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The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa

This volume is the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa. It is an essential tool for linguists interested in…

Massimiliano Agovino, Michele Bevilacqua, Massimiliano Cerciello

Linguistic Discrimination of LGBTQ+ People as a Deterrent to Economic Performance

This book explores the adverse economic effects of discriminatory language against LGBTQ+ people. The case studies under investigation are represented by the French and the Italian language, both boasting…

Alina Szapocznikow, Dietmar Rübel, Marta Smoli¿ska, Ursula Ströbele

Alina Szapocznikow

The publication is published on the occasion of the solo exhibition "Alina Szapocznikow. Body Languages" at the Kunstmuseum Ravensburg. It combines, among others, 13 short texts by reknown schol…

Gereon Müller

Lanes to Language

This book is a linguistic bike tour guide for Leipzig and its surroundings. It contains twenty scenic cycling routes in the flat Leipzig Basin, each of which focuses on a scholar who studied or worked her…

Azhar Ul Haque Sario

The Language Lab

The Language Lab: Step-By-Step Guide to Improving Language Abilities is a comprehensive book that provides a systematic approach to enhancing language skills. With a focus on sentence formation, structure…

Kristof Savski

Language Policy in Action

"Based on real-life case studies, this book examines how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. Introducing a framework for analysing language polic…

Kristof Savski

Language Policy in Action

"Based on real-life case studies, this book examines how people act within institutions and communities to try and control the language of others. Introducing a framework for analysing language polic…

Ursula Lanvers

Language Learning beyond English

This Element concerns language learning in the age of Global English. Learning just English fails to achieve the desired results. It proposes a new matrix of rationales for language learning, advocating a…

Ursula Lanvers

Language Learning beyond English

This Element concerns language learning in the age of Global English. Learning just English fails to achieve the desired results. It proposes a new matrix of rationales for language learning, advocating a…

Erik Cambria

Understanding Natural Language Understanding

About half a century ago, AI pioneers like Marvin Minsky embarked on the ambitious project of emulating how the human mind encodes and decodes meaning. While today we have a better understanding of the br…

Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols

The Rust Programming Language

"The Rust Programming Language, 2nd Edition is the official guide to Rust 2021: an open source systems programming language that will help you write faster, more reliable software. Rust provides cont…

Qiufang Wen

A Production-Oriented Approach to Teaching Foreign Languages

This book introduces and explains the production-oriented approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, a new approach developed by the author through 15 years of rigorous experimentation. Addressing the …

Sarah Mercer

Compassion-based Language Education

Compassion-based Language Education outlines the argument for putting compassion at the heart of language education.

Celebrating Indigenous Voice

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths. This volume explores the linguistic devices employed in the astoundingly rich narrative traditions in the tropical hot-spots of linguistic and cultural…

Handbook of Language and Mobility

Present day migration and new means of communication create new patterns of multilingualism, language contact, language maintenance and change which have an impact on language competences and identities b…

Lise Fontaine, Katy Jones, David Schönthal

Referring in Language

"The first of its kind, this book provides a full account of 'referential expressions' in language. It offers an integrated framework, which combines perspectives from functional grammar and cognitiv…

Jerry Vale

The Language Of Love

Language Teacher Agency

A critical examination of how language teacher agency is shaped by the complex social, political and educational contexts in which language teachers work.

Mindsets in Language Education

This book is devoted to the interdisciplinary investigation of language learner and teacher motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing, based on the theories behind mindsets. It includes a range of …