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Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the insights that literature brings to transdisciplinary urban studies, and particularly to the study of cities of the South. Starting from the claim staked by mining capital in the late nineteenth century and its production of extractive and segregated cities, it surveys over a century of writing in search of counterclaims through which the literature reimagines the city as a place of assembly and attachment. Focusing on how the South African city has been designed to funnel gold into the global economy and to service an enclaved minority, the study looks to the literary city to advance a contrary emphasis on community, conviviality and care.An accessible and informative introduction to literature of the South African city at significant historical junctures, this book will also be of great interest to scholars and students in urban studies and Global South studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. All that glitters 3. Light city, dark city 4. Resistant cities 5. Reassembling the city

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book links theory to practice with regard to teaching pragmatics. In laying out why this is useful, how it is achievable, and what to teach when it comes to pragmatics, this book outlines the theoretical background and offers a wide range of hands-on activities. While offering coverage of timely issues like pragmatics in text messaging, the authors expertly provide further guidance for developing pragmatics curricula for learners of different ages and languages, and at different proficiency levels in a research-based, practical way. This reader-friendly resource gives pre- and in-service FL/L2 teachers the tools and confidence to understand and implement these principles in the classroom and beyond. Advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics, education, and psychology, as well as curriculum developers, teacher trainers, and aspiring teachers around the world and their students will benefit from this unique book.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I From research to implications; Part II From implications to application; Part III From application to implementation; Part IV From implementation to research; Glossary; References; Index

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Book SynopsisSan Guo Yan Yi is one of the best-known classic Chinese novels in the English-speaking world. The earliest English translation came out in 1820, while a range of further translations have been produced over the past two hundred years. How do the different versions relate to each other? This volume examines the intertextual relations between the English translations of San Guo Yan Yi. Intertextuality refers to the interdependence of texts in relation to one another. Focusing on the perspectives of impact, quotation, parallels and transformation, the author compares a range of the translated versions, including two full-length translations and over twenty excerpted renderings and partial adaptations since the 1820s. She discovers that excerpted translations are selected to fit the translators' own narrations, and are adapted to many genres, such as poetry, drama, fairytales, and textbooks. Moreover, the original text, translated texts and other related EnTable of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Impact: Tenuous and implicit relations 3. Quotation: Direct and explicit relations 4. Parallel: Symmetrical and analogous relations 5. Transformation: Remoulding genres and characters 6. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Plurilingual Language Education is the first comprehensive publication on plurilingualism, offering a multidimensional reflection on the nature, scope, and potential of plurilingualism in language education and society. Authored by a range of internationally recognized experts, the Handbook provides an overview of key perspectives on plurilingualism in a complementary range of fields. After a comprehensive introduction to the concept itself, 24 chapters are organized in six parts, each examining plurilingualism through a different lens. The Handbook spans historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions, examines cognitive and neuroscientific implications, and the limitations of boundaries before moving to a pragmatic perspective: How is plurilingual language education developing in different contexts around the world? How can it contribute to language revitalization? How can it be expected to develop in education, digital

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Book SynopsisThe book provides insights, description and analysis over the knowledge production process within business, organization, and management research. Importantly, it does so from a language and translation perspective. It critically engages with the role of English in this process and provides theoretical argument for the need to include multilingualism in research. Translation is investigated as a concept for future inquiry.The book is expressive and formative of language-based research that is gaining momentum in business, management, and organization research. It offers conceptual innovation through a thorough treatment of multilingualism and translation, having the potentiality to guide future empirical and theoretical research, and to dispel hidden hegemonic knowledge production practices. The readers will gain insights into the current status quo of language-based inquiry, discussions of multilingualism for research design and be informed about the philosophical underTrade Review"Susanne Tietze’s latest book provides one of the most comprehensive treatises of knowledge production from a language and translation perspective. It views research as a multilingual process of knowledge production that requires critical reflexivity and continuous perfection of skills. It speaks to a broad audience of both seasoned and junior management researchers whose fieldwork crosses language boundaries. I can warmly recommend this excellent and innovative book." Rebecca Piekkari, Professor of International Business, Aalto University, Finland."Awareness of the relevance of translation in our multilingual world is gaining momentum across many disciplines, and this book is timely reading for anyone interested in managing multilingual realities. Graced by a depth of understanding the book is exemplary in its wide treatment of pertinent issues related to translation." Kaisa Koskinen, Professor of Translation Studies, Tampere University, Finland."The author of this innovative book questions the epistemological and methodological dimensions of international management research, by simply asking the unasked question: what does it mean to do international management research in English?" Philippe Lecomte, Emeritus Professor at Toulouse Business School, France; and Chair of GEM&L (Groupe D’Etudes de Management et Langages)"An invaluable resource for international researchers who engage in multilingual research and delves into important issues of knowledge production from a language and translation perspective." Huiping Xian, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour at University of Sheffield, UK. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. English and Management Research 3. English, Language Diversity and Translation in Management Research 4. Toward a Reconfiguration of Language Diversity and Translation in Management Research 5. Developing Global Literacy for Management Research 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.In recent years a compelling array of critically acclaimed fiction by women in the West African diaspora has shifted the direction of the African novel away from post-colonial themes of nationhood, decolonization and cultural authenticity, and towards explorations of the fluid and shifting constructions of identity in transnational spaces. Drawing on works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Buchi Emecheta, Ama Ata Aidoo, Sefi Atta, Chika Unigwe and Taiye Selasie, this book interrogates the ways in which African diaspora womenâs fiction portrays the realities of otherness, hybridity and marginalized existence of female subjects beyond Africaâs borders. Overall, the book demonstrates that life in the diaspora is an uncharted journey of expanded opportunities along with paradoxical realities of otherness. Providing a vivid and composite portrait of African womenâs experiences in the diasporic landscape, this book will be of interest to researchers of migration and diaspora topics, and African, womenâs and world literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction Ch. 1 Unbelonging, Race and Journeys of the Self in the Diaspora Fiction of Buchi Emecheta Ch. 2 Self and Other (s) in Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 3 Violated Bodies and Displaced Identities in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street Ch. 4. Negotiating Identity and Pan-African Aesthetics in Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 5 Re-Imagining Home (land) and Mirrors of the Past in Diplomatic Pounds by Ama Ata Aidoo Ch. 6 Unbecoming Dreams, Splintered Identities and Routes of Return in Taiye Selasie’s Ghana Must Go Ch. 7. Transnational Gaze(ing) and Shifting Identities in Short Fiction by Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ch. 8 There’s No Place Like Home: Memory and Identity in A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHas the language industry of the 21st century been racing ahead of the translation profession and leaving translators behind? Or are translators adapting to new sociotechnical realities and societal demands, and if so, how? The chapters in this volume seek to shed light on the profiles and position of human translators in the current decade.This collection draws together the work of leading authors to reflect on the constantly evolving language industry. The eight chapters present new perspectives on, and concepts of, translation in a digital world. They highlight the shifts taking place in the sociotechnical environment of translation and the need to address changing buyer needs and market demands with new services, profiles and training. In doing so, they share a common focus on the added value that human translators can and do bring to bear as adaptive, creative, digitally literate experts.Addressing an international readership, this volume is of interest to advanced students and researchers in translation and interpreting studies, and professionals in the global language industry.Table of ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsThe human translator in the 2020s: An IntroductionGary Massey, Elsa Huertas-Barros and David Katan1. Translation’s new high-tech clothesFélix do Carmo and Joss Moorkens2. Teaching translation technologies: an analysis of a corpus of syllabi for translation and interpreting undergraduate degrees in SpainRoser Sánchez-Castany3. Translation, translation revision and post-editing competence models: where are we now?Isabelle Robert, Jim J. J. Ureel and Iris Schrijver4. Weaving adaptive expertise into translator trainingErik Angelone5. Tools for transforming translators into homo narrans or ‘what machines can’t do’David Katan6. ‘Expanding’ or ‘rebranding’ the translation concept? A pedagogical approach to future-proofing the translation profession in the 2020sJuliet Vine and Elsa Huertas Barros7. Creativity as an added value in translators’ training: learning through transcreationMarián Morón8. The translator as a plain text designer for the Public Administration: a necessary role?Elena Ruiz-CortésIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways.Trade Review"With Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives, Hyesu Park adds another important contribution to the growing conversation about race and narrative form. In her work unpacking the figure of the ‘inscrutable Asian,’ Park explores the various ways that rhetorical and cognitive approaches to narrative can help readers to better understand the cultural work of contemporary Asian American narratives, while also compellingly demonstrating the continued need to broaden the canon of narratives upon which new developments in narrative theory are built." James J. Donahue, SUNY Potsdam (Potsdam, NY)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Inscrutability, Asian American narratives, and narrative theoryChapter 1:Representing the inscrutable memory of "comfort women" in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life (1999)Chapter 2:Scrutability for readerly recognition in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003)Chapter 3:Visualizing Asian American inscrutability in Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel, Shortcomings (2007)Chapter 4: Contextualizing the affect, ethics, and politics of female silence in Hisaye Yamamoto’s short stories, "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Wilshire Bus" (1950) Chapter 5: Memorializing the inscrutable history of others: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976) and GB Tran’s Vietnamerica: A Family’s Journey (2010)Conclusion: Bridging the fields

