Language: reference and general

This book empirically explores assessment of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing in different Arab world contexts at the university level, which often presents a challenge for teachers and students alike.

This book takes a fresh approach to analysing how new languages are created, combining in-depth colonial history and empirical, usage-based linguistics.

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars.

This book examines how the fairy tale is currently being redeployed and revised on the contemporary teen screen.

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields.

For Israel-more so than for any other state-an effective Intelligence Community has been a matter of life and death.

Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position.

Some say that telling the story of the Holocaust is impossible, yet, artists have told the story thousands of time since the end of World War II in novels, dramas, paintings, music, sculpture, and film.

This book presents the original concept of the 'dispositif of age', combining post-Foucauldian analytics of the dispositif, discourse and governmentality with the historical semantics of Reinhart Koselleck to explore the functions of the notion of youth in the regulation of social life.

This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish.

This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date.

This book is a pioneering study of temporal typography and time-based calligraphic art written in the Arabic system of writing.

Ian McEwan, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Andrew Motion  and Anthony Thwaite are among the twenty-two distinguished contributors of original essays to this landmark volume on the profound and frequently perplexing bond between writer and mother.

Whatever your mother tongue, you are likely to have encountered difficulties with most of the 50 vocabulary items in this book.

This volume offers research-based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world.

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

This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.

This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation.

This pivot analyzes the historical emergence of legal graffiti and how it has led to a new ethos among writers.

This book addresses important issues of speech processing and language learning in Chinese.

This book explores issues shaping and defining modern Bruneian identity.

This book offers new perspectives on the study of Chinese lexical semantics, as well as discourse analysis and cognitive pragmatics based on lexical semantics.

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.

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes.

This book is intended to introduce novice student researchers to second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment.

This book concerns two focus particles (jiu, dou) and wh-expressions (shenme = 'what', na geren = 'which person') in Mandarin Chinese.

This book analyses oral proficiency interviews, a mainstay of second language speaking proficiency assessment for several decades.

This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks-both literal and figurative- we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy.

In this era of tweets and blogs, it is easy to assume that the self-obsessive recording of daily minutiae is a recent phenomenon.

The most comprehensive and up-to-date visual Bible dictionary available.

This book introduces a new tool for improving communication and promoting clearer thinking in a world where the use of Global English can create numerous comprehension and communication issues.

What has dance got to do with the Trinity, a hospital bed to do with gratitude, or email to do with prayer?

This book takes stock of the strides made to date in African philosophy.

In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.

The Mayan family of languages is ancient and unique.

This book defines Chinese middle constructions as generic constructions, with their highest syntactically saturated argument always understood as an arbitrary one.

This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe.

As a Sunday School teacher and church librarian for over 25years, Shirley had noticed a need for student information concerning Bible Theology and the Gospel message, along with development of a Christian's relationship with God.

His life changes after he is unexpectedly left in Los Angeles at the age of fourteen.

For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self.

If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary.

Everyone has a story to tell.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

A successful book starts with a great book proposal.

A lively interdisciplinary study of how venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art In eighteenth-century Britain, venereal disease was everywhere and nowhere: while physicians and commentators believed the condition to be widespread, it remained shrouded in secrecy, and was often represented using slang, symbolism, and wordplay.

This book is the first English monograph to systematically explore Chinese Multiword expressions (MWEs) by applying corpus-driven and corpus-based approaches.

A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where, by definition, nothing important takes place.

This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers.

Exploring writing as a practice, Boulter draws from the work of writers and theorists to show how cultural and literary debates can help writers enhance their own fiction.