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Video Games as Art: A Communication-Oriented Perspective on the Relationship Between Gaming and the Art
Video games are a relative late arrival on the cultural stage. While the academic discipline of game studies has evolved quickly since the nineties of the last century, the …
Not Eleven Languages: Translanguaging and South African Multilingualism in Concert
Dynamic language practices of African multilingual speakers have not been cogently described in a book-length manuscript. This book challenges assumptions that led to South …
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 …
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 …
Applying Linguistics in Health Research, Education, and Policy: Bench to Bedside and Back Again
Researchers in applied linguistics have found medical and health contexts to be fertile grounds for study, from macro-levels of conceptual analyses to micro-levels of the …
Teaching the Middle Ages Through Modern Games: Using, Modding and Creating Games for Education and Impact
Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State: Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948-1994)
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 …
The Natural History of the Sign: Peirce, Vygotsky and the Hegelian Model of Concept Formation
Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that …
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 …
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 …
Word and Sentence Prosody: The Endangered Dialect of Koshikijima Japanese
This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered …