This book offers a systematic, bottom-up account of irony across both everyday contexts and literary and linguistic texts, using an empirically rigorous approach in distinguishing between central irony, non-central ironies, and non-ironies and highlighting a new way forward for irony research.
As featured in Newsweek, Time, USA Today, and on Oprah, Dateline NBC, MTV and 20/20, this leading sexuality educator now helps parents guide their children through the difficult adolescent yearsfrom the author of From Diapers to Dating.
This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.
The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and content in YouTube discourse.
This popular course book gives students of English and linguistics a systematic account of the rules of English syntax, and acquaints them with the general methodology of syntactic description.
Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "e;signal events"e; that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language.
Global Englishes and Change in English Language Teaching analyses the impact of current ELT practice, bringing together research from the fields of Global Englishes and ELT to provide suggestions for the implementation of a Global Englishes for Language Teaching curriculum.
Early Greek Relative Clauses contributes to an old debate currently enjoying a revival: should we expect languages spoken a few thousand years ago, such as Proto-Indo-European, to be less well-equipped than modern languages when it comes to subordinate clauses?
Small children are regularly captivated by programmes made especially for them - ranging from classics like Sesame Street to more recent arrivals such as Blues Clues and Teletubbies .
'Psychologically astute, totally honest and beautifully written' JULIA SAMUEL'Incredibly brave, generous and important' CLOVER STROUD'It made me cry, laugh and hug my daughter extra tightly' BRYONY GORDONHow can we communicate when things are so painful?
This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data.
This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes.
This provocative critique of the youth sports movement examines the various issues surrounding children in sports and provides a plan for reform based on a change in philosophy and practice.
New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.
An der Universität Wittenberg, der Leucorea, gab es bereits unter den sächsischen Kurfürsten ernestinischer Linie ein blühendes landesherrliches Stipendienwesen.
The growth of the American high school that occurred in the twentieth century is among the most remarkable educational, social, and cultural phenomena of the twentieth century.
Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte der »Bischöfin der Herzen«Wie wurde Margot Käßmann zu einer der populärsten und angesehensten Persönlichkeiten Deutschlands?
Die hier versammelten Glossen erkunden mit philosophischem Spürsinn den Zeitgeist und gehen der Frage nach, was die Aufgabe philosophischen Denkens in der Gegenwart sein kann.
Explains the most effective ways to discuss the legal and financial responsibilities that come with the end of life and tools for managing them-such as wills, trusts, estate planning, and cash management-in the context of financial psychology.