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Book SynopsisEconomic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people's basic subsistence needs are met? Some advanced market economies, e.g. the United States, have exhibited a decline in well-being, both subjectively and objectively measured, over several decades despite seeing economic growth during the same period. This book provides an original and comprehensive explanation: economic growth, as driven by market forces, induces people, through both the demand- and supply-side channels, to pursue command over more material resources, and this weakens the self-generation of capabilities, putting well-being at risk of deterioration. The book argues, with the support of a variety of evidence, that the challenge can be overcome if governments' policies and people's choices puTrade Review"Given its stated aims, the book has a very appropriate structure that helps the development and comprehension of its theses. The topics are constructed in a systematic and careful manner, and each chapter provides a very useful literature review...The book is not only valuable for scholars working in the area of happiness research, but also for a much larger readership with an interest of the current problems that modern advanced economies are facing and the possible ways to tackle them." Stavros A. Drakopoulos, Journal of Economic PsychologyTable of ContentsIntroduction and Summary Prologue Chapter 1. Economic growth and people’s well-being in advanced countries Chapter 2. Human development and well-being Chapter 3. Why growth in market economies can deteriorate human development and well-being Chapter 4. Economic growth and human development: which priority in the post-pandemic era? Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Ring and the Book, published serially in 1868â9, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browningâs discovery of the âold yellow bookâ, a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue, the form he had made his own, with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel, Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself â

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Book SynopsisChanâs exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges. Possible sources of the challenges are also examined.The book covers the basic differences between English and Cantonese grammar as well as those between English and Cantonese phonology. Chan discusses the kinds of grammatical and phonological problems that Cantonese ESL learners often have in their acquisition of English. In terms of grammar, various structures are reviewed, including errors which are clearly due to L1 interference and also those which may not be directly L1-related. Learnersâ common misconceptions about relevant concepts are also revealed. In terms of phonology, both speech perception and speech production problems at the segmental and suprasegmental levels are examined. For learner problems which ma

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Book SynopsisThis collection is the first of its kind to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the caseloads and clinical practice of speech-language pathologists.The volume synthesises existing data on the wide-ranging effects of COVID-19 on the communication, swallowing, and language skills of individuals with COVID infection. Featuring perspectives of scholars and practitioners from around the globe, the book examines the ways in which clinicians have had to modify their working practices to prioritise patient and clinician safety, including the significant increase in the use of telepractice during the pandemic. The volume also reflects on changes in training and education which have seen educators in the field redesign their clinical practicum in order to best prepare students for professional practice in an age of COVID-19 and beyond, as the field continues to grapple with the long-term effects of the pandemic.Offering a holistic treatment of the impactTrade Review"This is an essential handbook for those regularly working with patients with COVID-19 or long COVID, and also extremely relevant to all SLT services to learn more about the wider impact of the pandemic on service provision and the communication and quality of life of service users." - Philippa Clay, University of London, Bulletin, the official magazine of the Royal College of Speech and Language TherapistsTable of ContentsChapter 1: COVID-19: A new challenge in speech-language pathologyBijoyaa Mohapatra1 and Ranjini Mohan21Louisiana State University, USA2Texas State University, USAChapter 2: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s speech and language developmentSara A. Charney,1 Stephen M. Camarata,2 and Alexander Chern 3,41Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona, USA2Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA3Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, NewYork–Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA4Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, NewYork–Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USAChapter 3: Telepractice in child speech-language pathology during COVID-19Megan OverbyDuquesne University, USAChapter 4: Neurolinguistic deficits and other cognitive disorders in adults with severe COVID-19 infectionKonstantinos PriftisUniversity of Padua, ItalyChapter 5: Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVIDLouise CummingsThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaChapter 6: Communication-related quality of life in adults with Long COVIDLouise CummingsThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaChapter 7: Management of voice disorders in COVID-19Emerald J. DollUniversity of Wisconsin Health and Clinics, USAChapter 8: Clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19 in critical care following intubation and tracheostomySarah WallaceWythenshawe Hospital, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UKChapter 9: Swallowing difficulties in adults after COVID-19Anna MilesUniversity of Auckland, New ZealandChapter 10: Telepractice in adult speech-language pathology during COVID-19Elizabeth C. Ward and Ashley E. CameronThe University of Queensland, AustraliaChapter 11: Psychological effects of COVID-19 on adults with aphasia and their caregivers: six-month consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns in Hong KongAnthony Pak-Hin Kong,1 Dustin Kai-Yan Lau2 and Vivian Nga-Ying Chai21The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China2The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Chapter 12: The impact of COVID-19 on education and training in speech-language pathologyJanet Ho-yee NgThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaChapter 13: Case studies of adults with COVID-19 infectionLouise CummingsThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses some of the many upheavals brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the COVID-19communicationculture interface, with a particular focus on the new global, virtual workplace. It brings together a pluridisciplinary and multinational team of researchers from the fields of sociology and organisational studies, discourse analysis, linguistics, communication and cultural studies, and includes testimonials from actors within the professional sector such as international managers, consultants and foreign trade advisors. The collection examines a wide range of phenomena including communication on the pandemic by public authorities, the pandemic as a discursive construct, the digital turn and its impact on communication, the role of social media, as well as national diplomacy and questions of surveillance, (bio)power and trust. Issues pertaining specifically to the workplace focus on the impact of remote work, including the challenge of buildTrade Review'In 2020 the global workplace underwent a fundamental change with the almost wholesale transfer of communicative labour from physical spaces in the real world to virtual spaces online. This has had profound implications not only for the way we work but also for how we communicate with one another as human beings. In this much needed volume, Fiona Rossette-Crake and Elvis Buckwalter present a pluridisciplinary range of contributions which reveal the manifold experience of remote working in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. For scholars and students interested in how the pandemic has impacted on work in the domains of discourse, communication, linguistic diversity, culture, management, public messaging, government policy or the operations of biopower and surveillance, this collection is essential reading.'John O’Regan, Professor of Critical Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK'This volume is one of the firsts to take stock of the fundamental changes brought on by the pandemic, both in how we as a society interact about a global crisis, and both how it affects our interactions in professional situations. The professional and research insights from a group of thought leaders will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience interested in exploring the pandemic through the lenses of communication, culture and organisation.' Erika Darics, Lecturer in Communication and Information Science, University of Groningen, Netherlands'Of course, COVID-19 has been thoroughly researched from a public health and epidemiology perspective. But it is so good to see scholars in social sciences and communication get involved too, foregrounding other, equally relevant issues like responsibility, power and trust through the powerful lenses of discourse, narrative and culture. This is a highly welcome, timely volume indeed.'Geert Jacobs, Professor of English Business Communication, Ghent University, BelgiumTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. COVID-19, communication, culture and the workplace, multiple spaces, multiple interfaces Part I: Communicating about COVID-19 2. Responding to the pandemic: a discourse analysis approach 3. Wikipedia as a trusted method of information assessment during the COVID-19 crisis 4. Understanding China’s "intermestic" online vaccination-themed narrative strategy: towards a "Global community of health for all"? 5. Formulating a discourse of solidarity amid COVID-19: a positive discourse analysis of remarks given by spokespersons from China’s foreign ministry 6. COVID-19 and communication through the lens of culture Part II: Communication during COVID-19 7. Why face-to-face communication matters: a comparison of face-to-face and computer-mediated communication 8. COVID-19 and the rise of digitalised spoken communication: the example of webinars 9. Managing multilingual teams in a virtual context 10. Communicating on the job during COVID-19: some professional testimonials Part III: COVID-19 and representations of the workplace 11. Remote work and the contemporary workplace: the example of student internships in the context of France 12. COVID-19 and the culture of professions: issues and tensions in the group of health professionals 13. From privilege to duty: changing media representations of remote work in France, the USA and Estonia 14. International managers and expatriates in the face of the pandemic: impact and cultural issues 15. Working internationally during COVID-19: professional testimonials Postface 16. Concluding virtual round-table discussion: COVID-19, communication, culture and work practice

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the research literature and includes discussions of the major political change in India since the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. This Handbook contains chapters by the fieldâs foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in Indiaâs current cultural and social transformation. This new edition also contains six new chapters on topics not covered by the first edition, such as changes caused by the Hindu majoritarian political ideology, the Hinduization process in the northeast of India and contemporary Dalit and Adivasi literatures. Following an introduction by the editor, the book is divided into five parts: Part I: FoundationPart II: India and the worldPart III: Society, class, caste and genderPart IV: Religion and diversityPart V: Cultural change and innovationsExploring the cultural changes and innovations relating a number of contexts in contemporary India, this Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars interested in Indian and South Asian culture, politics and society.

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Book SynopsisThis play, first published in 1935, is a classic love story first written in the thirteenth century, and came to be seen in China as the play. It was banned by the authorities, yet ran into thousands of editions and no classical scholar would fail to recite these very passages because of the beauty of the language.

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Book SynopsisOf Mind and Machine provides a broad perspective on multi-level dialogic engagements between text and reader as seen from the use of language in presenting information to generate a discursive experience in various sociocultural settings.The book observes contexts such as national literature in translation, diplomatic speech events, visual-verbal inter-semiotic translation, second language learning, interpreter training, and computer-aided teaching of translation and bilingual writing. These present a unifying interest in textual accountability between form, function, and effect that has been examined from a dual perspective of rhetoric and pragmatics. The research embodies a significant prospect of integration of academic originality with technological innovation to advance language education in the present digital era. Theoretically well-founded, the book does not confine itself to a self-contained system of conceptions and methods. Instead, it demonstrates a rich va

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Book SynopsisThis collection is a comprehensive resource on conducting research in applied linguistics involving written genres that is distinctive in its coverage of a multiplicity of interdisciplinary perspectives.The volume explores the central approaches, methodologies, analyses, and tools used in conducting genre-based research, extending the traditional focus on a single framework for defining genres by explicating the major approaches that have been invoked in applied linguistics. Chapters address a mix of commonly used methodologies (e.g., case studies, ethnographic approaches), types of analyses (e.g., metadiscourse, rhetorical move-step analysis, multidimensional analysis, lexical bundles and phrase frames, CALF measures, multimodal analysis), and studies that focus on other areas of second language (L2) teaching and learning (e.g., multilingualism, the Teaching and Learning Cycle). Taken together, the volume provides a theoretically and methodologically diverse introduction to Table of ContentsAbout the Editors About the Contributing AuthorsChapter 1: IntroductionMatt Kessler, Charlene PolioSection I: Research MethodsChapter 2: Case StudiesRaffaella Negretti, Baraa KhuderChapter 3: Ethnographic ResearchChristine M. TardySection II: Analyses, Tools, and TopicsChapter 4: MetadiscourseKen HylandChapter 5: Rhetorical Move-Step AnalysisJ. Elliott Casal, Matt KesslerChapter 6: Lexical Bundles and Phrase FramesViviana CortesChapter 7: Multidimensional AnalysisLarissa Goulart, Shelley StaplesChapter 8: Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency (CALF) MeasuresCharlene Polio, Hyung-Jo YoonChapter 9: Multimodal AnalysisLarissa D’Angelo, Francesca MarinoSection III: Focus on the Learner and LearningChapter 10: Multilingualism and MulticompetenceBruna Sommer-FariasChapter 11: Systemic Functional Linguistics and the (Expanded) Teaching and Learning CycleKathryn Accurso, Jennifer Walsh MarrIndex

