Language: Reference & General

Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providi...

'An instant classic - Highly recommended!' - Peter Coughter, author of The Art of the Pitch Pitching sucks. The word alone conjures up dull PowerP...

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies

Who invented national literature? What is the relationship between script, identity, and history? Recorded history began in the ancient Near East, ...

2021 Textbook Excellence Award Winner (College: Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences)In this book Dr. Dannelle D. Stevens offers five key pri...

«In Timeless Joyce, Asun López-Varela offers a holistic, dense, and substantial approach to the study of Ulysses, in commemoration of its publicati...

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one-to-one equivalent between Akkadian an...

By its very nature, the art of oratory involves character. Verbal persuasion entails the presentation of a persona by the speaker that affects an a...

Section 1 of this volume describes three major debates about voice. They include: * the overarching debate: discourse as text vs. discourse as voi...

2021 Textbook Excellence Award Winner (College: Humanities, Education, and Social Sciences)In this book Dr. Dannelle D. Stevens offers five key pri...

This book traces the development of audio description (AD), a form of audiovisual translation delivered orally and consumed aurally that makes visu...

This book, New Writing Explorations: Researching Creative Writing, investigates creative writing as an area of research, building from a recognitio...

In the field of technical communication, academics and industry practitioners alike regularly encounter the same question: "What exactly is it you ...

What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues...

How are plays constructed? Taking this essential question and looking at a broad range of Western plays, from Greek tragedies through Ibsen, we can...

The Evolution of Spanish Past Forms examines how Spanish past forms have changed diachronically. With examples from Medieval Spanish, Golden Age Sp...

Since its original publication in 1997, English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, socia...

This volume was written to make the case for changes in second language writing practices away from the five-paragraph essay and toward purposeful,...

The long period from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century supplied numerous sources for Kierkegaard's thought in any number of different field...

Effective business writing rests on a foundation of basic principles. Master them, and you'll know how to handle the many different writing tasks t...

Translation and Literature in East Asia: Between Visibility and Invisibility explores the issues involved in translation between Chinese, Japanese ...

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar is the first complete reference to present the morphology, grammar and syntax of a represen...

'After a number of years teaching writing courses and appearing at writers' conferences, I began to see that creating a process book utilising one ...

This first-of-its kind dictionary contains: 30,000 entries; Background notes on Pulaar; Introduction to Pulaar grammatical categories; Pronunciatio...

Standardised tests and language certification exams have been a popular topic in the field of assessment for many years now. The washback effect of...

First published in 1936, this book is intended to provide an outline of Anglo-Saxon grammar for beginners, focusing on well-selected, succinctly st...

The second edition of Writing in Psychology by Scott A. Miller is a comprehensive guide to addressing the most challenging issues that students fac...