Tradition in Creative Writing: Finding Inspiration Through Your Roots encourages writers to rediscover sources of creativity in the everyday, showing students how to see your writing as connected to your life.
This book has been designed specifically for students in writing classes and other writers interested in developing proficient writing careers in a professional environment.
This book analyses articles that appeared in popular periodicals from the 1920s to the present, each revealing the panic that parents and adults have expressed about media including radio, television, video games and the Internet for the last century.
This edited collection brings to the forefront attempts to connect critical pedagogy and ELT (English Language Teaching) in different parts of the world.
This book analyses gendered language in Italian, shedding light on how the Italian language constructs and reproduces the social imbalance between women and men, and presenting indirect and direct instances of asymmetrical constructions of gender in public and private roles.
This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation.
This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners' awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners' contextual lexical inferencing competence (CLIC).
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of parallel comparison.
This book draws on the perspectives of authors, supervisors, reviewers and editors to present a rich, nuanced picture of the practices and challenges involved in writing for scholarly publication.
Ein Sprachlehrbuch, das speziell für Architekten, Bauingenieure und verwandte Berufsgruppen aller Nationalitäten konzipiert ist, die ihre deutsche Kommunikationsfähigkeit im beruflichen Kontext verbessern wollen.
Der Band bietet eine Zusammenschau theoretischer und praktischer Perspektiven, die sich rund um das Thema Videospiel, die Erhaltung von Information und die Beharrung auf traditionellen Designparadigmen ergeben.
Der Band liefert eine Bestandsaufnahme der bisherigen Entwicklungen von HipHop in Deutschland und geht der Vielfältigkeit der Zugänge, den Formen der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzungen sowie der Ausdrucksformen nach.
Bisher gibt es keine umfassende und kohärente Annäherung an die Bestimmung der an der Konstruktion von Gruppenidentitäten beteiligten kommunikativen und präkommunikativen Prozesse.
Der Sammelband bringt verschiedene Zugänge und Kontexte zu Twin Peaks zusammen und greift dabei auch die besonderen produktions- und rezeptionsästhetischen Spezifika der Serie auf.
Mit Gothic Cinema schließt sich eine Lücke im deutschsprachigen Filmdiskurs: Erstmalig beleuchtet der Band einen bislang wenig diskutierten Filmzusammenhang.
Wie in vielen anderen Sprachen auch verläuft die Genuszuweisung bei niederländischen Substantiven – im Gegensatz zu dem, was andere Forscher oft behaupten – nicht arbiträr, sondern wird von verschiedenen Faktoren beeinflusst.
This book brings together 13 original research papers that address emerging issues in the assessment of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in five major areas, including standards in CSL assessment; development of CSL tests; assessment of diverse knowledge and skills; computer-supported assessment; and CSL assessment in relation to instruction and teachers' assessment competence.
Promoting cultural understanding in a globalized world, this text is a key tool for students interested in further developing their understanding of Chinese society and culture.
This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds.
New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20thcentury.
New media is a term meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerized or networked information and communication technologies in the later part of the 20thcentury.
The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976).
Communication has always been an important need of life, it assumed the status of the most essential and one of the basics of the in the latter half of the 20th century.
Communication has always been an important need of life, it assumed the status of the most essential and one of the basics of the in the latter half of the 20th century.