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Book SynopsisAn influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society.A particular form of AI is now embedded in our tech, our infrastructure, and our lives. How did it get there? Where and why should we be concerned? And what should we do now? The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us provides an accessible yet probing exposure of AI in its prevalent form today, proposing a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that have happened in the recent tumultuous past, and enabling us to think soberly about the road ahead.This book is divided into ten carefully crafted and easily digestible chapters. Each chapter grapples with an important question for AI. Ranging from the scientific concepts that underpin the technology to wider implications for society, it develops a unified description using tools from different disciplines and avoiding unnecessTrade Review"Nello Cristianini’s brilliant book accessibly explains the shortcuts computer scientists took in their search for artificial intelligence, and how the interaction between engineers, companies and consumers created our online world. The shortcuts enabled problems to be solved, but using them on a massive scale also had unintended consequences. One of the most important points of this book is that the feedback loops between humans and AIs are changing us. Another is that the form taken by AI and IT could have been different, and that regulation and scrutiny could make it more compatible with human flourishing. The book tells key stories in the history of AI and big data, and introduces many critical ideas lucidly. The Shortcut is itself an elegant shortcut to understanding."-- James Ladyman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, President-elect of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science "Nello Cristianini is a prominent AI researcher who has contributed to the field for more than twenty-five years. In this exquisitely written book, rich in anecdotes, he traces the history of AI over that time up to the latest developments. In looking to the future, he takes an unusual but revealing perspective that the present form of AI is a social machine which has effects -- intended and unintended -- on us."--Chris Watkins, Professor of Machine Learning, Royal Holloway, University of London“The writing style is wonderful. Clear, lucid and unfussy. Very readable and very accessible. The first four chapters in particular make accessible the basic difference between rule-based programming and the pattern-based approach of ML techniques. They provide a clear and engaging account of the field's development. These chapters also put forward a persuasive account of the notion of 'intelligence' and distinguish human intelligence from that of other agents - it is very well done, and convincing. The remaining chapters tackle many different applications and consequences of intelligent agents, including unintended harms, social media data harvesting, recommender systems, addiction, manipulation and polarisation, social machines and regulation.”--Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics, University of Birmingham and Birmingham Law School, UK"Written in a clear and engaging style, this book does not just describe how Artificial Intelligence evolved, it also confronts important questions about the nature of intelligence, our relation with technology, and how we can be affected by it. I really enjoyed being taken on the journey form my previously comfortable analogue world to today’s and tomorrow’s world of living with digital intelligence."--Stafford Lightman, FMedSci, FRS, Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsABOUT THE AUTHOR. PROLOGUE. 1 The Search for Intelligence. 2 The Shortcut. 3 Finding Order in the World. 4 Lady Lovelace Was Wrong. 5 Unintended Behaviour. 6 Microtargeting and Mass Persuasion. 7 The Feedback Loop. 8 The Glitch. 9 Social Machines. 10 Regulating, Not Unplugging. EPILOGUE. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThrough a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the key role played by the coming of age novel in the definition and perception of modern Arab subjectivity.Exploring the role of Bildungsroman in shaping the canonical Egyptian novel, the book discusses the case of Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1913) as an example of early Arab Bildungsnarrative. It focuses on Latifa Zayyat's masterpiece The Open Door and the novels of the 90es Generation, offering a gender-based analysis of the Egyptian Bildungsroman. It provides insightful readings about the function of the novel in women's re-negotiation of social boundaries. The study shows how the stories of youth present universal themes such as the thwarted quest for love, the struggle for personal fulfilment, the desire to achieve a cu

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Book SynopsisMachine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes, approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans.Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension, this book helps linguists, translators, and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways, in terms of word embeddings, chunking of larger meaning units, and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks, including machine translation, translation quality assessment and quality estimation, and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of Trade Review"Machine Learning in Translation by Wang and Sawyer offers a new and important perspective on the topic by discussing machine learning concepts from a linguistic perspective. They offer an entryway to an in-depth understanding of machine learning concepts for linguists, closing a long-existing gap in literature suitable for machine learning education for this audience."Tabea De Wille, University of Limerick, Ireland Table of ContentsList of figures and tablesIntroductionPART I - HUMAN AND MACHINE APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION1. Convergence of two approaches to translation2. Levels of analysis3. Predicative language modelsPART II - MACHINE LEARNING TASKS IN TRANSLATION 4. Machine translation 5. Machine translation quality assessment and quality estimation6. Intentionality and NLP tasks in translationPART III - DATA IN HUMAN AND MACHINE LEARNING 7. Translation-computer interaction through language data8. Balancing machine and human learning in translation 9. Impact of machine learning on translator education Epilogue – Human-centered machine learning in translationReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisQuestionnaires in Second Language Research is the first state-of-the-art methodological guide for producing and using questionnaires as reliable and valid research instruments in second language studies. Zoltán Dörnyei and Jean-Marc Dewaele provide a comprehensive, reader-friendly overview of the theory of questionnaire design, administration, and processing, made accessible with a detailed how-to guide and concrete, real-life applications.This new edition is thoroughly updated to reflect developments in the field and with recent example studies that focus on considerations, challenges, and opportunities raised at all stages of the research process by online questionnaires. There is also expanded, detailed guidance on how to use the IRIS database and how to clean, process, and analyze questionnaire data prior to determining and reporting findings.This is an invaluable resource to students and researchers of SLA, applied linguistics, psychology, and education wTable of ContentsTable of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition Introduction 1 Questionnaires in Second Language Research1.1 What Are "Questionnaires" and What Do They Measure? 1.1.1 What a Questionnaire Is Not 1.1.2 What Do Questionnaires Measure? 1.2 Using Questionnaires: Pros and Cons 1.2.1 Advantages 1.2.2 Disadvantages 1.3 Questionnaires in Quantitative and Qualitative2 Constructing the Questionnaire 2.1 General Features 2.1.1 Length 2.1.2 Layout 2.1.3 Sensitive Topics and Anonymity2.2 The Main Parts of a Questionnaire2.2.1 Title 2.2.2 Instructions 2.2.3 Questionnaire Items 2.2.4 Sociobiographical Information2.2.5 Additional Information2.2.6 Final "Thank You" 2.3 Appropriate Sampling of the Questionnaire Content and the Significance of "Multi-Item Scales" 2.3.1 Appropriate Sampling of the Content 2.3.2 Using Multi-Item Scales 2.4 "Closed-Ended" Questionnaire Items 2.4.1 Rating Scales 2.4.2 Multiple-Choice Items2.4.3 Rank Order Items 2.4.4 Numeric Items 2.4.5 Checklists 2.5 Open-Ended Questions 2.5.1 Specific Open Questions 2.5.2 Clarification Questions 2.5.3 Sentence Completion Items 2.5.4 Short-Answer Questions 2.6 How to Write Good Items 2.6.1 Drawing Up an "Item Pool" 2.6.2 Rules About Writing Items 2.6.3 Writing Sensitive Items 2.7 Grouping and Sequencing Items 2.7.1 Clear and Orderly Structure 2.7.2 Opening Questions 2.7.3 Factual (or "Personal" or "Classification") Questions at the Beginning or that the End?2.7.4 Open-Ended Questions at the End 2.8 Translating the Questionnaire2.8.1 Translation as a Team-Based Approach2.8.2 Translation with Limited Resources2.9 Computer Programs for Constructing Questionnaires2.10 Piloting the Questionnaire and Conducting Item Analysis2.10.1 Initial Piloting of the Item Pool 2.10.2 Final Piloting ("Dress Rehearsal") 2.10.3 Item Analysis 3 Administering the Questionnaire3.1 Selecting the Sample 3.1.1 Sampling Procedures 3.1.2 How Large Should the Sample Be? 3.1.3 The Problem of Respondent Self-Selection 3.2 Main Types of Questionnaire Administration 3.2.1 Administration by Mail 3.2.2 One-to-One Administration 3.2.3 Group Administration 3.3 Strategies to Increase the Quality and Quantity of Participant Response 3.3.1 Advance notice 3.3.2 Attitudes Conveyed by Teachers, Parents, and Other Authority Figures 3.3.3 Respectable Sponsorship 3.3.4 The Presence of a Survey Administrator 3.3.5 The Behavior of the Survey Administrator 3.3.6 Communicating the Purpose and Significance of the Survey 3.3.7 Emphasizing Confidentiality 3.3.8 Reading Out the Questionnaire Instructions 3.3.9 The Style and Layout of the Questionnaire 3.3.10 Promising Feedback on the Results 3.4 Questionnaire Administration, Confidentiality, and Other Ethical Issues 3.4.1 Basic Ethical Principles of Data Collection 3.4.2 Obtaining Consent for Children 3.4.3 Strategies for Getting Around Anonymity 4 Processing Questionnaire Data 4.1 Coding Questionnaire Data 4.1.1 First Things First: Assigning Identification Codes 4.1.2 Coding Quantitative Data 4.2 Inputting the Data 4.2.1 Creating and Naming the Data File 4.2.2 Keying in the Data4.3 Processing Closed Questions 4.3.1 Data Cleaning 4.3.2 Data Manipulation 4.3.3 Reducing the Number of Variables in the Questionnaire 4.3.4 Main Types of Questionnaire Data 4.3.5 Examining the Reliability and Validity of the Data 4.3.6 Statistical Procedures to Analyze Data 4.4 Content Analysis of Open-Ended Questions 4.5 Computer Programs for Processing Questionnaire Data 4.6 Summarizing and Reporting Questionnaire Data 4.6.1 General Guidelines 4.6.2 Technical Information to Accompany Survey Results 4.6.3 Reader-Friendly Data Presentation Methods 4.7 Complementing Questionnaire Data with Other Information 4.7.1 Questionnaire Survey with Follow-up Interview or Retrospection 4.7.2 Questionnaire Survey Facilitated by Preceding Interview 5 Online questionnaires 5.1 The effect of setting and social obligation in paper and online questionnaires 5.1.1 Social context in online questionnaires5.1.2 The ephemeral relationship between participant and researcher5.2 Fear and distrust of all types of questionnaires5.3 When online questionnaires are impractical or impossible5.4 Non-probability sampling in online questionnaires5.5 Developing a good online questionnaire5.5.1 Knowing something about statistics before creating a questionnaire5.5.2 Choosing a platform5.5.3 Pilot testing the online questionnaire5.6 Getting the snowball to roll5.6.1 Producing an attractive call for participation5.6.2 The appearance of the questionnaire5.6.3 The use of a progression bar5.6.4 Friendly academic nudging5.6.5 Rewarding participants5.7 When the harvest is in5.7.1 Cleaning the data5.7.2 Calculating internal consistency5.7.3 Being careful with automatic coding5.8 Running the statistics to answer the research questions: the Hallelujah moment5.8.1 Double-checking suspicious results5.8.2 Playing by the rules 5.8.3 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)6. Developing psychometrically sound instruments6.1 Developing and Validating the Short-form Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S-FLES) (Botes et al., 2021)6.1.1 The background6.1.2 Developing a Short-Form through Sequential Steps6.1.3 Concluding Remarks on the S-FLES6.1.4 Final Short-form Foreign Language Enjoyment Scale (S-FLES)6.2 Developing and validating a questionnaire to measure intensity and quality of L2 engagement (Teravainen-Goff, in preparation)6.2.1 Background6.2.2 Key challenges in developing the intensity and quality of L2 engagement questionnaire6.2.3 Final version of intensity and quality of L2 engagement questionnaire (Teravainen-Goff, in preparation)6.3 Developing and validating the Foreign Language Learning Boredom Scale (FLLBS) (Li et al., 2020)6.3.1 Initial conceptualization of the target construct6.3.2 Development of the initial questionnaire6.3.3 Validation of the questionnaire6.3.4 Final Foreign Language Learning Boredom Scale and its English translation7. Conclusion and ChecklistReferencesAppendixAuthor Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisUntil now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women's college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be

