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Dwight used the word ‘sublime’ endlessly, sometimes in tedious mechanical contrasts with beauty. However, considering the intimate professional knowledge of the wrath of God his published sermons reveal, it is surprising to find that the Travels are very sparing in making the obvious metaphorical connection between wild scenery, the Burkean sublime, and the wrath of […]

Those who write about applied linguistics usually accept that the label ‘applied linguistics’ refers to language teaching in the broadest sense (including language planning, translation studies etc.). Sealer and Carter are not an exception. In the part where they explore specific research issues through the joint lens of social sciences and applied linguistics (Chapter 4), […]

In this book review article, I discuss three recent works on genre and using genre-based approaches to teaching second language (L2) writing (Hyland, 2003, 2004; Swales, 2004). Following a detailed summary of Hyland’s Genre and second language writing, I examine how these three works provide theory and research-based methods for teaching L2 writing, particularly for […]

Kress and van Leeuwen (1996) draw attention to the ‘meaning’ often ascribed to geometrical shapes. Citing Dondis (1973) they note that the square may represent ‘honesty, straightness and workmanlike meaning’ while for Thompson and Davenport (1982) it represents ‘the world and denotes order’. Circles, however, represent ‘endlessness, warmth, protection’ (Dondis, 1973). In summarising such distinctions […]

If there is a disadvantage to the Blissymbolics system, it is that it fails Chao’s (1968) first criterion for a symbolic system – simplicity, and his fifth – balance between number of symbols and size of symbol complexes. Some symbols, such as that for ‘jealous’, may require four or five separate symbols on a line. […]