Music Information Literacy
Becoming a more equitable librarian is an ongoing process. In the face of the last decade's events and increased public awareness of issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA), we in music libraries can do things to create the space in our teaching for optimal creativity and connection by and with our library users. Music Information Literacy: Inclusion and Advocacy imagines what it would be like to expand our inclusion structures so that we increasingly recognize and accommodate differences in our music libraries.The ways librarians teach and assist students must change to amplify the voices of those who have been traditionally marginalized and create effective and equitable libraries and classrooms. Doing so is a multi-part process, where critical information literacy overlaps with self-reflection as a librarian and a deep understanding that our students have identities and experiences that influence how they navigate their world.Many of our students have experienced trauma from the generational oppression of systemic racism, gender fluidity, invisible disabilities, discrimination, or poverty. Ongoing trauma triggers toxic stress that can rewire parts of the brain and impact one's ability to process information, formulate questions, and feel safe enough to be creative and in the zone of ideas. The chapters in the volume are authored by librarians who have actively been learning and self-reflecting on what is needed to invite users into their libraries and teaching spaces fully. The book is divided into Critical Theories, Concepts, & Reflections, Bringing Underrepresentation to the Forefront, and Supporting Activism. Each chapter includes case studies and discussion questions supporting ideas and concepts. A sample reading guide for each chapter is included as well.
Analysis of spelling proficiency
The subject of this research is "Analysis of the spelling proficiency of students in the second cycle of general secondary education in Mozambique". The research was carried out in secondary schools in the urban area (Quelimane city) and in secondary schools in the rural area (Maganja da Costa), Zambezia province, Mozambique. The general aim of the research is to understand the spelling difficulties present in the essays of secondary school students belonging to the ESG (11th and 12th grades). The problems referred to here are phonic errors, graphematic errors, morphological errors and accentuation errors. Keywords: Portuguese, Secondary Education, Error, Writing, Spelling.
Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness
Rhetorical Economies of Whiteness examines the interplay of rhetoric, whiteness, and economics-attending not only to how economic arrangements that sustain whiteness are rhetorically enacted and legitimated but also to how rhetoric itself operates as an economy to give identities exchange value. Case studies across the volume illustrate how economic and class structures incentivize adherence to whiteness as both an identity formation and a form of symbolic capital. Some contributors investigate issues of public policy-analyzing judicial appointments, housing, and education-while others explore intersections of politics, sports, news and entertainment media, and culture. Wide-ranging, complementary methods-textual and discourse analysis, archival approaches, ethnographic interviewing and focus groups, personal narratives and storytelling-exemplify the insights gleaned from different approaches to studying intersections of race and economics across and within societies. Taken together, these essays help to explain how whiteness so quickly adapts to evade antiracist challenges and why investments in whiteness are so difficult to dislodge. Contributors: Godfried Asante, Robert Asen, Charles Athanasopoulos, Paulami Banerjee, Anne Bonds, Linsay M. Cramer, Derek G. Handley, V. Jo Hsu, Kelly Jensen, Casey Ryan Kelly, Kyle R. Larson, George (Guy) F. McHendry Jr., Thomas K. Nakayama, Adedoyin Ogunfeyimi, Rico Self, Stacey K. Sowards, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino
The Representation of Motion Events in English and German
The encoding of motion event components is a central element in determining the nature of linguistic and conceptual representations underlying motion event construal. This work approaches the verbalization and conceptualization of motion events in German and English from a theoretical point of view and on the basis of a corpus study, an online survey, and an in-person experiment. The research focuses on the investigation of different factors determining motion event construal of native speakers and learners by examining cognitive variables - i.e., visual endpoint salience and cognitive cost caused by non-habitual aspect use - and grammatical factors - i.e., grammatical viewpoint aspect.