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Book SynopsisIn Freud's Adolescence, Florian Houssier looks at the early years of the Father of Psychoanalysis and considers how his personal experiences shaped his later work. Including excerpts from many letters written by Freud himself, this volume allows a rare glimpse into the inner thoughts and emotions of one of his generation's greatest minds.Engaging with this lesser-known period of Freud's life, the vivacity of his incestuous and parricidal fantasies comes to the surface, infiltrating his relational life as well as his dreams. Houssier proposes a new hypothesis about the conflicts of Freud's adolescence, and their impact on his tendencies in later conflicts. This is the first book that sustains a systematic analysis of this material and adds a new dimension to the biography of Freud by exploring links between his life and creativity from a current theorisation of the adolescent process. This book will be an essential read for all psychoanalysts, psychologists, lectTrade Review'This book demonstrates that S. Freud's adolescent crisis is far from being calm, despite the appearance that he gave of it. It is certainly upsetting, rich in emotions, creative, questioning. Was adolescence so disliked because it was at the very origin of Freudian thought? To what extent did Freud try all his life to find his buried adolescence? In the same way, an adolescence refused in its difficulty could, in its time, become a privileged source of metapsychology and its technical corollaries. The richness of the "biographic-theoretical" field opened by Florian Houssier's book is thus an event.'Philippe Gutton, Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, University Professor, Founder of the Revue Adolescence (France)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Infantile traces and first connections 3. Adolescent life 4. Girls: a troubling otherness 5. Eduard: the passion of friendship 6. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisChinese Sociolinguistics examines the ways in which language contributes to shaping social, cultural, and ethnic identities in Greater China. This book is the first textbook to be exclusively devoted to the issues of language, society, and identity in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese communities (the Greater China). The book includes topics on the role of language in Chinese culture; the linguistic indexing of socioeconomic class; dialects and regional language variation; the impacts of state policies; linguistic borrowings; bilingualism and bicultural identity; and language shift and attrition. The emergence of new forms of language as influenced by modern technologies and possible future developments is also discussed in this book. This book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in Chinese sociolinguistics, particularly with a focus on language, identity, and society in Greater China. This book will also be of interest to members of the Chinese Language Teachers Association and the American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter 1 Laying the FoundationChapter 2 Chinese Languages: Past, Present and FutureChapter 3 Naming and Proper Name Planning in ChinaChapter 4 Language Planning, Policy and Attitudes in ChinaChapter 5 Language Use, Policy, and Attitudes in Hong Kong and MacaoChapter 6 Language Policy, Use, and Attitudes in Taiwan and SingaporeChapter 7 Gender and Identity in Chinese LanguageChapter 8 Language and Rural/Urban IdentityChapter 9 Identity and Language Maintenance among the Chinese DiasporaChapter 10 The Linguistic Landscape of Greater ChinaChapter 11 Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and its Role as a Lingua FrancaChapter 12 English Education in ChinaChapter 13 Emerging Chinese Language FormsChapter 14 Face, Politeness, and Responses to Compliments in Chinese

