Language: reference and general

This book presents an approach to transform German Studies by augmenting its core values with a social justice mission rooted in Cultural Studies.

This textbook provides a comprehensive resource for translation students and educators embarking on the challenge of translating into and out of English and Arabic.

This book analyses the English writing and publishing experiences of 118 scholars from 18 Chinese universities from a social-cognitive perspective.

This book examines everyday literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL).

This book explores the linguistic and social practices related to same-sex desires and identities that were widely attested in the USA during the years preceding the police raid on the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

This edited book examines the phenomenon of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in the Japanese context, using multilingualism as a lens through which to explore language practices and attitudes in what is traditionally viewed as a monolingual, monocultural setting.

This edited book focuses on current practices, challenges and innovations in the emerging field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

This collection examines LEGO from an array of critical and cultural studies approaches, foregrounding the world-renowned brand's ideological power and influence.

The Digital Parisian Stage Project aims to compile a corpus of plays that are representative of performances in the theaters of Paris through history.

The purpose of this book is to present unpublished papers at the cutting edge of research on dialetheism and to reflect recent work on the applications of the theory.

Romani is the first language, and family and community language, of upwards of 3-4 million people and possibly many more in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

This innovative book examines the discourse of reality television, and the elasticity of language in the popular talent show The Voice from a cross-cultural perspective.

Winner of the Working-Class Studies Association's "e;Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Award for a Book about the Working-Class Academic Experience"e;This collection by three generations of women from predominantly working-class backgrounds explores the production of the classed, gendered and racialized subject with powerful, engaging, funny and moving stories of transitions through family relationships, education, friendships and work.

What is racism?

This book investigates the importance of humour and play in the establishment of individual and group identities among adult language learners on an intensive business English course.

This edited book uses case studies to offer a comprehensive picture of the feedback practices and perceptions pertinent to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing in the Arab world.

This book offers strategic leaders with essential information for their most important role:  the change management function of positioning the organization for success into the future.

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.

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

This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French.

This edited book examines how teacher education utilises international immersion and field teaching (or service-learning) experience to develop teachers' global, multilingual and intercultural competencies, in preparation for entering today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

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.

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.

This book is a study of the concept of wilaya and its developments among Shi?

This book examines key issues in Christianity from various philosophical points of view.

This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond.

This book is the first to offer a conceptual framework of English-medium education that can be used across different international higher education (HE) contexts.

This book seeks for an alternative perspective in analysing cultural phenomena to supplement the norm of Western dominant theorising and conceptualisation.

This edited book contributes to the growing field of self-translation studies by exploring the diversity of roles the practice has in Spanish-speaking contexts of production on both sides of the Atlantic.

This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being.

This book provides a research-led guide to public speaking in English, using the foundations of applied linguistics research to analyse elements of spoken presentation, including content, form, persona and audience interaction.

This edited book examines the use of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in a variety of international higher education contexts.

This handbook is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production internationally.

This edited collection reflects on the development of Chinese corpus-based translation and interpreting studies while emphasising perspectives emerging from a region that has traditionally been given scant consideration in English-language dominated literature.

This book presents the innovative pedagogy of Writing Fantasy: a method for exploring and shifting one's identity as a writer.

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 book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran's languages at home and in the diaspora.

This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes' plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time.

This book examines the role of medieval authors in writing the history of ancient science.

This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites.

This volume explores film and television for children and youth.

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 book explores the practical aspects of intersemiotic translation, examining how different signs and sign sets can be transposed into different kinds of semiotic forms of reference.

This book is about the challenges that come with initiatives to develop a more humanized, intersectional and negotiable landscape for English Language Teaching (ELT).

This book unpacks recent changes in the landscape of literature and language teaching, and aims to find new explanations for the altered relationships between readers and writers, the democratisation of authorship, and the emergence of new ways of using language.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

This book analyses issues of language and Jewish identity among the Sephardim in Sarajevo.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of World Englishes and their place in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom.

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