Language: Reference & General

Brazilian Portuguese is written and spoken by over 180 million inhabitants of Brazil as well as by several million Brazilian emigrants in other par...

This book offers a critical analysis of the complex relationship between violence and belonging, by exploring the ways sexual, ethnic or national b...

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Welsh Not: Elementary Education and the Anglicisation of Wales for free, follow the link below Welsh Not: Elemen...

Dieser Sammelband besteht zum Teil aus den Referaten der Sprachinselsektion der 1. Internationalen Tagung der IGDD, die im März 2003 in Marburg an ...

By definition, translators are intercultural mediators. This book explores some of the most important current approaches in defining intercultural ...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in media linguistics. T...

For the first time in English, Glyn Williams draws together current debates in linguistics and social theory, and provides the first study in Engli...

This text was written for students who want to live, study, and/or work in an English-speaking setting or are already doing so. Its goal is to help...

Der Autor entwickelt ein übersetzungskritisches Modell, das Elemente aus den verschiedenen übersetzungstheoretischen Ansätzen aufnimmt und zu integ...

Der christliche arabische Dichter al-Ahṭal (um 640-710 n. Chr.) gilt als einer der Meister der Qaṣīdendichtung in der Epoche der Umaiyaden. Vor dem...

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English.The dictionary pres...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Kategorie des Idiolekts in die translatologische Reflexion einzubeziehen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Bachtin’schen Idee...

This Handbook is a comprehensive overview of English language education in Bangladesh. Presenting descriptive, theoretical, and empirical chapters ...

This stimulating edited collection focuses on the practice of revision across all creative writing genres, providing a guide to the modes and metho...

One prominent function of natural language is to convey information. One peculiarity is that it does not do so randomly, but in a structured way, w...

Since the publication of the first edition in 2002, there have been two major developments in L2 writing and peer response teaching and research. T...

This book addresses the past and changing contexts of Chinese and German teacher education under the impact of globalization and echoes "quality" i...

Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the...

Diese Studie verbindet drei aktuelle Diskurse um den städtischen öffentlichen Raum: den soziologischen und stadtarchitektonischen Diskurs um Stadte...

Konstante Wahlerfolge haben die Aufmerksamkeit der Forschung immer wieder auf die französische extrême droite gelenkt. Die Suche nach Gründen für d...

The overall aim of this book is the application of stylistic theories and frameworks to literary texts for a deeper level of interpretation. For th...

This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and languag...

Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstra...

Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting, English spelling is the Cinderella of mod...

Although the physical relationship between the natural world and individuals is quantifiable, the psychosocial effect of the former on the latter i...

The monograph provides ethnographically informed analyses of indigenous kin interactions in three Chinese diasporic households in the county of Los...

Comunicación estratégica para el ejercicio del liderazgo femenino ofrece una importante contribución al estudio de la lingüística de género y análi...

Roget's Thesaurus ranks as one of the greatest English language reference works, used for generations by anyone looking for help in order to write ...

Cataloguing the World’s Endangered Languages brings together the results of the extensive and influential Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat)...

Should I say "He is taller than I" or "He is taller than me?"Do you spell it "blond" or "blonde"?If you’ve ever been stopped in your tracks by ques...

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a...

A story is a living thing. And you don't work on a living thing, you work with it. This is the way of the screenwriter, and it is something that wr...

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of discourse processes, highl...

This book explores the specific implications of epilepsy in each of the Fyodor Dostoevsky's major post-Siberian novels. It discusses Mikhail Bakhti...

This book focuses on Muslim–Christian cultural relations across a number of centuries. As for the methodology, the book represents an intersection ...

This is a descriptive study, based on PhD research, that aims to find out what sorts of formulaic language are used by Chinese learners of English,...

As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professional...

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balance...

This highly successful program assists in the development of all the language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) by presenting real...

This book captures an urgent moment for language teaching, learning and research. At its core are a series of debates concerning gender stereotypin...