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The collection of essays by eleven TS researchers focuses on translation in the first half of the 20th century, a period of political and social turmoil in Europe. The collection concentrates mainly, though not exclusively, on the Iberian Peninsula,...

We have developed this volume, Deep Reading, Deep Learning, as a companion to our 2017 NCTE book, Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, which received the CCCC Outstanding Book Award in 2019 for Best Edited Collection. In this volume...

Internet has radically transformed our ways to communicate in an increasingly globalised world. From an interdisciplinary perspective, this book aims to explore the consequences of technological revolution in Communication. This collection of articles...

This book addresses epistemological and political aspects of the discursive pursuit of authenticity and various ways in which the inauthentic is devalued and marginalized. The essays critically analyze various means by which the authentic is searched...

The volume Urban Voices presents studies, analysing how speakers of Russian convey social meanings across a variety of speech situations. Rooted in quantitative and qualitative methodological frameworks, the contributions show how various linguistic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631828410Author Sara Quintero RamirezFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 148g

The Festschrift volume consists of 42 contributions by 55 authors from 13 countries. The papers, written in Catalan, English, French, Russian and Spanish, treat data from these and some other languages (Arabic, BCS [Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian], Czech,...

This book offers a collection of research contributions that delve into crucial aspects within two intricately connected realms of knowledge: Education and the Humanities. It explores pivotal topics, including tutoring across diverse educational levels,...

This unique volume focuses on religion and spirituality, along with rituals, practices and symbols, discussed and analysed from a semiotic perspective. It covers both cognitive and social dimensions of religious practices and beliefs, various aspects of...

Caldo Verde Is Not Stone Soup identifies elements of an emerging Portuguese American culture in the United States. The book discusses subjects and themes that reflect the richness and diversity of this culture. Included are analyses of the Portuguese...

Linguistic Landscape studies examine language(s) in public spaces. This study focuses on the interplay of language, space and sociocultural context: Yaounde's Linguistic Landscape is examined with respect to its multilingual and multimodal nature. Next...

The papers collected in this volume present multiple views on the skills required of LSP teachers and their preparation for the profession. The authors, whose experience comes from diverse educational contexts, ponder on the nature of the necessary...

This volume consists of twelve studies thematically grouped into three parts: (1) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, (2) Hermeneutics and Text Linguistics, and (3) Lexicology and Phraseology. The phrase "tradition and innovation" characterizes...

The book investigates how American learners of Arabic realize the speech act of refusal in Egyptian Arabic in different speech situations, varying by setting, topic, social distance, and interlocutor status. Two groups of learners, one at the...

We have developed this volume, Deep Reading, Deep Learning, as a companion to our 2017 NCTE book, Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, which received the CCCC Outstanding Book Award in 2019 for Best Edited Collection. In this volume...

This volume highlights the dynamic nature of the field of English Linguistics and features selected contributions from the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. The contributions comprise studies (i) that focus...

This book comprises a compilation of papers authored by researchers who took part in the 5th International Conference on Economic, Business, Financial, and Institutional Translation held at the University of Alicante in 2023. We hope that this...

If coherence is the sine qua non of nearly all written communication, why do we not have a comprehensive treatment of it, especially for those who study or teach formal, academic writing? Beyond Cohesion: Toward a Theory of Coherence builds on the...

The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal...

Die Schwerpunkte des 49. Bandes sind vielfaltig und decken Literaturanalysen, Aspekte des Sprachunterrichts und linguistische Themen (unter Bezugnahme auf Diskursanalyse, Lexikografie, Transferenz und Interferenz) ab. Die Darstellung des Genozids an den...

This book bridges the gap between phonological and Interpreting Studies. It first presents interdisciplinary studies on interpreters and interpreting receivers. The subsequent chapters discuss phonology, phonological transfer and bilingual processing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846054505Author James JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhPublisher Salzwasser-Verlag GmbhWeight(grams) 331g

Spanish is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, and there is extensive lexical variation between its numerous dialects. This book, the first of its kind, focuses uniquely on the origin, diversity, and geographic distribution of portions...

Travelling in order to recover from a nervous breakdown, Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) arrived in Yokohama, Japan, in May 1873. He was immediately fascinated by traditional Japanese culture. At the same time, the national drive for modernisation in...

First published in 1881, The Six Scripts; or, The Principles of Chinese Writing was an English translation by L. C. Hopkins (1854-1952) of Tai T'ung's Liu Shu Ku. Following Hopkins' death, a facsimile of the original translation was printed in 1954 by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426981876Author Ronald HaladynaFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994981885Author Syed Murtaza Ali ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva PressWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The Indo-Aryan language family is a branch of the Indo-European phylum, and includes Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Kashmiri and Gujarati. First published in 1875, this three-volume comparative grammar of the family was written by the British civil...

Sidney Herbert Ray (1858-1939) was a gifted linguist and teacher, known in particular for his study of the languages of Melanesia and the attendant islands. In this 1928 publication, one of his most famous works, Ray does an exhaustive study of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915654106Author Jane TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Prosperity EducationPublisher Prosperity EducationWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788409512171Author Tai SatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Murasaki LighthousePublisher Murasaki LighthouseWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784353032Author Tony J RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784353049Author Tony J RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Jiahu BooksPublisher Jiahu BooksWeight(grams) 268g

Who is involved and why in the linguistic landscapes in educational contexts? How are agency and activism reflected in educationscapes? These questions and more are addressed in the various contributions in this volume, thus expanding the boundaries of...

Dentro del aula es importante adquirir una competencia cultural (conocer la cultura meta), que dará como resultado hablantes que se adecúan a la situación comunicativa, pero también competencia intercultural, enfocada en desarrollar hablantes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386423177Author Samuel FallowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639235401Author Eskinder GetachewFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639178920Author Yohannes KidanemariamFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782490057719Author Francesca HelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Research-Publishing.NetPublisher Research-Publishing.NetWeight(grams) 152g

This study analyzes the use of conceptual metaphors on Polish and American internet forums for mothers. In order to achieve these objectives, the author compiled a corpus consisting of ten thousand posts from Polish internet forums and ten thousand posts...