Ming-Yu Tseng & Grace Qiao Zhang 
Elasticity in Healthcare Communication [PDF ebook] 
A Cross-Cultural Perspective

The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education. Today, however, ‘being literate’ requires more than functional literacy, the recognition of printed w …

Introducing Business English provides a comprehensive overview of this topic, situating the concepts of Business English and English for Specific Business Purposes within the wider field of English f …

Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the tra …

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Wang presents the status quo of curriculum development in professional interpreting programmes in China and points to the urgency to devise a curriculum improvement model to ensure the relevance …

Now in its fifth edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts–sponsored by the International Literacy Association and the National Council of Teachers of English–remains …

The Routledge Handbook of Educational Linguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the core and current language-related issues in educational contexts. Bringing together the expertise and voices o …

Research into Natural Language Processing – the use of computers to process language – has developed over the last couple of decades into one of the most vigorous and interesting areas of current wor …

In the eighteenth century, when the definition of marriage was shifting from one based on an hierarchical model to one based on notions of love and mutuality, marital life came under a more intense c …

Aracoeli (1982) was the last novel written by Elsa Morante (1912-85), one of the most significant Italian writers of the twentieth century. The journey, both geographical and memorial, of a homosexua …