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A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in QatarStudies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEditors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar takes Western feminism abroad into the complexity of transnational spaces. Working at interdisciplinary intersections of rhetoric, feminist theory, narrative inquiry, and expat studies, Nancy Small...
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New Worlds, Year Five: More Essays on the Art of WorldbuildingBring a new world to life . . .In science fiction and fantasy, anything can provide color and conflict -- from soldiers, to schools, to shops, to sexuality. Continuing her comprehensive NEW WORLDS series of worldbuilding guides, award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie...
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A Boxing Legacy: The Life and Works of Writer and Cartoonist Ted CarrollA long-overdue tribute to legendary African American sportswriter and boxing cartoonist Ted Carroll. Ted Carroll was one of the greatest American artists and sportswriters of the twentieth century, most notably as a boxing cartoonist and journalist. As a Black man working in an era...
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Lessons from Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition and IdentityHow do some language learners triumph against all odds, despite not having obvious heritage links or spending extended periods of time in the L2 environment pre-adulthood? This book delves into the autobiographical stories of learners who achieve nativelike proficiency, opening a narrative window into...
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The Routledge Handbook of English Language StudiesThe Routledge Handbook of English Language Studies provides a comprehensive overview of English Language Studies. The book takes a three-pronged approach to examine what constitutes the phenomenon of the English language; why and in what contexts it is an important subject to study; and...
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English for Research Publication Purposes: Critical Plurilingual PedagogiesScholars who use English as an additional language confront challenges when disseminating their research in the global market of knowledge production dominated by English. English for Research Publication Purposes analyses the experiences and practices of these scholars across the globe and presents critical plurilingual...
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The Gaṇitatilaka and Its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical TextsThe Ga itatilaka and its Commentary: Two Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts presents the first English annotated translation and analysis of the Ga itatilaka by Sripati and its Sanskrit commentary by the Jaina monk Si hatilakasuri (13th century CE). Si hatilakasuri's commentary upon the Ga...
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The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in AsiaThis must-have handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the field. It reviews the language education policies of Asia, encompassing 30 countries sub-divided by regions, namely East, Southeast, South and Central Asia, and considers the extent to which these are being implemented and with what...
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The Routledge Handbook of Language in ConflictThe Routledge Handbook of Language in Conflict presents a range of linguistic approaches as a means for examining the nature of communication related to conflict. Divided into four sections, the Handbook critically examines text, interaction, languages and applications of linguistics in situations of conflict....
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Assessing English for Professional Purposes** WINNER OF ILTA/SAGE Best Book Award 2020 **Assessing English for Professional Purposes provides a state-of-the-art account of the various kinds of language assessments used to determine people's abilities to function linguistically in the workplace. At a time when professional expertise is increasingly mobile...
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Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American EnglishDescribing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a historical as well as present-day perspective. Focusing on usage guides and usage problems, the book takes a three-fold approach to present an in-depth analysis of the...
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Linguistic Variation and Social Practices of Normative Masculinity: Authority and Multifunctional Humour in a Dublin Sports ClubThis book explores the ways in which linguistic variation and complex social practices interact toward the formation of male interactional identities in a sports club in Dublin, illustrating the affordances of studying sporting contexts in contributing to advancing sociolinguistic theory.Adopting a participant-informed ethnographic approach,...
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Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-Historical AnalysisThis book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and early stages of the Biden presidency to explore how borders are used as mechanisms of power to invoke different notions of national identity. //...
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Statistics Behind the HeadlinesHow do you learn about what's going on in the world? Did a news headline grab your attention? Did a news story report on recent research? What do you need to know to be a critical consumer of the news you read? If you...
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Maternal Journal: A Creative Guide to Journaling Through Pregnancy, Birth and BeyondMaternal Journal is filled to the brim with ideas, support and inspiration to create your very own journal through your pregnancy, birth and parenthood. This easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated book will help you explore your creative voice and develop a regular journaling practice using...
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25 Projects for Art ExplorersWith schools emphasizing STEM activities for children to meet curriculum goals for standardized testing, nurturing children's artistic creativity is often given short shrift. Kirker's fun resource aims to restore the balance, offering more than two dozen projects that will spark children's interest in art...
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Loanwords in the Chinese LanguageA loanword, or wailaici, is a word with similar meaning and phonetic form to a word from a foreign language that has been naturalized in the recipient language. From ancient times, cultural exchanges between China and other countries has brought and integrated a myriad...
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Mapping Information Landscapes: New Methods for Exploring Information Literacy EducationThis is the first book to study how the political content of information literacy (IL) arises from the way it has become defined and is taught. It introduces new methods for research into the development of information literacy in learners and explores the implications...
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Turn Left to NowhereIn the fall of 2021, Tucker Atwood hopped on a bicycle and took a little ride down the East Coast Greenway from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida. Over the next eight weeks, he traveled through dense forests, busy highways, abandoned ghost towns, bustling...
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Constellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American RhetoricsConstellating Home: Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics explores how race, migration, gender, and disability entwine in conceptions of deserving citizens. V. Jo Hsu explores three archives of trans and queer Asian American (QTAPI) rhetorics, considering a range of texts including oral histories, photography,...
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