This book examines Alexander Pope’s Dunciad, focusing on the role played by cultural periphery (what Pope called “dunces”) in launching new fashions and ideological trends. In this way, Baird sheds new light on publicness as an emerging category at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Characters Jack and Poppy go to the park. Includes key concepts for the park and playground. QR code inside the book links to video showing how to sign the story.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structural, digital, and multimodal resources are used to communicate scientific knowledge to lay audiences.

Explores historical, cultural, linguistic, technological and institutional influences on Translation Studies.

The global spread of English has resulted in a diverse range of postcolonial varieties in many countries around the world. Postcolonial English provides a clear and original account of the historical, social and ecological evolution of these varieties, and reveals a unifying process that has motivated their spread and diversification.

This book employs a critical discourse ethnographic approach to map the production of social meaning in digital media in education, drawing on insights from Switzerland to unpack the disconnects which arise in thinking postdigitally and ways forward for rethinking sociocultural approaches.

This collection offers perspectives from established scholars on the theoretical and practical dimensions of English language teaching and learning in the post-truth era.