Ian Roberts 
Wonders of Language [PDF ebook] 
Or How to Make Noises and Influence People

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cultivating motivation is crucial to a language learner»s success – and therefore crucial for the language teacher and researcher to understand. The third edition of Teaching and Researching Motivat …

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 …