Minding the Gap
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
Realising Critical HRD
Critical Human Resource Development has stalled, focusing on theory over action. This book moves the project from problem recognition to meaningful change, offering practical interventions to challenge power structures through Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting.
Management Information Systems for Microfinance
The essays in this book explore the metrics required for success in the field of microfinance, using case studies on open-source and cloud-based software. Contributors include business executives and consultants, in addition to academics.
Current Issues in Reading, Writing and Visual Literacy
Representing papers presented at the 2014 World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, this collection explores current efforts to tease out the variables involved in the development of literacies.
This volume represents investigations by linguistics professionals into the challenges of developing communicative competence in future engineers, economists and other such specialists, offering the views of instructors of English for specific professional purposes from Russia.
Mobile Participation
This collection of proceedings from the fourth conference on “Mobile Communications for Development” provides empirical evidence and analysis of the opportunities and limitations of mobile technologies’ contributions to development in areas ranging from literacy to governance.
Recovery and Transgression
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
Museums beyond the Crises
The predominant model of the museum is collapsing. The old paradigm is being replaced by a new one that still needs to be defined. This book investigates what such a new paradigm may entail and its consequences for the preservation of heritage.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.
Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
This collection investigates Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa, and the resultant formation of mixed or creole communities which were influenced culturally both by Portugal and indigenous societies.
This volume addresses language change and standardization in postcolonial settings. Experts discuss the emergence of new varieties of English, illuminating issues of language contact, diversification, and standardization from different perspectives.
Operetta
From 19th-century Paris to Broadway, this source book surveys operetta’s international schools and principal composers. It offers a chronology, biographical material, selected synopses, a discography, and a comprehensive index.
This collection explores the relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “analytic stance” towards philosophy and the inherently apophatic nature of his epistemology. This is the first publication to thoroughly explore this subject through this particular hermeneutical lens.
A translator of Arabic medical texts into Latin, Constantinus Africanus made a substantial contribution to the understanding of fields such as anatomy and surgery. This edition of his work is accompanied by an introduction, a linguistic analysis of the text, and a glossary.
The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
Performative Plautus
Containing a foreword and preface by Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont, this book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance.
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