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Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.Organised into three thematic parts, it explores language as a code (focusing on its structural regularities and patterns of use), as interaction (examining the role of context, intention, and social dynamics in meaning exchange), and as representation (exploring the ways in which language constructs and conveys knowledge and reality). The book bridges gaps between these dimensions, enabling users to grasp how grammar, interactional goals, and meaning-making intersect in real-world communication. By combining established models with an emphasis on usability, the volume equips readers with analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and produce texts with greater clarity, appropriateness, and awareness.Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the book provides students, researchers, and educators with precise terminology, practical models, and analytical tools. It is an essential resource for understanding English in academic, professional, and cultural settings.

Introduction to English Across Contexts offers a structured, integrated approach to understanding the English language, combining insights from applied linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and cultural research.Organised into three thematic parts, it explores language as a code (focusing on its structural regularities and patterns of use), as interaction (examining the role of context, intention, and social dynamics in meaning exchange), and as representation (exploring the ways in which language constructs and conveys knowledge and reality). The book bridges gaps between these dimensions, enabling users to grasp how grammar, interactional goals, and meaning-making intersect in real-world communication. By combining established models with an emphasis on usability, the volume equips readers with analytical tools to understand, evaluate, and produce texts with greater clarity, appropriateness, and awareness.Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, the book provides students, researchers, and educators with precise terminology, practical models, and analytical tools. It is an essential resource for understanding English in academic, professional, and cultural settings.

Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to corpus linguistics and translation, chapters in this volume provide a novel and original framework to triangulate research for pursuing both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities. They also highlight more broadly the importance of data triangulation in corpus linguistics and translation studies.Putting forward practical applications for digging into data, this book is a detailed examination of how to integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches through case studies, sample analysis and practical examples.

Presenting the digital humanities as both a domain of practice and as a set of methodological approaches to be applied to corpus linguistics and translation, chapters in this volume provide a novel and original framework to triangulate research for pursuing both scientific and educational goals within the digital humanities. They also highlight more broadly the importance of data triangulation in corpus linguistics and translation studies.Putting forward practical applications for digging into data, this book is a detailed examination of how to integrate quantitative and qualitative approaches through case studies, sample analysis and practical examples.

This book analyses the subject of medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, covering a broad spectrum of approaches and procedures that are particularly significant in this field.In this volume, medical communication is analyzed from various viewpoints: not only from a merely linguistic angle, with a focus on the description of the genres used in medical and healthcare contexts, but also from a social and cultural standpoint, with an emphasis both on the doctor-patient relationship and on the social relevance of the other types of communicative links existing between the many communities involved in this type of interaction.The study of some of the main fields typical of medical communication has highlighted a considerable variety of themes, data and research methods which are clearly representative of the eclectic interest in this specific domain and of the wide range of approaches developed for its investigation.As the various chapters show, linguistic analysis proves to be highly applicable to textualizations involving multiple interactions and practices, and several kinds of participants, including different healthcare professionals, trainees and patients.

The aim of this volume is to give voice to the various and different perspectives in the investigation of tourism discourse in its written, spoken, and visual aspects. The chapters particularly focus on the interaction between the participants involved in the tourism practices, that is the promoters of tourist destinations, on the one hand, and tourists or prospective tourists on the other. In this dialogic interaction, tourism discourse, while representing and producing tourism as a global cultural industry, shows it to be on the move. Language movement in the tourism experience is here highlighted in the various methodological approaches and viewpoints offered by the investigations gathered in this volume.