Peschel Corinna Peschel & Runschke Kerstin Runschke 
Sprachvariation und Sprachreflexion in interkulturellen Kontexten [PDF ebook] 

First published in 2003. Present day Japanese has a basic word order of subject, object, , verb (SOV). As a result, it has postpositions rather than prepositions, branching is to the left. rather tha …

Cultural anthropology has always been dependent on translation as a textual practice, and it has often used ”translation” as a metaphor to describe ethnography”s processes of interpretation and cr …

The proliferation of language awareness has now led to a need for a reassessment of the nature and functions of language awareness. This accessible collection of essays addresses that need in develop …

English and the Discourses of Colonialism opens with the British departure from Hong Kong marking the end of British colonialism. Yet Alastair Pennycook argues that this dramatic exit masks the cruci …

In his engagingly written and original book, Scott Carpenter analyzes multiple manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century France. Under Carpenter”s thorough and systematic analysis, fraudulen …

Throughout the twentieth century, glaciologists and geophysicists from Denmark, Norway and Sweden made important scientific contributions across the Arctic and Antarctic. This research was of acute s …

Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick”s book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as …

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle”s premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue o …

Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591) was a key figure in the establishment and development of the French Protestant Church. Of all its indigenous leaders, he was perhaps closest to Calvin, and took a lead …

Plain Language and Ethical Action examines and evaluates principles and practices of plain language that technical content producers can apply to meet their audiences’ needs in an ethical way. Applyi …