The Magic of Innovation
This volume focuses on innovative approaches to teaching foreign languages to non-language students. It offers best practices and theoretical insights valuable to teachers, course designers, and researchers interested in current trends in language teaching.
From 1959 to 1973, writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose exchanged letters containing detailed analyses of their work. This correspondence offers personal revelations and provides insight into their lives, conjuring a picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.
Language in Uniform
Around the globe, police and military personnel face language challenges. Language in Uniform brings together papers on language analysis, teaching, and assessment for defence, security, and law enforcement, extending our understanding of this vital field.
The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.
Languaging Diversity
This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.
This book argues that innovation is influenced by learning, which is driven by knowledge. Articles by renowned experts show how to manage knowledge and learning to drive innovation, and alert management to the risks of a poorly managed process.
This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering fresh perspectives on theory and practice. Written by researchers from around the world, it suggests ways of dealing with translation problems in areas like machine translation and training.
Who is What and What is Who
This book offers an in-depth, micro-parametric analysis of wh-question formation in modern Arabic dialects. The approach is based on the morphology-syntax and syntax-phonology interfaces, placing findings in the context of Universal Grammar.
Mental Condition Defences and the Criminal Justice System
This collection brings together medical and legal conceptions of mental disorder to appraise mental condition defences. It provides invaluable, original insights into a sensitive area of criminal law that has struggled to keep pace with psychiatry.
Women in the Arts
Is there a need for books about women in the arts? The word “woman” still precedes titles like composer or artist, suggesting men’s creativity is the norm. These essays challenge the status quo, highlighting women’s accomplishments to enrich our culture.
“Perplext in Faith”
This interdisciplinary collection explores the centrality of religious belief and doubt to Victorian culture. Essays investigate diverse topics, from the relationship between science and faith to the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and the Brontës.
This multifaceted study explores the vocal iso(n) repertory in the multipart singing of the Southwest Balkans and in Byzantine chanting. Moving beyond national bias, it argues this tradition is bound to the region, not a single ethnic group.
Go beyond the canvas of NZ’s premier artist, Colin McCahon. This book decodes his esoteric religious symbols, reveals why his spiritual message was missed, and charts his work’s profound journey from optimism to despair.
Old Stories, New Readings
This volume explores how stories are told on the American stage and how neglected realities gain attention through a playwright’s telling. Focusing on “small stories” that have received less critical attention, it fills a void in the study of American drama.
A World of Innovation
Gerhard Mercator was the 16th century’s most important cartographer, famed for his Atlas and the map projection still used today. This book presents the latest research on his sources, his relationships, and his role in Renaissance cartography and Humanism.
The field of peace and conflict studies is rich in tradition and ripe with innovation. This volume captures both, demonstrating how scholars and activists use the knowledge of their forebears to address new issues and create a more just and humane world.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
Myths and Memories
This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.
Travelling Europe
As Europe’s borders shift, this collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on travel and space. Researchers explore Europeanisation, travel writing, migration, memory sites, and tourist destinations, promoting a discussion on travel past, present, and future.