Willis J. Edmondson & Juliane House 
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A Pedagogic Interactional Grammar of English

Sholem Aleichem, whose 150th anniversary was commemorated in March 2009, remains one of the most popular Yiddish authors. But few people today are able to read the original. Since the 1910s, however, …

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students and professional translators learning to revise the work of others or edit original writing, and …

For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand B …

Learn how to engage the diverse families of English learners (ELs) and immigrants with the effective, practical approaches in this book. This must-have resource for teachers and school leaders is pac …

Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism: Selected Writings of Barbara Godard brings together 16 of the most important essays by the influential Canadian scholar, situating her thinking in relation to fe …

The Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics series takes an innovative »practice to theory» approach, with a »back-to-front» structure. This leads the reader from real-world problems and i …

Today, we find ourselves surrounded by numerous reasons to despair, from loneliness, suffering and death at an individual level to societal alienation, oppression, sectarian conflict and war. No hone …

If among the many truths of Giambattista Vico»s New Science there is one that is deepest, it is the truth that language, mind, and society are but three modes of a common reality. In Vico»s term, t …

Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3, 000, 000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has rai …

Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and a vocab …