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Visual Writing

By: Alex Baratta

£39.99

Academic writing instruction is often boring. This self-help guide addresses this by discussing essay components in terms—such as film—familiar to today’s generation, enabling students to see the subject from a new perspective and develop their skills.

Teaching and Learning English through Bilingual Education

Edited By: Juan de Dios Martínez Agudo

£39.99

CLIL pedagogy is a revolution in language education but involves complex challenges. This publication provides a collection of original papers covering essential aspects of CLIL. It is a helpful handbook for teachers, student teachers, and teacher trainers.

Europe

Home of Migrants Built on Sand. EU Political and Legal Discourse on Immigration and Asylum

By: Stefania D’Avanzo

£39.99

EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU's own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.

EU policy to protect refugees has proven inadequate, failing to guarantee their rights. This study investigates how vague language in the EU’s own legal Directives contributed to this failure to harmonize procedures and protect displaced people.

Idiom Treatment Experiments in Machine Translation

By: Dimitra Anastasiou

£39.99

Idiomatic expressions challenge Machine Translation (MT), as they cannot be translated literally. This book shows how MT systems can correctly process and translate idioms using simple linguistic resources, providing a practical foundation with plenty of examples.

Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice in Translation and Gender Studies

Edited By: Vanessa Leonardi

£39.99

This volume analyses how Feminist Translation Studies challenges patriarchal language worldwide. Scholars bridge the gap between theory and practice to explore the crucial relationship between gender, culture, identity, and translation.

Translating Identity and the Identity of Translation

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez, Francine Tolron

£39.99

This volume uses translation to explore identity in cultural, artistic and literary production. It examines how identity is “translated” for global markets and asks if it's possible to transcend cultural barriers in an era of homogenization.

This volume uses translation to explore identity in cultural, artistic and literary production. It examines how identity is “translated” for global markets and asks if it’s possible to transcend cultural barriers in an era of homogenization.

Academic Writing

By: Luke Strongman

£39.99

How can I improve my writing and be more persuasive? This book answers these and other questions about academic writing. Learn to choose words carefully to communicate complex ideas. A practical guide for students, teachers, and all writers.

Collected Articles of the IInd International Linguistics Conference (Taganrog, Russia)

Edited By: Olga E. Bondarets, Galina T. Polenova

£39.99

This book presents the most important research from an international linguistic conference, covering Historical linguistics, Lexicology, Grammar, Pragmatics, Ethnolinguistics, and Translation. A key resource for philologists, teachers, and students.

An Introduction to Language Description

By: John Rhoades

£39.99

This workbook introduces language's basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.

This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.

Fictional Names

A Critical Study of Some Theories Not Committed to the Existence of Fictional Entities

By: Angelo Napolano

£39.99

What are we naming when we use terms like Sherlock Holmes? If we are speaking about nothing, how do we understand it? This book critiques theories denying existence to fictional characters, analyzing their contribution to the meaning of sentences and our thoughts.

Two Voices in One

Essays in Asian and Translation Studies

Edited By: Chan Sin-wai, Laurence Wong

£39.99

This collection of essays by leading scholars opens new horizons by uniting Asian and Translation Studies. Discover why a Chinese garden can be a text, how Aristotle and Mencius are linked by translation, and how computer-aided translation is developing.

Applications of Finite-State Language Processing

Selected Papers from the 2008 International NooJ Conference

Edited By: Svetla Koeva, Tamás Váradi, Max Silberztein

£39.99

NooJ is a corpus processing tool and linguistic development environment. This volume contains papers from the 2008 International NooJ conference, presenting varied problems in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and new developments in the tool itself.

Metaphor in Focus

Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor Use

Edited By: Francesca Ervas, Elisabetta Gola

£39.99

This philosophical guide on metaphor use bridges the gap between theoretical and empirical research. It analyses the role of metaphor across diverse domains, presenting interdisciplinary connections with linguistics, cognitive science, economics, and more.

Anglicisms in Europe

Linguistic Diversity in a Global Context

Edited By: Roswitha Fischer, Hanna Pulaczewska

£39.99

This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.

Language and Humour in the Media

Edited By: Jan Chovanec, Isabel Ermida

£39.99

This volume provides new insights into the interface of humour and media discourse. It analyzes the roles humour plays and the butts it targets across cultures, covering everything from wordplay in sitcoms to news satire in online media.

What’s in a Text? Inquiries into the Textual Cornucopia

Edited By: Adam Głaz, Hubert Kowalewski, Anna Weremczuk

£39.99

Linguists and translators address fundamental questions about text: What is it? Why do we study it? What are we looking for? This volume helps the reader appreciate the richness of text as a treasure-trove for scholars with various approaches to language.

Talk in Institutions

A LANSI Volume

Edited By: Catherine Box, Christine M. Jacknick, Hansun Zhang Waring

£39.99

This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.

For Arguments’ Sake

Speaker Evaluation in Modern Political Discourse

By: Douglas Mark Penton

£39.99

How can human beings be persuaded by language? This book explores persuasive rhetoric, suggesting that evaluative language plays a crucial role. It analyzes speeches by celebrated rhetors like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, and Winston Churchill.

Power in the EFL Classroom

Critical Pedagogy in the Middle East

Edited By: Phyllis Wachob

£39.99

Critical Pedagogy is a way of ‘doing’ learning. In these studies, teachers from across the Middle East address questions of power in education, arguing that we must respect students and enable their empowerment by providing space and honoring their dignity.

Love Ya Hate Ya

The Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Language and Youth Identities

Edited By: J. Normann Jørgensen

£39.99

This volume analyzes youth language as a tool for negotiating identity and social relations. Covering diverse groups from Argentina to Greenland, it finds surprising similarities and presents youth language as functional, socially valuable, and flexible.