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Shortlisted for the Anne Bloomfield Prize 2010 This book fills in the gaps in the research of nationality, regarding 'national education' in its double meaning: compulsory national education for all...

Il volume presenta la ricostruzione delle pratiche musicali in uso presso le istituzioni religiose femminili a Napoli fra 1650 e 1750. Il lavoro si ? basato sulla consultazione di documentazione...

This volume includes a selection of fifteen papers delivered at the Second International Conference on Late Modern English. The chapters focus on significant linguistic aspects of the Late Modern...

This conference proceeding (Sessions on "Otherness in Space and Architecture", International Medieval Conference, Leeds, 2017 and 2018) is a compilation of articles written by both young and senior...

En este volumen se recogen veintiocho art?culos relacionados con la compilaci?n y el an?lisis de corpus diacr?nicos especializados, que sirven de complemento a los corpus de la RAE. En algunos casos,...

In recent years, norms, normalities, and normativities have been disrupted. Although the idea of "normal" is local and subjective, norms are essential to social and collective behaviours, thus the...

The accelerating iconic turn in our society today increasingly demands the interactive representation of contextual knowledge. At the same time the use of Web based learning environments highlight...

The volume focuses on the shift from the traditional linguistic approach to translation to a multidisciplinary task. The analysis of translation in a variety of genres offers a wide opportunity to...

This volume summarises the academic work accomplished at the 6th International Security Forum (ISF), convened by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces from 4 to 6 October 2004...

Terres de haute technologie, les pays germanophones sont ?galement c?l?bres pour leurs ph?nom?nes de r?action contre la modernit? et la vivacit? de leurs cultures alternatives. Le pr?sent ouvrage...

A Course in Applied Linguistics for Arab EFL/ESL Students has been developed keeping in view the academic needs of native-Arabic speakers learning English as a second/foreign language. The book has a...

This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views from the Old World on the field of American Studies. All in all, this book provides the critical gaze of the expert...

This book analyses T. F. Torrance's theology of incarnation. His theology is built upon several crucial presuppositions. This book examines these presuppositions and their role within the framework...

Masculinity is one of the key issues at stake in contemporary writing and gender studies. In their novels, Michael Chabon and Tom Wolfe both consistently make masculinity a prominent thematic and...

A Day in the News is the linguistic description of a single day in the life of the British press - Wednesday, 19 August 2015. Employing a variety of tools and methods - from multimodality to...

This books is a comprehensive and intimate portrait of everyday life of rural migrants in two Chinese urban villages, exploring how everyday doing and living act as an alternative arena of the...

At the XXIst World Congress of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS/CISH) in 2010 in Amsterdam, the International Commission for Historical Demography (ICHD) decided to write an...

The present edition offers the diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 542, holding a late Middle English hitherto unedited remedybook based on the medical lore of Hippocrates, Socrates and Galen. A...

This book is a key reference for the study of English for Architecture. One of its main contributions is its methodology based on a purpose-made corpus. The study defines the character of...

Through the analysis of media and literary discourse, this book explores the interface between the structural and cognitive aspects of standard coherence and the more creative realisations of the...

This study has been carried out in institutional and non-institutional settings implementing online tandems and student recordings to analyze discourse patterns. The original studies on corpus data...

During the early half of the twentieth century, Chinese society was disillusioned by both internal dissension and external invasion, and the churches experienced many challenges. In response to the...

This book tells the story of mid-20th century Jewish America through the eyes of Bernice Cohen Schwartz, born in NYC in 1923, whose life reflects much of American Jewry's 20th century history: the...

The main part of this study is a detailed analysis of the content of the Epistolae Obscurorum Virorum (EOV). It will identify the satirical devices which Crotus and Ulrich apply in their work...

Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit untersucht das kommunikationsstrategische Verhalten von mehrsprachigen Kindern im reziprok-immersiven Kindergarten bis zur zweiten Klasse der Primarschule. Neben...

This book explores the Abraham saga (11:27-22:24) through a literary lens, following the legendary figure of Abraham as he navigates the arduous odyssey to nationhood. This book explores the Abraham...

The book brings together a rich variety of perspectives on abstracts as an academic genre. Drawing on genre analysis and corpus linguistics, the studies collected here combine attention to generic...

This volume assembles a selection of papers presented at an international conference held in Pontignano, Siena, (14-16 June 2003). It discusses the concept of evaluation in academic discourse and the...

This volume presents a cross-disciplinary analysis of academic poster presentations, taking into consideration the text and visuals that posters display depending on the discipline within which they...

Academic texts present subject-specific ideas within a subject-independent framework. This book accounts for the presence of academic words in academic writing by exploring recurring patterns of...