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by Ana Montoya-Reyes (Editor), Anabella Barsaglini-Castro (Editor), Estefanía Sánchez-Barreiro (Editor)
This book offers a collection of papers tackling aspects in the fields of Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, teaching and translation. The contributions cover topics of special interest to scholars and researchers in these fields such as language acquisition through the exploration of different L2 learners' experiences; translation studies including the difficulties of finding suitable equivalences between legal systems; critical discourse analysis applied to the discourse of intimate partner violence against women; post-humanism; stylistic variation in contemporary English. The volume also shows the increasing interdisciplinarity between computer science and linguistics, as evidence of the new path this interaction is leading to. The book is a resource for researchers and general users interested in the computer branch and its contribution to Linguistics.
Author Biography
Ana Montoya-Reyes is a lecturer and researcher at the University of A Coruña (Spain). Estefanía Sánchez-Barreiro and Anabella Barsaglini-Castro are multilanguage instructors and PhD at the same university. They pertain to the Research Group for Multidimensional Corpus-Based Studies in English (MuStE) whose major project is the compilation of the Coruña Corpus. Their main research interests include historical linguistics, lexicography, and corpus linguistics as well as English for specific purposes. Further areas of interest are related to ICTs and applied linguistics, especially discourse analysis.
