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The Languages of Dubbing
Mainstream Audiovisual Translation in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
The purpose of this volume is to investigate the languages of dubbing. The plural evokes the complex interplay of different codes as well as the numerous levels of analysis involved. The volume focuses on the languages of Anglophone films and television series and their dubbing into Italian while...
Networks of Stone
Sculpture and Society in Archaic and Classical Athens
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Networks of Stone explores the social and creative processes of sculpture production in Athens in the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Using the concept of art worlds, it analyses the contributions and interactions of all those who were in some way part of creating the sculpture set up in the sanctuaries...
Trends in Phonetics and Phonology
Studies from German-speaking Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The volume is structured into the following eight...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Nature, a topic central to art history, is concurrently a dominant concept in contemporary art, art theory and its related disciplines such as cultural theory, philosophy, aesthetic theory and environmental studies. The project Naturally Hypernatural questions lines of tradition and predetermined...
by Juan Pedro Rica Peromingo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 4, 2016
La traducción audiovisual (TAV) es una disciplina reciente que ha alcanzado su máximo desarrollo durante el siglo XXI. Esta modalidad traductora se hace, si cabe, más necesaria en un contexto como el español, dado el considerable aumento de la producción audiovisual en los los últimos años:...
Ballet Body Narratives
Pain, Pleasure and Perfection in Embodied Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Ballet Body Narratives is an ethnographic exploration of the social world of classical ballet and the embodiment of young ballet dancers as they engage in «becoming a dancer» in ballet school in England. In contrast to the largely disembodied sociological literature of the body, this book places...
College English Teacher Development in China
A Mixed-method Study
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This study addresses the professional development of college English teachers in mainland China. It is designed to examine the relationship between teachers’ motivation and their attitudinal elements including teacher engagement and commitment, and teaching approaches. This study adopts a mixed-method...
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Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Alors que l’Europe s’embrase en août 1914 sans que personne n’imagine encore l’ampleur du conflit, les débats sont déjà nombreux sur la pertinence de l’engagement qu’il soit politique, idéologique, économique ou religieux. Les Etats, les groupes d’opinion et les individus optent...
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration
Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only ‘the centenary to end all centenaries’ but the first truly global period of remembrance.
In this innovative...
Ten Steps
Critical Inquiries on Leopardi
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admirers from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche to Benjamin. A variety of readings, moving between different disciplines...
Studies in Learner Corpus Linguistics
Research and Applications for Foreign Language Teaching and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This volume explores the potential of using both cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora to investigate the interlanguage of learners with various L1 backgrounds and to subsequently apply the findings to language teaching and assessment. It is made up of 18 chapters selected from papers presented...
A Grammar of Zoulei, Southwest China
Southwest China
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in China’s Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dialect of the highly diverse Gelao group within the Tai-Kadai language family. Zoulei is a typical isolating and analytic language, basically monosyllabic,...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Este libro está dedicado a la formación de los docentes para enseñar el español como segunda lengua (a inmigrantes). El estudio abarca todos los contextos educativos en España: formación universitaria, docentes de español en Educación Primaria y Secundaria, aulas de apoyo lingüístico, Escuelas...
by Runhan Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book investigates several important issues revolving around the psycholinguistic modelling of language proficiency in terms of L2 linguistic knowledge, which is a topic of considerable interest and importance in SLA theories and language testing practice. Four tests including the Elicited Imitation...