illustrates the unique context of Eastern European institutions while also offering valuable insights applicable worldwide.

With its clear structure and engaging narrative, it appealsto both students and scholars interested in English-medium instruction, language education, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics.

This volume addresses language education through the lens of noncoloniality.

The three parts of this volume comprise a discussion of noncolonial perspectives on the language classroom, an examination of noncolonial pedagogical proposals, and a critical analysis of teaching materials and normative documents regulating teaching practice. This volume underscores the need to move beyond critique and embrace creation and a pedagogy of hope in education, in the Freirean sense.

It provides useful insights for researchers in applied linguistics, sociology, and related fields and for educators (critical pedagogues) in higher education, secondary schools, and alternative school forms.

Feminist Subversion of Linguistic Sexism in Contemporary China: Discursive Warfare provides an in-depth investigation of gender discourse with a focus on social labeling in post-reform China.

The book delves into society's tendency to perceive women in categories, explores the social and historical context of mainstream media's role in perpetuating sexism, demonstrates feminist discursive empowerment in cyberspace, and sheds light on the complexities of a feminist awakening in today's China. Using corpus linguistics analysis, critical discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics analysis, the book highlights feminist subversion of linguistic sexism in public gender discourse, illustrating shifting roles for women from being passive targets of gender labeling to proactive agents rebuking the biased gender order. It offers a fresh perspective that encourages readers to view language as a conduit for belief systems, often operating beneath the surface, and to recognize its role in constructing and challenging gender norms. It also provides readers with a deeper understanding of contemporary Chinese women's aspirations for agency and their determined resistance against the masculinist nature of state order.

This is a key resource for scholars and postgraduate students of Chinese language and linguistics with a particular interest in media, political, and gender discourse.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

The Syntax of Dutch presents a synthesis of current thinking on Dutch syntax. Its principal focus is on describing the Dutch language; technical issues related to linguistic theory are addressed only if new light is shed on the subject.

The work is organized around the four lexical categories verbs (volumes 1-3),nouns (volumes 4-5), adjectives (volume 6), and adpositions (volume 7). It includes a general introduction to the semantic, morphological, and syntactic properties of these categories, their argument structure, their modification possibilities, and issues related to word order. The functional categories (determiners, complementizers, etc.) are discussed in relation to the lexical categories with which they occur. Volume 8 concludes the work by considering a number of issues that extend beyond proper sentence grammar: main-clause external elements, coordination, and ellipsis.

The Syntax of Dutch will be an indispensable resource for researchers and advanced students of languages and linguistics interested in the Dutch language.

Media representations of linguistic diversity matter. In this innovative book, Bednarek uses a case study of Australian television dialogue to introduce novel methods for studying such representations.

The volume examines 16 television series holistically, presenting a new approach called corpus-based sociocultural linguistics. This means applying corpus methods such as keyword analysis, lexical profiling and concordancing, while integrating concepts such as indexicality, enregisterment, and language ideology. In so doing, Bednarek makes a strong case for television dialogue as a rich site for the sociocultural construction of identity and explores self-representations of marginalised varieties (Australian Aboriginal English). What are the possibilities for improved linguistic representations in this context? How are viewers exposed to linguistic variation and diversity? Although the book focuses on a specific Australian context, it seeks to be of relevance to anyone studying media representations of language variation, linguistic diversity, and social identity. It offers a comprehensive corpus-based sociocultural linguistic analysis of television dialogue, showcasing implications for research on indexicality and the integration of corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic perspectives.

This book will appeal to students and scholars in corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language and media, stylistics, and pragmatics.

Speech-to-Text Interpreting: User-Centred Communication Support for Equal Access explores speech-to-text interpreting (STTI), providing essential insights for practitioners, trainers, and decision-makers ensuring equitable communication access for deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.

Grounded in Translation & Interpreting Studies, the book demonstrates user-centred STTI implementation across typical interpreting settings. Drawing on video recordings, comparative text analysis, and interviews with users and over 30 interpreters, it provides practical assessment tools considering user expectations and multimodal communication contexts. The book addresses critical professional challenges from stress management to ethical dilemmas, outlining essential competences for user-centred service delivery. Each chapter features enriching activities and problem-solving exercises, with additional resources. Particularly timely amid advancing AI transcription technology, the book articulates human STTI's continued value through user support, individualized orientation, trust-building, and data security. A global survey of STTI service provision further informs the analysis.

Beyond equipping interpreters with theoretical and practical tools, the book supports training development and guides policymakers in establishing communication support guidelines. The text highlights DHH advocacy while advancing STTI understanding as a profession and an academic discipline. An essential text for students, teachers and researchers working in STTI , this is also a valuable resource for public institutions and private individuals employing STT interpreters.

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the 7th edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language. Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book. This new edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the latest edition of the classic textbook. This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

Over the past three decades, Central and Eastern Europe has experienced rapid economic transformation, accelerated by accession to the European Union and deeper integration into global financial markets. While improved access to credit has supported rising living standards, it has also increased households' exposure to financial fragility when economic shocks occur.

