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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.

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics.

This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

This textbook approaches the history of English from a theoretical perspective.

Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective.

Analysing data from 1978-1988 / 2003-2013, this book explores recent change in the practices of quoting at parliamentary question time.

This book focuses on Shine, a musical performance about how energy, humanity, and climate are interrelated.

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.

Children have been exploited as performers and wooed energetically as consumers throughout history.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

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.

Tagliamonte documents the marginalised language of teens, presenting the fascinating inside story of language variation and change.

Provides original data and theoretical analyses that address the formation, nature, and significance of romantic relationships in emerging adults.

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 volume examines different forms of language and dialect discrimination on U.

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.

A major history of many of the developments undergone by the Latin language as it changed into Romance languages.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

A History of English, first published in 1970, is a book for beginners in linguistic history.

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.

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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?

In der Art, wie Reformationsgedenken inszeniert und Reformationsgeschichte konstruiert werden, spiegelt sich bis heute der 'Geist der Zeiten'.

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 .

In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E.

'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 groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics.

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.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media.

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.

Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere.

This resource provides a wide-ranging survey of the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world.

What do Lutherans believe?

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.

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies.

Die bewegende Lebensgeschichte der »Bischöfin der Herzen«Wie wurde Margot Käßmann zu einer der populärsten und angesehensten Persönlichkeiten Deutschlands?

Teens, Loss, and Grief is a self-help guide for teenagers who are struggling with bereavement and the emotional difficulties it presents.

In 1517, Martin Luther set off what has been called, at least since the nineteenth century, the Protestant Reformation.

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.