TY - BOOK AU - Maria Luisa Maggioni AU - Amanda Murphy PY - 2021 CY - Lausanne, Switzerland PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 1424-8689 SN - 9783034343107 TI - Back to the Future T2 - English from Past to Present DO - 10.3726/b18274 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1149597 N2 - An awareness of diachronic development at all levels of language can enhance the learning and teaching of language and translation. This book illustrates this approach, adopting a variety of research methodologies. A diachronic perspective is applied to the pedagogy of English spelling, translation studies, bilingual education, approaches to teaching culture in CLIL, the development of a new multimodal genre, the lyrics video, aspects of modality in legal English, and the meaning shifts through time of the American lexeme dude. KW - teaching of language and translation, multimodal, pedagogy LA - English ER -