Language Arts & Disciplines
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Ancient Indo-European Dialects: Proceedings of the Conference on Indo-European Linguistics Held at the University of California, Los Angeles April 25-The first book to provide a rigorous and comprehensive view of the linguistic divisions of early Europe, Asia Minor, Northern India, and Chinese Turkestan. The unifying topic "Ancient Indo-European Dialects" was chosen with a view to utilizing to best advantage the many competences of...
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How Spanish GrewThis book traces the evolution of the Spanish language from pre-Roman days to the present and stresses the influence of social and political events on its development. After a short discussion of the Indo-European tongues, Spaulding reviews the effects on Spanish of the languages...
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Using Technologies for Creative-Text TranslationThis collection reflects on the state of the art of research into the use of translation technologies in the translation of creative texts, encompassing literary texts but also extending beyond to cultural texts, and charts their development and paths for further research. Bringing together...
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Journalism and Foreign Policy: How the Us and UK Media Cover Official EnemiesThis edited collection brings together critical and up-to-date assessments of how mainstream American and British media cover their respective foreign policies, paying special attention to 'official enemies'.In the age of the internet and social media, the reporting and commentary on world events by mainstream...
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Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives, Issues, and FindingsIn Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, Xiaofei Lu comprehensively reviews empirical studies that employ corpus linguistic methods to investigate issues in second language variation, processing, production, and development. These methods enable advanced students and researchers to: Examine learner and task variables that condition...
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The Referential Mechanism of Proper Names: Cross-Cultural Investigations Into Referential IntuitionsEach of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a name to a person and hence allows it to refer? Li's book approaches this...
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Structure: Concepts, Consequences, InteractionsNatural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters. Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka "were there" when generative grammar was being developed into the Minimalist Program. In this presentation of the...
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Copyright's Broken Promise: How to Restore the Law's Ability to Promote the Progress of ScienceA comprehensive proposal for reforming copyright law to ensure sustainable public access to research and scholarship. Open access is widely supported by researchers, librarians, scholarly societies, and research funders, as well as large and small publishers. Yet despite this support--and the pandemic's demonstration of...
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The Cegiha Language: Volume VI"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children."-Crazy Horse, Chief Lakota (Sioux) Native Americans (1890)The Cegiha Language (1890), by Rev. James Owen Dorsey is the sixth volume of a nine-part series...
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Public Relations and Neoliberalism: The Language Practices of Knowledge FormationFocusing on two of the most fraught and intractable public debates of the present time: human-induced climate change and the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and the stateless, this book raises critical questions about the role and relationship of public relations in...
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Self-Publishing Success: How to Write a Non-Fiction Book that Makes an Impact and Publish it Like a ProThe key to successful self-publishing lies in producing a high-quality book you can be proud of-one that doesn't appear self-published. In Self-Publishing Success, Shanda Trofe walks you step-by-step through the process of writing, publishing, and launching your bestselling book in a way that sets...
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Pedagogy in Practice: Project-Based Learning in Media Policy and GovernanceThe book showcases the application of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies in the field of media and communication studies, with specific reference to hands-on projects on media policy analysis. The intent of the book is to translate theoretical ideas and knowledge in the light...
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Handbuch Kommunikationswissenschaftliche ErinnerungsforschungDas Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Grundlagen, Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven der Beschäftigung mit kommunikativem Erinnern und medialem Gedächtnis. Damit erschlie en seine Beiträge das Feld kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Erinnerungsforschung und verknüpfen es mit komplementären sozial-, geistes- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen. Im Kompendium stehen originäre Beiträge...
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Marble Notebook A4: Turquoise Marble College Ruled JournalA4 Lined Notebooks Are you bored with school supplies nowadays? Why not sneak in a little fun with our marble composition books featuring your favorite colours and designs! Who says journal notebooks have to be boring? Many other covers and book styles including even...
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Marble Notebook A4: Coral Pink Marble College Ruled JournalA4 Lined Notebooks Are you bored with school supplies nowadays? Why not sneak in a little fun with our marble composition books featuring your favorite colours and designs! Who says journal notebooks have to be boring? Many other covers and book styles including even...
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The Translation of Irony: Examining Its Translatability Into NarrativesVerbal irony is a common phenomenon in communication, but its convoluted nature makes it difficult to translate. This book expands on previous studies of the translation of irony by examining the mechanisms of verbal irony in its translation from Catalan and Spanish into English....
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Write Like a Thought Leader: How to Find a Constant Stream of Story Ideas to Position Yourself As the Go-To Expert in Your NicheCompanies and individuals with solutions to important problems are producing volumes of written materials - but their ideas aren't being heard. That's an irony of the modern world: Those with unique ideas often go unheard because they are too focused on their niche, while...
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Verbtraining B1, Verben mit VorsilbenDas Verb ist das Herz des Satzes. Die Bedeutung, der Fall und die Präposition, wie sich also das Verb im Satz verhält, bestimmen den ganzen Satzbau. Das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, durch Beispiele und Übung mehr Geläufigkeit beim Verstehen und Verwenden der Verben...
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Environmentalism and Contemporary Heterotopia: Novel Encounters with WasteWhere is the space for contemporary environmentalism when both the utopian promises of a clean and pure earthly Eden and the dystopian prophecies of an environmental apocalypse have failed to be fully realized? As this book argues, rather than falling into one of these...
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Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952In 1950 Robert L. Gitler went to Japan to found the first college-level school of library science in that country. His mission, an improbable success, was documented in an assisted autobiography as Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School (Scarecrow Press, 1999). Subsequent research...
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