Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Learning and Teaching explores fan fiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans' enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another language.
How do young children comprehend complex sentences when intervening elements disrupt understanding? This book explores a key puzzle: children often struggle to link phrases across distance when similar phrases intervene — an "intervention effect" that sheds light on how the mind constructs grammatical structure.
This collection explores the rise of feedback as a discursive practice in everyday life, examining diverse genres and sociocultural contexts.This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, professional communication, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and digital media.
This Element is an invitation to embrace the insights and claims of the history of emotions. The thematic content encompasses defining emotions, understanding power, multivalent, changing, and unexpected experiences of imperial buildings and unlearning imperial architecture through the lens of the history of emotions.
Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention).
This volume serves to question the long-standing claim of the universality of film from the perspective of translation. Through a strategic analysis of the role of subtitles and dubbing in the industry, the book discusses how film translation has been instrumentalized to expand mainstream film’s universalist agenda.