Language: reference and general

This exciting new book advances current practice-based and theoretical knowledge around how youth defines and engages with consumerism to provoke a larger conversation within science and environmental education.

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience.

This book stages a dialogue between international researchers from the broad fields of complexity science and narrative studies.

This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development.

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 investigates the preparation of secondary history and social studies (SS) teachers to teach English language learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms.

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan.

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 collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right.

This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

This book critically refines and adds depth to current understandings and practices in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) and EMI (English-Medium Instruction), using empirical research examining the experiences of English language learning and use of undergraduate and postgraduate international students in the UK.

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.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation.

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.

This book examines Uncreative Writing-the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry-against a decade of controversy.

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

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

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 contextualizes the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with a particular focus on the professional and academic identity and role of the EAP practitioner.

This book examines the domestic evolution and international connections of post-war fascists in the UK.

This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university.

This book adopts a sociolinguistic perspective to trace the origins and enduring significance of hip-hop as a global tool of resistance to oppression.

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 presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective.

This collection of essays offers twelve innovative approaches to contemporary literary criticism.

This book provides insight into the diverse ways young people from around the world are regenerating politics in innovative and multifaceted ways.

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

This edited collection explores how science can be taught to English language learners (ELLs) in 21st century classrooms.

This book aims to explain social variation in language, otherwise the meaning and motivation of language change in its social aspect.

This volume offers a new perspective on sociolinguistics in Africa.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 17th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2016, held in Singapore, Singapore, in May 2016.

This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish.

This book explores cultural conceptions of the child and the cinematic absence of black children from contemporary Hollywood film.

This volume examines how the displacement property of language is characterized in formal terms under the Minimalist Program and to what extent this proposed characterization of it can explain relevant displacement properties.

This book explores the grammar of to infinitives and gerundial -ing clauses, which is a central area at the interface of syntax and semantics, against the background of what has been called the Great Complement Shift.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

This monograph presents in great detail a large number of both unpublished and previously published Babylonian mathematical texts in the cuneiform script.

This book examines the historical background of game development, offline and online gamer interactions, and presents a method to study the health impacts of digital games in East Asia.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture.

This is the first book that sheds light on global game industries and cultural policy.

This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review and critique of the scientific evidence concerning the prevalence, nature and potential effects of food advertising and other forms of marketing on children.

This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in.

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration.

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms.

This book evaluates William Temple's theology and his pursuit of church unity.

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "e;real"e; or "e;universal"e; character: a scientific and objective code.

This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is 'translated' in the literary text.

This book sets out to uncover and discuss the curricular, pedagogical as well as cultural-political issues relating to ideological contradictions inherent in the adoption of English as medium of instruction in Japanese education.