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Letters Without Capitals: Text and Practice in Kim Mun (Yao) Culture

Letters Without Capitals: Text and Practice in Kim Mun...

Author: Jacob Cawthorne
ISBN: 9789004442214
Format: Hardback
$454.08

In Letters without Capitals: Texts and Practices in Kim Mun (Yao) Culture, Jacob Cawthorne demonstrates how the...  Read More >>

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Transformation of Language Habitats

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN: Transformation...

Author: Azirah Hashim (University of Malaya, Malaysia) ,  Gerhard Leitner (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138105300
Format: Hardback
$284.00

English in Southeast Asia and ASEAN embeds English in its various regional Southeast Asian and political ASEAN language...  Read More >>

A Child's Christmas in San Francisco

A Child's Christmas in San Francisco

Author: John Briscoe
ISBN: 9780867198850
Format: Hardback
$52.67

At the core of A Child's Christmas in San Francisco are seven poems, composed, author John Briscoe tells us, by...  Read More >>

Put The Kettle On: An American's Guide to British Slang, Telly and Tea. Pocket Size Edition

Put The Kettle On: An American's Guide to British Slang,...

Author: Trish Taylor
ISBN: 9781732865556
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Love British TV and find yourself lost in translation? Hope to visit the United Kingdom someday? This lighthearted...  Read More >>

Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical Hebrew Terms for Writing Materials and Implements

Scribal Tools in Ancient Israel: A Study of Biblical...

Author: Philip Zhakevich
ISBN: 9781646020621
Format: Hardback
$217.00

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Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse

Where Centering Meets Chinese Discourse

Author: Saina Wuyun
ISBN: 9789811586651
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book first discusses the use of discourse analysis in the context of bei and ba constructions and then demonstrates...  Read More >>

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 20

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 20...

Author: Amir Harrak
ISBN: 9781463242626
Format: Paperback
$198.00

A refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies.  Read More >>

Reading of Shāng Inscriptions

Reading of Shāng Inscriptions

Author: Kuang Yu Chen ,  Zhenhao Song
ISBN: 9789811562136
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing.  Read More >>

Speaking English as a Second Language: Learners' Problems and Coping Strategies

Speaking English as a Second Language: Learners' Problems...

Author: Alireza Jamshidnejad
ISBN: 9783030550561
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book focuses on understanding the process of problem construction in oral communication in foreign language...  Read More >>

Studies in the History of the English Language VIII: Boundaries and Boundary-Crossings in the History of English

Studies in the History of the English Language VIII:...

Author: Peter Grund ,  Megan Hartman
ISBN: 9783110627251
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history...  Read More >>

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and Intercultural Communication: Minimal English (and Beyond)

Studies in Ethnopragmatics, Cultural Semantics, and...

Author: Lauren Sadow ,  Bert Peeters
ISBN: 9789813299818
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book is the third in a three-volume set that celebrates the career and achievements of Cliff Goddard, a pioneer...  Read More >>

Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia

Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia

Author: Margherita Dore
ISBN: 9780367312886
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed over the last twenty years, focusing in particular...  Read More >>

Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia

Humour Translation in the Age of Multimedia

Author: Margherita Dore
ISBN: 9780367312893
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume seeks to investigate how humour translation has developed over the last twenty years, focusing in particular...  Read More >>

Variational Translation Theory

Variational Translation Theory

Author: Zhonglian Huang ,  Yongzhong Zhang
ISBN: 9789811592706
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book, adopting the perspective of cross-cultural communication, theoretically justifies and addresses human...  Read More >>

Rooted: An Australian history of bad language

Rooted: An Australian history of bad language

Author: Amanda Laugesen
ISBN: 9781742236636
Format: Paperback
$32.99

*Included inABR's Books of the Year 2020* Bugger, rooted, bloody oath...  Read More >>

Hear in Ukrainian

Hear in Ukrainian

Author: Olga Dubchak
ISBN: 9786177960071
Format: Paperback
$18.11

"The book ""To Hear in Ukrainian"" will not force you to learn the rules or memorize the grammar. Your Ukrainian...  Read More >>

1918 Spanish Flu: The Terrible Story of the Great Influenza, the 20th Century's Deadliest Pandemic

1918 Spanish Flu: The Terrible Story of the Great Influenza,...

Author: John Muan
ISBN: 9781801860307
Format: Hardback
$64.66

This book explores the terrifying history of the Spanish Flu.  Read More >>

Linked Noun Groups: Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers

Linked Noun Groups: Opposition and Expansion as Genre...

Author: Michael Pace-Sigge
ISBN: 9783030539856
Format: Hardback
$171.57

This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns...  Read More >>

Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19

Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19

Author: Furzeen Ahmed (University of Derby, UK) ,  Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9780367322045
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book offers both a scholarly and practical overview of an integrated language and literature approach in the...  Read More >>

A Word for Every Day of the Year

A Word for Every Day of the Year

Author: Steven Poole
ISBN: 9781787478589
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch'

That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781851245529
Format: Hardback
$29.99

The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists...  Read More >>

Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19

Teaching English Language and Literature 16-19

Author: Furzeen Ahmed (University of Derby, UK) ,  Marcello Giovanelli
ISBN: 9780367322038
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers both a scholarly and practical overview of an integrated language and literature approach in the...  Read More >>

Shifting Toponymies: (Re)naming Places, (Re)shaping Identities

Shifting Toponymies: (Re)naming Places, (Re)shaping...

Author: Luisa Caiazzo ,  I. M. Nick
ISBN: 9781527560284
Format: Hardback
$263.87

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