Current Research in African Linguistics
Honoring Ọladele Awobuluyi, international scholars present new research in African linguistics. This important contribution presents data and linguistic analysis from many African languages, covering topics from phonology and morphology to syntax and semantics.
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.
Most new medical concepts are first named in English. This volume explores the naming strategies adopted, their consequences for the transparency of English terms, and the challenges of their translation and borrowing into other languages.
Thinking Space, Advancing Art
This book highlights the problems of art theory’s current obsession with theories of spectatorship, and argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one’s experience of space, using the ideas of Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther as support.
Female Beauty Systems
Female beauty systems sort individuals into “more” or “less” desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.
Thinking Modally
Bringing together papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Modality in English in 2010, this volume focuses on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and on the connection between modality and stance and evaluation in specific genres.
City of Empires
This title represents the first volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571, despite the city’s undoubted importance.
The PCI Artists
This book examines the Italian Communist Party’s artistic policies (1944–1951), providing a framework for wider reflections on art and politics. At a time when the world was divided, Italian artists became protagonists of a project to synthesize antagonistic cultural blocs.
Hamlet’s Ghost
Haunted by the mysterious deaths of two wives, Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga forged a new life by building Sabbioneta, the first ideal city. A true Renaissance man, his story reveals a fascinating link to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the emergence of our modern consciousness.
Islam-Oriented Parties’ Ideologies and Political Communication in the Quest for Power in Morocco
Unlike many other prominent Islam-oriented parties, Morocco’s PJD does not focus on commonly used precepts such as madawiyya and al da’awa al nidaliyya. This book explores the party’s recent political ideologies and its use of the internet in political advertising strategies.
Eva Figes’ Writings
Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Thomas and Charity Rotch
This study of Quakers Charity and Thomas Rotch explores their role in transforming the Ohio frontier from wilderness to a prosperous town. The letters of Charity Rotch suggest how Quaker women forged relationships crucial to building their faith communities.
News as Changing Texts
Following the beginnings and development of seventeenth-century English periodical print news, this book explores how contemporary news writers responded to presentational, communicative and financial concerns. It will be of interest to both historians and linguists.
Learning Abroad
Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved over 30,000 people across borders. This book sets out the narrative of the scholarship plan, looking at both the scholars and those who selected them, and examines the policies of countries offering scholarships and the recipients.
The Challenges of Mobility
This book arose from a shortage of literature on mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange. How does mobility alter geographies and create new narratives? This volume provides fresh perspectives on the crucial challenges of mobility.
Professor Zidan explores the ways in which legal language differs from ordinary usage, investigating the difficulties of drafting English and Arabic legal texts, paying particular attention to features of such language that are often ignored in academic analysis.
ChiMoKoJa
This initial volume of the biannual and peer-reviewed journal of the same name covers a variety of aspects of East Asian history, including the Russian East Asiatic Company in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and the role of Japan during the early Cold War.
Picturing Evolution and Extinction
Fears of extinction stretch back to Darwin. This book explores the interplay of degeneration and regeneration in modern visual cultures from 1860-1930, showing how art betrayed anxieties over decline alongside latent hopes of renewal.
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