English Tags
This is the first study of English question tags from an integrated pragmatic and translational perspective. Analysing their syntactic and prosodic properties, it uses film language to compare their functions in English, Italian, and dubbed versions.
This volume examines the resurgent influence of Language Learning in Translation Studies and the contemporary ways translation is used in Language Teaching. It explores the possibilities and limitations of this interplay, raising important questions for a new era.
The Crowe Memorandum
An “outsider” in the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crowe was one of Britain’s most significant public servants. His 1907 Memorandum on Germany had a profound influence on foreign policy for forty years, shaping events from WWI to the eve of WWII.
The Narcissism Conundrum
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
Reimagining Regional Analyses
Reimagining Regional Analysis explores the interplay between new methods and theory. Using GIS, satellite imagery, and non-traditional data, this volume examines the contingent, recursive relationships between people, their social activities, and the environment.
The Respectability of Late Victorian Workers
This study of Victorian York’s working classes places respectability at the heart of their culture. Through personal testimony, it shows how workers creatively built identities and communities, defining the respectable citizen in their own moral terms.
This book presents current developments in Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), investigating controversial areas of linguistic theory in a variety of languages. It also illustrates RRG’s application to sign languages, language acquisition, and machine translation.
This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
Socio-Cultural Construction of Recognition
This book fills a crucial research gap by examining the representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Christian media. It takes a different turn from previous studies, analyzing these portrayals through the lens of the politics of recognition.
Balkans and Islam
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
This work traces how Oxford and Cambridge colleges, founded for celibate men, clung to a monastic way of life into the nineteenth century. It explores the struggle of courageous individuals who finally overturned the statutes in 1882, allowing Fellows to marry.
Spaces Imagined, Places Remembered
In post-war Australia, planners and architects envisioned ideal environments for children. But for the children who grew up there, these abstract spaces were places imbued with personal meanings, a perspective markedly different from the expert notions of the era.
For engineers and students, this volume presents articles by international experts on themes at the interface between engineering and society, including ethics, education, and the future of engineering. Each chapter contrasts distinct perspectives to develop critical thinking.
Translating Identities on Stage and Screen
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
The Sochi Predicament
Sochi was an unlikely host for the Winter Olympics, a prestige project for Russia. This book analyzes the profound challenges of identity, security, and ethnic relations from Russian, Georgian, Abkhazian, and Circassian perspectives.
Clusivity
This book develops an original framework for analyzing inclusion and exclusion in political discourse. It proposes a model explaining how speakers create ‘us’ vs. ‘them’ through tactics of association and dissociation to legitimize their power.
Reflections on Conservatism brings together scholars studying conservatism from different perspectives. The articles cover a wide range of theoretical aspects and focus on conservative movements and thinkers from different countries.
Temporaries and Eternals
Aldous Huxley’s 1922–23 music column offers a snapshot of 1920s musical life and is key to understanding his novels. Huxley’s central theme is how to judge the longevity of composers and their works. This book reproduces all 64 of his articles.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
In the Mind and across Minds
This collection of papers by international scholars demonstrates the potential of Relevance Theory, which links human communication and cognition. It explores various aspects of communication, including irony, metaphor, context and translation.
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