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Onomastics in Contemporary Public Space

Edited By: Oliviu Felecan

£69.99

This volume analyses names and name-giving in public space from a global, intercultural perspective. It adopts a multidisciplinary viewpoint, merging onomastics with sociolinguistics, history, and politics to cover everything from place names to nicknames.

Building a Validity Argument for a Listening Test of Academic Proficiency

By: Vahid Aryadoust

£49.99

Using a modern approach, this book builds a validity argument for an IELTS listening test. It presents the first treatment of validity argument and analytical tools in one volume, mapping psychometric analysis onto the framework to improve language assessments.

Focus on English Phonetics

Edited By: Tatjana Paunović, Biljana Čubrović

£49.99

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume's diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.

Advances in Language Acquisition

Edited By: Xenia Konstantinopoulou, Marina Lalioti, Stavroula Stavrakaki

£54.99

This book raises issues at the centre of language acquisition research, including first and second language acquisition, language impairment, and cross-linguistic comparisons. It constitutes a valuable reference guide for current work in the field.

Translation, History and Arts

New Horizons in Asian Interdisciplinary Humanities Research

Edited By: JI Meng, Atsuko Ukai

£44.99

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.

New Literacies

Reconstructing Language and Education

Edited By: Debbita Tan Ai Lin, Christine Liew Ching Ling, Ambigapathy Pandian

£54.99

The notion of change is central. As new technologies accelerate, the traditional definition of literacy as just reading and writing is too simplistic. This calls for a reorientation in how we teach, learn, and view literacy for the 21st century.

Alternative Voices

(Re)searching Language, Culture, Identity …

Edited By: Imtiaz Hasnain

£54.99

This volume presents Alternative Voices, exploring the complex links between language, culture, and identity in our globalised world. This research challenges the “monolingual bias” in the Language Sciences, analyzing complexities inadequately covered.

Let’s Learn Japanese with Hiragana and Katakana

By: Masumi Kai

£24.99

Learn Japanese characters and beginner vocabulary step by step with illustrations for visual learning. This book teaches sentence writing and includes exercises. The attached CD contains character sounds, vocabulary exercises, and typing instructions.

Proceedings of the 4th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics

Edited By: Peter Anreiter, Irina Windhaber

£44.99

This collection presents diverse papers from the 4th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics. With authors from nine countries, the papers explore subdisciplines including syntax, cognitive and historical linguistics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics.

The Acquisition of Japanese Nominal Modifying Constructions

By: Hanako Fujino

£44.99

This book explores how L2 learners of Japanese acquire nominal modifying constructions. Special attention is drawn to why learners insert a non-target-like *no*, a phenomenon also seen in L1 acquisition, as Fujino puts forth an account on phonological grounds.

Interpretation of English Reflexives by Child and Adult L2 Learners

By: Amer Al Kafri

£44.99

This book casts new light on adult L2 learners’ access to Universal Grammar (UG) by comparing them with child L2 learners. Focusing on the acquisition of English reflexives, the study shows that adult L2 grammar is constrained by UG, with full access possible.

Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ

Edited By: Victoria Khurshudian, Svetla Koeva

£44.99

Showcasing the powerful NooJ linguistic environment, this volume presents 18 articles from the 2012 conference, exploring topics from morphology and syntax to semantics and real-world applications.

The Nature of Social Reality

Edited By: Emanuele Fadda, Alfredo Givigliano, Claudia Stancati

£44.99

While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept's origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.

While Searle’s theory of social reality shapes the debate, it faces sharp criticism. This book approaches the issue from another angle, retracing the concept’s origins to move beyond language-based analysis and debate the very nature of reality.

Change of Object Expression in the History of French

Verbs of Helping and Hindering

By: MIchelle Troberg

£44.99

This study explains why the object of certain French verbs shifted from indirect to direct in the 15th-16th century. It argues a change in the prepositional system drove the shift, linking it to other major grammatical changes of the period.

The Dancer and the Dance

Essays in Translation Studies

Edited By: Chan Sin-wai

£44.99

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—"the most complex type of event yet produced"—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

This collection of essays is the product of theory integrated with practice. Thirteen experts unravel the mystery of translation—”the most complex type of event yet produced”—tracing hitherto undiscovered patterns in its vast, mysterious tapestry.

American English(es)

Linguistic and Socio-cultural Perspectives

Edited By: Anna Belladelli, Roberto Cagliero

£44.99

American English is plural, shaped by diverse ethnic groups. Using multiple points of view, this book tackles key language debates: minority vs hegemonic varieties, the Spanish vs English controversy, and the increasing exposure of slang in public contexts.

Critical Cultural Awareness

Managing Stereotypes through Intercultural (Language) Education

Edited By: Yumiko Furumura, Maria Lebedko, Yau Tsai

£44.99

This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students' critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.

This book promotes understanding of stereotypes and suggests ways teachers can manage them by developing students’ critical cultural awareness. It provides a firm platform for the practical application of knowledge and skills when managing stereotypes in the classroom.

Simplification, Explicitation and Normalization

Corpus-Based Research into English to Italian Translations of Children's Classics

By: Margherita Ippolito

£39.99

This study tests for proposed "universal features" of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children's books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.

This study tests for proposed “universal features” of translation, like simplification and explicitation, in a corpus of Italian children’s books. The results show they do not prevail, suggesting cultural and social conditions determine translation choices.

Adventuring in the Englishes

Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Globalized World

Edited By: Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif, Piers Michael Smith

£44.99

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.

Time and TAME in Language

Edited By: Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños, Karina Veronica Molsing

£44.99

This book presents a collection of papers on syntactic and semantic aspects of temporal expression. Renowned researchers present cutting-edge research on topics from the nature of time to tense-aspect structures, a valuable contribution for any syntactician or semanticist.