Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Names: Hyland, Ken, editor.| Shaw, Philip (English professor) editor. Title: The Routledge
Handbook of English for academic purposes/Edited by Ken Hyland and Philip Shaw …

This book offers a unique view of multilingualism in higher education from a global
perspective. It presents a contextualised case of a multilingual language policy which takes …

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its
relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching. Focussing on …

Creativity and Convention Page 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company Creativity and
Convention The pragmatics of everyday figurative speech Rosa E. Vega Moreno Page 2 …

Introduction The People's Republic of China (China) has more than 1.3 billion people. As
the world's most populous country, China has the world's largest population of college …

The chapter begins with an examination of definitions of specialized or technical vocabulary
and moves on to different approaches to conceptualizing vocabulary and English for specific …

English for academic purposes (EAP) has become a major research field in its own right,
responding to the demands of a widening circle of users by providing increasingly …

Discursive psychology is an approach that addresses psychological matters in terms of how
they figure in discourse–in conversations over family mealtimes, in therapy sessions, in …

This research was sponsored by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(NWO)–'Vici'grant 277-30-001 “Metaphor in discourse: Linguistic forms, conceptual …