Anglicisms in Europe
This volume examines the influence of English on European languages, linking linguistic aspects with psychological, social, political, and cultural issues. It explores attitudes towards anglicisms, their use in specialized discourse, and their reflection in dictionaries.
The Gentleman, the Virtuoso, the Inquirer
Explore the world of Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa, a scientific collector in early modern Spain. His cabinet of curiosities, garden, and library reveal a ‘virtuoso’ immersed in the wonders of nature, furthering the ideal of factuality in the Scientific Revolution.
To understand users, one must understand their emotional responses to buying, using, and owning products. This book explores the emotions in human-product relationships and offers techniques to utilise these insights in design practice.
Florida without Borders
This anthology explores women’s activism across borders, highlighting global issues like human rights, poverty, and trafficking. Feminist scholars investigate the gendered body in activism, the obstacles women face, and the fight for feminist social change.
Romanticism Gendered
This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.
This collection presents cutting-edge research in Slavic syntax and semantics from a new generation of scholars. The papers explore a range of phenomena across various Slavic languages, of interest to both formal linguists and Slavicists generally.
This book identifies effects of the European monetary integration on the financial systems of euro area member countries. It presents a rich collection of original studies by scholars, central bankers, and practitioners on the most relevant issues debated today.
This Watery World
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea.
—Professor Ashton Nichols
Methods and the Medievalist
This collection of essays presents a comprehensive overview of current and fresh interdisciplinary approaches to the history of medieval Europe. Contributors explore diverse topics, from the written word to zooarchaeology, covering all parts of the continent.
Postcolonial Slavery
Foregrounding the material realities of slavery, these essays explore its legacies and the defiant resistance of runaway slaves, challenging the marginalization of colonial history.
Meaning without Analyticity
This book explores a non-behavioristic theory of meaning, rejecting the analytic-synthetic distinction. It answers challenges from the revival of pragmatism by bringing it into contact with analytic philosophy, where Frege and Quine meet Peirce, James, and Dewey.
The Arts and Youth at Risk
“Philosophically complex and pragmatically provocative,” this book interrogates arts-based interventions for “at risk” youth. International experts explore the positive outcomes and ethical challenges of working with marginalised communities.
Liminal Spaces
Freelance English Teaching in Eastern Europe
An invaluable guide to freelance English teaching in Eastern Europe, with exclusive insights on combining work with travel. This information-rich account is essential for teacher-travelers, career-minded graduates, and ELT entrepreneurs.
Henry Fielding In Our Time
Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.
Engaged Romanticism
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 2007 NooJ conference. NooJ is a linguistic development environment and corpus processor used to build libraries of linguistic resources and Natural Language Processing applications.
English Language and Literature
This collection of essays interrogates the language dilemma in Africa. While many Africans require the economic and social benefits of English, there is a growing resistance. The book explores how African languages and English enhance, inhibit, and influence each other.