Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar: A Practical Guide, third edition, is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume.
Researching Stylistics: A Student Guide explores key topics in literary and non-literary stylistics, examining the multiple ways in which students can undertake research in this discipline.
This edited book covers a range of topics related to the use of corpora in translation education, including their standing in corpus-based translation studies, their relationship with machine learning and post-editing, recent advances in learner corpora development and the integration of corpora into translation pedagogy.
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice.
Includes a glossary of medical acronyms, and reference material on translation techniques, translation equipment, dictionaries, reference literature, and terminology management.
This book provides a complete and detailed overview of modern English syntax, and offers a thorough grounding in the essentials of sentence structure and syntactic argumentation.
This book provides an in-depth look on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and Early Childhood Education (ECE), two domains where major joint research is needed.
Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.
Adopting the tripartite theory of social psychology as its theoretical framework, this book advocates that the three components of social interaction affect, behaviour, and cognition underpin the daily activities of translators and interpreters.
Developmental norms and expectations for young people aged 18-25 have diverged from previous generations, creating a new stage in the life course called Emerging Adulthood.
Globalization is on everyone's tongue, and the discussion is not only limited to economic exchange, but expands to the intermingling of cultural values.
Deploying a spatial approach towards children's everyday life in interwar Hong Kong, this book considers the context-specific development of five transnational movements: the garden city movement; imperial hygiene movement; nationalist sentiments; the Young Women's Christian Association; and the Girl Guide.
Arthur Schopenhauer fue un espíritu libre, famoso por su talante polemista y su perspicacia discursiva para discernir en el terreno de la discusión no solo artimañas y argucias sino adversarios incompetentes.
In diesem Buch geht es um die faszinierende Fähigkeit der menschlichen Sprache, mit Hilfe winziger (mikrosemantischer) Morpheme als Hilfsmittel komplizierte logische (mathematische) Bedeutungen auszudrücken.
This volume highlights the ways in which recent developments in corpus linguistics and natural language processing can engage with topics across language studies, humanities and social science disciplines.
This volume introduces teaching methodologies for improving and incorporating representation, inclusion and social justice perspectives in the world language curriculum.
Die Wesensbestimmung der Perfektkonstruktion ist zwar eines der meistbehandelten Themen der gegenwartsdeutschen Grammatik, trotzdem blieb die Suche nach einer befriedigenden Charakterisierung dieser Konstruktion wenig erfolgreich.
Die Vielschichtigkeit des Begriffs der ,Bewegung' zeigt sich nicht zuletzt in den Lesarten, die bereits in den ersten lexikographischen Werken festgehalten wurden.
This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations.
This book tells the story of Luna, who loved to dance but soon lost her sense of self because of the emotional abuse of her dance teacher and being bullied at school.