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Book SynopsisXenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists, and other experts specializing in language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like. The 18 chapters examine what is known about human language and animal communication systems to provide reasonable hypotheses about what we may find if we encounter non-Earth intelligence.Showcasing an interdisciplinary dialogue between a set of highly established scholars, this volume: Clarifies what is and is not known about human language and animal communication systems Presents speculative arguments as a philosophical exercise to help define the boundaries of what our current science can tell us about non-speculative areas of investigation Provides readers with a clearer sense of how our knowledge about language is better informed through a cross-disciplinary investigation Offers a better understanding of future avenues of reseTable of Contents1. Goals of the Volume—Jeffrey Punske2. Many Ways to Say Things: What the Diversity of Animal Communication on Earth Can Tell Us About the Likely Nature of Alien Language—Arik Kershenbaum3. Recognizing Intentional Signals and Their Meaning in Non-Human Communication—Catherine Hobaiter, Adriano R. Lameira, and Derek Ball 4. Getting Out of Our Skin: What Decoding Interspecies Communication and Nonhuman Intelligence Can Tell Us About Deciphering Alien Languages—Denise L. Herzing5. Communicative Resources Beyond the Verbal Tier: A View on Xenolinguistics from Interactional Linguistics—Heike Ortner 6. How Studies of Communication Among Nonhumans and Between Humans and Nonhumans Can Inform SETI—Irene M. Pepperberg 7. Patterns of Communication of Human Complex Societies as a Blueprint for Alien Communication—Anamaria Berea 8. Interstellar Competence: Applications of Linguistics and Communicative and Cultural Competencies to Extraterrestrial Communication—Sumayya K.R. Granger, Judd Ethan Ruggill, and Ken S. McAllister 9. Why Do We Assume That We Can Decode Alien Languages?—Con Slobodchikoff 10. Xenolinguistic Fieldwork—Claire Bowern 11. Investigating the Foundations of Meaning in a Xenolanguage—Andrew McKenzie 12. A Linguistic Perspective on the Drake Equation: Knowns and Unknowns for Human Languages and Extraterrestrial Communication—Daniel Ross 13. Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Aliens—Sheri Wells-Jensen 14.The Design Features of Extraterrestrial Language: A Domain-General Approach—Darcy Sperlich 15. Universal Grammar—Ian Roberts, Jeffrey Watumull, and Noam Chomsky 16. Where Does Universal Grammar Fit in the Universe? Human Cognition and the Strong Minimalist Thesis—Bridget D. Samuels and Jeffrey Punske 17. Learning and Adaptation of Communication Systems in Biological Life Forms—Jessie S. Nixon and Fabian Tomaschek 18. Writing Systems and METI: Off-the-Shelf Encoding of Human Physiology, Language, Cognition, and Culture—Daniel Harbour

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languageTrade Review"This impressive collection comprises chapters examining perspectives on language revitalization including its context, players, methods, technology, and relationship to documentation and other disciplines, and chapters on regional perspectives. Authors include learners, curriculum developers, language centre directors, linguists, and others. This is exactly the book needed today. It will be invaluable for all involved in language revitalization from research and practice perspectives. Thank you to the editors for their vision."– Keren Rice, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroductionLanguage Revitalization as a Growing Field of Study and PracticeLeanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald RochePart 1Issues of Theory and PracticeSection 1.1. Language Revitalization in Context1. "Language is Like Food … ": Links Between Language Revitalization and Health and WellbeingMichael Walsh 2. Language Rights and RevitalizationTove Skutnabb-Kangas3. Community-Based Language Planning: Perspectives from Indigenous Language RevitalizationTeresa L. McCarty4. Reinvigorating Language Policy and Planning for Intergenerational Language RevitalisationJoseph Lo BiancoSection 1.2. The Role of Institutions5. The Role of Organizations in Language RevitalizationSuzanne Gessner, Margaret Florey, Inée Slaughter, and Leanne Hinton6. Training Institutes for Language RevitalizationArienne Dwyer, Ofelia Zepeda, Jordan Lachler, and Janne UnderrinerSection 1.3. Revitalization through Education7. Preschool and School as Sites for Revitalizing Languages with Very Few SpeakersJon Todal8. Higher Education in Indigenous Language RevitalizationWilliam H. Wilson9. Is Revitalization through Education Possible?Nancy H. Hornberger and Haley De KorneSection 1.4. Language Revitalization in the Household10. Kotahi Mano Kaika, Kotahi Mano Wawata – A Thousand Homes, a Thousand Dreams: Permission to Dream AgainHana Merenea O’Regan11. Tolowa Language in the homePyuwa Bommelyn with Ruby TuttleSection 1.5. New Methodologies for Language Learning12. The Master-Apprentice Language Learning ProgramLeanne Hinton, Margaret Florey, Suzanne Gessner and Jacob Manatowa-Bailey13. An Overview of Where Are Your Keys: A Glimpse Inside the Technique ToolboxEvan Gardner and Susanna Ciotti14. The Root Word Method For Building Proficient Second Language Speakers of Polysynthetic Languages: Onkwawén:na Kentyókhwa Adult Mohawk Language Immersion ProgramTehota’kerá:tonh Jeremy Green and Owennatékha Brian Maracle15. Language Nesting in the HomeZalmai ¿¿sw¿li ZahirSection 1.6. Literacy, Language Documentation, and the Internet16. Revitalizing the Cherokee SyllabaryBrad Montgomery-Anderson17. Learning Languages Through ArchivesJustin Spence 18. The Breath of Life Workshops and InstitutesDaryl Baldwin, Leanne Hinton and Gabriela Pérez Báez19. Online dictionaries for language revitalizationAndrew Garrett20. Language Documentation and Language Revitalization: Some Methodological ConsiderationsPeter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank21. Documentary Fieldwork and its Web of ResponsibilitiesNancy C. DorianSection 1.7. Special representations of language22. Hawaiian Medium Theatre and the Language Revitalization Movement: A Means to Reestablishing Mauli Hawai¿iC. M. Kaliko Baker23. A Case for Greater Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Language and Music RevitalizationCatherine Grant24. Revitalization of Whistled LanguagesJulien Meyer25. Endangerment and Revitalization of Sign LanguagesJ. Albert Bickford and Melanie McKay-Cody26. New Speakers of Minority LanguagesBernadette O’RourkePart 2Regional Perspectives: Decolonizing and Globalizing Language RevitalizationIntroductionGerald RocheSection 2.1. Europe27. From the Ashes: Language Revitalization in CornwallJenefer Lowe28. Maintenance and Revitalization of GalloSean Nolan29. Language Revitalization in the Channel IslandsJulia SallabankSection 2.2. Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand30. Language Revitalization in Aotearoa/New ZealandStephen May and Richard Hill31. Language Revival in AustraliaJohn Hobson32. Revitalization of KaurnaRob AmerySection 2.3. The Arctic33. Arctic Indigenous Languages: Vitality and RevitalizationLenore A. Grenoble34. Revitalization of Sámi Languages in Three Nordic Countries: Finland, Norway and SwedenUlla Aikio-Puoskari35. "This Work is Not for Pessimists": Revitalization of Inari Saami LanguageAnnika PasenenSection 2.4. The Americas36. Language Revitalization in Indigenous North AmericaLeanne Hinton and Barbra Meek37. "Carrying on The Word That I Know": Teacher-Community Language Revitalization Collaborations in Indigenous Oaxaca, MexicoLois M. Meyer38. Revitalizing Pipil: The Cuna Nahuat ExperienceJorge E. Lemus39. Language Revalorization in Peruvian Amazonia, Through the Lens of IquitoChristine Beier and Lev MichaelSection 2.5. Asia40. Language Revitalization¿of TibetanGerald Roche and Lugyal Bum41. Supporting and Sustaining Language Vitality in Northern PakistanHenrik Liljegren42. Language Revitalization: The Tai Ahom Language of Northeast IndiaStephen Morey43. Revitalization of Duoxu: A First-hand AccountKaterina Chirkova44. Revitalization of The Ryukyuan LanguagesPatrick Heinrich45. The Revitalization of Nivkh on Sakhalin Ekaterina Gruzdeva and Juha JanhunenSection 2.6. Africa46. Supporting Vital Repertoires, Not Revitalizing LanguagesFriederike Lüpke47. Reclaiming Amazigh in a Time of Devitalization Ahmed KabelConclusionWhat works in Language RevitalizationLeanne Hinton, Leena Huss and Gerald Roche

