Language Arts & Disciplines

The book reports on research into teaching conversation strategies as a means of developing communicative competence. The introductory chapter defines key terms and positions this book's aims and arguments. The next four chapters each describe a different study examining the teaching of conversation strategies...

Zabezpieczenia są istotnym zasobem dla naukowców. Niewiele jednak wiemy o tym, jak hedging jest wyrażany i jakie funkcje pelni w różnych dyscyplinach i gatunkach. Studentom English for Specific Purposes (ESP) często zaleca się, by unikali hedgingu i przyjmowali w swoich tekstach styl zdystansowany. Umiejętnośc...

Praca ta jest poświęcona ingerencji językowej wynikającej z kontaktów francusko-rosyjskich. Badanie problemu interakcji językowych w kontekście socjolingwistycznym wydzialów filologicznych z językiem francuskim stanowi namacalny wklad w rozwiązywanie problemów zmienności językowej i interferencji językowej. Językoznawstwo kontaktowe wymaga aktualizacji aparatury badawczej poprzez przyciągnięcie najnowszych osiągnięc teoretycznych,...

This work refines the notion of metonymy and the underlying notion of conceptual contiguity by describing a fundamental structural property of metonymy. Studied since antiquity, metonymy is a ubiquitous mechanism of meaning construction in context that involves a linguistically coded source concept that directs...

The buzzy term in the self-publishing space right now is, "wide." I was doing this before it was a thing. As more authors hear about the benefits of self-publishing on multiple platforms, I find myself on the receiving end of many panicked emails. While...

The A to Z of Creative Writing Methods is an alphabetical collection of essays to prompt consideration of method within creative writing research and practice.Almost sixty contributors from a range of writing traditions and across multiple forms and genre are represented in this volume:...

This fully-updated fourth edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving perspectives from rhetoric, critical theory, and social science and applying their insights to practical political, social, and business contexts. This text examines current and classical theory through the...

Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide.　 This fifth edition has been fully revised, and...

Design awareness is increasingly important in the quick-publishing models embraced by web publishers and rapid-release book publishers eager to create reader-ready documents. These models often condense the number of trained professionals who touch a piece before it's published. Freelance editors become more valuable to...

In French Immersion Ideologies in Canada, Sylvie Roy gives voice to people who have experiences with French immersion programs in Alberta, Canada. Using a sociolinguistics for change approach, she interprets questions related to language ideologies, as well as reasons people learn French as an...

A simple guide to creating clear, concise and convincing presentations. The Enter, Enlighten & Exit system outlined in this book will show you how to "make an entrance" (enter) into your subject matter, enlighten your audience with the end goal in mind, and exit...

As remote work has become routine, cloud-based technology tools have become increasingly necessary to communicate with other library staff and with faculty and staff to continue providing seamless and uninterrupted access to library resources and collections for our campus community. Cloud-based technology tools such...

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of...

This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).Offering a diverse range of perspectives from scholars and practitioners involved in English language teaching...

How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? Now in its second edition, this book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy...

Anchored within current issues and debates in the field of Linguistic Landscape (LL) scholarship, this edited volume is concerned with politics of language and the semiotic construction of space in multilingual and multi-ethnic Asian countries. Spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong,...

A Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to...

International law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together. As a result, the negotiation of the wording and meaning of international legislative texts is an integralpart...

Information is a critical resource for personal, economic and social development. Libraries and archives are the primary access point to information for individuals and communities with much of the information protected by copyright or licence terms. In this complex legal environment, librarians and information...

Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and what doesn't.The trouble with punctuation - well, one of the troubles, anyway - is that too many of the experts suggest leaving it to the writer's judgement. What...