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Using Literature to Learn and Teach Language The L3 Approach
This accessibly-written textbook uses the intrinsic appeal of a story to engage students with language, and provides teachers with the background...
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Style and Sense(s)
This edited volume celebrates cutting-edge research in stylistics and, more specifically, recent work on sense and the senses. The title originated...
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Rewriting, Manipulation and Translator Subjectivity Translating Chinese Literature in a Global Context
This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how...
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Reading Habits in the COVID-19 Pandemic An Applied Linguistic Perspective
This book presents and analyses the results of the Lockdown Library Project survey, using a range of quantitative and qualitative approaches to...
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Understanding and Translating Chinese Martial Arts
The present book features some introductory discussions on martial arts for the international audience and highlights in brief the complexities of...
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Confrontation in Academic Communication
This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic...
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(Im)politeness in McEwan’s Fiction Literary Pragma-Stylistics
This book is a pragma-stylistic study of Ian McEwan’s fiction, providing a qualitative analysis of his selected novels using (im)politeness theory....
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Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives
This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts....
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The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons
This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it...
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Gandhi’s Autobiographical Construction of Selfhood The Story of His Experiments with Truth
This book addresses the topics of autobiography, self-representation and status as a writer in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiographical work The Story of My...
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Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives Crossing Borders and Telling Lives
This edited volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of how identities are negotiated and a sense of belonging established in a...
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Translation Under Communism
This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine,...
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Populism and Populist Discourse in North America
This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political...
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The Experimental Translator
This book celebrates experimental translation, taking a series of exploratory looks at the hypercyborg translator, the collage translator, the...
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The Sociolinguistics of Written Identity Constructing a Self
This book examines the ways in which a writer’s presentation of self can achieve or impede access to power. Conversations about written voice and...
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Manipulative Fallacies in Early America Studies on Selected Congressional Debates 1789 to 1799
This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States,...
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Discursive Mediation in Translation Living History and its Chinese Translations
This book explores the actual process of mediation operation in the translation process and the interaction between mediation and social structure....
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Exploring the Translatability of Emotions Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters
This book offers an in-depth, cross-cultural and transdisciplinary discussion of the translatability of social emotions. The contributors are leading...
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Grammar in Literature A Text-based Guide for Students
This textbook familiarizes students with grammatical concepts of the English language and develops skills to apply grammar to creative writing and...
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Silence and its Derivatives Conversations Across Disciplines
This edited book examines silence and silencing in and out of discourse, as viewed through a variety of contexts such as historical archives,...