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Exploring Identity Across Language and Culture: The Psychological, Emotional, Linguistic, and Cultural Changes Following Migration by Alex Panicacci 9781032080734
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book explores the ways in which migrants’ experience in today’s multilingual and multicultural society informs language use and processing, behavioural patterns, and perceptions of self-identity.Drawing on survey data from hundreds of Italian... -
A Multimodal Approach to Challenging Gender Stereotypes in Children’s Picture Books by A. Jesús Moya-Guijarro 9780367703615
RRP: $83.98$74.47This collection offers a thorough treatment of the ways in which the verbal and visual semiotic modes interrelate toward promoting gender equality and social inclusion in children’s picture books.Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work in multimodality,... -
Accent & Syllable Structure in Passamaquoddy by Philip S. LeSourd 9781138988170
RRP: $96.58$85.11First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138988170Author Philip S. LeSourdFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 907g -
Discourse Function & Syntactic Form in Natural Language Generation by Cassandre Creswell 9781138990777
RRP: $100.78$87.80Users of natural languages have many word orders with which to encode the same truth-conditional meaning. They choose contextually appropriate strings from these many ways with little conscious effort and with effective communicative results. Previous... -
Typography & Language in Everyday Life: Prescriptions and Practices by Sue Walker 9781138180970
RRP: $283.50$246.29Typography and Language in Everyday Life provides a detailed look at graphic as well as linguistic aspects of language and suggests there is much to be gained from collaboration between typographers and applied linguists. The first part of the book... -
Knowledge & Discourse: Towards an Ecology of Language by Colin Barron 9781138155565
RRP: $283.50$247.13Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and... -
Teaching & Researching: Computer-Assisted Language Learning by Ken Beatty 9781138131842
RRP: $283.50$246.29Computers play a crucial and rapidly evolving role in education, particularly in the area of language learning. Far from being a tool mimicking a textbook or teacher, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has the power to transform language... -
Knowledge & Discourse: Towards an Ecology of Language by Colin Barron 9780582328808
$102.56Knowledge and Discourse presents an ecological approach to the study of discourse in social, academic and professional practices. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse cultures - India, China, Australia, Canada among others - and... -
The Battle over Spanish between 1800 and 2000: Language & Ideologies and Hispanic Intellectuals by Luis Gabriel-Stheeman 9780415629782
RRP: $69.28$61.24This book examines the way in which a group of key Spanish and Latin American intellectuals of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries discussed the concept of the Spanish language. The contributors analyse the ways in which these discussions related to... -
Redefining Translation: The Variational Approach by Lance Hewson 9781138366909
RRP: $69.28$61.24Originally published in 1991 Redefining Translation looks at the practical results and theory of translation as a key area for all those investigating language and culture. The book addresses the need to consolidate advances in the field of translation... -
Screens and Scenes: Multimodal Communication in Online Intercultural Encounters by Richard Kern 9780367589271
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book examines the relationships between online visual interfaces and language use in educational contexts and the features that underpin them to explore the complex nature of online communication and its implications for educational practice... -
Aspects of Grammatical Architecture by Alain Rouveret 9780367593308
RRP: $83.98$73.63This volume collects eleven papers written between 1991 and 2016, some of them unpublished, which explore various aspects of the architecture of grammar in a minimalist perspective. The phenomena that are brought to bear on the architectural issue come... -
Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014 by Vaclav Brezina 9780367590284
RRP: $83.98$73.63Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English based on the Spoken BNC2014, a brand new corpus of British... -
Understanding Metaphor through Corpora: A Case Study of Metaphors in Nineteenth Century Writing by Katie Patterson 9780367590826
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book introduces a unique methodology to the study of metaphor, integrating a corpus linguistic approach to explore the lexical, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic characteristics of metaphoric instances of language. The volume questions the... -
Language Management and Its Impact: The Policies and Practices of Confucius Institutes by Linda Mingfang Li 9780367584153
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book provides a comprehensive account of language management and planning at Confucius Institutes in the UK, implementing an ethnographic approach grounded in language management theory. As a global language promotion organization, Confucius... -
Queer Theory and Translation Studies: Language, Politics, Desire Brian James Baer (Kent State University, USA) 9781138200326
RRP: $77.68$68.31This groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and... -
Interculturality in International Education by Jane Jackson 9780367590604
RRP: $83.98$73.63This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the key issues and developments in study abroad research and practice with a specific focus on the intercultural and language learning dimensions of the study abroad experience. Rather... -
Language Learning Through Captioned Videos: Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition by Mark Feng Teng 9780367209926
RRP: $113.38$64.49This research- and pedagogy-oriented book delves into the study and application of incidental vocabulary acquisition in English through captioned videos. This technology offers EFL students of different ages more opportunities for vocabulary learning... -
Interculturality, Interaction and Language Learning: Insights from Tandem Partnerships by Jane Woodin 9780367589868
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each... -
Language in Popular Fiction by Walter Nash 9780367744540
