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Facets of culture
This volume supplements the Facets of Culture textbook for advanced-level students of Japanese language. The textbook's six thematic units focus on diversity and boundary-crossing in contemporary Japanese society; topics include popular culture, translation, cross-cultural communication, bioethic...
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The foreigner’s guide to german universities
Figuring out the many new terms confronting international students at German-language universities can be difficult. Even if the degree program is in English, most administrative work has to be done in German, and the bureaucratic university jargon is a language in and of itself. This guide aims ...
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Talk mandarin today
Talk Mandarin Today is a practical guide for learning and getting by in Mandarin Chinese for adult learners. With the busy reader in mind, each lesson works first to bring fast acquisition and build practical ability in speaking the language. By providing simple sentence structures and concise gr...
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Language and society
Language and Society is the fifth volume in ISLS's Readings in Language Studies series. It offers international perspectives on language and society across three themes: teaching practices & pedagogy, policy, and culture. This volume continues ISLS's mission to disseminate peer-reviewed schol...
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Intersections of peace and language studies
This volume explores the intersection of language studies and peace, featuring international contributions that include reviews, multi-disciplinary perspectives, empirical research, and pedagogical reflections. It aims to bridge disciplinary territories and examine relationships among language, p...
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A guide to proper usage of spoken chinese
This book is intended as a companion reference work to Chinese textbooks for beginners. It uses a comparative approach to address over 200 points of grammar and vocabulary that frequently present difficulties to students of Chinese. This volume serves as an easy and efficient reference for teache...
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From attitudes to usage
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From greece to cappadocia
The series Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics (TCGLL) is dedicated to the synchronic and diachronic study of Ancient Greek and Latin, and publishes innovative research in the form of monographs, multi-authored volumes, and conference proceedings, applying a combination of traditiona...
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Subordination and insubordination in post-classical greek
The series Trends in Classics – Greek and Latin Linguistics (TCGLL) is dedicated to the synchronic and diachronic study of Ancient Greek and Latin, and publishes innovative research in the form of monographs, multi-authored volumes, and conference proceedings, applying a combination of traditiona...
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Harmonizing language data
Standards function as safeguards to ensure that data remains interpretable, uniformly queryable, and archivable over time – a critical challenge for digital humanists working with complex linguistic resources. This book provides an overview of essential standards for ensuring the sustainability o...
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The next century of maltese linguistics
This volume presents contemporary research across various facets of Maltese linguistics. Part I examines Maltese from a diachronic perspective and phonological developments. The studies in Part II address morphology and syntax, namely, agreement, derivation, secondary predication, coordinated pre...
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The grammar of collaborative turns
The book covers a research gap in Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics about co-production and the emerge of syntactical structures in multiperson talk-in-interaction. The findings have theoretical and empirical implications for our understandings of the relationship between turns ...
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The language of love fraud
This study applies Fillmore’s Frame Semantics and corpus linguistics to analyze love fraud. It demonstrates the stages of the event as well as the words and phrases used to activate each frame and cause the victim to love and trust the fraudster. The fraudster thus constructs a romantic relations...
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English human impersonal pronouns
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features vo...
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The east baltic subjunctive
The two East Baltic languages Lithuanian and Latvian feature a secondary mood of potentiality, known as the subjunctive that ultimately goes back to the supine, an infinitival form. Setting out with a general discussion of the historical relation between the two East Baltic languages, this book s...
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Gender-inclusive language
This book provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of current research and desiderata related to the use of gender-inclusive language across 14 major European languages. It also addresses minority languages and foreign language teaching. Methodologically, the book innovatively bridges Li...
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The balkan linguistic area
This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult biling...
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Studies in old irish clause subordination
On the basis of a corpus of Old Irish texts justified and described in the introductory chapter, this monograph considers cases of variation in the expression of clausal subordination: a pair of synonymous light heads, a pair of synonymous temporal conjunctions ‘when’, a pair of paronymous final ...
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Multilingualism and writing practices in defining communities
How did everyday writing forge communities in Italy from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages? This interdisciplinary volume maps multilingual practices across public and private texts produced in diverse social settings. Professional documents, private letters, and other text types reveal a ri...
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Gespräche in der impfsprechstunde
Die empirische, auf qualitative oder quantitative Korpusanalyse gestützte Beschreibung von geschriebener und gesprochener Sprache hat sich in der Sprachwissenschaft als zentrales Paradigma etabliert. Die Reihe bietet eine Plattform für synchron-linguistische Ansätze und interdisziplinäre Arbeiten...
