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  • Translating Tourism

    Cross-Linguistic Differences of Alternative Worldviews

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a large-scale empirical multilingual study of crosslinguistic differences in the language of destination promotion. The book explores how tourism texts are negotiated in translation, and how the translated texts reflect and reconcile different worldviews, that of the destination population and that of the tourist. Using the 2-million-word TrAIL (Tourism Across and & In-between ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Corpus Triangulation

    Combining Data and Methods in Corpus-Based Translation Studies

    Series series Routledge Studies in Empirical Translation and Multilingual Communication
    Despite the recognition that corpus-based translation research would benefit from the triangulation of corpora, little has been done in the direction of actually employing combined corpus data and methods in the field. This book aims to address this gap by providing a much needed detailed account of corpus triangulation, where different corpora (e.g. parallel, comparable, synchronic, diachronic) ... Read more

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    Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics.A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguistic data from over 80 different spoken and signed languagesExplores how language works by examining discourse, sentence-structure, meaning, words, and ... Read more

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  • Experiential Landscape

    An Approach to People, Place and Space

    Experiential Landscape offers new ways of looking at the relationship between people and the outdoor open spaces they use in their everyday lives. The book takes a holistic view of the relationship between humans and their environment, integrating experiential and spatial dimensions of the outdoors, and exploring the theory and application of environmental design disciplines, most notably ... Read more

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  • Key Topics in Second Language Acquisition

    Series Book 10 - MM Textbooks
    This textbook offers an introductory overview of eight hotly-debated topics in second language acquisition research. It offers a glimpse of how SLA researchers have tried to answer common questions about second language acquisition rather than being a comprehensive introduction to SLA research.Each chapter comprises an introductory discussion of the issues involved and suggestions for further ... Read more

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  • Multimodality

    A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication

    by Gunther Kress ...
    The 21st century is awash with ever more mixed and remixed images, writing, layout, sound, gesture, speech, and 3D objects. Multimodality looks beyond language and examines these multiple modes of communication and meaning making.Multimodality: A Social Semiotic Approach to Contemporary Communication represents a long-awaited and much anticipated addition to the study of multimodality from the ... Read more

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  • Pragmatics

    A Resource Book for Students

    Series series Routledge English Language Introductions
    Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries, and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four ... Read more

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  • Introducing English Language

    A Resource Book for Students

    Series series Routledge English Language Introductions
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  • Research Methods in Sociolinguistics

    A Practical Guide

    Edited by Kirk Hazen, Janet Holmes ...
    Series series Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
    This single-volume guide equips students of sociolinguistics with a full set of methodological tools including data collection and analysis techniques, explained in clear and accessible terms by leading experts. It features project suggestions, troubleshooting tips, and data assessment across diverse languages.Explores an array of anthropological and scientific methods that cover the full spectrum ... Read more

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  • Reading Tourism Texts

    A Multimodal Analysis

    Series Book 36 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This volume explores the relationship between tourism and travel texts and contemporary society, and how each is shaped by the other. A multimodal analysis is used to consider a variety of texts including novels, brochures, blogs, websites, radio commercials, videos, postcards and authentic tourist pictures and their meaning-making dynamics within the tourism discourse. The book looks at the ways ... Read more

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  • The Ludic City

    Exploring the Potential of Public Spaces

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  • Ethnography, Superdiversity and Linguistic Landscapes

    Chronicles of Complexity

    Series Book 18 - Critical Language and Literacy Studies
    Superdiversity has rendered familiar places, groups and practices extraordinarily complex, and the traditional tools of analysis need rethinking. In this book, Jan Blommaert investigates his own neighbourhood in Antwerp, Belgium, from a complexity perspective. Using an innovative approach to linguistic landscaping, he demonstrates how multilingual signs can be read as chronicles documenting the ... Read more

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