Drawing on cutting-edge research, this book uses Conversation Analysis (CA) techniques to better understand the language that children use online, and the implications for their language development. Addressing a highly topical area, it is essential reading for students and researchers of applied linguistics, communication, education and sociology.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, this book uses Conversation Analysis (CA) techniques to better understand the language that children use online, and the implications for their language development. Addressing a highly topical area, it is essential reading for students and researchers of applied linguistics, communication, education and sociology.

Since children’s progression in reading film is found to be not necessarily age-related, but rather built on a period of experience and opportunity to read and/or create moving image media, Bulman clearly illustrates the importance of the inclusion of film in the primary curriculum.

A step-by-step workbook for learning to write standard style or regular script (kaishu). It is suitable for enthusiasts and students.

Discourse on translation, at once a term referring to any text (works of translation included) that expresses the author’s views, ideas and theorizations on translation.

This book offers a concise yet powerful analysis of critical Chinese grammatical concepts, adopting an authentic approach that considers the language on its own terms.

Chinese Idioms provides a theoretical framework for understanding idioms in the Chinese language, tracing their origins and analyzing their linguistic evolution.

This edited volume presents the latest scholarly endeavours to synergise Chinese linguistics with Chinese language education and L2 Chinese acquisition, a direction of inquiry that has emerged as a rapidly developing area and attracted both teaching practitioners’ and linguists’ interests in recent years.

By making a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis on the translation history of both the ancient Chinese legal classics and the modern laws and regulations, this book presents a full picture of development of Chinese legal translation.

Provides the first comprehensive account of the discursive formation of knowledge about Chinese literature produced by British Sinologists in the nineteenth century.