Definiteness Effects
This volume explores the definiteness effect in grammar from typological, diachronic, and second language acquisition perspectives. It provides an overview of syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in European and non-European languages.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
This collection outlines practical approaches to theology’s most intriguing subjects: The Bible, Cultural Identity, and Mission. Contributors blend academic exactness with cultural analogies to explore the core of Christian belief and its missionary imperative.
CDA and PDA Made Simple
CDA and PDA Made Simple explores power, control, and ideology in discourse. It provides the theoretical background and analytical tools to see how these forces are linguistically realized in English and Arabic through transitivity, modality, and metadiscourse.
Reflecting 9/11
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
The 1930s
This volume brings together papers presented at a conference marking the 75th anniversary of Hofstra University, and provides a wide-ranging exploration of the 1930s, discussing the role of the arts, entertainment, politics, literature, and science in that momentous decade.
Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities
Written by scholars in applied linguistics, these chapters showcase English language teaching and assessing in diverse East Asian contexts. Using a variety of methods, they deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners, and researchers.
This book represents the first systematic, cross-linguistic analysis of how toddlers learn adjectives. It provides valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition in a field that has received relatively little attention.
Justice, Memory and Redress in Romania
This text asks if there are any lessons that Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners. It proposes that important insights emerge when analyzing a country with a moderate record of coming to terms with its communist past.
Biometric systems hide many pitfalls that can lead to major security weaknesses and privacy threats. This book showcases a collection of comprehensive references from eminent researchers, providing concise coverage of state-of-the-art solutions.
Thinking Modally
Bringing together papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Modality in English in 2010, this volume focuses on the notions of modality, evidentiality and temporality, and on the connection between modality and stance and evaluation in specific genres.
Symphony and Song
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
Tracing their Tracks
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
‘Philosophy’ – After the End of Philosophy
This work rethinks philosophy for our interconnected times, proposing a new “critical philosophy” with an emancipatory thrust. It takes aim at bullshit and offers compelling analyses to grapple with the serious challenges facing our globalizing world.
This text highlights Robert Lepage’s preoccupation with an ongoing dialogue with worldwide audiences, and their involvement in developing an innovative practice of the Western theatre landscape. It examines the notion that intermediality is situated at the core of his approach.
States of Decadence
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
This title tackles the need for a deeper understanding of rural tourism, focusing on the tourist experience. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.
The Orthodox Hegel
This book assesses the consequences of Hegelian thought for spirituality, showing how the Christian movement is Spirit itself impelling. Capturing absolute idealism for orthodoxy, it develops themes of logic, Trinity, incarnation, and the absolute.
Bringing together 17 papers, this edited volume addresses recent thinking and research on Classroom-based Language Assessment within the fields of language testing, assessment and general education.