Agricultural English is a collection of essays on the English of Agriculture. The approach is a linguistic one: the different aspects of the English used in the field of agriculture (agricultural practices, agricultural systems) and in some fields related to agriculture (agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, zoology) are analysed from a morphological (combination, derivation), syntactical (nominal phrases, verbal phrases), lexical and lexicographical, semantic (homonymy, semantic fields, synonymy, terminology), pragmatic (academic discourse, idiom, metaphor), etymological (etymon, Latin heritage), and contrastive (English-Croatian, English-French, English-German, English-Romanian, Romanian-English) points of view. The book will appeal to agriculturists, animal breeders, professors, researchers, students, and translators from Croatian-, English-, French-, German-, and Romanian-speaking countries, active in their own countries or abroad. The types of academic readership it would appeal to include academic teaching staff, researchers and students in the fields of agriculture and related fields - agricultural zoology, agri-tourism, biology, botany, ecology, entomology, gastronomy, land measurement, plant pathology, and zoology.
About the Author: Georgeta Rata holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University in Bucharest, Romania. She has published textbooks and dictionaries in Croatia, England, Romania, and Serbia. She has co-authored Compendium of Forage Technical Terms in English, French and Romanian (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012); edited Language Education Today: Between Theory and Practice (CSP, 2010), Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes (CSP, 2010), and Academic Days of Timisoara: Language Education Today (CSP, 2011); and co-edited Social Sciences Today: Between Theory and Practice (CSP, 2010) and Academic Days of Timisoara: Social Sciences Today (CSP, 2011). Florin Sala holds a PhD in Agronomy from the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara, Romania. He is a professor and he has taught and researched for 21 years. His extensive expertise includes soil science, agrochemistry and plant nutrition, mathematical models of fertilization, nanomaterials and nanotechnology in plant nutrition and environmental protection. He has published Agrochemistry: Methods of Analysis (2011), Agrochemistry: Practical Applications (2010), Agrochemistry (2007, 2008) Systems of Agriculture (2002), Compendium of Horticulture (2000), Pesticides (1998), and Fertilization and Protection of Horticultural Plants (1997). Ionel Samfira holds a PhD in Agronomy from the Banat University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Timisoara, Romania. He is a professor at the same university. His teaching and research competences resulted in studies on natural pastures, on the interaction between soil and vegetal sward, on the management and biodiversity of permanent pastures, and on the breeding of forage plants. He has authored and co-authored 10 textbooks and research books, including Compendium of Forage Technical Terms in English, French and Romanian (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), as well as over 100 research papers.