Beate Ochsner & Markus Spohrer 
Applying the Actor-Network Theory in Media Studies [PDF ebook] 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health recommendations for physical distancing created an urgent need for new and remixed online and distance ways of preparing, teaching, and assessing learning …

Language and culture play a critical role in the teaching of mathematics and this role intensifies when considering the teaching of mathematics in dual language classrooms. This book unpacks lessons …

Critics shudder at mixed metaphors like »that wet blanket is a loose cannon», but admire »Life»s but a walking shadow, a poor player», and all the metaphors packed into Macbeth»s »Tomorrow, …

Originally published in 1993, Translation as Social Action is a varied collection of essays, which addresses translation as social action as its central theme, the book proposes a model of the transl …

This volume is intended to be a contribution to a special branch of the study of our own language. It proposes to trace in a popular manner and for general readers the changes of meaning which so man …

There have been noticeable demographic changes recently in the use of English around the world. English as a medium of communication is now the contact language of native speakers from many diverse s …

This book reconsiders the use of food metaphors and the relationship between law and food in an interdisciplinary perspective to examine how food related topics can be used to describe or identify ru …

What occurs within coma? What does the coma patient experience? How does the patient perceive the world outside of coma, if at all? The simple answer to these questions is that we don»t know. Yet …

Jürgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico»s »sematology» as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened …

Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and support …