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Book SynopsisThis book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses. Built around a diverse range of international research studies and conceptual articles, the book covers four key issues in teaching language to novice students: development of linguistic skills, communicative and intercultural competence, evaluation and assessment, and the use of technology. Each chapter includes teaching insights that are supported by critical research and can be practically applied across languages to enhance instructional strategies and curriculum designs. The text also aims to build intercultural competence, harness technology, and design assessment to stimulate effective learning in formal instructional settings, including colleges, universities, and specialist language schools.With its broad coverage of language pedagogy at the novice level, this book is a must read for graduate students, scholars, reseTrade Review"This book delivers exciting research focused exclusively on the vital first year of language study. Its four thematic sections – Approaches, Intercultural Competence, Technology, and Assessment and Evaluation – will be immensely useful to all language instructors, regardless of language taught." - Jason Merrill, Professor of Russian, Michigan State University; Director of the Middlebury College, Kathryn Wasserman Davis School of Russian, USA"This book presents critical research findings and practical recommendations focused on language instruction at the elementary level in colleges and universities. I recommend this well-organized volume to all those working to encourage these language learners in their efforts to become effective communicators in today’s globalized world." - Marilyn S. Severson, Professor Emerita, Seattle Pacific University, USA"With a thoughtful collection of empirical studies on a range of critical issues in the field of foreign language education, this volume fills in the gap of research devoted to novice level adult language learners in college and university programs. I highly recommend this reference book for professionals looking for research ideas and pedagogical recommendations in program design and curriculum innovation." - Yilin Sun, Professor, Seattle Colleges-South Seattle College; President of TESOL International Association (2014-2015), USATable of ContentsForeword by Benjamin RifkinAcknowledgments List of contributors1. Introduction: Enhancing beginner-level foreign language education for adult learnersEkaterina NemtchinovaPart I: Teaching Language Competence2. Postsecondary language learners’ ideal L2 self in a beginning Chinese, French, and Spanish classroomsYan Xie and Laura Ziebart 3. Experience with application of usage-based model of language to beginning L2 instructionSerafima Gettys 4. Enhancing grammar acquisition among beginner-level learners of Chinese using the flipped learning modelHongying Xu 5. Building beginning Spanish language learners’ linguistic and cultural competence through online task-based instruction Lina Lee Part II: Teaching Intercultural Competence6. Integrating culture in language curriculum from beginning to intermediate level in a blended learning environment: A design-based empirical studyShenglan Zhang 7. Intercultural competence in elementary-level language classes in higher educationIslam Karkour8. The culture portfolio: Assessing growth toward intercultural competence Julianne Bryant9. Employing concept maps in teaching foreign language culture Elmira GerfanovaPart III: Teaching with Technology10. Pathways to digital L2 literacies for text-based telecollaboration at the beginning levelMaria Bondarenko and Liudmila Klimanova11. Student satisfaction and engagement in a beginning Ukrainian blended-learning course: Debunking fears of blending and lessons learnedAlla Nedashkivska12. Data-driven learning in a low-level language classroomKatya Goussakova13. Поехали! Training Russian prefixed verbs of motion in virtual realityKristin Bidoshi and Ekaterina NemtchinovaPart IV: Assessment and Evaluation14. An exploration of beginner-level Korean learners’ perceptions and participation in collaborative writing tasks for learning-oriented assessmentYunjung Nam and Hakyoon Lee15. Feminist assessment in elementary world language coursesVeta Chitnev16. Assessment of the relationship between derivational morphological awareness and second language reading comprehensionAnna Shur

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Book SynopsisCommunity, or public service, translation contributes to a more equitable and sustainable community by empowering minority groups such as migrants and refugees and is a growing area for both teaching and research within translation studies.Written by a leading authority with over 20 years of teaching experience and in consultation with a range of academics running major courses across the globe, this is the first accessible and interactive introductory textbook to this growing area. It provides step-by-step guidance to students undertaking an undergraduate or postgraduate course covering community translation, public service translation, translation as social action or translation as a social service in multilingual and multicultural societies. The book covers key issues in this area of translation practice, including its distinctive features, challenges and requirements, role and ethical issues, common text types, translation strategies, translation revision and quality assu

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Practical Language Testing equips you with the skills, knowledge and principles necessary to understand and construct language tests. This practical guide offers step-by-step guidelines on the design of assessments within the classroom, and provides the necessary tools to analyse and improve assessments, as well as deal with alignment to externally imposed standards. Testing is situated both within the classroom and within the larger social context, and readers are provided the knowledge necessary to make realistic and fair decisions about the use and implementation of tests.Now in its second edition, this respected text has been substantially revised and updated, including a new chapter on validity drawing from the author''s Messick Award-winning award for innovation in validity theory and practice. It also includes expended coverage of standardised testing and learning oriented assessment, and introduces task design features, including authenticity, and automated ass

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Book SynopsisIntroducing narrative mobility as a new approach in comparative studies of Iran and the US, this book reinterprets the politics and aesthetics of relations between the nations through an analysis of Iranian and American authors.The book focuses specifically on three authorsSimin Daneshvar, Shahriar Mandanipour, and Don DeLillowho each employ narrative mobility to rethink intercultural negotiation, addressing parallel issues in America and Iran from different, but complementary, perspectives. The book analyzes the employment of parallel narrational techniques, presenting physically and virtually mobile characters who embody their respective countries as they move from one culture to another. The strange affinity between Iran and the US is ultimately revealed by viewing literary works as a contact zone through which the complicated relations and shared history of the two nations can be renegotiated. On a more theoretical level, the book reflects

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Book SynopsisThis student guide is an introduction to research on language and digital communication, providing an overview of relevant sociolinguistic concepts, analytical frameworks, and methodological approaches commonly used in the field. The book is a practical guide designed to help students develop independent research projects on language and digital communication. Topics covered include: the emergence of research on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC), interactional affordances and the design infrastructures of digital platforms, practical and ethical guidance in designing and implementing a research project on digital communication, contemporary approaches in the sociolinguistics of digital communication such as Computational Sociolinguistics (CS) and interactional analyses, and the impact of social and digital media on language change.Chapters are organised thematically, each supplemented with examples from various platforms and sociolinguistic contexts, as well as further re

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Book SynopsisThis book reviews the cross-disciplinary debate sparked by renewed interest in Elinor Glynâs life and legacy by film scholars and literary and feminist historians and offers a range of views of Glyn's cultural and historical significance and areas for future research.Elinor Glyn was a celebrity figure in the 1920s. In the magazines she gave tips on beauty and romance, on keeping your man and on the contentious issue of divorce. Her racy stories were turned into films â most famously, Three Weeks (1924) and It (1927). Decades on the âIt Girlâ remains in common currency, defining the sexy, sassy and alluring young woman. She was beloved by readers of romance, and her films were distributed widely in Europe and the Americas. They were viewed by the judiciary as scandalous, but by others - Hollywood and the Spanish Catholic Church - as acceptably conservative. Glyn has become a peripheral figure in histories of this period, marginalized in accounts of the youth-centred âflapper eraâ. This book features scholarship by Stacy Gillis, Annette Kuhn, Nickianne Moody, Caterina Riba and Carme SanmartÃ, Lisa Stead, Karen Randell, and Alexis Weedonand includes, translated for the first time, the intertitles for MÃrton Garas, 1917 film of Three Weeks, HÃrom hÃt by Orsolya ZsuppÃn.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women: A Cultural Review.