Building Our Own
Where and who are all the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community college librarians? BIPOC community college librarians provide unequaled and increasingly necessary support to their institutions. The BIPOC community college librarian is often disembodied and our work runs the spectrum between the visible and invisible. The added labor of being the "only" adds an extra layer of emotional, physical, and cognitive work that often goes unrecognized. The relationship between the library and student success has been thoroughly researched and assessed, however, the role of the community college librarian is often excluded. There is even more exclusion, forced invisibility, and censorship for the BIPOC LIS (library information services) worker.Librarians, library workers, and libraries are part of the student success pathway. Library departments (services) provide distinct face-to-face and online access points for the campus community. Community colleges have long been the setting of fundamental education, workplace development, and life skills across the country for working class communities. Having been seen as a gateway to economic mobility, community college is an equalizer, unifier, and launching pad for student excellence and innovation. However, the student diversity of our campuses is not always representative of staff and faculty. Interestingly, student services / academic affairs units make up more BIPOC workers than instructional units within the institution. Some of the failures in the community college landscape today are the lack of BIPOC workers in the library department, emotional taxation, extra labor, structural racism, and tokenistic legacies. BIPOC librarian faculty have cultural taxation not captured in our tenure or acknowledged institutionally. BIPOC librarians' work and labor in community colleges deserves to be amplified, documented, and valued. Our unity is our shared community of practice now and into the future.Building Our Own provides perspectives in the form of critiques, reflections, narratives, frameworks, and pedagogies from a BIPOC lens. Editors are inspired to gather and curate a collection of work to reveal the realities of BIPOC library workers' contributions, critical insights, and lived experiences in the community college setting. Building Our Own is part of the Series of Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS with Litwin Books and Library Juice Press under the series editors, Rose L. Chou and Annie Pho. For more information on how to contribute, read and review the submission guidelines.
Critical Management Studies
Critical Management Studies and Librarianship introduces key concepts in the field of critical management studies (CMS) and critiques dominant theories and concepts in the management field. The aim of CMS is to denaturalize dominant theories in the management field by introducing works and research from other fields (e.g., queer feminist theories, postcolonial studies, critical race theory). This text provides insight through critical perspectives on dominant CMS issues contextualized in LIS management education and practice such as strategic planning, consumer and assessment culture, and management institutes to name a few. In addition, the book includes discussions around approaches to leading using research and literature outside of the business and management literature to redress epistemic injustice in management education and provide inclusive and diverse perspectives on leadership.
Medieval Teachers of Freedom
Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation.
How to Write and Speak Correctly
How to Write and Speak Correctly by Joseph Devlin is a classic guide focused on improving writing and speaking skills. Written in an accessible style, the book covers essential grammar, punctuation, and composition rules, while also offering advice on how to clearly express ideas in both written and spoken English. Devlin emphasizes simplicity, clarity, and the importance of mastering the fundamentals of language to communicate effectively. This guide is useful for students, professionals, and anyone looking to refine their communication abilities.
Networking for Authors
You're ready to build your author career... ...but how do you expand your network?What's the secret to forging lasting industry connections?In Networking for Authors: Strategies to Supercharge Your Writing Career, Dale L. Roberts delivers a practical guide to mastering networking. Discover step-by-step strategies to connect authentically with industry professionals and elevate your author brand.Inside, you'll find: Proven methods for effective networkingTips for a compelling author bio and online presenceConfidence-boosting advice for introvertsStrategies for making the most of conferences and eventsInsights on leveraging social media and virtual platformsTechniques for using email, podcasts, and videos to enhance your reachReady to expand your reach and supercharge your writing career? Get it now!
Networking for Authors
You're ready to build your author career... ...but how do you expand your network? What's the secret to forging lasting industry connections?In Networking for Authors: Strategies to Supercharge Your Writing Career, Dale L. Roberts delivers a practical guide to mastering networking. Discover step-by-step strategies to connect authentically with industry professionals and elevate your author brand.Inside, you'll find: Proven methods for effective networkingTips for a compelling author bio and online presenceConfidence-boosting advice for introvertsStrategies for making the most of conferences and eventsInsights on leveraging social media and virtual platformsTechniques for using email, podcasts, and videos to enhance your reachReady to expand your reach and supercharge your writing career? Get it now!
Negative Concord: A Hundred Years on
The concept of 'negative concord' refers to the seemingly multiple exponence of semantically single negation as in You ain't seen nothing yet. This book takes stock of what has been achieved since the notion was introduced in 1922 by Otto Jespersen and sets the agenda for future research, with an eye towards increased cross-fertilization between theoretical perspectives and methodological tools. Major issues include (i) How can formal and typological approaches complement each other in uncovering and accounting for cross-linguistic variation? (ii) How can corpus work steer theoretical analyses? (iii) What is the contribution of diachronic research to the theoretical debates?
