This book features papers addressing a broad range of topics including psychology, religious studies, natural heritage, accounting, business, communication, education and sustainable development.
This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as emigre literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of 'mother-tongue"e; as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language.
This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.
This volume addresses the implications that academic interdisciplinarity in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) has for research and pedagogy with a global reach.
This book offers up-to-date insights into the long-standing controversy of whether or not Chinese learners of English adequately express their attitudes in written English.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976).
Beginning with a retrospective of the past century, this book offers a panoramic picture of Chinese comparative literature, from its nascence in the early 1920s, through its evolution in the 1980s, to the new development at the turn of the century, ending with a prospective look at the future of comparative literature in the 21st century.
The Landmarks Series is a research and publications outfit funded by the Landmarks Research Foundation to publish recent outstanding doctoral dissertations on any aspect of Nigerian linguistics, languages, literatures and cultures.
Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health.
Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings.
El presente volumen explora la riqueza y pluralidad del turismo y su discurso a través de un análisis interdisciplinario, que proporciona una visión integral del impacto del turismo en diversas esferas comunicativas, sociales y culturales.
El conjunto de reflexiones que se presenta en este trabajo es producto de los esfuerzos adelantados a lo largo del proyecto de investigación sobre diálogo argumentativo intercultural desarrollado dentro del grupo de investigación «Mente, Lenguaje y Sociedad» del Departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano.
Es común en la sociedad sentir que los funcionarios son inaccesibles, que los escritos del Estado son confusos y que los trámites son innecesariamente complejos.
Este libro estudia el tránsito de la clandestinidad de la guerrilla Farc-EP a su institucionalidad en la política partidaria, por medio del análisis del discurso político.
La campaña presidencial de 2018, en Colombia, y sus procesos democráticos, analizados en otras obras específicas (Montilla y Jiménez, 2020, por ejemplo), nos sirven para ubicar al lector en un momento particular de nuestra historia reciente, como circunstancia y condicionante principal para la emergencia de los discursos de sus protagonistas.
This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.
This volume sets out to provide a semantics for the "e;future-directed opining verbs"e;, a novel class whose members are used to describe subjects' externally attested opinions toward future possibilities.
This book may be considered to be Volume II of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah, the text edition which appeared in 1975 as number 12 in the same series.
The almost complete disregard of the verse epic as a genre still worthy of meaningful discussion and earnest investigation is all too apparent in German literary criticism.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
My purpose in these studies is to example a careful reading of the too easily despised, too hastily evaluated and too frequently misunderstood poetry of the French fifteenth century.
Literacy is the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Language and Education, the first attempt to overview an area which has emerged as a coherent and exciting field of study in the last two decades.
