Abstract:This volume was supposed to be a special issue on lexicology, but our call for papers did not attract many articles. Therefore our readers will find a set of only three articles about that theme and then a sequence of other seven papers with studies on the following topics: contrastive analysis, teacher education, discourse analysis, and language and technology. In the first group, Brangel discusses the contributions of Cognitive Semantics to the writing of explanatory paraphrases found in Portuguese learner's… Show more
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.