Language: history and general works

This volume explores Chinese identity through the lens of both the Chinese and English languages.

Every language has its peculiar problems of meaning for the foreign learner.

From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure during his lifetime, eliciting strong emotions in friends and enemies alike, and his outsized persona has left an indelible mark on the world today.

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the largest Protestant religious group in the United States--the Southern Baptist denomination--has been criticized for using and fostering anti-Islamic rhetoric.

New Media Language brings leading media figures and scholars together to debate the shifting relations between today's media and contemporary language.

Investigates the literary, linguistic, historical, epigraphic, and other contexts of Hellenistic epigrams in themed chapters through analyses of individual epigrams.

Engaging with the Bible in a small group context has the potential to be transformative, but the picture is not without some complications.

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

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

Written by a former Olympic consultant, this book examines youth sports in America today, from institutions that dominate organized youth sports to high-profile controversies ranging from burnout and out-of-control parents to the health risks of youth football.

For too long, scholars have published new research on Edwards without paying due attention to the work he took most seriously: biblical exegesis.

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.

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India.

Historical Research on Spoken Language: Corpus Perspectives uses historical sources to discuss continuity and change in spoken language.

"e;Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics.

Was hat es auf sich mit der christlichen Freiheit?

The GM debate is as much a war of words as of facts.

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.

Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis.

Die Bedeutung Kurfürst Friedrichs III.

This book explores the policing response to teen sexting - the digital exchange, both consensual and non-consensual, of intimate images among youth peers.

Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful speeches?

This book explores innovative pedagogical practices and teaching and learning strategies in the engineering curriculum for empowered learning.

Academic Discourse and Global Publishing offers a coherent argument for changes in published academic writing over the past 50 years.

Translation and Conflict was the first book to demonstrate that translators and interpreters participate in circulating as well as resisting the narratives that create the intellectual and moral environment for violent conflict and social tensions.

In an age when the church is sometimes viewed as irrelevant and inauthentic, leading Pentecostal theologian Terry Cross calls the people of God to a radical change of structure and mission based on theological principles.

A fully updated third edition that provides comprehensive coverage of the history, structure and worldwide use of the English language.

Almost a third of the 4 billion people living in urban areas today are children, according to the United Nations.

Between 1901 and 1907, a broad coalition of Protestant churches sought to expel newly elected Reed Smoot from the Senate, arguing that as an apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smoot was a lawbreaker and therefore unfit to be a lawmaker.

What is the nature of human language?

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion and the roles of non-indigenous languages.

Approaching creole studies from contrasting standpoints, this book offers new insights into language variation and contact-induced change.

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare.

Based on proven theory and real-life experience, this guidebook provides a one-stop resource for educators, librarians, and storytellers looking to introduce storytelling programs for young adults.

To date, there has been no comprehensive and coherent approach to determining the communicative and precommunicative processes involved in the construction of group identities.

This volume features new and groundbreaking research on recent changes in the English verb phrase.

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.

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.

Uncovering the complexity of linguistic diversity and semiotic creativity, this book examines the issues of power, affect, and identity in both physical and digital linguistic landscapes.

Various social, political, economic and cultural commentators are presently arguing that human history is reaching a decisive stage in its development, a stage marked by increased interconnection between peoples, the compression of space and time, a sharing of ideas at unprecedented levels, global trade and finance, and so on.

Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using perspectives from psychology, anthropology, and physiology, this book demonstrates the need for criticism to unpack the confusions in language and cultural fantasy that drive the nation's fascination with the berserk style.

This volume draws together fourteen previously published papers which explore the nature of mental grammar through a formal, generative approach.

This book studies the use of an automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems in research paper revision for publication purposes by Chinese doctoral students.

In The Making of a Teenage Service Class, Ranita Ray uncovers the pernicious consequences of focusing on risk behaviors such as drug use, gangs, violence, and teen parenthood as the key to ameliorating poverty.

This textbook provides an innovative introduction to core areas of grammar: a systematic guide to the structure of English, arranged hierarchically from the word to the sentence to the paragraph level.

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at how we use language to combine our mental resources and get things done.