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As the last leader of the Chartist movement, Ernest Charles Jones (1819-69) is a significant historical figure, but he is just as well-known for his political verse. His prison-composed epic The New World lays claim to being the first poetic exploration...

This book presents the large-scale investigation of syntactic borrowing in contemporary French. The investigation centres on an aspect of syntactic borrowing that can be subject to the kind of rigorous analysis that is required of linguistic studies to...

Focusing on France, and bringing together historians of politics, literature, philosophy, art, and film, this volume sheds light on the imagination and experience of the political individual in the age of the masses between 1930 and 1950.About the...

The Syllables of Time: Proust and the History of ReadingAbout the AuthorTeresa WhitingtonBook InformationISBN 9780367604431Author Teresa WhitingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 240g

This book, drawing on the work of contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, investigates the aesthetics and politics of touch in the cinema of three of the most prominent and distinctive filmmakers to have emerged in France: Robert Bresson,...

This book examines how the 'Manneken Pis' statue has come to symbolize the Brussels city and focuses on the multiplicity of interpretations to which the statue has been subjected. It explores that celebratory uses of the statue and ones which articulate...

This book presents a study of Theophile Gautier's art journalism written during the Second Republic and provides a reassessment of Gautier's importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture. It charts his response to the major art events and...

This book examines the plays of four women-Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Helene Cixous and Noelle Renaude-writing in the latter years of the twentieth century and the early years of the twenty-first century.About the AuthorMary NoonanBook...

The Syntax of Vietnamese Tense, Aspect, and Negation investigates familiar grammatical phenomena including Tense, Aspect, and Negation in a theoretically understudied language, Vietnamese.The purpose of this book is to thoroughly examine how these...

: A Basic Course in Russian, Book Two (Sixth Edition), takes a contemporary approach to language learning by focusing on the development of functional competence as well as the expansion of cultural knowledge.The sixth edition of this bestselling...

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition.The book explores how to...

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative textbook for students specializing in scholarly Japanese for Asian studies. This book is aimed at scholars in any Asian Studies field in which Japanese scholarship is extremely...

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners' L2 Chinese. This book will...

The Fundamentals of Lebanese Grammar provides a comprehensive guide to the grammar of the spoken language of Lebanon.It presents the fundamentals and complexities of the Lebanese variety of Arabic in a practical and organized way. This guide also...

Language and Gesture in Chinese Conversation is a study of the semantic and temporal relationships between the speech and the gesture in the context of discourse interaction in Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. The cross-modal representation of ideas in...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series offer comprehensive coverage of the area as well as a basis for further investigation. Each Language Workbook guides...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

* Examines how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history* Two comprehensive indexes of Topics and Technical Terms, and Names* Carefully illustrated to explain key points in the text`This rich repository of information...

Social processes and the nature of language variation have driven sibilant variation across the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores the current state of Spanish sibilants and their dialectal variations. Focusing on different processes undergone by...

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the...

Khian Thai: Thai Writing Workbook is specially prepared for elementary Thai language classes where the language is initially taught with the use of phonetic symbols. A step-by-step guide to writing Thai, it is based on a thorough linguistic analysis and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783896250186Author Anthony BulgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 586Imprint Assimil GmbHPublisher Assimil GmbHWeight(grams) 438g

The Interfaces of Chinese Syntax with Semantics and Pragmatics provides an in-depth exploration of a variety of interface phenomena in Chinese, a non-inflectional language, where to a large extent word order constrains its interpretation and defines its...

In the Light of Contradiction: Desire in the Poetry of Federico Garcia LorcaAbout the AuthorRoberta Ann QuanceBook InformationISBN 9780367602604Author RobertaAnn QuanceFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

This book looks at New York City's recurrent role as a symbol of modernization in early twentieth-century Spanish narrative. It explores the connections between the contradictory reactions to modernization and the crisis of Spanish national identity...

Dialect, Voice, and Identity in Chinese Translation is the first book-length attempt to undertake a descriptive investigation of how dialect in British and American novels and dramas is translated into Chinese. Dialect plays an essential role in creating...

Biculturalism and Spanish in Contact: Sociolinguistic Case Studies provides an original and modern analysis of the development of Spanish and its contact with other languages using a sociolinguistic framework from both synchronic and diachronic angles...

Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching looks at how the field of Russian language pedagogy has evolved in recent years due to advances in technology along with shifts in attitudes to language pedagogy, and how the pandemic has...

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so many of its words have undergone; words which, as current...

This book demonstrates how Ana Clavel continues the tradition of both her predecessors and contemporaries by focusing on questions of gender. It discusses the relationship between queerness, multimedia interventions, and literature in Clavel's works and...

This Festschrift is dedicated to the former Director and Editor-in-chief of the Monumenta Serica Institute in Sankt Augustin (Germany), Roman Malek, S.V.D. in recognition of his scholarly commitment to China. The two-volume work contains 40 articles by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215136Author Bernd KlewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

This third edition of Compendium of the World's Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been...

This book explores China's currency wars with its trading partners in four Western newsmagazines: Time, The Economist, L'Express, and Der Spiegel. Based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the interdisciplinary approach adopted in the...

Students and Readers of French Literature, who require a more complete dictionary of Argot than the present volume, should consult these learned and excellent works.Book InformationISBN 9781138563001Author W. Knoblauch vonFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Many of the marks attached to the phonetic rendering of the Chinese words in this volume differ from those assigned to them in the dictionaries. These apparent discrepencies are intentional, the tones being given as they are applied, or appear to the ear...

This book reinforces Franco Moretti's findings, by examining whether they apply to the relationship that Machado de Assis maintained with the serial novel, as a genre and format of publication of fiction invented in Europe, and with the means of literary...

This book brings together a collection of original articles on the transnational relations between Brazil and European countries, especially Britain and France, in the domain of literature and print culture from the beginning of the nineteenth century...

First Published in 1991. This work is a follow-up on the European Science Foundation Project (ESF) entitled the Ecology of Adult Language Acquisition. The subject of this study is the process of untutored language acquisition in adults and the focus is...

Many regional languages across the world are threatened by modernization and urbanization whilst the universal and rapid rise of migration has created new and unprecedented forms of multilingualism. Aspects of education, national policies and attitudes...