RRP: $60.88$52.69First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in thrillers and romantic fiction. The book examines the use of language across three interrelated levels: a... -
On Becoming Bilingual: Children’s Experiences Across Homes, Schools, and Communities by Patricia Baquedano-López 9781138780750
RRP: $75.58$66.55On Becoming Bilingual: Children’s Experiences across Homes, Schools, and Communities provides a theoretical and methodological introduction to research on children’s participation in and across a multiplicity of activities where they display complex... -
Caught in the Middle: Reading and Writing in the Transition Years by David Booth 9781551382654
RRP: $65.00$42.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551382654Author David BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pembroke Publishing LtdPublisher Pembroke Publishing Ltd -
Chinese Internet Buzzwords: Research on Network Languages in Internet Group Communication by Zhou Yan 9781032040691
RRP: $81.88$71.86As the Internet has reshaped the way we communicate, people’s reading has become more fragmented and attention has been directed to a more concise and general form of language that outlines the most important information. This language of the internet, a... -
Multimodal Literacies Across Digital Learning Contexts by Maria Grazia Sindoni 9780367681074
RRP: $83.98$73.63This collection critically considers the question of how learning and teaching should be conceived, understood, and approached in light of the changing nature of learning scenarios and new pedagogies in this current age of multimodal digital texts,... -
Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness: A Post-digital Ethnography by Caroline Tagg 9781032269412
RRP: $41.98$37.15This book advocates a new post-digital linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals’ communicative practices in cities today. Drawing on data from a group of ordinary working... -
The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability: Explorations Across Cultures and Natures by John Ødemark 9781032257914
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book uses sustainability to explore the interfaces between translation studies, the cultural history of knowledge, and Science and Technology studies (STS).The volume examines various material, cultural and epistemic translation practices where... -
Moving Beyond the Grammatical Syllabus: Practical Strategies for Content-Based Curriculum Design by Jason Martel 9781032164588
RRP: $41.98$37.15In this concise and practical book, Martel advocates for a content-based approach to foreign language curriculum design that emphasizes communicative competence, cognitive engagement, and social justice. Intended primarily for busy teachers with limited... -
Picturing Fiction through Embodied Cognition: Drawn Representations and Viewpoint in Literary Texts by Bien Klomberg 9781032125916
RRP: $41.98$37.15This concise volume addresses the question of whether or not language, and its structure in literary discourses, determines individuals’ mental "vision," employing an innovative cross-disciplinary approach using readers’ drawings of their mental imagery... -
An Uncommon Tongue: The Uses and Resources of English by Walter Nash 9780367744403
RRP: $60.88$52.69First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say or write; usage as a social question; usage as a literary convention; usage and creativity. The book reflects on the practice and status of... -
Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons by Luise von Flotow 9780367595937
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles... -
Translating Transgressive Texts: Gender, Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French by Pauline Henry-Tierney 9781032620763
RRP: $283.50$247.13Through close examination of references to gender identity, female sexuality and corporeality, this book is the first of its kind to shed light on the complexities of translating the recent transgressive turn in contemporary women’s writing in French.Via... -
The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System Vivian Cook 9780367581565
RRP: $92.38$82.82The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Twenty-nine chapters written by... -
Kinesemiotics: Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space by Arianna Maiorani 9780367272470
RRP: $283.50$246.29This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by... -
Multimodal Semiotics and Rhetoric in Videogames Jason Hawreliak 9780367584788
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book merges recent trends in game studies and multimodal studies to explore the relationship between the interaction between videogames' different modes and the ways in which they inform meaning for both players and designers. The volume begins by... -
Perspectives from Systemic Functional Linguistics by Akila Sellami-Baklouti 9780367592424
RRP: $96.58$84.27This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "appliability" of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications... -
Metaphor and Persuasion in Strategic Communication: Sustainable Perspectives by Federica Ferrari 9780367584245
RRP: $88.18$77.18This groundbreaking work adopts an alternative metaphor-based approach to challenge, unpack, and redefine our understanding of persuasion and strategic communication and the extents to which they shape political discourse. The book's theoretical and... -
Advertising and Multilingual Repertoires: from Linguistic Resources to Patterns of Response by Marco Santello 9780367607487
RRP: $46.18$40.61Advertising and Multilingual Repertoires explores advertising from the perspective of multilingual audiences. Santello introduces the key linguistic processes involved in advertising discourse, and analyses the relationship between the linguistic... -
The Diachrony of Verb Meaning: Aspect and Argument Structure by Elly van Gelderen 9780367592967
RRP: $83.98$73.63This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author’s previous body of work and new research, the book explores the complex dynamic... -
Linguistic and Cultural Representation in Audiovisual Translation by Irene Ranzato 9780367591854
RRP: $83.98$73.63This collection of essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped. Examining case studies from... -
Language and Culture on the Margins: Global/Local Interactions by Sjaak Kroon 9780367585662
RRP: $83.98$73.63This collection of thirteen essays examines sociolinguistic phenomena in a wide variety of marginal environments, providing both an overview of globalizaiton on the margins and a foundation for an expanded understanding of the processes of linguistic and...