Second Language Learning and Cultural Acquisition
This volume focuses on cultural influences in language teaching and learning, shedding light on how cultural differences can hinder learners seeking native-like competence. It offers scholars and language teachers a new direction in language acquisition.
This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
This book explores story, narrator, character, time, and space. It upgrades the theory of the unreliable narrator and introduces three new categories: commentators, interpreters, and evaluators.
José Antonio Villarreal and Pocho
This blend of biography, history, and literary criticism analyzes José Antonio Villarreal’s evocative, semi-autobiographical novel, *Pocho*. Its hero is Richard Rubio, a Mexican American youth of Indigenous and Mexican heritage whose appearance casts him as a social outsider.
A Holistic Approach to Ceramic Sculpture
This book offers a holistic view of ceramic art—its history, theory, and materiality. Focusing on the structures behind forms and colors, it is an essential resource where students and artists can find inspiration, complete with images and descriptions of distinguished works.
A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being
This volume traces the concept of happiness through the history of thought, from early Greek philosophy to contemporary psychology. As the volume shows, happiness appears in many forms, all connected with the human sense of approaching oneness with the world or with the divine.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Morocco
This book explores the teaching of English in Morocco, providing insightful findings for secondary and tertiary education. Useful for teachers, researchers, and stakeholders, it addresses recent trends designed to meet the expectations of the 21st century learner.
This book studies translation’s identity, politics, and scientific terminology. It discusses translations using various theoretical approaches and strategies, adding to the knowledge of translation studies, comparative literature, and applied linguistics.
This volume addresses emerging trends in curriculum and technology at the intersection of national and international challenges. It shows how curriculum influences schooling, society, and global changes, making it vital for scholars and educators in an era of remote teaching.
This corpus-based study of the 2016 election reveals substantial discrepancies in how US media portrayed Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It shows how partisanship and journalistic norms shaped their representations, offering new insights into political communication.
Trends and Advances in Sport and Leisure Management
This interdisciplinary volume explores the dynamics reshaping sport and leisure and the responses of key organisations. It brings together contributions that pinpoint advances for theory and practice, ultimately expanding the frontiers of sport and leisure management.
Asymmetries in Acquisition of Interrogative Sentences
This book charts the acquisition of wh-questions in child Romanian, investigating developmental asymmetries. Analyzing production and comprehension data, it evaluates the explanatory power of Child Relativized Minimality (CRM) and the AGREE Interference approach (AIA).
Restoring Our Humanity
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
Ecuadorian Spanish in the 21st Century
As the first edited volume on Ecuadorian Spanish, this book brings together cutting-edge research on language contact. It explores varieties from the Andes to the Amazon, revealing how indigenous languages have profoundly influenced Spanish at all levels of linguistic inquiry.
This book introduces a digital literacy beyond social media. It’s not enough to buy technology without understanding the hardware and software logic. Generalized nets marry the soft approximations of humans with the hard precision of the computer.
A Tri-Dimensional Model of Mental Health
This study explores what constitutes mental health, proposing that holistic health depends on integral wholeness: the synthesis of body, mind, and heart. It argues one is always whole in one’s true Self (essence), which must be distinguished from the ego (personality).
At the forefront of linguistic research, this volume investigates generative syntax, semantics, language acquisition, and traductology. Comparing English and Romanian to other languages, it also explores the challenges of translating specialised or literary texts.
This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka’s works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.
This book explores Henry van de Velde’s German period (1900-1916) through his writings and major works, including his unpublished manuscript on ornament. The study casts light on this major figure’s aesthetic theory, centered on themes of “rational conception” and “empathy”.
The World as Analogy of Absolute Mind
Can evolved thought grasp evolution itself? This book explores the Augustinian-Thomist heritage through Hegel, considering sacramental theology, original sin, grace, and linguistic representation, culminating in an examination of real presence in unreal nature.