Language, Literature and Style in Africa
This book brings together scholars to study language, literature and style in Africa. It is a timely response to the neglect of stylistic analysis of African prose, offering innovative discussions that illuminate the field and call for its revival.
Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
These thought-provoking essays balance critical thinking with creative opportunities. This international, interdisciplinary collection focuses on the vulnerable subjects often overlooked, challenging readers to think beyond rational limits and engaging both intellect and emotion.
Becoming Something Else
This edited collection examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies.
Historia
Historia is a series of observations on temporality, the practice of writing history, and the histories all things accumulate. The book does not define historia, but views the term from many angles to refresh the reader’s sense of the historical.
Singapore Radio
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
Facing Challenges
This collection of essays focuses on the realities of conducting feminist work within Christian universities and churches. These honest, heartfelt essays describe the ongoing resistance feminists face while envisioning more liberating ways to integrate feminism with faith.
Local Contextual Influences on Teaching
In this collection of personal narratives and research, ESL/EFL teachers worldwide reflect on how local contextual factors shaped their approach to language teaching, curriculum, and classroom organization, and how they exercised their agency in the classroom.
This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.
The Golden Age
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean
This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.
Customary Laws and Social Order in Arab Society
Mahgoub investigates a number of urgent issues in contemporary Egyptian society, brought to light through over fifty years of fieldwork. The subjects covered include folk traditions and customs of the lifecycle; pregnancy and childbirth; and the socialization of boys and girls.
Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
Doris Lessing
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing
Using an onomasiological approach, this book analyzes neoclassical formations in English and Russian medical terms. It argues that what is a system of word formation in English represents only individual borrowings in Russian, solving a key problem in morphological theory.
The Impact of French on the African Vernacular Languages
For seventeen African nations, was adopting French a blessing or a curse? Is Francophonie a symbol of unity and shared values, or a form of cultural imperialism? This book offers insights into the impact of French in Gabon, exploring what it brought and what it is taking away.
A critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe is offered here, looking at how politicisation led to the violation of human rights. The book also looks at the enduring impact this has left on the victims, mostly children.
Translation has played a major role in the evolution of societies, affecting the relationships between peoples and power. This volume examines the role of translators in different historical contexts, from 16th-century Mexico to 21st-century Japan.
This book explores how persistent states of underdevelopment occur in strategic environments in which players are imitative rather than fully rational. It explains this form of coordination failure as a contest between competing economic agents.
The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu
The focus of this monograph is loanword morphology in Urdu, particularly loanwords borrowed from Persian, Arabic and English. Primarily descriptive, the study investigates the interactions between syntax, semantics and linguistic function relative to loanword adaptation.
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