Language: reference and general

This book facilitates constructive interdisciplinary dialogue among linguistics and philology specialists concerning various languages in Vietnam, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

This volume is a collection of studies on various aspects of word order variation in Turkish.

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This book focuses on Hong Kong as a multilingual society.

This volume presents novel analyses of morphosyntax and phonology by well-known scholars in their respective fields.

This book offers an original account of the dynamics of syntactic change and the evolving structure of Old Spanish that combines rigorous manuscript-based investigation, quantitative analysis and a syntactic approach grounded in Minimalist thinking.

This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction.

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

Taking Plato's allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation.

This book concisely describes ways in which today's standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned or even comic.

Using a phenomenological and multi-sited ethnographic approach, this book focuses on children's uses of digital media in three sites-London, Casablanca and Beirut-and situates the study of Arab children and screen media within a wider frame, making connections between local, regional and global media content.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 19th Chinese Lexical Semantics Workshop, CLSW 2018, held in Chiayi, Taiwan, in May 2018.

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist's perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China.

From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City have appropriated-and been appropriated by-popular American culture.

This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution.

This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies.

This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children.

This book presents new research on Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) teaching from an ethnographic classroom study on classroom translanguaging practices that highlights the policy and pedagogical implications of adopting a creative and principled multilingual approach.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk.

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy.

This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films.

Verbalising the Visual: Translating Art and Design into Words by Michael Clarke introduces readers to a broad range of language and terminology: formal and informal, academic and colloquial, global and local, all of which can be found in current art and design discourse.

Basics Animation: Scriptwriting addresses the full range of approaches to scripting and developing for animated films.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa.

This book offers an intersectional analysis of secondary and tertiary educational pathways of ethnic Hungarians, Romanians and Slovaks in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia.

From Banks's brewery's yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R.

Conversation intime, exposé oral, cocktail d'affaires, service à la clientèle, mot de remerciement… La vie est remplie d'occasions qui sollicitent notre habileté à communiquer, et pour lesquelles le courriel et le texto ne sont d'aucun recours.

This book offers a new way of doing African philosophy by building on an analysis of the way people talk.

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

This resource provides a wide-ranging survey of the past, present, and future of youth activism in the USA and around the world.

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

Convinced that public speaking fears outranked all other fears, the authors combined their years of teaching novice speakers to set forth their techniques for reducing apprehension and sharpening communication performance skills.

This book examines mobile media use among children and youths within an Asian context.

Personal presence gives you the power to inspire, to influence, to excite, to question and to connect.

These days, more and more people are looking to stay in the workforce longer and are seeking satisfying, fulfilling jobs.

If you have ever thought of Public Speaking as a career or as something that can help propel your current situation, this book is a must read.

Editing Canadian English is a style guide, reference manual, judgment-call coach, and much more.

Editors Canada launches a new series with From Contact to Contract: How Editors Get Clients to Work With Them.

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"e;The most thoughtful, engaging, encouraging book I've ever read about how hard it is to be a writer and why you should do it anyway.

Business Writing for Innovators and Change-Makers will empower you to build your confidence as a communicator, strengthen your brand, and increase your impact with your customers and clients.

This book describes the various aspects and considerations required in effective project management and the tools that can be used by a nonprofessional project manager to appropriately evaluate how well the professional is doing or effectively manage smaller projects without the need for a professional project manager.

This book offers tactics for creating business plans as well as research reports.

In today's hyper-connected, dynamic, and ever changing global marketplace, storytelling is the new strategic imperative for organizations that want to achieve and sustain growth.