Speech Acts
This Element outlines current issues in the study of speech acts. It starts with a brief outline of four waves of speech act theory, that is, the philosophical, the experimental, the corpus-based and the discursive approaches. It looks at some of the early experimental and corpus-based methods and discusses their more recent developments as a background to the most important trends in current speech act research. Discursive approaches shift the focus from single utterances to interaction and interactional sequences. Multimodal approaches show that the notion of 'speech act' needs to be extended in order to cover the multimodality of communicative acts. And diachronic approaches focus on the historicity of speech acts. The final section discusses some open issues and potential further developments of speech act research.
The Routledge Handbook of Public Service Interpreting
This Handbook is a comprehensive overview of research in Public Service, or Community Interpreting. It offers reflections and suggestions for improving public service communication in plurilingual settings and provides tools for dealing with public service communication in a global society.
German Philosophy in English Translation
This book traces the translation history of German philosophy, with long and well-justified layovers in Paris, proposing an innovative translation strategy toward addressing the long-standing difficulties in its translation.
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion is the first to bring together an extensive interdisciplinary engagement with the multiple ways in which the concepts and practices of translation and religion intersect.
Intermediality in European Avant-garde Cinema
The book proposes a new perspective on avant-garde cinema, utilising approaches from intermediality to explore how the spirit of experimentation, a hallmark of historical avant-garde and post-war artistic movements, is still present in contemporary filmmaking today.
A Complementary Study of Lexicalist Approaches and Constructionist Approaches
This book presents a complementary study of lexicalist approaches and constructionist approaches in Linguistics. Specific topics discussed include different versions of semantic roles, predicate decomposition, event structures, argument realizations, and cognitive construction grammars.
Becoming a Linguist
This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies. This will be of interest to students and scholars of language and linguistics, the history of linguistic thought, as well as the interested general reader.
Female ascension in D瓊o-Lalal瓊o
Light women like that, detached, without family ties, without mixing with the needs of the day, without work or difficulties: they were like birds with varied songs and many colours, which we are always able to find, one after the other, in the tall trees of the forest, in the lost heart of the world (Guimar瓊es Rosa). This is how Guimar瓊es portrays women in his work, addressing various facets of the feminine universe, in which holy women, murderers, prostitutes, maidens, virgin girls, healers, married ladies, unmarried women, women with double relationships, wise women, as well as submissive characters, a marked presence in Brazilian patriarchal society, appear. In 'D瓊o-Lalal瓊o' the paradigm of this society is broken and its protagonist can be seen as a metaphor for female ascension, breaking, at times, with this model of submission.
Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse
This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific metaphors to influence perceptions of the climate crisis.
Policies, Politics, and Ideologies of English-Medium Instruction in Asian Universities
Against the backdrop of uncritical promotions of English-Medium instruction (EMI) in higher education globally, this edited volume maps out the political, ideological, and policy-related issues of EMI programs in multilingual and multicultural universities in Asia.
The Pen's Renaissance
Rediscover the Timeless Power of the Written WordIn an era dominated by screens and instantaneous messaging, there's a profoundly evocative art form quietly waiting to be rediscovered: handwriting. The Pen's Renaissance: Reviving the Lost Art of Handwriting invites you on an enlightening journey through time, unraveling the captivating history and vibrant resurgence of putting pen to paper.Experience the intrigue of handwriting's rich past and its decline amidst burgeoning technology. Explore its fascinating evolution-from ancient scripts to contemporary applications. This book delves deep into the cognitive and emotional advantages of handwriting, revealing how it boosts memory, enhances learning, and fosters creativity.Embrace the beauty of handwritten communication, from crafting your unique style to appreciating the artistic allure of calligraphy. Discover the therapeutic and meditative benefits as you reconnect with the mindful simplicity of pen meeting paper. With engaging chapters dedicated to practicing and refining your skills, this book is a treasure trove for educators, professionals, and enthusiasts alike.Uncover the personal touch handwriting brings to everyday life and its critical role in shaping ideas and preserving history. The Pen's Renaissance is not merely an exploration-it's a call to action. Revitalize the art in your life, build connections through the handwritten word, and inspire future generations to inherit this timeless craft.Transform your perspective. Dive into this enthralling guide and embark on a journey that transcends eras, blending tradition with innovation. Whether you seek personal growth, educational enrichment, or simple joy, this book arms you with the knowledge and inspiration to revive an art that endures far beyond the digital age.
