Back to the Future : English from Past to Present

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.

Maria Luisa Maggioni teaches and conducts research on the history of the English language, teaching English as a foreign language in higher education and teacher training.

Amanda C. Murphy teaches and conducts research on spoken and written specialized language, varieties of English, English as a medium of instruction, and the internationalization of higher education.