Language and Linguistics

This book examines the effects of the pattern of growing integration between the rural and urban economies in India.

Drawing on a total of 8,308 haiku poems written by 834 English as a foreign language (EFL) university students in Japan, this book explores the value, possibility, and potential of teaching and researching English-language haiku in second and foreign language (SFL) contexts.

Motion pictures were introduced to China in 1896, and today China is a major player in the global film industry.

Motion pictures were introduced to China in 1896, and today China is a major player in the global film industry.

Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests.

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, fostering greater awareness of how linguistic choices become political ones and encouraging the search for practices that promote social justice.

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text easy or difficult to process by the cognitive mechanisms that support language processing, and describes how levels of difficulty might function within bureaucratic power structures.