Exploring Intersemiotic Translation Models
This volume sets out a new paradigm in intersemiotic translation research, drawing on the films of Ang Lee to problematize the notion of films as the simple binary of transmission between the verbal and non-verbal.
The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution
This book offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of communication. It offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the postcard emerged; including how the postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population.
From the tip of your fingers to the tip of your tongue A study of mobile applications
This book invites educators, language teachers and scholars of new technologies in teaching to reflect on the use of mobile devices and the various possibilities of applications for teaching and learning languages. This study has chosen the main elements that should make up the universe of e-learning, covering its different conceptions, which shape a theoretical construct on these issues. Some applications and their functions for language learning have been described and discussed. Happy reading!
Australian Pama--Nyungan languages
A substantial proportion of what is discoverable about the structure of many Aboriginal languages spoken on the vast Australian continent before their decimation through colonial invasion is contained in nineteenth-century grammars. Many were written by fervent young missionaries who traversed the globe intent on describing the languages spoken by "heathens", whom they hoped to convert to Christianity. Some of these documents, written before Australian or international academic institutions expressed any interest in Aboriginal languages, are the sole record of some of the hundreds of languages spoken by the first Australians, and many are the most comprehensive. These grammars resulted from prolonged engagement and exchange across a cultural and linguistic divide that is atypical of other early encounters between colonised and colonisers in Australia. Although the Aboriginal contributors to the grammars are frequently unacknowledged and unnamed, their agency is incontrovertible. This history of the early description of Australian Aboriginal languages traces a developing understanding and ability to describe Australian morphosyntax. Focus on grammatical structures that challenged the classically trained missionary-grammarians - the description of the case systems, ergativity, bound pronouns, and processes of clause subordination - identifies the provenance of analyses, development of descriptive techniques, and paths of intellectual descent. The corpus of early grammatical description written between 1834 and 1910 is identified in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 discusses the philological methodology of retrieving data from these grammars. Chapters 3-10 consider the grammars in an order determined both by chronology and by the region in which the languages were spoken, since colonial borders regulated the development of the three schools of descriptive practice that are found to have developed in the pre-academic era of Australian linguistic description.
From the Languages section of Post-basic to higher studies
This book is the result of a study of the coherence of language and literature programs in secondary schools and universities in Burundi. Its aim is to understand some of the causes of the decline in the level of school and academic knowledge among young people in Burundi, where French is the language of teaching and learning throughout the education system. At the end of the research, two salient findings emerge from the present study: Firstly, the Languages section is far from constituting a prerequisite for higher studies in literature, and thus enabling continuity between the two poles of the Burundian education system. Secondly, the subject content of the Languages section's training program is inadequate to achieve the objectives assigned to this section.Key words: Training program, Competence, Literature/letters, Prerequisites, Resources
When Arguments Merge
A novel theory of argument structure based on the order in which verbs and their arguments combine across a variety of languages and language families. Merge is the structure-building operation in Chomsky's Minimalist Program. In When Arguments Merge, Elise Newman develops a new Merge-based theory of the syntax of argument structure, taking inspiration from wh- questions. She uncovers new connections between disparate empirical phenomena and provides a unified analysis of patterns across many languages and language families, from Mayan to Bantu to Indo-European languages (among others). The result is a syntactic theory with a small inventory of features and categories that can combine in a limited number of ways, capturing the range of argument configurations that we find cross-linguistically in both declarative and interrogative contexts. Newman's novel approach to argument structure is based on the time at which different kinds of arguments merge and move in the verbal domain. Assuming that all kinds of Merge are driven by features, she proposes that subset relationships between elements bearing different sets of features can constrain the distribution of arguments in unexpected ways and that different feature bundles can predict unusual interactions between arguments in many contexts. The positions of arguments in different contexts have consequences for agreement alignment and case assignment, which are reflected in the Voice of the clause. Examining the order in which verbs and their arguments are combined, she explores the consequences of different orders of combination for the kinds of utterances observed across languages.
