Applying Language Science to Language Pedagogy
This book bridges current research in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics with language pedagogy. It informs debates on teaching by presenting discoveries about grammar, the mind, and learning, allowing L2 teachers to adopt this knowledge for their own classroom.
This volume is a selection of papers from the SinFoniJa 3 conference, representing quality research in linguistics. It covers cutting-edge topics in syntax, phonology, semantics, and NLP, with analyses grounded in data from various languages.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on education covers topics from elementary school to higher education. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, including teachers, researchers, and students, who wish to improve both personally and professionally.
Classrooms and Playgrounds
Mapping primary education in Kerala, South-West India, this book offers fresh insights. It argues schooling is a set of cultural practices that cannot be reduced to teaching prescribed texts, but is a practice that shapes our everyday lives.
Place, Culture and Community
Hear the voices of the Ottawa Valley. This book reveals a vibrant heritage of fiddling, step dancing, and storytelling forged in hardship, as told by the lumbermen, priests, and families who lived its triumphant history.
Language Contacts Meet English Dialects
This book presents fresh research on language contacts and dialects, celebrating the work of eminent scholar Markku Filppula. Articles explore theories, Celtic substrata in Irish and British English, and dialect in the British Isles from diverse perspectives.
This book analyzes how social economics and entrepreneurship can be successful approaches in social work. It deals with core topics like management and social development, with implications for policy and organizations, appealing to researchers and a wider audience.
This transdisciplinary volume discusses presence and absence, revealing how diverse areas—from linguistics and literature to film—talk to each other in surprising ways, opening up cultural, cinematic, and literary works to new readings and meanings.
Gender, Agency and Violence
This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.
Boundaries of the Self
This book examines how spaces—social, political, cultural, and historical—affect women’s identities. It analyzes how these spaces can generate agency and power, or annihilate attempts at emancipation and empowerment for women across cultures.
Challenging Change
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Adventuring in the Englishes
International scholars and writers offer unique perspectives on the ways English language and literature are changing in a postcolonial world. Flavored with personal experience, their investigations reveal a process of adoption, adaptation, and reinvention.
Captured by the City
This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.
The Materiality of Res Publica
This richly illustrated volume re-examines res publica, focusing not on government, but on the res—the things and affairs that bring people together. It explores the central role of bridges in Venice and Novgorod and analyzes republican iconography.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
The Politics of Poetics
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
From the national border to the individual home, questions of who can be where are at the heart of politics. This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how power structures inequality through space, and explores the forms of resistance that emerge.
Translation, History and Arts
This collection of papers on translation, history, and art stands at the frontier of interdisciplinary humanities research. A central theme is developing a new narrative of local histories against the backdrop of world history to advance our understanding of them.
This collection explores the cultural history of freak shows in Continental Europe, examining the spectacular display of wondrous and monstrous bodies. It uncovers forgotten stories from the circus to Nazi eugenics, revealing subjects with their own voice and agency.
Sport and the Christian Religion
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
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