Linguistics

This book brings together the work of leading theorist, Theo van Leeuwen, on typography, colour, texture, sound and movement, and shows how they ar...

Translating for performance is a difficult and hotly contested activity. Adapting Translation for the Stage presents a sustained dialogue between...

George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed e...

This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representat...

This comprehensive volume examines the relationship between revolutionary politics and the act of writing in modern South Asia. Its pages feature a...

In this book we wish to find a new way of talking about, connecting and operationalising the third space, narratives, positioning, and intercultura...

This volume enacts a project we term a politics of form, working to politicise the formal analysis of narrative in novels, life narratives, documen...

Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis. Explaining the main ...

This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Griersons Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian...

Signed language interpreting continues to evolve as a field of research. Stages of professionalization, opportunities for education and the availab...

The second edition of Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications continues to provide up-to-date, succinct, relevant, and inform...

This textbook provides a practical and research-based foundation for teaching second language (L2) multiword units (also commonly called collocatio...

Originally published in 1999, this book sets out to develop a distinctive, critical approach to the study of social consciousness through empirical...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

So far I may be permitted to speak without intrenching on the limits of criticism. A work containing more than 50,000 words, many of which have nev...

Biolinguistics is a highly interdisciplinary field that seeks the rapprochement between linguistics and biology. Linking theoretical linguistics, t...

Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume bring...

This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheungs pushing-hands method of transl...

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social cla...

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It sp...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...