This Element theorizes multiscriptal English, a trend where English adopts local scripts in multilingual and (post)colonial societies. English blends into local languages through transliteration, gaining new forms and meanings. This shows English's role in our globalized world, necessitating interdisciplinary research to explore this phenomenon.
Draws on a sociolinguistic study of sea turtle tourism and conservation in Hawai‘i to chart an innovative approach to the role of discourse and communication in mediating human-wildlife relations.
Investigates the composition and reception of works by key Romantics such as Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Wagner and the Schumanns with attention to the role of sexual desire in the composers' lives and music.
My Grammar and I offers amusing examples of awful grammar while steering you in the direction of grammatical greatness. Refreshing everything you should have learnt at school and more, My Grammar and I is informative yet entertaining – an ideal buy for any English language enthusiast.
Exploring breakthroughs in language and cognition research, Caleb Everett finds that fundamentals of human perception are culturally encoded by the words and sentences we use. The experience of time, space, color, odor, and taste is substantially influenced by language, so that basic interactions with the world vary greatly across peoples.
This book presents a game-changing approach to critical intercultural pedagogy by reclaiming myth as a stimulating tool for deliberate and productive disorientation.
This book presents a game-changing approach to critical intercultural pedagogy by reclaiming myth as a stimulating tool for deliberate and productive disorientation.