Language: reference and general

This book examines transnational identities, integration and linguistic practices on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands.

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 explores the significance of reggae and hip hop in Southern Italy from the beginning of the 1980s to the present.

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

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 is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters.

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 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.

This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis.

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 volume proposes a supplemental approach to interdisciplinary historical reconstructions that draw on archaeological and linguistic data.

This book presents an in-depth fieldwork-based study of the Greek language spoken by immigrants in Cairns, Far North Queensland, Australia.

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors' entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land and sea-scapes of Newfoundland as integral to their thinking, theorizing, and writing.

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.

This book presents the principles of quality teaching in Chinese, as exemplified in case studies of primary and secondary school classrooms.

This book brings together work on Turkish natural language and speech processing over the last 25 years, covering numerous fundamental tasks ranging from morphological processing and language modeling, to full-fledged deep parsing and machine translation, as well as computational resources developed along the way to enable most of this work.

The observation that our world is signed by a lasting crisis is as much underwritten as it is questioned.

This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare's presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity.

"e;Generation"e; has become a central concept of cultural, historical and social studies.

This book attempts to solve Aristotle's definition of arthron in the XX chapter of the Poetics by seeing it in a new light.

This book examines the linguistic and discursive elements of social and economic policies and national political leader statements to read new meanings into debates on border protection, national sovereignty, immigration, economic indigenisation, land reform and black economic empowerment.

This edited collection explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) by language teachers in classrooms.

This book explores language teacher development in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) environments and discusses approaches, tasks and resources that can guide language teachers to develop their skills and strategies for technology-enhanced language teaching (TELT).

In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices' of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of Nazism'.

This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 18th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2017, held in Leshan, China, in May 2017.

This collection explores the representation, articulation and construction of youth subcultures in a range of texts and contexts.

The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire.

This book focuses on the most commonly made grammar mistakes by non-native English speakers.

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

This volume provides an in-depth analysis of the attempts of language experts and governments to control language use and development in Eastern Europe, Eurasia and China through planned activities generally known as language planning or language policy.

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

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

This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society.

This book examines why Japan has one of the highest enrolment rates in cram schools and private tutoring worldwide.

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.

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.

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

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

Jokes are a perfect format for learning vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.

This book contains exercises connected with some of the fun or more unusual aspects of the English languageand with games that typically a native English speaker would do.

On the train, on the beach, on the sofa .

Personality tests are relatively quick and easy to read, and are thus great for improving your English vocabulary and knowledge of idiomatic expressions.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural perspective.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book explores narrative imagination and emotion as resources for learning critical meta-reflection.

This book explores the significance and meaning of the countryside within mid-twentieth century youth movements.

This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK.

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