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  • Forensic Linguistics in China

    Origins, Progress, and Prospects

    by Yuan Chuanyou, Xu Youping, Lu Nan ...
    Series series Elements in Forensic Linguistics
    This Element offers a comprehensive examination of forensic linguistics in China. It traces the origins of the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and highlights the progress made in the 2000s, with a focus on the work of influential scholars such as Pan Qingyun, Wang Jie, Du Jinbang, Liao Meizhen, Yuan Chuanyou, and Wang Zhenhua. It discusses the development of Discourse Information Theory, the ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Handbook of English for Specific Purposes

    Edited by Brian Paltridge, Sue Starfield ...
    Series Book 120 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    Featuring a collection of newly commissioned essays, edited by two leading scholars, this Handbook surveys the key research findings in the field of English for Specific Purposes (ESP).• Provides a state-of-the-art overview of the origins and evolution, current research, and future directions in ESP• Features newly-commissioned contributions from a global team of leading scholars• Explores the ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • Interpreting As Interaction

    by Cecilia Wadensjo ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways of understanding the distribution of responsibility of content and the progression of talk in interpreter-mediated institutional face-to ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Principles and Practices for Teaching English as an International Language

    Edited by Lubna Alsagoff, Sandra Lee Mckay, Guangwei Hu, Willy A. Renandya ...
    Series series ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
    What general principles should inform a socioculturally sensitive pedagogy for teaching English as an International Language and what practices would be consistent with these principles?This text explores the pedagogical implications of the continuing spread of English and its role as an international language, highlighting the importance of socially sensitive pedagogy in contexts outside inner ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Applied Linguistics

    Edited by Li Wei ...
    Series series Introducing Linguistics
    In this complete survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics, students are introduced to core research questions and the various approaches to tackling these.Provides a comprehensive introduction to this interdisciplinary field of research and practice, dealing with practical issues of language and communicationTakes a problem-solving approach, introducing students ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • What is Discourse Analysis?

    by Dr. Stephanie Taylor ...
    Series series The 'What is?' Research Methods Series
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.What is Discourse Analysis? is an accessible introduction to an empirical research approach which is widely used in the social sciences and related disciplines.This book explores the idea of how meaning is socially constructed and how 'talk' and text can be ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Kongish

    Translanguaging and the Commodification of an Urban Dialect

    by Tong King Lee ...
    Series series Elements in Applied Linguistics
    This Element introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in point, the study outlines the semiotic profile of Kongish. It examines how Kongish communications draw on a full range of ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A Philosophy for the Science of Well-Being

    by Anna Alexandrova ...
    Well-being, happiness and quality of life are now established objects of social and medical research. Does this science produce knowledge that is properly about well-being? What sort of well-being? The definition and measurement of these objects rest on assumptions that are partly normative, partly empirical and partly pragmatic, producing a great diversity of definitions depending on the project ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • English Pronunciation Models in a Globalized World

    Accent, Acceptability and Hong Kong English

    by Andrew Sewell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Englishes
    This book explores the topics of English accents and pronunciation. It highlights their connections with several important issues in the study of English in the world, including intelligibility, identity, and globalization. The unifying strand is provided by English pronunciation models: what do these models consist of, and why? The focus on pronunciation teaching is combined with sociolinguistic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    Society and Identity

    by Professor Sharon K. Deckert, Professor Caroline H. Vickers ...
    This is a definitive introductory text to modern sociolinguistics that looks at the study of language and society through the concept of identity. It uses these sociolinguistic constructs of identity to tie together current concepts and methods in the field, offering a full overview of the discipline, both past and present.Deckert and Vickers adopt an interdisciplinary approach, introducing work ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Invisible Asians

    Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

    by Kim ParkNelson ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The first Korean adoptees were powerful symbols of American superiority in the Cold War; as Korean adoption continued, adoptees' visibility as Asians faded as they became a geopolitical success story—all-American children in loving white families. In Invisible Asians, Kim Park Nelson analyzes the processes by which Korean American adoptees’ have been rendered racially invisible, and how that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Post-Lingual Chinese Language Learning

    Hanzi Pedagogy

    by Jinghe Han ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to mainstream theories of second language learning. Focusing on Chinese Hanzi, a self-sufficient meaning-making system that operates via visual shape and the logic built into its formation, it analyses ‘post-lingual’ pedagogy. The author examines this ‘language beyond language’ or linguistic theories, demonstrating that Hanzi is not made up simply ... Read more

    $53.99 USD