Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
This volume is an extended discussion of *Moral Sentimentalism*, the key ethical work of foremost theorist Michael Slote. It contains original commentaries and a substantial response by Slote, providing fresh insights for anyone interested in contemporary ethics.
This unique collection challenges readers to reconsider the nature of ethics. With a panoramic view of ethical themes, it revisits age-old positions and investigates fresh fields to elicit new debates. An invaluable resource for students and scholars.
This book analyses four Welsh communities in the US to test the assumption they were a prime illustration of the American Dream. It assesses their socio-economic success and tracks the cultural changes that transformed the Welsh into Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans.
A Time to Reason and Compare
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
Once Upon a Time in the Contemporary World
The contributors to this collection highlight the current process of transforming well-known fairy-tale plots, considering recent media productions as modern fairy-tales, and showing these new versions to reflect the psychological demands of contemporary cultural environment.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
This book challenges common views on autism and implicit meaning. Using a novel test with video-based conversational exchanges, this study’s results contradict previous findings, showing that people with ASD can understand non-literal meaning.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
This publication brings together work presented at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, and includes contributions on the use of multilingual corpora in teaching scientific translation and trans-collocations in parallel corpora, among others.
This book adopts a fresh approach to conflict in Caribbean societies of the late 20th and 21st centuries. It brings new perspectives to the analysis of recent fiction and art by writers and artists from both the Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean.
Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
Making History Happen
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
Statistics for Linguists
An accessible introduction to statistics for linguists. Concepts are explained in non-technical terms, with step-by-step SPSS instructions for the most widely used statistics, including t-tests, ANOVA, non-parametric, and mixed-effects procedures.
This book explores the reciprocal cultural relations between Greece and Britain. It covers figures from Shakespeare and Milton to the philhellenes Shelley and Byron, offering an insightful contribution to a better understanding between the people of these two countries.
Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.
This text contains research on various aspects of environmental migration in the context of international law. It focuses on the emergence and development of regulation in the field of environmental migration at the global and regional levels.
This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
Englishness and Post-imperial Space
Milton Sarkar investigates the English mind-set immediately after British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, who returned to archetypal English customs and conventions.
The Social Sense of the Human Experience
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
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