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While an apt explanation for the linguistic nature of witty puns has evaded academics, this monograph offers a novel perspective. It frames wordplay as a cognitive phenomenon, revealing the intricate mental mechanisms that govern its creation and comprehension.
While an apt explanation for the linguistic nature of witty puns has evaded academics, this monograph offers a novel perspective. It frames wordplay as a cognitive phenomenon, revealing the intricate mental mechanisms that govern its creation and comprehension.
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A Conceptual Metaphor Account of Word Composition
Potentiality of "Light" in English and Chinese
This book describes the emergence of new meanings in English and Chinese. Using a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a key instrument of cognition and explains how word composition develops through metaphorization, highlighting socio-cultural influences.
This book describes the emergence of new meanings in English and Chinese. Using a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a key instrument of cognition and explains how word composition develops through metaphorization, highlighting socio-cultural influences.
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Adventuring in the Englishes
Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Globalized World
International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.
International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.
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Bakhtin and Translation Studies
Theoretical Extensions and Connotations
This book investigates translation using Bakhtin’s dialogical principles, questioning extreme tendencies. It proposes a new model for cultural encounters by uniquely examining Western theory through examples from Indian literatures.
This book investigates translation using Bakhtin’s dialogical principles, questioning extreme tendencies. It proposes a new model for cultural encounters by uniquely examining Western theory through examples from Indian literatures.
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Beyond Postmodernism
Onto the Postcontemporary
This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.
This collection provides an alternative to Postmodernism, arguing it has ruled too long. Contributors utilize critical tools like posthumanism and postcontemporary theory, yielding conclusions beyond its scope. For those seeking something new, join the dialogue.
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These essays explore 'translation' as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
These essays explore ‘translation’ as a key term for language, literature, and culture. The volume connects translation studies with postcolonial studies and World Englishes, revealing the profound interrelationship between language and culture.
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Depicting Dante in Anglo-Italian Literary and Visual Arts
Allegory, Authority and Authenticity
This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.
This title examines key stages of Dante’s appropriation in Western cultural history. It focuses on his representation, including how his image was fixed in the first 200 years of his appropriation in Florence and how Dantean images and his text have been used in Britain.
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Combining rigour and modernity, this collection of essays rediscovers Edgar Allan Poe’s work and draws from communication and linguistics and literature, although it also includes many other academic offshoots which explore Poe’s labyrinthine and variegated imagination.
Combining rigour and modernity, this collection of essays rediscovers Edgar Allan Poe’s work and draws from communication and linguistics and literature, although it also includes many other academic offshoots which explore Poe’s labyrinthine and variegated imagination.
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English in Southeast Asia
Varieties, Literacies and Literatures
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
This is the first single volume to publish such diverse work on English in Southeast Asia. Sections cover Varieties, Literacies, and Literatures, from code-switching to new writings. An excellent resource for university students and academics.
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Exploring Plurilingualism in Fan Fiction
ELF Users as Creative Writers
Franceschi studies English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) use in online interaction within virtual communities constituted by fans of popular culture texts. She adopts and applies linguistic heteroglossia and super-diversity to the qualitative analysis of a fan fiction corpus inspired.
Franceschi studies English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) use in online interaction within virtual communities constituted by fans of popular culture texts. She adopts and applies linguistic heteroglossia and super-diversity to the qualitative analysis of a fan fiction corpus inspired.
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Divided into two sections, this publication focuses, firstly, on theoretical linguistics, addressing issues in such areas as phonology, morphology and syntax. It then investigates the intricacies of language acquisition and discourse analysis, among other topics.
Divided into two sections, this publication focuses, firstly, on theoretical linguistics, addressing issues in such areas as phonology, morphology and syntax. It then investigates the intricacies of language acquisition and discourse analysis, among other topics.
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How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
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Lenguaje, arte y revoluciones ayer y hoy
New Approaches to Hispanic Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies
This book presents new paradigms in Hispanic literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. It explores artistic manifestations of social change and democracy alongside groundbreaking research on topics from Puerto Rican identity to the pragmatics of humor in film.
This book presents new paradigms in Hispanic literary, cultural, and linguistic studies. It explores artistic manifestations of social change and democracy alongside groundbreaking research on topics from Puerto Rican identity to the pragmatics of humor in film.
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Staraki analyses both main and embedded modality in the modern Greek language. By reviewing the classical semantic and syntactic literature related to modality, she offers a new account of its interpretation in modern Greek regarding non-veridicality and non-monotonic principles.
Staraki analyses both main and embedded modality in the modern Greek language. By reviewing the classical semantic and syntactic literature related to modality, she offers a new account of its interpretation in modern Greek regarding non-veridicality and non-monotonic principles.
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This volume showcases new research on a wide range of topics in Ghana, including pidgin, music, agricultural policy, and the poetics of names. It will appeal particularly to students of Africana and Ghanaian studies.
This volume showcases new research on a wide range of topics in Ghana, including pidgin, music, agricultural policy, and the poetics of names. It will appeal particularly to students of Africana and Ghanaian studies.
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On and Off the Page
Mapping Place in Text and Culture
This collection of essays explores the pervasive and alluring concept of place. Including research from a broad range of fields, it reveals the complex cultural interplay between place and identity, and how we make sense of our own “places” in the world.
This collection of essays explores the pervasive and alluring concept of place. Including research from a broad range of fields, it reveals the complex cultural interplay between place and identity, and how we make sense of our own “places” in the world.
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Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia
Lokaswara Nusantara
Insular Southeast Asia’s extraordinary cultural diversity is matched by its heterogeneous oral traditions. This volume explores oral poetry and storytelling from different corners of the region through perspectives including ecocriticism, poetics, linguistics, and politics.
Insular Southeast Asia’s extraordinary cultural diversity is matched by its heterogeneous oral traditions. This volume explores oral poetry and storytelling from different corners of the region through perspectives including ecocriticism, poetics, linguistics, and politics.
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Recent Trends in Translation Studies
An Anglo-Italian Perspective
This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It covers historiography, literary translation, specialized translation, and multimodality through methodologically rigorous case studies.
This volume offers a snapshot of current perspectives on translation studies within the socio-cultural framework of Anglo-Italian relations. It covers historiography, literary translation, specialized translation, and multimodality through methodologically rigorous case studies.
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Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
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This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.
This book investigates assertions of community identity in the multilingual context of Kashmir. It demonstrates that changes in language roles, motivated by various factors, may lead to the demise of the Kashmiri linguistic-cultural identity in favour of Urdu.
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