Language Arts & Disciplines

This book provides useful strategies for language learning, researching and the understanding of social factors that influence human behavior. It offers an account of how we use human, animal and plant fixed expressions every day and the cultural aspects...

This edited volume makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning research field of English as a lingua franca. In a pioneering step, the collection is exclusively devoted to the English email discourse of Chinese speakers. The studies address...

This monograph mainly focuses on the idea that language teaching in higher education involves making use of new approaches and technology. It identifies the key determinants of the materials needed to improve language teaching on the basis of the actual...

This volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in this volume range from historical perspectives to classroom-specific pedagogies, from...

This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from...

This volume studies the relationship between the writers of specialized text and their readers in a broad range of settings, including research, popularization and education. It offers younger researchers an insight into the targeting process, helping...

With a Foreword by Hugh Starkey and Audrey Osler, and Afterwords by Graham Crookes, Hilary Janks and Allan Luke, this book promotes critical language education and illustrates how a critical agenda can be enacted in English language education in real...

In this anthology, a journey around the world and through time is undertaken in 21 countries on no less than six continents. In this way, the global reception of one of the biggest media events to date is given contour. Based on the coverage of the first...

This book explores the Australian press reporting of the persecution and genocide of European Jews, and the extent to which the news of the Holocaust was known and believed, revealed and hidden, and acknowledged and minimised. Spanning the coverage of...

Transnational Broadcasting in the Indo-Pacific brings together research spanning journalism, broadcast and political science to interrogate the issues arising from a rapidly changing global political and broadcast environment. This book asks: Why is...

Essential questions about the skills teachers need for effective classroom practice have raised by researchers such as Shulman, Schön, Altrichter & Posch and Hattie, and discussions still continue. In this context, the anthology combines theoretical...

Handbook of Philosophical LogicAuthor: Dov M Gabbay, Franz GuenthnerPublisher: Springer Science & Business MediaPublication Date: Aug 20, 2015Number of Pages: 284 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 940178096XISBN-13: 9789401780964

First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of culture, and in the light of modern sociological thought puts the hero into his background, human, social and...

First published in 1986, this is a nonscientific book about science. It is concerned with the relationships among social science, journalism, public information, and public policy. It explores some of the obstacles to the mutual exchange of information...

A clear, accessible, and fun guide on everything it takes to land a job. Searching for a job can be hard and demoralizing work. In Why You, Why Me, Why Now, Rachel Toor delivers some good news. The most important thing is within your control?a mindset...

This work describes the grammar of Gayogo_hó:no? (Gayogo_hó:no?néha:?, Cayuga), an Ogweho´weh (Iroquoian) language spoken at Six Nations, Ontario, Canada. Topics include Gayogo_hó:no?néha:? morphology (word formation); pronominal prefix selection,...

Explores René Girard's mimetic theory and repurposes it to invent a post-Christian "theorhetoric," a new way of speaking to, for, and especially about God. Advocates a rhetoric of meekness that conscientiously refuses rivalry, actively exploits tradition...

This book delivers a critical look at the social and racial costs of relying on artificial intelligence to produce journalism without human controls in editorial expression, equity, and accuracy.Author: Colin H. CampbellPublisher: Lexington...

This book demonstrates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance.Author: Triauna CareyPublisher: Lexington BooksPublication Date: Jul 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

This book uses a theory of cyborg semiotics to explore the similarities between language and cyborgs in their formation, interpretation, and relationships. This intersectional theory provides a unique perspective on power and the human condition.Author:...

This volume discusses issues and themes surrounding communication, social media, online protests, policing, criminal justice reform, and freedom of speech. The contributors offer analyses embracing social justice in the areas of educational and criminal...

The first fantasy-writing textbook to combine a historical genre overview with an anthology and comprehensive craft guide, this book explores the blue prints of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction. The first section will acquaint readers with...

What is Linguistics? How do languages work? Why is this important? Answering these questions and more, Linguistics: An Introduction covers all the key topics that you will need in your study of language and linguistics. Over 17 chapters, William McGregor...

Econarratives are all around us, but although they seem complex, the definition of 'econarrative' is simple: a story which influences how people interact with other species and the natural world. This book provides a linguistic theory of econarrative,...

Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges's residual presence in his Spanish-language translations of works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner. Argentine writer and critic Jorge...

Xu brings together Deleuze's philosophy and contemporary Chinese "pure literature" to form an assemblage of theory and practice through which both the obscured edges of a complex literary practice and the future-oriented concepts of a creative philosophy...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. "And when they write those...

The eighth edition of Interpersonal Communication continues the tradition of excellence established by this theory-driven text. Its unique learning model, which emphasizes communication competence, stands at the forefront of the discipline. The goal of...

Durch sprachliche Handlungen können extremistische Ideologien geschaffen und potenziell beeinflussbare Personen erreicht werden. Um Muster der sprachlichen Realitätskonstituierung und das Indoktrinationspotenzial von Propagandatexten auf mehreren Ebenen...

Musik gilt seit jeher als 'unsagbar': Wie können Worte über das urteilen, was doch nur in Klängen ausgedrückt werden kann? Die diskurslinguistische Studie untersucht die Spezifik des Sprachgebrauchs und die Gestalt sprachlicher Zeichen in BezugAuthor:...