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Europe, 1859: In the Ebb and Flow of Modernity
In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of the new urban cultural and social world which would make him described by a number of historians as the first …
Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts: Current Crises
Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field. The present book brings together the work of influential researchers analyzing metaphor empirically from Critical …
Approaches to Language and Culture
This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and linguistic anthropology. …
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters During the Cold War
The presence of Africans in the German Democratic Republic is very rarely thought of in connection with the experience of exile. Instead, Africans in the GDR are predominantly …
The Many Faces of English -Ing
The book offers a new angle on long-standing questions about the categorial status of English participles and gerunds. The book makes a major point: participles are not verb forms …
Toward a Motivation Model of Pragmatics
With the "discursive turn" has come a distrust - a complete rejection by some - of theories that seek deeper reasons for surface phenomena. Rong Chen argues that this distrust, …
Teaching the Middle Ages Through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact
Nurturing Language: Anthropological Linguistics in an African Context
This monograph introduces students and scholars in linguistics, anthropology, and intercultural communication to anthropological linguistics, with a special focus on Africa. Among …
Specificational and Predicative Clauses: A Functional-Cognitive Account
In studies of copular clauses, the relation between specificational and predicative clauses has been a contentious issue. While most studies agree on the analysis of predicative …
Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the …
Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity
Second Language Learning Before Adulthood: Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents
Researchers have looked into the role of individual differences in second language learning and found that differences between learners in areas such as language aptitude, language …