Language: history and general works

This book explores how the eponymous and original Lingua Franca was recognized as a potential linguistic template for future military and colonial pidgins.

It can be hard to find the words to describe the icky feelings that seem to come from nowhere and sap all your joy and energy.

South Africa's Gen Z is currently navigating a dynamic landscape of social, cultural, and political change, balancing issues of identity, belonging, and connecting in a diverse world.

Scott Bruzek has served the church faithfully for over three decades.

It can be hard to find the words to describe the icky feelings that seem to come from nowhere and sap all your joy and energy.

Explores the history of spelling in Latin to reveal that sophisticated education in literacy was not restricted to the elite.

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El cuarto tomo de la serie Ser adolescente en el Perú aborda las distintas oportunidades y desafíos que los contextos ofrecen al desarrollo de las y los adolescentes.

Spinster.

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present.

This book explores the nexus between children, media, and nature during a time of planetary crisis marked by climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation.

This book examines how conflict has affected the rights of youth in Northeast India.

Youth Mediations and Affective Relations explores dynamic and expansive possibilities of young people's affective lives as they engage with diverse social media in prolific and specific ways.

This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted play-how LEGO invites players to build 'freely' with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system.

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

Help Your Teen Find Joy and Peace If your son or daughter is suffering from anxiety, you probably have more questions than answers: What is causing the anxiety?

This book explores the transformative power of critical literacy in fostering youth engagement through university-community partnerships.

This book contains an Open Access chapter.

In this tale of adolescence, heartbreak unfolds.

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing different-often conflicting-historical currents.

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500.

Follow nine young people as they move from racially isolated elementary and middle schools to a diverse - yet internally segregated - neighborhood high school.

La posibilidad de tener algún/a hijo/a adolescente con alguna adicción representa uno de los mayores miedos de cualquier padre o madre.

Looking for Scripture verses for guidance in your daily walk with Jesus?

Get your biblical questions answered in this book.

This book provides encouragement for pastors carrying out their tasks as servants of Christ.

This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages.

Author Chhali Kharel Bista describes her life, starting in a Bhutanese village and then fleeing with her family to a primitive refugee camp in Nepal.

"e;These are the Scriptures that testify about me.

Jade's mixed feelings about her life and family had reached their toll on naive meeting and experiencing different people.

Fernando "Chino" Navarro y Pablo Semán presentan el libro Dolores, experiencias, salidas.

El diagnóstico de época que se desprende de los testimonios de jóvenes populares en los que se basa este libro refiere al sentimiento de inexistencia de claras trayectorias institucionales que aseguren el tránsito entre los diferentes períodos etarios; en la imagen de una trama institucional globalmente abusiva y que sólo algunos individuos logran matizar; en la fuerza de las aspiraciones y de los sueños personales que no se abdican.

Si un día de invierno, durante el desayuno, se le derramó el café al escuchar que el periodista radial lanzó un gerundio en mal estado.

Hoy en día en los sectores acomodados la adolescencia se prolonga indefinidamente para los jóvenes, y los mayores se adolescentizan con las cirugías, las cremas, las tinturas, las gimnasias, las vestimentas.

Una fuerte crisis atraviesa el rol adulto.

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts.

This practical manual reviews salient topics in Adolescent Medicine.

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach in linguistics.

Why Are You Always on the Phone?

Youth are, by definition, the future.

This book provides an insight into girls' cultural identities and young femininities through an understanding of tween girls' dressing in Singapore.

Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts.

This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives.

This book investigates the life trajectories of Generation X and Y Australians through the 1990s and 2000s.

This book presents a comparative reconstruction of the common phonology of the Chinese dialects using representative data from living dialects.

Youth are, by definition, the future.

This book gathers international and interdisciplinary work on youth studies from the Global South, exploring issues such as continuity and change in youth transitions from education to work; contemporary debates on the impact of mobility, marginalization and violence on young lives; how digital technologies shape youth experiences; and how different institutions, cultures and structures generate a diversity of experiences of what it means to be young.

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the current trends, opportunities, and challenges related to Asian youth travellers, and it also presents a holistic framework for future research to build upon.