How to create an early German scriptus
This book presents a new methodology for the study of historical varieties, particularly a language's early history. Using the German language's first attestations as a case study, it offers an alternative to structuralist approaches to historical syntax, with their emphasis on delineating the shapes and mechanisms of early grammars. This focus has prompted Germanists to treat the data from the eighth- and ninth-century corpus with suspicion in that its texts are either poetic or translational. That is, if the unquestioned object of inquiry is a historical cognitive grammar, one ought to isolate - and perhaps discount entirely - data that are the product of confounding factors, like a poetic meter or a Latin source text. Otherwise, these competence-obscuring examples risk undermining scholars' understanding of a genuine early German grammar. Rather than this "deficit approach," the current volume proposes that scholars treat each early attestation as an artifact of "literization," the process through which people transform their exclusively oral varieties into a written variety. Each historical text features a scriptus, that is, an ad hoc, idiosyncratic, and localized literization created by a person (or team of people) for a particular purpose. The challenge of understanding texts in this way lies in the fact that there is little to no direct evidence pointing to the specific identities of early medieval literizers, their motivations, and the nature of the multiple spoken competencies that fed into their scripti. In order to conceptualize early medieval German and the syntactic variation it exhibits as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, this book details the linguistic resources that were available to the literizer and are, happily, accessible to the modern researcher. First, there is Latin. Though illiterate in their own multilectal vernacular in the sense that no German scriptus existed until they developed it, literizers were educated in this highly literized languag
The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age
This collection calls greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds.
Perspectives on Teaching Workplace English in the 21st Century
This collection bridges the gap between research and practical applications by showcasing the latest research developments on business English as a lingua franca and the ways in which they might better inform language teaching practice.
Considering Students, Teachers, and Writing Assessment, Vol 2
The editors and authors in this edited collection, available in two volumes, consider the increasing importance of students' and teachers' lived experiences within the development and use of writing assessments. Presenting key work published in The Journal of Writing Assessment since its founding in 2003, the collection explores five major themes: technical psychometric issues; politics and public policies shaping large scale writing assessments; automated scoring of writing; fairness; and the lived experiences of humans involved in assessment ecologies. The books also provide reflections from leading writing assessment scholars who examine how these themes continue to shape current and future directions in writing assessment.
Considering Students, Teachers, and Writing Assessment, Vol. 1
Nursery Rhymes in English and Igbo
Popular Nursery Rhymes and Poems we all grew with translated to Igbo and also written in English. Included are also Native Igbo Rhymes that we all remember. Rekindle your Childhood, teach your children and learn new rhymes as well. Included are 64 rhymes. Taya no n'ụgbọ ala, Twinkle Twinkle Little star, Mary had a little lamb, Nwa busu atọ, Baby Shark, Finger Family, Nne, nne, udu'm a laputa'm o!, The wheels on the Bus, Okereke okereke du du ya ya, Here we go lobby loo, Three blind mice, Itsy bitsy spider, Who is in the garden and many much more, Onye mere Nwa na ebe akwa.
End Boring
Flex your public speaking muscles with this practical crusade to end boring presentations!You've sat through countless boring presentations, struggling to stay awake as speakers drone on about quarterly reports or product updates. You've tried to improve your own speaking skills, but the typical advice feels useless. "Connect with your audience," they say. But how? The truth is, most public speaking books are full of fluff and self-help nonsense that don't apply to your everyday communication needs.Ivan Wanis Ruiz's End Boring is the antidote to ineffective communication advice. Drawing from neuroscience, poker analysis, police interrogation techniques, viral social media videos, and even professional wrestling, Ivan delivers a tactical guide he's used to teach over a half million people around the world to become better communicators and leaders. This isn't about finding your passion or facing your fears-it's about practical, physical tactics you can start using immediately. Built using case studies from business, teaching, corporate sales, fitness classes, nursing, and more, End Boring gives you real exercises to create muscle memory in how you speak, look, and present while speaking. Forget cookie-cutter rules-this book gives you a utility belt of tools to command any room, whether in person or virtually.Whether you're giving a sales pitch or leading a team meeting, you'll learn: - The Belly Button Rule that instantly boosts your confidence.- Why traditional eye contact advice is wrong-and what to do instead.- The sneaky Liar's Parallel that's killing your credibility (and how to fix it).- When most people only remember 2% of presentations, structure sentences to make your message unforgettable.- Virtual presentation hacks that'll make you a Zoom superstar.Ready to work out your communication skills? Becoming a great speaker isn't a natural talent-you can learn to be an influential speaker through physical practice, repetition, and focusing on what matters most to the audience. End Boring is your road map to becoming the speaker everyone wants to listen to. Don't just read about effective communication-learn how to do it. Join the mission to end boring!
