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Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume I
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This first volume investigates the European context, exploring authors such as Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy.
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.
Language, Literature and Style in Africa
This book brings together scholars to study language, literature and style in Africa. It is a timely response to the neglect of stylistic analysis of African prose, offering innovative discussions that illuminate the field and call for its revival.
This book challenges common views on autism and implicit meaning. Using a novel test with video-based conversational exchanges, this study’s results contradict previous findings, showing that people with ASD can understand non-literal meaning.
Unity in Diversity, Volume 2
This work investigates how ignoring markers of identity harms cultural groups and creates unstable unity. Drawing on linguistics, translation, and cultural and political studies, this book is a rich repository for linguists and scholars in these fields.
Made for Japan
This book describes the first Japanese translation of the famous Job Descriptive Index (JDI) surveys. It invites multinational companies to participate in validating the surveys to create a powerful new scientific tool for measuring job satisfaction in Japan.
Florida Studies
A journey through Florida’s literary and cultural soul. From its storied past to its complex present, these essays reveal a unique sense of place, locating the state within the heart of American political and literary tradition.
This is the only study on the acquisition of the Spanish Determiner Phrase by Bantu speakers. It contributes to Second Language Acquisition and Creole formation by comparing the interlanguage of Swahili speakers with Spanish-lexifier Creoles for the first time.
Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World (Volume II
This collection of essays in two volumes examines the concepts of authority and displacement within English language regions. This second volume focuses on an American context, with contributions focusing on American and Canadian culture and works by authors of Guyanese origin.
Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings
This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.
Discover current scholarship on the Middle and Far East. These essays offer new perspectives on the region’s languages, literatures, and cultures, from theory and gender to pedagogy.
This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
In Pakistan, Board Examinations encourage students to memorize essays, damaging learners’ creative talents. This book investigates the negative impact on classroom practice and argues that changes to the examination system and textbooks will improve teaching and assessment.
This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
This collection of papers explores interfaces in language, including diachronic and synchronic approaches, generative and non-generative frameworks, as well as typological and theory-driven perspectives. The result is a truly eclectic mix.
This groundbreaking work presents literature by early 20th-century Japanese female authors. It features their first publication in English—the author’s own translations—alongside insightful commentary on key translation issues. Suitable for postgraduate or advanced self-study.
Florida Studies
This volume contains essays about Florida literature and history. Topics range from slave shipwrecks and Zora Neale Hurston to Stephen King and the “Dexter” novels, as well as Florida ecocriticism, Hunter Thompson, and Elizabeth Bishop.
Issues in Arabic Legal Translation
This collection explores state-of-the-art legal translation, focusing on Arabic-speaking countries. It presents the latest research on the dynamic relationship between language and law through case studies like the UN and the Arabic translation of the American Constitution.
This book theorises the evolution of English in post-colonial India and the rise of Indian English. It explores the debate: Is this distinct variety a standardized form suitable for teaching, or only for informal use? Through a survey, this book examines its acceptability.