Language: reference and general

This book analyses the development of academic literacy in low-proficiency users of English in the Middle East.

This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen.

This volume explores the recent 'adolescent turn' in contemporary Latin American cinema, challenging many of the underlying assumptions about the nature of youth and distinguishing adolescence as a distinct and vital area of study.

Committed utilitarian reading is either dominantly practical or more or less equally practical and fulfilling.

This book offers a broad re-evaluation of the key ideas developed by the German Romantics concerning philosophy and literature.

Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond.

The importance of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the history of the United States cannot be overstated.

This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language.

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) encompasses the various disciplines of wireless interception, cryptanalysis, communications intelligence, electronic intelligence, direction-finding, and traffic analysis.

This book introduces and explains a series of tools for curriculum renewal and revitalization in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs, based on the experiences of the authors in successfully implementing a new curriculum in a large EAP program in North America.

This book examines how and why, in the context of International Relations, children's subjecthood has all too often been relegated to marginal terrains and children themselves automatically associated with the need for protection in vulnerable situations: as child soldiers, refugees, and conflated with women, all typically with the accent on the Global South.

This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the 'nation' as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category.

This book studies the Tangwang language, providing the first comprehensive grammar in English of this Chinese variety, with detailed analysis of its phonology, morphology, and syntax.

This book explores the narratives of girlhood in contemporary YA vampire fiction, bringing into the spotlight the genre's radical, ambivalent, and contradictory visions of young femininity.

This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics.

This edited book examines how sexuality and sexual identity intersect and interact with other identities and subjectivities - including but not limited to race, religion, gender, social class, ableness, and immigrant or refugee status - to form reinforcing webs of privilege and oppression that can have significant implications for language teaching and learning processes.

This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States.

This book deals with synchronic variation in Chinese through a diachronic lens, based on the evidence from a quantitative, longitudinal corpus study.

This text considers contemporary China's language ideology and how it supports China as a rising global power player.

This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese, which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity.

This book reveals how to provide the leaders of tomorrow with the right education for a management career Made in Germany.

This book is the first volume to be devoted to the examination of the application of the multiliteracies pedagogical framework to the teaching of Spanish to heritage language learners in higher education institutions in the United States.

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.

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.

Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law addresses the importance of judicial accountability in transitional justice processes.