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NihonGO NOW! Level 2 is an intermediate level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

Baudelaire and PhotographyAbout the AuthorTimothy RaserBook InformationISBN 9780367599478Author Timothy RaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 453g

The intellectual societies known as Academies played a vital role in the development of culture, and scholarly debate throughout Italy between 1525-1700. They were fundamental in establishing the intellectual networks later defined as the ‘République des...

This book offers an intriguing account of photobiographic works ranging from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic narratives to photo-texts. It is dedicated to the writers who embody an attitude towards the self through the...

This book aims to show new ways in which Dada explains itself, and that Dada, in turn, can help to animate and expand debates about a diverse range of other fields including poetics, psychoanalysis, ethics, semantics, intellectual history and science...

Journeys of RemembranceBook InformationISBN 9780367604127Author Kathryn JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 320g

This book depicts a fictional encounter between Artaud, Michaux and Zhuangzi to raise important issues about comparative literature. It shows that the themes of rationality, cosmology and ethics are particularly pertinent to bridging a comparative...

Decolonizing Modernism focuses on a body of texts typically associated with the 'boom' to endorse and develop Emir Rodriguez Monegal's contention that James Joyce's Ulysses is indeed a central model for the development of contemporary Spanish American...

Haunting is what happens when the past is disturbed and the victims of previous violence, who are thought to be buried and forgotten, are brought back to the present and made to live again. Serbian fiction writers of the 1980s exhume the ghosts of the...

This book examines the genre and gender issues at stake in Marie Bashkirtseff's bid to go public with the personal. It explores the discursive strategies by which Bashkirtseff writes her journal from the private context of its keeping to a public context...

This book, focusing on the nature of representation and exchange in the seventeenth century, shows how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Antoine Furetiere was placed to explore a changing literary economy marked by the trial of...

Western missionaries contributed largely to Chinese lexicography. Their involvement was basically a practical rather than a theoretical one. In order to preach and convert, it was necessary to speak Chinese. A missionary on post needed to learn at least...

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research into the application of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning.As the use of digital games in foreign language education continues to expand, there...

Starting again - or maybe starting anew? Want to widen your prospects and sort out your language skills? Looking for a serious French course designed specifically for your needs? On Course provides a thorough grounding in the language and enables...

First published in 1908, this volume emerged in the midst of the British Protectorate of Sierra Leone. The author, F.W.H. Migeod, studied the Mende nation in eastern Sierra Leone and followed the example of the grammar (1882) and vocabulary (1884)...

The Routledge Course in Business Korean is a textbook for teaching Korean to mid-intermediate to low-advanced students to learn the language used in a business context in every-day life in Korea. The authors' intuitive approach makes it easy for students...

The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the...

The Routledge Course in Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language it develops all the basic skills such as...

Are you a bit of a chairwarmer? Do you use the wins from a country straight to get scudded on snakebite in a blind tiger? Do you ride the waves on puddle or death drop? Vice Slang gently eases you into the language of gambling, drugs and alcohol,...

This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hmong, and varieties of Chinese. The book makes a...

Espana a tu alcance provides intermediate students with a genuine insight into Spanish culture via a range of practical activities and exercises. The course includes many unscripted recordings of interviews with Spaniards from a variety of geographical...

This collection will appeal to everyone who has ever wondered about the origin of phrases like "all part of life's rich pattern" and "long time no see". It covers a wide range of catch phrases in current use in all parts of the...

NihonGO NOW! Level 2 is an intermediate level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to...

This study of a wide selection of literary texts from the beginning of the twenty-first century aims to explore various ways in which a sense of belonging is being articulated and understood in contemporary Germany.Book InformationISBN...

This book presents a number of essays written by specialists in various fields that include literary criticism, linguistics, sociology, history and art criticism. It offers an excellent overview of Portuguese modernism in a current, challenging and...

This book provides an up-to-date survey of the role of linguistic and cultural interaction in the process of language change. It covers theoretical issues; different forms of language contact in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; and dialect transition and...

This book provides an understanding of the kind of work that representations of African dictatorship do. It explores the contradictions that arise from postcolonial critics' simultaneous investment in aesthetics and in politics.About the AuthorCecile...

Enhance your students' success and improve the likelihood of retention with the easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book! Bestselling author Deborah Blaz shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience and...

South Africa is a country characterised by great linguistic diversity. Large indigenous languages, such as isiZulu and isiXhosa, are spoken by many millions of people, as well as the languages with European roots, such as Afrikaans and English, which are...

This biography of Candida Xu (1607-1680), granddaughter of the prominent Chinese Christian convert and statesman Xu Guangqi (1562-1633) and foremost Chinese Christian woman of the seventeenth century, is based on the biography of Candida Xu titled...

Although the Japanese language is one of the most quoted examples in politeness research, extant publications focus on particular areas of politeness, and very few of them enquire into the varied aspects of Japanese politeness. In this book, Yasuko Obana...

Perform Suzhou is a task- and performance-oriented textbook course for Chinese study abroad programs serving intermediate- to advanced-level learners. Performance is the key concept; developing communication skills through role playing. Field performance...

Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections between language and meaning. Originally published in...

This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It...

This book was first published in 1922.Book InformationISBN 9780415845564Author Otto JespersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 463g

Linguistica hispanica actual provides step-by-step instructions on how to plan, design, and teach introductory Hispanic Linguistics courses. It is a versatile resource, which can be used in conjunction with Introduccion a la linguistica hispanica actual:...

This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work...

Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive and revolutionary 20-week course in translation method offering a challenging and entertaining approach to the acquisition of translation skills. It has been fully and successfully piloted at the University...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415057714Author Bernard ComrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

Dimensions of Variation in Written Chinese uses a corpus-based, multi-dimensional model to account for variation in written Chinese. Using statistical method and two-dimensional visual representation, it provides a concrete and objective view of the...