Turn research into practice. This guide shows how to integrate linguistics, translation, literature, and cultural studies into the language classroom with innovative strategies for teaching English, Spanish, French, and German.
Language and Speech in Synchrony and Diachrony
This collection examines language and speech in synchrony and diachrony. It covers cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, text, and discourse, analyzing languages from various groups, including the non-literate Yenisei languages.
Pluralism, Pragmatism and American Democracy
Callaway defends democratic individualism against more collectivist and corporatist tendencies in contemporary neo-pragmatism, and draws upon up-to-date political analysis in order to justify America’s long republican tradition.
Teacher Education in India
A progressive country is built upon the quality and commitment of its teachers. The teacher education system is a powerful vehicle to raise educational standards. This collection of papers analyses this system and its improvement, with special reference to North East India.
Diversity and Social Justice in Early Childhood Education
This book discusses how early childhood education can work with diversity and language to allow inclusion and social justice for all children. Building on case studies from Nordic countries, it offers insights from children, practitioners and parents.
Vision is not just perception, but is deeply rooted in human physiology, psychology and culture. This book challenges the Anglo-centric view that vision is a universal source for metaphor, exploring languages worldwide where other senses are preferred.
The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Between 1536 and 1834, England’s Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court’s history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.
Varian Studies Volume Two
A study of Emperor Elagabalus’s architecture and sculpture in Rome. This book confirms the Palatine site and astronomical implications of the Varian Temple, and analyses relief sculpture to explore the cosmology, theology, and ritual of the Syrian sun god’s cult.
Being Bilingual in Borinquen
In Puerto Rico’s complex linguistic landscape, the voices of its people have been muted. This volume showcases twenty-five personal histories from language professionals, revealing their many routes to bilingualism and why one-size-fits-all policies fail.
The fourteen narratives in this text bring together both language teachers’ stories and political stories of the problems of school programs and contexts. They are framed by the work of Clandinin and Connelly (1996) and their notion of ‘levels’ of stories told by teachers.
Based on case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines the paradoxes of environmental resource management and climate change policy. It critiques flawed interventions and calls for questioning orthodoxies to address Africa’s developmental challenges.
This volume explores posthumanism’s challenges in artistic expression and the humanities. It asks whether posthumanism is an expansion of humanism or a transcendence. Authors from diverse backgrounds offer a varied perspective on this critical contemporary question.
Ethnic Diversity and Solidarity
Are ethnic diversity and solidarity at odds? This book tests the hypothesis that diversity undermines solidarity using multiple methods, including surveys, experiments, and media analysis. It concludes that there is not a simple linear relationship between the two.
English Narrative Poetry
This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.
This compendium analyses contemporary Jewishness within the constant dialectic between faithfulness to Jewish tradition and culture and adherence to modernity and democracy values. It highlights the contrasting experiences of societies in the Diaspora and in Israeli society.
The Role of Agency and Memory in Historical Understanding
The essays here showcase the agency of historical actors tied to larger movements, demonstrating the efficacy and power of individuals to act with historical impact. They also describe the nuanced role of memory, often neglected in larger national or global social movements.
The Values, World Society and Modelling Yearbook 2015 analyses contemporary world events with special attention to values. It explores the year’s economic, political and cultural tensions—from austerity to migration—through the core notions of space, time and value.
Hollingsworth considers the social problems and status of Native Americans in the United States in the twenty-first century. He identifies the social problems faced by Native Americans today, and brings up a valuable argument: have the Native Americans really assimilated?
Loan and Investment in a Developing Economy
This title investigates various issues of investment and credit that are of importance to any developing economy through an analysis of micro- and macro-economic data from Ethiopia. It will interest academics working in the field of development economics.
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