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Sprachliche indexikalität männlicher geschlechtsidentitäten
Die vorliegende Studie stellt ein Desiderat dar, indem eine kontrastive Untersuchung von Männlichkeit(en) in ausschließlich männlichen Studenten- und Handwerkergruppen zweier Sprachen, Kulturen und Länder (Österreich-Ukraine) vorgenommen wird. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht die Frage, mit welche...
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Soft-autoritäre diskurspraktiken
Frankreich ist seit Jahrzehnten Schauplatz rechtsradikaler Hegemoniekämpfe. Unter dem Einfluss der Nouvelle Droite werden rassistische, antiintellektuelle und anti-genderistische Ideologien für den Mainstream anschlussfähig. Durch neu-rechte und konservative politische Organisationen finden sie ...
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Learning across languages
Despite policies promoting multilingualism, monolingual methods dominate Hungarian education. Drawing from theory and research on multilingual approaches to language teaching in the European context, this volume explores the effectiveness of multilingual awareness-raising in learning German after...
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Althochdeutsche glossen zur regula pastoralis
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Manuel des langues créoles à base française
The series Manuals of Romance Linguistics (MRL) presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of Romance linguistics. It will comprise approximately 60 volumes that can either be consulted individually or used as a series of books providing a detailed overall picture of the current state of...
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Deutsches aussprachewörterbuch
Erarbeitet von einer Gruppe renommierter Forscher des traditionsreichen Instituts für Sprechwissenschaft und Phonetik der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, ist das Deutsche Aussprachewörterbuch das neue maßgebliche Referenzwerk zur deutschen Standardaussprache. Es informiert zuverlässig...
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The early modern travels of manchu
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern worldManchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuri...
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Leg over leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ...
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Speak and read chinese
A handy supplement to studying characters in class or independently that teaches useful tricks for remembering words and tones.
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Haitian creole-english/english-haitian creole dictionary & phrasebook
Haitian Creole is an official language of Haiti. It is spoken by approximately 12 million people in Haiti and by the population of the Haitian diaspora across the Caribbean, France, and the United States. The language developed around the 18th century during France’s colonial occupation and conta...
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Beginner’s dutch with online audio
Learn Dutch with this complete course, now with free audio download! The native language of about 23 million people, Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname (the three states of the Dutch Language Union), and holds official status in the Caribbean nations of Aruba, Bonaire, Cura...
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Beginner's chinese with online audio
The #1 Chinese self-study course on the market is now available with online audio! Designed for the beginner who has no previous knowledge of Chinese, this guide provides 10 easy-to-follow lessons that cover the basics of the language and can be mastered during the equivalent of one academic seme...
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Chinese-english/english-chinese (mandarin) practical dictionary
The essential Mandarin Chinese resource!This bestselling bilingual Chinese dictionary features over 14,000 word-for-word entries that cover essential vocabulary for study, business, and travel.This comprehensive two-part resource is perfect for students learning Chinese or for Chinese speakers l...
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My first haitian creole dictionary
With colorful, eye-catching illustrations to stimulate imagination and curiosity, My First Haitian Creole Dictionary is specially designed for children ages 5 to 12. It contains more than 1,000 everyday words (from colors, animals, household items, foods and more)—each illustrated and translated ...
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Lithuanian-english/english-lithuanian practical dictionary
The essential Lithuanian resource!This bilingual Lithuanian dictionary features over 18,000 entries that cover essential vocabulary for study, business, and travel. Spoken by roughly 4 million people worldwide, Lithuanian is an official language of Lithuania and the European Union, as well as a ...
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Lithuanian-english/ english-lithuanian dictionary & phrasebook
A compact grammar section and a pronunciation guide are included, along with a phrasebook designed for travelers, businesspersons, students, and diplomats. The bilingual dictionary designates part of speech and case declension, and gives crucial everyday vocabulary.
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Haitian creole-english/english-haitian creole concise dictionary
The pocket-sized guide to Haitian Creole for basic communication Perfect for travelers, students, and heritage speakers, this compact volume contains over 8,000 total entries. Haitian Creole, or kreyol ayisyen, is the national language of Haiti and spoken throughout the Caribbean and in Haitan c...
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Beginner's danish with online audio
Learn Danish with this complete course, now with free audio download!Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by 6 million people worldwide, primarily in Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and northern parts of Germany.Ideal for those new to Danish, learning at home or in the classroom, Begi...
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Kurdish (sorani)-english/english-kurdish (sorani) dictionary & phrasebook
The indispensable resource for Kurdish Sorani!Sorani (also called Kurdi or Central Kurdish) is a Kurdish language spoken mainly in Iraq and Iran, with an estimated 15 million speakers worldwide. The Kurds are spread across the countries of Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, as well as Georgia, Armenia, A...