Language and Social Networks
Today, the internet is one of the most accessible means of disseminating messages and, as a result, its language has spread and become globalised. Facebook, a social network that can provide deaf students with the opportunity to present their ideas, conduct online discussions and collaborate effectively in the learning of Portuguese language teaching through the use of contemporary digital technologies, is also part of this context. Thus, this research aims to contribute to measuring some aspects of the dynamics of inclusion of deaf students through the use of Facebook. The use of this social network is presented as one of the possibilities that can contribute to digital literacy and, more specifically, to the reading and writing practices of the target audience. The specific objective was to present these mechanisms as an ally for educators in the various classrooms in this country. Given all this, it can be said that the interaction established through Facebook shortens distances, transposes barriers and inaugurates a totally new way of establishing communication between internet users in cyberspace.
Native-Speakerism and Trans-Speakerism
Native-speakerism is a deeply embedded prejudice that perpetuates unequal power dynamics in language education. By introducing the liberating concept of trans-speakerism, this innovative book dismantles prevalent biases and reshapes the discourse in the field. It proposes inclusive designations such as global speaker of English (GSE), global teacher of English (GTE), and global Englishes researcher (GER), and urges a shift away from labels that maintain marginalization. By systematically reviewing previous studies, it challenges native-speakerism, and seeks to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion for all language speakers, teachers and researchers - transcending the limitations imposed by speakerhood statuses. The volume features the voices of non-native English-speaking (NNES) secondary school teachers, graduate students, and university professors in Japan, highlighting the strengths, interests, and uniqueness of language practitioners and researchers - both intellectually and emotionally. It ultimately encourages all language educators, researchers, and policymakers to oppose biases, welcome linguistic diversity, and develop inclusive language education environments.
Young Children's Language in Context
This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place. The term 'context' not only specifies a geographical location, but also encompasses notions of culture, community and activity. 'Context' also refers to discourse features and functions, and to the relationships between the speakers. Every context thus embodies specific practices, intentions and values which privilege particular words, phrases, meanings and communication conventions. Each chapter highlights the dynamic, fluid and multifaceted interplays between language and context to illustrate how context, in every sense, is inextricably intertwined with young children's language and literacy learning opportunities. The chapters interrogate the topic of 'Young Children's Language in Context' by collectively exploring the multiple ways that context, broadly and variously conceptualised, intersects with language and literacy experiences. Authors examine how contexts shape language and literacy learning opportunities, how children's language shapes their social-interactive and relationship contexts, and how their language and literacy experiences are, themselves contexts which create socially and culturally endorsed ways to represent ideas, intentions and expectations. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of early childhood education and language development. It was originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of Early Years Education.
Issues and Insights of Variational Translation
This book elevates translation to the level of cultural communication, delving into the concept of variational translation, its rationale, motivation, interaction with culture, inter-subjectivity relationships, and the suitable genres for employing variational translation. Through in-depth discussions on these topics, the book aims to enhance the theory of variational translation and guide its practice in a more scientific manner. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of how variational translation is generated and its crucial role in advancing cross-cultural communication and reshaping human knowledge and culture.
Speech Acts
This Element outlines issues in the study of speech acts. Discursive approaches shift the focus to interaction and interactional sequences. Multimodal approaches show that the speech act needs to be extended to cover the multimodality of communicative acts. Diachronic approaches focus on the historicity of speech acts.