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Book SynopsisThis resource supports TESOL preservice and in-service teachers and curriculum designers in teaching pronunciation more effectively. Laurie Bauer examines the patterns of pronunciation found in English, comments on common errors made by learners, provides advice on what must be taught and what can be allowed to pass, and offers commentary on which parts of the curriculum are necessary for beginners and which are of value only to advanced students. Part I introduces the phonetic background; Part II covers phonetics in more detail (consonants, vowels, prosody, phonotactics and syllables); Part III covers phonology (sound changes influenced by adjacent sounds, morphophonemics, stress rules and free variation); and Part IV covers spelling (English spelling, spelling consonants and vowels, and spelling particularly difficult words). The helpful content can be tailored to one's teaching needs and will support an educator's efforts to teach pronunciation seriously, whether it is a matter of pTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefacePart I. Introductory material1 Introduction2 The phonetic backgroundPart II. Mostly phonetics3 Consonants4 Vowels5 Prosody6 Phonotactics and syllables7 Extra advice for teachersPart III. Phonology8 Sound changes influenced by adjacent sounds9 Morphophonemics10 Stress rules11 Free variationPart IV. Spelling12 English spelling13 Spelling consonants14 Spelling vowels15 Names and other difficult wordsReading and ReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1972 Five for Freedom is a candid study of five European fictional heroines as anticipatory of contemporary feminism: Madame de Merteuil of Choderlos de Laclosâ Les Liaisons dangereuses, Jane Eyre, Emma Bovary, Tess of the DâUrbervilles, and Tony Buddenbrook. Professor Wagner clearly believes that, in the first place, the role of women in the development of fiction has been underestimated, while the claims to originality of many recent female liberationists have been equally overestimated. This is a far-ranging, lightly-handled book with insights into both mode of fiction, as it developed and answered womenâs demands, and into the role of some of its leading heroines; for Professor Wagnerâs studies do not limit themselves strictly to the âfive for freedomâ but foray into Balzacâs Cousine Bette, Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights, Anna Karenina, and Eca de Queirozâs Portuguese Bovary in Cousin Bazilio. This brilliant little study is topical, readable, yet learned. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of literature, Womenâs studies, and Gender studies.

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Book SynopsisTeaching Russian Through STEM: Contexts, Tools, and Approaches addresses the growing demand for language courses that respond to the interests of students who are increasingly majoring in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.This edited collection draws on the expertise of international contributors, addressing the challenges of teaching Russian as a morphologically complex language with a focus on vocabulary and syntax specific to STEM contexts. Through a variety of case studies, readers will access a theoretical foundation and practical examples of how to design and implement content-based courses with a focus on STEM. The book explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching Russian in the context of STEM, providing educators with the tools and knowledge to create engaging and relevant language courses for todayâs students.Teaching Russian Through STEM will be of interest to Russian language instructors, curriculum devel

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English for IT Communication provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals studying IT or computer science and covers all forms of technical communication from emails and memos through procedures to reports and design specs. In each case, the book offers multiple real-world examples, looking at who the texts are written for, what their purpose is, and how these affect what is on the page.Key features of this book include: How to write for different audiences and purposes How to design documents for ease of access and understanding How to communicate in multimodal media How to reference in IEEE Multiple different examples and breakdowns of common text types to show how they are written and to produce an understanding of quality in each Online support material including authentic examples of different workplace genres and a reference section covering relevant research studies and weblinks for

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Book SynopsisPatti Miller''s best-selling Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction. It provides practical guidance and inspiration on a vast array of writing topics, including how to access memories, find a narrative voice, build a vivid world on the page, create structure, use research, and face the difficulties of truth-telling.It first develops a wide range of writing skills for beginners, and then challenges more experienced writers to extend their knowledge and practice of the genre into literary nonfiction, true crime, biography, the personal essay, the diary, and travel writing. It offers inspiration from other nonfiction writers, such as Joan Didion, Helen Garner, Robert Dessaix, and Zadie Smith. Whether you want to write your own memoir, investigate a wide-ranging political issue, explore an idea, or bring to life an intriguing history, this book will be your g

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Language and Media provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in media linguistics. This handbook analyzes both language theory and practice, demonstrating the vital role of this research in understanding language use in society. With over thirty chapters contributed by leading academics from around the world, this handbook: addresses issues of language use, form, structure, ideology, practice, and culture in the context of both traditional and new communication media; investigates mediated language use in public spheres, organizations, and personal communication, including newspaper journalism, broadcasting, and social media; examines the interplay of language and media from both linguistic and media perspectives, discussing auditory and visual media and graphic modes, as well as language and gender, multilingualism, and language change; analyzes the advanTrade Review "Cotter and Perrin have assembled a stellar cast of established and emerging sociolinguists, discourse analysts and communication scholars to deliver a cutting-edge, critical and comprehensive reference book for the study of print, broadcast and online media."Adam Jaworski, The University of Hong Kong "Bringing together an impressive and convincing selection of leading names and emerging scholars, and covering a range of contexts, media and technological domains, and methodological approaches, this collection represents an essential ‘state of the art’ for all those interested in the field of media linguistics."Helen Kelly-Holmes, University of Limerick, Ireland Table of ContentsIntroduction - Colleen Cotter and Daniel Perrin Part A Research frameworks and methods: Summarising the field(s)1 Media Linguistic Approaches - Daniel Perrin2 Sociolinguistic Approaches - Jane Stuart-Smith3 Cognitive Approaches - Anna Pleshakova4 Critical Approaches - Michal Kryzyzanowski and David Machin5 Ethnographic Approaches - Colleen Cotter and Diana ben-Aaron 6 Corpus Approaches - Sylvia Jaworska Part B Media contexts and domains: Locating relevance7 Media Discourse, Technological Change and Broadcast Talk - Martin Montgomery8 Politics and Framing - Elisabeth Wehling 9 Media Markets and Political Economy - Mark Allen Peterson10 Journalism and Public Discourse - Martin Conboy and Scott Eldridge 11 Organizations and Corporate Communication - Geert Jacobs12 Social Media and Community Building - Aleksandra Gnach Part C Media and modes: Mapping out variation in language use13 Auditory Media - Jürg Häusermann 14 Visual Media - Helen Caple15 Surveillant Media - Rodney Jones16 Linguistic Modes - Diana ben-Aaron17 Graphic Modes - Wibke Weber and Martin Engebretsen18 Combining Modes - Agnieszka Lyons19 Future Modes - Astrid Ensslin Part D Language in focus: Highlighting sociocultural complexity20 Language Policy and the Media - Rachelle Vessey21 Media, Language, and Gender - Tommaso Milani22 Media and Minority Languages - Elisabeth Le and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed 23 Multilingualism and Media - Daniel Perrin, Maureen Ehrensperger-Dow and Marta Zampa24 Media and Translation - Krisztina Károly 25 Media and Language Change - Jannis Androutsopoulos26 Media and Quoting - Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin Part E Operationalizing media practice: Identifying outcomes and impact27 Interacting to Mediatize - Steven Clayman and Laura Loeb 28 Routinizing Communication - Martin Luginbühl29 Schematisizing Information - Jürgen Spitzmüller30 Transforming Knowledge - Gitte Gravengaard31 Participating with Media - Jan Chovanec32 Tracing and Tracking Impact - Cornelius Puschmann and Antonio Compagnone Index

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