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Beginner's welsh with online audio
Welsh is a Celtic language of the British Isles, spoken primarily in Wales. It has been spoken there for over sixteen hundred years, and Old Welsh was used throughout Britain before the Norman Conquest and the expansion of English. The importance of Welsh in the region’s history and culture makes...
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Cantonese-english/ english-cantonese practical dictionary
A comprehensive, up-to-date Cantonese reference for students and travelers from a trusted name in foreign language study. Spoken by nearly 60 million people, Cantonese rivals Mandarin as the lingua franca of both south China and of the worldwide Chinese diaspora population. Unique among all the...
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Czech-english/english-czech practical dictionary
Spoken by over 12 million people worldwide, Czech is an official language of the European Union and is widely recognized for its strong literary value as the native tongue of such notable artists as Milan Kundera, Jaroslav Seifert, and Beach Smetana. This useful dictionary provides businesspeople...
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Beginner's czech with online audio
Learn Czech with this complete course, now with free audio download!Spoken by over 14 million people worldwide, Czech is an official language of the Czech Republic. It is a West Slavic language that is closely related and often mutually intelligible with Slovak.Ideal for those new to Czech, learn...
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Arabic-english/ english-arabic practical dictionary, second edition
This essential, portable Arabic-English resource is now updated & revised with new entries and terms!This Arabic Practical dictionary has been the go-to resource for students of Arabic and English alike for nearly two decades. It features the most up-to-date vocabulary in handy reference form...
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Beginner's irish with online audio
The Irish language, also known as Irish Gaelic or Gaeilge, is spoken today by approximately a million people worldwide. It is also the basis of the Irish literary tradition, which is the oldest in Europe after Greek and Latin. Whether you want to connect to your Irish heritage or carry on a conve...
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A scholar's guide to getting published in english
This book aims to demystify the practices of scholarly publishing in English. It focuses on practices, institutions and politics rather than language and writing. Drawing on 10 years of research into academic publishing and writing practices, it provides a guide for readers to relate to their own...
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Alt 41
Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere Uni...
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Sheng
Of interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya.The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena...
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Kamba proverbs from eastern kenya
A unique historical and linguistic resource for those in anthropology, art, folklore, history, linguistics, literature, psychology, religion, sociology, and environmental studies, as well as performers and poets.Not simply relics of the past, proverbs are an oral tradition containing historical a...
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Rough guides phrasebook mandarin
Rough Guide Mandarin Phrasebook Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and all you need to make yourself understood...
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Berlitz picture dictionary arabic
Berlitz Picture Dictionary Arabic. With over 2,000 essential words and phrases, this stylish, pocket-sized Arabic picture dictionary from Berlitz's trusted language experts makes communicating quick and easy. -Developed by a team of Berlitz language experts, each book in this stylish series of ...
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Media arabic for beginners
An introductory media Arabic book for the elementary and low intermediate levelsWith the proliferation of satellite television news and social media channels, students of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) have access to an increasingly vast range of print and broadcast news from the Arab world. Media ...
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Rediscovering ancient egyptian literature through arabic poetics
A groundbreaking study of the relationship between ancient Egyptian literary devices and their Arabic counterpartsThis book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan compares the stylistic Arabic literary device of...
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Advanced arabic through discussion
A creative approach to Arabic language learning through lively topical discussion
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From ibn sina to sindbad
A unique textbook of guided readings from the great works of Arabic prose for advanced level students of Classical Arabic literature From Ibn Sina to Sindbad makes some of the greatest works of the Golden Age of Arab Civilization accessible to Arabic students at the mid- to high-advanced level o...
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Challenges in teaching arabic as a foreign language
An essential collection of empirical studies on the TAFL (teaching Arabic as a foreign language) classroom experience, by leading professionals in the fieldAlthough teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) has grown inexorably in recent decades, there is a dearth of empirical research on the...
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Reading comprehension in polish and english
This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as...
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Classical chinese primer (reader + workbook)
Classical Chinese Primer is meant to be an attempt to address the urgent need in the teaching and learning of Classical Chinese. Designed for those who have studied Modern Chinese for one or two years, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chinese before, Classical Chinese Primer is in a set ...
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Learning chinese language and culture
Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate-level textbook intended for students who have completed introductory courses in Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English and in both traditional and simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese-language knowledge and introduce...
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Chaoyue workbook: advancing in chinese
Paired with the Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese language text, this workbook completes one of the most sophisticated and comprehensive language instruction tools currently available. The workbook cements students' interpersonal communication skills and their ability to present and interpret Chinese...
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Business chinese
This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focus on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric. With an emphasis on communication and p...