Enjoy Self-publishing
I've self-published for over ten years. I've seen the industry start, take off and mature. I've seen tactics, companies and people come and go. However, over that time, a few important principles have always held true, but in the morass of advice of varying quality it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. In 2017, I wrote the Unboxed books, a series of four books about how to publish sustainably, and by that I mean in a manner so that you can keep doing it long-term, and how to use your mailing list to set up a self-perpetuating sales vehicle. While the strategies haven't changed, many of the peripheral situations have. In short: we have far more and better tools, but far more competition, not only from other authors on the sales front, but also from services that entice us to spend ever more money before we publish. This book is my ultimate guide to what you need, what you can try, and what is likely to be a waste of your money and time. Over more than 500 pages I talk about the unvarnished experience of self-publishing and selling books while keeping control of my catalogue and not funding anyone's private jet in advertising costs. I wrote this book to pay it forward to the community. I don't sell courses. I don't do affiliate marketing. I have no vested interest in anyone's self-publishing journey. Except for this: I want you to enjoy it.
Trajectories of Translation
This book builds on Marais's innovative A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation to explore the implications of this conceptualization of translation as the semiotic work from which social-cultural reality emerges and chart the way forward for applications in empirical research. The volume brings together some of the latest developments in biosemiotics, social semiotics and Peircean semiotics with emergent work in translation studies towards better understanding the emergence of trajectories in society-culture through semiotic processes. The book further develops lines of thinking around thermodynamics in the work of Terrence Deacon to consider the ways in which ideas emerge from matter, creating meaning, and its opposites, namely the ways in which ideas constrain matter. Marais links these theoretical strands to empirical case studies in the final three chapters towards operationalizing these concepts for further empirical work. This book is aimed at academics in the fields of translation studies, semiotics, multimodal/multimedial studies, cultural studies and development studies. It will also be applicable to postgraduate students in these fields.
Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, K-6
Ideal for literacy methods and elementary instruction courses, this book brings together three strands of educational practice-Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP), Disability Sustaining Pedagogy (DSP), and balanced literacy-to present a cohesive, comprehensive framework for literacy instruction that meets the needs of all learners.
Professional Interpreting Programmes in China
Wang presents the status quo of curriculum development in professional interpreting programmes and points to the urgency to devise a curriculum improvement model to ensure the relevance of such programmes against a changing reality.
Jade Mosinski: Bee (Soft Touch Journal)
New title in the lighter-weight Flame Tree Soft Touch Journals collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with gold-foiled page edges, gloss detailing and lined pages. Perfect as a gift, or a personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds. Soft Touch Journals, the new paperback notebook series from Flame Tree featuring a range of popular designs by artists and Illustrators, are lightweight journals with the same high-quality production as our hardback journals. Our trademark blend of the practical and beautiful, with gold-foiled page edges, gloss detailing on the tactile matt cover, and lined pages, they're perfect for notes, creative writing, poetry, doodles and lists. Easy to slip into your bag, a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! Jade Mosinski is a Derbyshire-based designer and illustrator who loves to create beautiful and intricate illustrations inspired by the natural world, using detailed linework. She also likes to create more colourful, feminine patterns, with bolder shapes and imagery. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
Enjoy Self-publishing
I've self-published for over ten years. I've seen the industry start, take off and mature. I've seen tactics, companies and people come and go. However, over that time, a few important principles have always held true, but in the morass of advice of varying quality it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. In 2017, I wrote the Unboxed books, a series of four books about how to publish sustainably, and by that I mean in a manner so that you can keep doing it long-term, and how to use your mailing list to set up a self-perpetuating sales vehicle. While the strategies haven't changed, many of the peripheral situations have. In short: we have far more and better tools, but far more competition, not only from other authors on the sales front, but also from services that entice us to spend ever more money before we publish. This book is my ultimate guide to what you need, what you can try, and what is likely to be a waste of your money and time. Over more than 500 pages I talk about the unvarnished experience of self-publishing and selling books while keeping control of my catalogue and not funding anyone's private jet in advertising costs. I wrote this book to pay it forward to the community. I don't sell courses. I don't do affiliate marketing. I have no vested interest in anyone's self-publishing journey. Except for this: I want you to enjoy it.
The English Translation of Cāndāyan
This book is the first English translation of Cāndāyan, the pioneer work in a long tradition of Indian-Sufi love narratives.
Language Identity, Learning, and Teaching in Costa Rica
This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated and experienced language professionals and researchers in Costa Rica.