This book investigates the financial fragility of households in the region, offering new insights into how households cope with economic shocks and structural change. Despite shared experience of post-socialist transformation, Central and Eastern European countries display significant economic, social, and institutional diversity. This raises important questions: Do households across the region differ in their levels of financial fragility? Which socio-demographic groups are most vulnerable? What factors shape household resilience to economic shocks?

Combining conceptual discussion with comparative empirical analysis, the book examines the determinants and dynamics of household financial fragility across the region. It explores changes in household financial conditions - including consumption patterns, debt dynamics, savings behaviour, and subjective financial well-being - and identifies cross-country differences in vulnerability using comparative and cluster-based approaches. The analysis also discusses how external shocks, including the global financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic, have shaped household financial stability. By linking structural transformation, institutional context, and household-level outcomes, the book fills an important gap in the literature and offers new insights into the challenges of strengthening household resilience in the face of economic shocks.

This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, and students in economics, finance, consumer economics, and European studies who seek a deeper understanding of household financial fragility in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics provides a clear and up-to-date overview of contemporary developments in the field, exploring the current role of Spanish as an international language used across academic, social, and professional activities. Now in a fully revised edition, it highlights new areas of interdisciplinary research as well as the fast-paced worldwide growth of the Spanish language.

Under Lacorte's editorship, this handbook is firmly grounded in a notion of applied linguistics as an autonomous scientific field that addresses language-based issues and problems in real-world contexts. Specifically, the volume:

• covers key areas in Hispanic applied linguistics including teaching and learning Spanish as a second language (L2), Spanish in the professions, discourse analysis, and social and political issues related to the Spanish language;
• provides state-of-the-art knowledge contributed by prominent scholars and researchers from institutions around the world;
• offers a multidisciplinary approach written in English to the analysis and resolution of language-based issues in Spanish-speaking environments;
• addresses the increasingly varied needs of graduates in Hispanic linguistics, noting how they run in parallel to the study of practical applications of Spanish.

Across forty chapters, contributors identify growing opportunities for Spanish graduates in various areas, including teaching, translation and interpretation, language program administration, instructional technology, and content creation.

Wide-encompassing and future-oriented, this handbook is an ideal resource for students and researchers of the Spanish language and applied linguistics as well as teachers and professionals.

This book presents the history of Poland through the lens of selected phenomena that demonstrate pan-European and global processes. It tells the story of feudalism, parliamentarism, nationalism and modernization, and explains how these processes emerged, developed or were implemented in Poland.

The comparative method adopted here aims to study the links and transnational entanglements within the region on the basis that the optimal way of writing about a country in East Central Europe is to combine national history with a regional approach. Rather than relegating the themes of gender and diversity (cultural, ethnic, social and religious) to separate chapters, the authors aim to integrate these topics into all texts, informed by their knowledge, sources and empathy. Finally, this volume recounts both facts and the distorted paths taken by the memorialization of historic events. In doing so, it seeks to answer the fundamental question: "How unique can a country's history really be?"

This volume will be useful both for beginning students and for advanced scholars who specialize in the history of Poland and the entire region of East Central Europe to gain new information and interpretations on topics beyond their key areas of focus.

This book offers a broad introduction to print culture and communication in the Stuart world, exploring the emergence of the anglophone global publishing industry in the early modern period and its interaction with various forms of communication in the Stuart dominions.

The volume begins by providing comprehensive and accessible guidance on how to find and use major online digital resources on early modern print and other forms of communication as well as how to find and analyse material in archives. The second part focuses on the processes of communication and print from composition to dissemination and offers students an introductory overview of these processes at work. The third part consists of case studies showing how the sovereign's relationship with the printing press and other forms of communication shaped key events during the century. The final part introduces how exiled communities and colonies interacted with the printing press both at home and abroad and the place of anglophone communication within these complex linguistic and religious communities.

Written in a clear and accessible style and by leading experts in the field, the book offers a starting point from which to explore this multifaceted and ever-growing field, in particular introducing readers to the new digital resources available to help them engage with key primary material. With a comprehensive glossary, a timeline and specially curated reading lists at the back of each chapter, this textbook is a valuable resource for students and lecturers of early modern Britain, print culture and the history of communication.

Examining the administration of assets during the trial of the French Templars, as well as the settlement process that took place after the Order's dissolution, this book focuses on material aspects of the proceedings in France that have never been analysed in detail. These include the conflicts that accompanied the seizure of property, the actions of administrators, and the thefts and abuses that occurred at every stage of the process. The actions of Philip the Fair's sons to finalise the takeover of the Templars' property by the Hospitallers are also discussed. This book draws on documents that have not been used in previous research, including the report on the investigation conducted between 1322 and 1325 as part of the agreements concluded by Louis X and Philip V with the Hospitallers. This document is unknown to modern scholars and contains valuable information about the recovery of Templar property and the prosecution of abuses committed during this process.

This book adopts a new approach that departs from the dominant view that considers the Templar affair through the lens of the political aspirations of its most important participants, and this allows new insights into the circumstances and consequences of the Templar trial.

Of particular interest to scholars and students of the history of the Knights Templar, this book will also appeal to historians of the Knights Hospitaller, France under the last Capetians, and the papacy at the beginning of the 14th century.