Moore (journalism, Cardiff University) gathers international contributors in journalism, social anthropology, immigration and settlement studies, and media and communications to investigate issues rel
Migrations and the Media critically explores the global reporting of «migration crises,» bringing together a range of original interdisciplinary research from the fields of migration studies and journ
Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the problems figurative language can present to non-native spe
The studies in this volume explore a number of issues in education today. One paper reveals what actually motivates teachers to develop their career, another, how to teach primary teachers to talk abo
This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012. Against a formidable national discourse that emphasizes academic standardization, accountability,
This collection offers previously published and commissioned essays, written to be accessible to the wider public as well as educators and scholars. The editors hope the new scholarship will challenge
This book provides a detailed overview of functional and pragmatic approaches to the study of language in use. Edited by three scholars in the field, it comprises chapters written by academics from th
A minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Six-Means presents a revision of his PhD dissertation in the history of Christianity at Princeton University. The study of Christianity in the his
Drawn from direct primary research, this volume on media and politics in Eastern and Southern Africa provides students, policy makers and professionals working in the region with a concise overview of
Scrapbooks, Snapshots and Memorabilia: Hidden Archives of Performance asks the questions: What constitutes an archive? What is worthy of being archived? And who decides? Performances are ephemeral, so
This volume is an exciting contribution to debates about identity and citizenship both in the UK and elsewhere. By examining the view from abroad, through popular cultural transmission, education, and
Less than fifty percent of African American students graduate from high school. Their educational failure is built into the racial structure of curriculum, standardized testing, teacher preparation pr
Asking "experts" to "shut up and listen," Knaus (education, California State U. East Bay) shares his work with African American students to change schools from silencing places that are heir to racism
Given the linguistically diverse nature of academic institutions in English-speaking contexts, a strong rationale exists for the incorporation of L2 accents of English in academic listening assessment
This volume contains selected chapters from researchers and scholars concerning global English in the Arab world. It brings a new perspective to the phenomenon of global English as today’s lingua fran
Trust is essential to human society and the good life. At the same time, citizens of developed countries spend more and more time in virtual environments. This collection asks how far virtual environm
Does the development of virtual environments, in association with the growth of Web 2.0, lead to more or less interpersonal trust? This was the central topic of a 2009 workshop, which became the basis
This book is a passionate engagement with Gilles Deleuze and collaborative writing, in which four writers explore together the insights that Deleuze has contributed to the topic. This powerful and com
A Portuguese scholar of English focusing on postcolonial and feminist matters, Biscaia looks at representations of excess in literature of these schools. She begins by locating the grotesque in cultur
This is the first ethnographic survey of language behaviour, attitudes and perceptions of different generations of Sylheti migrants of rural origin. For Sylheti Bangladeshi migrants the use of the maa
According to metaphysical naturalism science has given us overwhelming reason to see the world as made up just of physical things. The job of philosophers is then to understand how our concepts of non
At the beginning of the 20th century, the discovery of early cultures exerted a formative influence on modern architecture. Discussions on early civilizations in the Middle East, South-East Asia, and
The book focuses on the linkages between institutions, inequality and development. It analyzes formal political institutions, in particular the relationship between democracy and human development. It
Beachum (urban school leadership and education, Lehigh U.) and McCray (education, Fordham U.) examine the conditions faced by African American youth in schools and the social, cultural, and political
This book is about the integration into English of the five nominal suffixes -ment, -ance, -ation, -age and -al, which entered Middle English via borrowings from French, and which now form abstract no
Born into a German-French bilingual environment, the once renowned German-language author René Schickele (1883-1940) grew up in the Alsace region - today located in eastern France - during its annexat
The editors (professors of education at the U. of Tartu and the U. of Tallinn, Estonia) present ten papers examining teaching issues associated with teachers' professionalism and personality in Estoni
From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and u
Modern politics is highly science-dependent and knowledge-driven. What is the rightful role of expert knowledge in political life? How can the truth claims of science be reconciled with principles of
In this collection of papers from a December 2008 symposium organized by the University of Innsbruck, contributors working in literature, history, slavery studies, economics, psychology, and sociology
Indirect and Direct Aggression consists of 24 chapters written by distinguished scholars within the field of aggression research, covering indirect aggression, bullying in schools, adult bullying, and
This study explores a number of early modern comedias that deal with historical siege or military episodes in the history of the Iberian peoples. Cervantes’s La Numancia, Lope de Vega’s El asalto de M
Opera is able to offer enchanting performance sites, in which people create and experience glamorous or ecstatic imagined worlds, but behind this picture we find a real social organization embraced by
This book was awarded a Special Mention Citation in the 2010 competition for the ‘de la Torre Bueno Prize’ by The Society of Dance History Scholars. In the region of Salento in Southern Italy, the mus
In this volume, twenty-three scholars pay tribute to the life and work of Joachim Braun with musicological essays covering the breadth of Professor Braun’s several fields of research. Topics covered i
"The hermeneutics of human life is one of the most challenging issues in the fields of bioscience and of ethics today. Recent breakthroughs in bio science challenge the prevalent metaphors and paradig
As a child, Souto-Manning's (early childhood education, Columbia U.) problem-posing approach to learning was shaped by her schooling at Paulo Freire's (1921-1997) progressive, liberatory school in Rec
