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This book explores the impact of political bias on the translation of contemporary Russian fiction into English and its reception in the UK and US between 2008 and 2022. This book explores the impact of political bias on the...More info...
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The volume explores the concept of paradigm in word-formation, focusing on its applicability to Slavic morphology, with an emphasis on Czech. It examines word-formation without derivational affixes, referred to as conversion in line with the current...More info...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...More info...
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This bestselling book explains how reflective writing can help your own professional development in inviting critical examination of your practice, values, roles, and responsibilities. This is particularly suitable for anyone studying vocational degr...More info...
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The current book is the first systematic exposition and analysis of the structure and meaning aspects of the Chinese topic-comment structure. While early analyses of the Chinese topic (and topicalization) phenomena abound, in terms of its theoreti...More info...
This book demonstrates why error minimization at the edge of chaos is important and discusses its implementation in EMA (error-minimization algorithm), which is a descriptive apparatus that is applied to 27 languages. It claims that CHL emerges at t...More info...
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This book examines multimodal (im)politeness in telecinematic fiction and its humorous effects for viewers, offering new insights into the forms, meanings, and functions of (im)politeness in contemporary popular culture and audiovisual media....More info...
The book approaches the grammar of English through a more meaning-focused approach. Inspired by the theories of cognitive semantics (CS), it examines English more holistically in usage contexts. Adopting a functional approach, the book (i) discusses...More info...
A Readers Hebrew and Greek Bible: Third Edition is a classic and essential tool for students of biblical Hebrew and Greek. The Reader presents the Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex and the Greek text underlying the New Inter...More info...
An Introduction to Data Visualisation of the Writing Process, aims to address the growing need for sophisticated methods to interpret and analyse the complex data available through various data acquisition techniques. This volume provides a comprehe...More info...
In The Philosophy of Language in Islamic Legal Theory Nora Kalbarczyk examines the influential jurisprudential work al-Mal f ilm ul al-fiqh (d. 1210). By means of a detailed analysis of the linguistic treatise of this work she highlights the impact...More info...
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Digitalization has profoundly transformed our communicative and linguistic environment, and the language used most in digital media around the globe is English. The articles in this book present new research focusing on the ways in which the English...More info...
During World War I in Urmia, Russian consul Basil Nikitin and Kurdish Mullah Sa’id of Shamdinan collaborated to document Kurdish language and culture. This volume presents 62 texts in English translation, with context, glossary, map, and indices, cap...More info...
This is the first detailed overall account of Neo-Aramaic. The book includes not only diachronic and synchronic linguistic information, but also presents details of the minority communities (Jews, Christians and Mandaeans) who speak (or until recentl...More info...
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This book conducts an in-depth exploration of the dissemination of Chinese characters in East Asia and the formation and development of Chinese character-based writing systems, emphasizing the unique contributions of various ethnic groups within the...More info...
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