Journey through 6,000 years of Northwest Syria’s linguistic evolution. This book analyzes key languages from Eblaite and Amorite to Aramaic and Arabic, diving deep into their various dialects. A valuable resource for linguists, historians, and Semitic studies enthusiasts.
This book makes sense of the political, cultural, and social change in North Africa since the Arab Spring. It argues that the region needs a new political paradigm—one that eschews a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach for solutions reflecting the cultural realities of its societies.
News-Reporting and Ideology in 17th-Century English Murder Pamphlets
This book explores how 17th-century murder pamphlets evolved from moralizing tales into political propaganda. It analyses how persuasive discourse was used to bias people’s perception of crime and justice in relation to the ideological imperatives of the time.
Essays on language policy, identity, and social justice in five Caribbean nations. This volume explores how multilingualism, education, and the status of Creole languages unsettle colonial discourses and challenge social segregation based on race, gender, and sexuality.
This book traces the history of Chinese technical communication, exploring the philosophical traditions and classical texts that shaped it. Discover how these historical roots continue to influence contemporary practice and gain compelling perspectives on the field.
100 Years of Conference Interpreting
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
Chen extensively scrutinises visible and under-the-table power struggles with regards to aspects of communities, connections, cultures, and communication related to Chinese language teaching in US higher education in the past two decades.
A Brief History of Educational Developments in India
Once a beacon of learning, ancient India’s magnificent educational systems fell into ruin. This book uncovers the story of their rise and fall, from the Vedic era through colonial rule to the modern day.
From Glosses to Dictionaries
This book presents the beginnings of lexicography and the first dictionaries across the world. Through case studies from Greek Antiquity to 9th-century Japan, it offers a global, comparative approach to a topic usually studied only within single cultures.
In the 19th century, comparative philology was not just a science but a tool for nation-building and identity politics. This book explores how Scandinavian cultures were used to create imaginative geographies of belonging, revealing how scientific models depended on local needs.
Translation, the Canon and its Discontents
This collection addresses the complex process by which translation and other forms of rewriting have contributed to canon formation and revision. It stresses the role of translation and adaptation as potentially transformative, capable of shaping and undermining identities.
The Discourse of Well-Being in Late-Modern Ireland
What makes a society happy? This book explores well-being from a new angle by analysing letters to the editor from newspapers in late-modern Ireland. It provides empirical evidence of the major themes of well-being from the public’s viewpoint and sheds light on their concerns.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
This book reassesses the role of sacredness in medieval France and Occitania by exploring the coexistence, convergence, and opposition between the sacred and the secular in Old French and Old Provençal poetry from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
Focusing on poverty and welfare in England between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, this volume brings together a range of sources to re-evaluate the Old and New Poor Laws, questioning a range of long-standing assumptions about the experience of being poor.
African Literacies
Moving beyond stereotypes of low literacy, this volume explores Africa’s complex and diverse multilingual literacies. It examines practices from ancient manuscripts to instant messaging, offering an advanced introduction to language and society in Africa.
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
Hegemony and Language Policies in Southern Africa
In southern Africa, language policy is central to identity, power, and politics. This book traces the colonial and postcolonial history of these policies, questioning whose interests they serve and challenging the dominance of theories from the Global North.
This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.
Translation, History and Arts
This collection of papers on translation, history, and art stands at the frontier of interdisciplinary humanities research. A central theme is developing a new narrative of local histories against the backdrop of world history to advance our understanding of them.