Social Sciences

Industrialization and the Restructuring of Speech Communities in China and Europe

Edited By: Marinus van den Berg, Daming Xu

£44.99

This book documents the changing language situation in urban China, gauging the impact of industrialization on communication. Studies demonstrate the interplay of the standard language, Putonghua, and dialects, contrasting China with post-industrial Europe.

Studies in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning

Edited By: Ahmar Mahboob

£44.99

This book brings together new studies in critical applied linguistics, language policy, and language learning. It offers critical views on language in society, from identity and justice to language policy in education and key teaching strategies.

PostGender

Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture

Edited By: Ayelet Zohar

£44.99

A collection of articles by leading researchers on gender, sexuality, and performativity in Japanese culture. This volume considers representations of the body across contemporary art, manga, photography, and performance art.

Issues in Accents of English 2

Variability and Norm

Edited By: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak

£44.99

This book explores variability in English accent production and perception by native and non-native speakers. Based on original data, it discusses intelligibility, identity, motivation, stress, and rhythm to contribute to pronunciation teaching.

Face to Face/Faccia a Faccia

Edited By: Maria Cristina Cignatta

£44.99

Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.

An Insatiable Dialectic

Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£44.99

Leading philosophers and cultural critics challenge the view that critique, modernity, and humanism are obsolete. These essays argue that these concepts are crucial in an age where democratic ideals and intercultural understanding are vanishing possibilities.

Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies

Edited By: Yonatan Mendel, Bruno De Nicola, Husain Qutbuddin

£44.99

This book presents research on knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies, examining their role in politics, conflict, identity, and religion. Spanning diverse languages, faiths, and periods, these studies highlight the substantial commonalities that unite the region.

Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy

Contributions of Linguistics and Psycholinguistics to Second Language Teaching

Edited By: José Manuel Igoa, Montserrat Sanz

£44.99

This book bridges current research in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics with language pedagogy. It informs debates on teaching by presenting discoveries about grammar, the mind, and learning, allowing L2 teachers to adopt this knowledge for their own classroom.

Selected Papers from SinFonIJA 3

Edited By: Maja Marković

£44.99

This volume is a selection of papers from the SinFoniJa 3 conference, representing quality research in linguistics. It covers cutting-edge topics in syntax, phonology, semantics, and NLP, with analyses grounded in data from various languages.

Applied Social Sciences

Education Sciences

Edited By: Georgeta Raţă

£44.99

This collection of essays on education covers topics from elementary school to higher education. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers, researchers, and students, who wish to improve both personally and professionally.

Classrooms and Playgrounds

Mapping Educational Change, Kerala

By: Ratheesh Kumar

£44.99

Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.

Place, Culture and Community

The Irish Heritage of the Ottawa Valley

By: Johanne Devlin Trew

£44.99

Hear the voices of the Ottawa Valley. This book reveals a vibrant heritage of fiddling, step dancing, and storytelling forged in hardship, as told by the lumbermen, priests, and families who lived its triumphant history.

Language Contacts Meet English Dialects

Studies in Honour of Markku Filppula

Edited By: Esa Penttilä

£44.99

This book presents fresh research on language contacts and dialects, celebrating the work of eminent scholar Markku Filppula. Articles explore theories, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles from diverse perspectives.

Social Economics and Entrepreneurship

Edited By: Patricia-Luciana Runcan

£44.99

This book analyzes how social economics and entrepreneurship can be successful approaches in social work. It deals with core topics like management and social development, with implications for policy and organizations, appealing to researchers and a wider audience.

Presences and Absences – Transdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Katarína Labudova, Nóra Séllei

£44.99

This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.

Gender, Agency and Violence

European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day

Edited By: Dr Ulrike Zitzlsperger

£44.99

This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.

Boundaries of the Self

Gender, Culture and Spaces

Edited By: Debalina Banerjee

£44.99

This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women's identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.

This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women’s identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.

Challenging Change

Literary and Linguistic Responses

Edited By: Biljana Mišić Ilić, Vesna Lopičić

£44.99

Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.

Adventuring in the Englishes

Language and Literature in a Postcolonial Globalized World

Edited By: Ikram Ahmed Ibrahim Elsherif, Piers Michael Smith

£44.99

International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.

Captured by the City

Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies

Edited By: Blagovesta Momchedjikova

£44.99

This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.

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