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  • Language, Education and Nation-building

    Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

    Edited by P. Sercombe, R. Tupas ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume tracks the complex relationships between language, education and nation-building in Southeast Asia, focusing on how language policies have been used by states and governments as instruments of control, assimilation and empowerment. Leading scholars have contributed chapters each representing one of the countries in the region. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Balls-up in Bohemia

    by N P Sercombe ...
    Narrated by Robert Powell ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    An esteemed new client engages the services of Sherlock Holmes. He embarks upon an adventure that takes him all the way across London whilst Dr. Watson tries to extricate himself from a very unwise marriage. Watson moves into 221 Baker Street where he receives an unexpected early-morning call from Mrs. Hudson, who has something of great importance to share with him. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    by Donna Jo Napoli, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld ...
    Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Language for Specific Purposes

    Trends in Curriculum Development

    by Mary K. Long, Lourdes Sanchez-Lopez, Barbara A. Lafford, Mary Risner, Melissa Swarr, Cristin Bleess, Janet Graham, Carmen King Ramírez, Leann Derby, Jean W. LeLoup0, James Rasmussen1, Ismênia Sales de Souza2, Robert A. Quinn3, Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker4, Anthony Becker5, El-Hussein Ali6, Annie Abbott7, Mary Jill Brody8, Alison Hicks9 ...
    In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more ... Read more

    $40.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thanking and Politeness in Japanese

    Balancing Acts in Interaction

    by J. Ohashi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanese communication. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The English Language in Hong Kong

    Diachronic and Synchronic Perspectives

    by Stephen Evans ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an empirically-grounded sociolinguistic history of the English language in Hong Kong in the past 170 years. Using substantial sets of diachronic and synchronic data, it traces the changing status and functions of English in relation to spoken Cantonese, Mandarin and written Chinese in the key domains of government, education and business. The author tracks the rise of English ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gender Representation in Learning Materials

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Abolaji S. Mustapha, Sara Mills ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks, and their effects on readers and students within an international context.In the opening ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Narratives Online

    Shared Stories in Social Media

    by Ruth Page ...
    Stories are shared by millions of people online every day. They post and re-post interactions as they re-tell and respond to large-scale mediated events. These stories are important as they can bring people together, or polarise them in opposing groups. Narratives Online explores this new genre - the shared story - and uses carefully chosen case-studies to illustrate the complex processes of ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Tracing Language Movement in Africa

    Edited by Ericka A. Albaugh, Kathryn M. de Luna ...
    The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools. Many disciplines have looked ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • The Tao and the Logos

    Literary Hermeneutics, East and West

    by Longxi Zhang ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions.
    Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Consecutive Interpreting

    An Interdisciplinary Study

    by Alexander V. Kozin ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book sheds light on the phenomenon of consecutive interpreting. It combines phenomenological and empirical analyses to build a communication theory of interpreting. The author begins by reviewing mainstream research on consecutive interpreting and then dissociates himself from it, conducting a three-tier analysis of interpreting data. He concludes by presenting an alternative theory of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Language Vitality Through Bible Translation

    Edited by Marianne Beerle-Moor, Vitaly Voinov ...
    Series Book 95 - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics
    This interdisciplinary collection of articles, written by scholars involved in translating the Bible into various languages around the world, demonstrates that such translation projects are promoting the vitality of local languages, both those that are endangered and those that are still fairly healthy but non-empowered. Bible translation and activities typically associated with it, such as ... Read more

    $85.99 USD