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This book consists of scientific chapters devoted to innovative approaches to examination of anthropocentrism. It depicts human beings as physical, spiritual, social and cultural creatures perceived through the lingual and literary lens. The publication has an intercultural foundation, as it examines Slovak, Russian, German, English and Romanian languages.

The authors of the book discuss issues which transcend the boundaries of philological research. They apply knowledge from various fields, such as psychology, communication theory, aesthetics, mass media and other social sciences in order to obtain relevant scientific results. The authors present critical analyses and interpretations of contemporary theoretical and practical problems occurring in the selected areas of expertise, and outline the perspective research possibilities.

Dieses Buch präsentiert eine Auswahl an Beiträgen des 52. Linguistischen Kolloquiums 2017 in Erlangen. Unter dem Konferenzthema «Sprache(n) für Europa – Mehrsprachigkeit als Chance» behandeln die 25 Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache vor allem Erst- und Zweitspracherwerb, sprachdidaktische Aspekte sowie Mehrsprachigkeit in interkultureller Kommunikation. Darüber hinaus werden neben Experimenteller Linguistik, Corpus Linguistik und Medienlinguistik auch sprachhistorische, sprachpolitische und pragmatische Aspekte beleuchtet.

Die Fremdsprachenforschung ist ein dynamisches Feld, das sich kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt. Dieses Buch bietet einen Überblick zu aktuellen inhaltlichen und methodologisch-methodischen Forschungstendenzen in der Fremdsprachendidaktik. Anhand ausgewählter Qualifikationsarbeiten werden verschiedene inhaltliche Vertiefungen, wie Professionsforschung in der Lehrpersonenaus- und -weiterbildung, CLIL oder inklusive Settings, vorgestellt und unterschiedliche methodologische und methodische Zugänge in quantitativen, qualitativen oder mixed methods-Designs aufgezeigt. Die Beiträge des Bandes sind im Anschluss an die 12. Arbeitstagung für early career researchers der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF) an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main entstanden.

The volume Urban Voices presents studies, analysing how speakers of Russian convey social meanings across a variety of speech situations. Rooted in quantitative and qualitative methodological frameworks, the contributions show how various linguistic, paralinguistic and pragmatic means relate to sociolinguistic dimensions (e.g. display the social, ethnic, local identity of a speaker, the institutional character of a communicative situation). The analyses are the results of the research network Urban Voices, which focuses on the sociolinguistics, grammar and pragmatics of spoken Russian and investigates its linguistic and communicative diversity. The contributors are Olga Blinova, Nina Bodganova-Beglarian, Beatrix Kreß, Lenore Grenoble, Peter Kosta, Elena Markasova, Ludger Paschen, Nicole Richter, Christian Sappok, Tatiana Sherstinova and Nadine Thielemann.

This book examines various aspects of Celtic linguistics from a general and more specific point of view. Amongst the topics investigated is the system of Irish initial mutations from both a linguistic universal and contrastive perspective. Other contributions analyse and cast new light on deverbal adjectives and assertive and declarative speech acts in Irish, communication and language transmission, change and policy, Breton and Sorbian grammars, as well as other issues of sociolinguistics in Irish, Welsh and Breton.

In contrast to most publications in language testing and assessment, which address research and developments of international, monolingual exam batteries, this volume aims to present research studies focusing on a locally developed multilingual exam suite known as KPG (The Greek National Foreign Language Exam System). The KPG exams, which represent a «glocal» multilingual examination battery, are the first of their kind in Europe, and take into account local needs, global conditions of knowledge and production, and international concerns regarding testing and assessment.

The chapters included in this volume highlight many of the innovative features of the KPG exam suite and focus on various issues relating to the reliability and validity of glocal language tests. These include the effect of text and reader variables on reading comprehension, different world representations and ideologies in reading texts, interlocutor performance variability, source text regulated written mediation performance, writing and listening task difficulty, and the effect of task and assessment variables and corpus-based research of text grammar on KPG candidates’ scripts – all of which have important implications for global language testing and practices.

The aim of this publication is to disseminate some of the talks given at the III International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial and Institutional Translation, which took place at the University of Alicante on 27-29 June 2018 and was organised by the University’s Department of Translation and Interpreting. Spanish and international researchers, translator trainers, and trainee and professional translators gathered at the conference with the goal, among others, of finding out about new research trends in the field of business and institutional translation. / Esta obra da difusión a varias de las comunicaciones pronunciadas en el III Congreso Internacional de Traducción Económica, Comercial, Financiera e Institucional, celebrado en la Universidad de Alicante los días 27-29 de junio de 2018, y organizado por su Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación. Dicho congreso reunió a diversos investigadores, profesores, estudiantes y profesionales, con el objetivo de, entre otras cosas, conocer las nuevas tendencias de investigación en el ámbito de la traducción económica e institucional.