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A primer for advanced beginners of chinese
As the teaching of Chinese increasingly uses simplified characters, this new version of the popular A Primer for Advanced Beginners of Chinese fills an important gap in Chinese-language instruction.The two-volume primer is addressed to meet the needs of the rapidly growing number of Chinese langu...
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The transpacific flow
This is the first book-length account of university-based creative writing programs in China.
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Learning chinese language and culture
Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate-level textbook intended for students who have completed introductory courses in Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English and in both traditional and simplified Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese-language knowledge and introduce...
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A handbook for 1,000 basic chinese characters
Each of the 1,000 basic Chinese characters in this volume is chosen with beginners in mind. Each character is accompanied by a detailed analysis, explaining the equivalent meaning in English with ample bilingual samples; common collocations and their related idiomatic usage; tone and pronunciatio...
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Developing intercultural competence through english
The volume offers a valuable result of a joint intercultural project between two universities from the neighbouring countries of Poland and Ukraine. Among the mass of books on intercultural communication, the proposed volume distinguishes itself by three features: unusual format combining the wor...
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Readings in classic chinese short stories
This textbook is designed for learners of advanced Chinese. It includes eleven well-known pieces of writings by the late Ming writer Feng Menglong. Each piece is juxtaposed with the common expressions and sentence structures used in the text, alongside the Hanyu Pinyin.
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Patterns in language and communication
Bringing together linguistics and media and communication studies, this volume showcases interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of patterns in language and communication. Defining ‘patterns’ as empirical surface phenomena, the contributions focus on a strictly empirical, data-driven perspec...
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The epistle of forgiveness
Known as “one of the most complex and unusual texts in Arabic literature” (Banipal Magazine), The Epistle of Forgiveness is the lengthy reply by the prolific Syrian poet and prose writer, Abu l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri (d. 449/1057), to a letter by an obscure grammarian, Ibn al-Qari. With biting irony, T...
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Leg over leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ...
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Classical arabic literature
A major translation achievement, this anthology presents a rich assortment of classical Arabic poems and literary prose from pre-Islamic times until the eighteenth century, with short introductions to guide non-specialist students and informative end notes and bibliography for advanced scholars. ...
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Leg over leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ...
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The grand tour of prince george of denmark in england, 1669
This annotated diary describes the politics, cultural richness and practicalities of elite educational travel in England during the early reign of Charles II.Prince George of Denmark is best known to Anglophone historiography for having married Queen Anne of Great Britain, in 1683. This critical ...
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Linearization in functional discourse grammar
This volume develops Functional Discourse Grammar’s innovative and unique approach to constituent ordering, both by refining some of its theoretical tenets, and by applying it to data from a variety of languages (including Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, European and South American Spanish,...
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Les unités prédicatives autonomes averbales
This book takes a fresh look at sentences known as averbal, nominal or verbless. It explains in detail the specific nature of these structures and the various patterns that emerge from them. It is based on quantified analyses of a literary corpus of novels and plays and, to a lesser extent, of co...
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Language in social interaction
The central idea underlying the studies in this volume is that when speakers act in social context language acquires a social signature whose details have not yet been fully understood. This volume brings together eleven original, empirical studies in the fields of conversation analysis, interact...
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Dynamics at the lexicon-syntax interface
The book series offers a platform for usage and corpus based, theoretical and methodical, synchronic and diachronic studies aiming at all forms of formulaicity – linguistic, cognitive, conceptual – at all levels of language system and in language use as well as in not purely linguistic areas.
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Hands-on english language learning for early years (grades 1-3)
The Hands-On English Language Learning program is a resource for classroom teachers, specialist teachers working with English-language learners, and other educational professionals who support these students. To assist your students in developing language skills, this resource includes: specif...
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The more-than-just-surviving handbook
This revised and expanded edition of the 1990 bestseller includes the latest research in language acquisition: how to teach reading and writing and how to develop listening and speaking skills. It is filled with the authors’ trademark anecdotes and practical advice, based on their many years of ...
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Hands-on english language learning for middle years (grades 4-6)
Hands-On English Language Learning program is a resource for classroom teachers, specialist teachers working with English-language learners, and other educational professionals who support these students. In developing the resource, the authors referred to current curricular documents and to rese...
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Assessment and esl
The revised and expanded edition of this bestseller is a comprehensive, easy-to-read resource that explores the theory and practice of ESL assessment. Written for anyone working with English-language learners (elementary and secondary, mainstream and ESL), this new edition of Assessment and ESL p...
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Leg over leg
Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'—the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fariyaq,’ alter ...
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The philosopher responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, Th...
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The philosopher responds
Questions and answers from two great philosophersWhy is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, Th...
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