New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
This book presents a selection of papers on Language Acquisition with a special focus on Romance varieties. The volume covers a wide array of topics, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, syntax, semantics, and phonology.
Youth are the last to be hired in an expansion and the first to be let go in a recession. Ensuring today’s youth do not become a “lost generation” is an urgent matter. This book deals with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young.
Lila is the play of the gods, a free spirit of creation beyond the chains of reason and the clocks of time. Come, enter a realm of divine madness, where the trickster, the artist, and the savior weave the great tapestry of life. Join the play.
In this book, central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language are introduced. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language, raising an awareness of language as a distinctive human capacity.
This collection of essays from an international conference presents important research in linguistics. It explores language theory, cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, and teaching methods. An essential volume for scholars and students.
Totalitarianism and Literary Discourse
This collection pioneers scholarly inquiry into the challenges facing literature in totalitarian strangleholds, focusing on the Soviet experience. Scholars from post-Soviet states and beyond assess texts, intellectual terror, and the myths of the era.
Of the Students, By the Students, and For the Students
Millions of Chinese college graduates study English for years yet remain unable to communicate. This book exposes a 30-year-old failed program, a practice of insanity, and presents a proven solution: the successful remedial program, Holistic English.
Economy in Society
This book analyzes classic sociology and economics, exposing their flaws. It then presents a constructive programme, socio-economic structuralism, which offers theoretical innovations that draw on, but move beyond, the achievements of past thinkers.
Modernisation of Chinese Culture
This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.
Mapping the Tribal Economy
India’s tribes have been marginalised, their way of life transformed. This book examines the critical issues of land alienation and labour exploitation, focusing on tribal mobilisation and the fight for justice and restoration in Andhra Pradesh.
James Bond in World and Popular Culture
The most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. 40 original essays provide new insights into the Bond girl, video games, music, fashion, and Ian Fleming himself, showing how this cultural icon has changed the world.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Animal Suffering
This is the first Eastern Orthodox work on animal suffering and human salvation. Using Biblical teachings and contemporary science, it argues that animal suffering is against God’s Will and that indifference to it has negative consequences for human salvation.
Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden
Lake Garda
D. H. Lawrence’s life was a journey to the sun, a quest that began in Gargnano. This unique book explores his “sun search” through a stimulating combination of literature, music, and painting. A book that any Laurentian cannot possibly miss.
World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
This book features papers on the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, contrastive studies, parallel corpus development, and bilingual lexicography. It is a useful resource for researchers and postgraduates in translation and linguistics.
Life and Mind
This provocative book argues that life and mind elude purely materialistic explanations. It posits intelligence as a precondition for organic existence, a serious challenge to modern science, and culminates in a philosophical proof of the mind system.
Through interviews with entrepreneurs in post-socialist Europe, this book reveals patterns in business during and after socialism. It challenges the belief that entrepreneurs did not exist under socialism and the idea of post-socialism as its antidote.
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