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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 tests the hypothesis that plural agreement with collective nouns is becoming frequent in French. It addresses questions concerning the methodological challenges of studying variation and change in morphosyntax, and the application of...

English-based Mandarin loanwords are commonly used in Chinese people’s daily lives. Mandarin Loanwords demonstrates how English phonemes map into Mandarin phonemes through Mandarin loanwords adaptation. The consonantal adaptations are the most important...

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...

Mastering Arabic Vocabulary: For Beginner to Intermediate Learners of Modern Standard Arabic provides a structured vocabulary course for novice students of Arabic.Arranged thematically, and by root, the course is a flexible resource that can be used...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780367600297Author...

- An edited collection that brings together a team of international contributors to offer a global perspective of the application of multiliteracies in L2 education. - Brings together two key topics in L2 education, multiliteracies pedagogy and...

- An edited collection that brings together a team of international contributors to offer a global perspective of the application of multiliteracies in L2 education. - Brings together two key topics in L2 education, multiliteracies pedagogy and...

The first introductory guide to language demography presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, such as students of linguistics, modern languages, sociology, anthropology, and human geography. The...

Exploring the history of missionary translation of Christian texts in East Asia, Missionary Translators offers a comparative perspective between the features of East Asian languages and the historical context of the translation. Focusing on the Bible and...

Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation contributes to a better understanding of plurilingual education in Catalonia by providing a description of the interactional resources mobilised by learners as social actors. This volume is a collection...

The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. Drawing upon the approach that regards talk as a form of social practice, the...

Comunicación especializada y divulgación en la red: aproximaciones basadas en corpus adopta un enfoque basado en corpus para analizar los principales rasgos discursivos de la divulgación y de la comunicación especializada en español.El volumen presenta...

This book is the first to examine the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of Instructed Second Language Acquisition.This book is directed to teachers of Arabic as a...

A clear organized structure that allows for one chapter’s lessons to build on another, assisting in supporting and scaffolding students' knowledge Clear visuals and charts that take into account the learner’s language level.Support for the instructor...

A complete introduction to the letters and sounds of Persian, the ideal starting point for anyone new to the Persian language wanting to build a strong foundation on which to develop their language skills. Video and audio support show learners how each...

Designed for students of premodern Chinese literature/history/etc. to read modern Japanese academic prose. Practical - the grammatical explanations are clear and relevant, the exercises are useful, and the answer key allows for self-study Aimed at all...

Ancient graphs provided to illustrate early meanings and extended meaningsReconstructed sounds given to illustrate the basis for borrowed meanings Parts of speech and syntactic components illustrated for each usageDetailed explanations of special usage...

The targeted readership of this book includes language instructors, language educators, and administrators of college-level Chinese and Japanese language programs, as well as area studies faculty members interested in collaboration with language faculty...

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching illustrates how the transdisciplinary approach to second language acquisition (SLA) centres around collaboration to provide a learning-conducive environment with rich semiotic...

1) The theme of the textbook starts with individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the US, and eventually to the entire American society. Meanwhile, the discussion of the topics starts from the perspective...

The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China investigates the linguistic and intellectual roots of China's modern transformation by presenting a systematic study of the interplay between language innovation and socio-political upheavals in...

Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language. The main objective of this book is to explore the relationship between language and identity...

A Linguistic Image of Womanhood in South Korea examines the verbal and non-verbal techniques used by contemporary South Korean women to navigate their society. South Korea is extremely hierarchical, and this is expressed through a complex array of...

The Routledge Introduction to Italian Linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive overview of the linguistic structure of the Italian language, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics...

Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to characterize efforts to revive and...

Student-Centred 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 compounded...

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first 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 inform...

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first 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 inform...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138826274Author Maria Sheila ZamarFormat HardbackImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

This monograph is a grammatical description of Tondano, an endangered and under-documented Austronesian language spoken in the northern part of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is a modified version of the related doctoral dissertation completed at...

From abdabs to zit From pillock (14th century) to couch potato (20th century) From She'll be apples (Australia) to the pits (USA) This new collection brings together some 5,000 contemporary slang expressions originating in all parts of the...

This book presents a description of the grammar of Zhoutun, an endangered Sinitic variety spoken by less than 1000 people in the Qinghai Province of northwest China. With vocabulary predominantly from Chinese and Tibetan syntax, Zhoutun is one of the...

Co-published with The International Research Foundation for English Language Education (TIRF), the ninth volume in the Global Research on Teaching and Learning English series presents research on the practice of integrating content and language 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...

This volume presents a series of the most up-to-date studies on Chinese for Specific Purposes (CSP), an area that has been underrepresented in Language for Specific Purposes (LSP). Drawing from the insights and trends in mainstream theoretical and...

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...

Teaching and Researching Chinese Second Language Listening focuses on Chinese L2 listening with theory and pedagogy at its heart. The objectives of the book are to recount the development of Chinese L2 listening pedagogy, to synthesize research on...

The Ethics of Humour in Online Slavic Media Communication is devoted to speech research on how the rules of humour used online media are changing, and how these changes rearrange the traditions of speech interaction in media communication. It is about...