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  • An Anatomy of Chinese Offensive Words

    A Lexical and Semantic Analysis

    de Adrian Tien, Lorna Carson, Ning Jiang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a precise and rigorous analysis of the meanings of offensive words in Chinese. Adopting a semantic and cultural approach, the authors demonstrate how offensive words can and should be systematically researched, documented and accounted for as a valid aspect of any language. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of sociolinguistics, language and ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Cross-National Perspectives

    de Ayelet Harel-Shalev, John Hawkins, Ka Ho Mok, Rick Wolff, Miri Amit, Pamela Blackmon, Josiah A. M. Cobbah, Steven J. Diner, Judith Naomi Friedlander, Gaele Goastellec, John Hattie, Sue Jackson, Ki-Seok Kim, David Kirp, Noga O'Connor, Hwanbo Park, Adel Pasztor, Carol Schmid, Boaz Shulruf, Don Stewart, Charles Tien, Sarah Tumen, Adrian Ziderman ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good ... Leer más

    $129.99 USD

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  • The Korean Language

    Structure, Use and Context

    de Jae Jung Song ...
    Suitable for students of all levels, this book provides a general description of the Korean language by highlighting important structural aspects whilst keeping technical details to a minimum. By examining the Korean language in its geographical, historical, social and cultural context the reader is able to gain a good understanding of its speakers and the environment in which it is used. The book ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Languages: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Stephen Anderson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Anderson answers the above questions by looking at the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    de Ronald Wardhaugh ...
    Series Libro 28 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    This comprehensive new edition of Wardhaugh’s textbook incorporates additional study features and numerous new and updated references to bring the book completely up-to-date, whilst maintaining the features that made the book so popular with lecturers and students: accessible coverage of a wide range of issues, clearly written, and with useful student study features.A fully revised new edition of ... Leer más

    $53.00 USD

  • Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese

    Challenges to Becoming Sinophone in a Globalised World

    de Edward McDonald ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations
    In this book Edward McDonald takes a fresh look at issues of language in Chinese studies. He takes the viewpoint of the university student of Chinese with the ultimate goal of becoming 'sinophone': that is, developing a fluency and facility at operating in Chinese-language contexts comparable to their own mother tongue. While the entry point for most potential sinophones is the Chinese language ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Communication across Cultures

    Mutual Understanding in a Global World

    de Heather Bowe, Kylie Martin, Howard Manns ...
    Communication across Cultures explores how cultural context affects the use and (mis)interpretation of language. It provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to language and language variation in intercultural communication by drawing on both classic and cutting-edge research from pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and politeness studies. This ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    de Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Interpreting As Interaction

    de Cecilia Wadensjo ...
    Series series Language In Social Life
    Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication, exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter and of other participants involved in the interaction. The book examines ways of understanding the distribution of responsibility of content and the progression of talk in interpreter-mediated institutional face-to ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Reading in Asian Languages

    Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Edición de Kenneth S. Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman ...
    Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction of meaning which they show is fully applicable to character ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Translating Chinese Culture

    The process of Chinese--English translation

    de Valerie Pellatt, Eric T. Liu, Yalta Ya-Yun Chen ...
    Translating Chinese Culture is an innovative and comprehensive coursebook which addresses the issue of translating concepts of culture. Based on the framework of schema building, the course offers helpful guidance on how to get inside the mind of the Chinese author, how to understand what he or she is telling the Chinese-speaking audience, and how to convey this to an English speaking audience.A ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

    Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign

    de Ersu Ding ...
    Series series Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication
    The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across such diverse academic fields as epistemology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and cultural studies but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign in the conviction that they can ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD