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Inherited through the line of the berserker Angantyr and his
war-loving daughter Hervor, the ever-lethal, shining sword Tyrfing
and its changes of hands frame the uncanny story of The Saga of
Hervor and Heidrek . A second heroic saga, Hrolf Kraki and His
Champions , recounts the daring deeds of the members and entourage
of the ancient Danish house of Skjoldung. Passed down orally in
pre-Christian Norse times, transmitted in writing in medieval
Iceland, and here wielded by the hand of Jackson Crawford, the
tales told in this volume retain their sharp edges and flashes of
glory that never fail to slay.
Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the
ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and
to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.
This unique text offers a multidisciplinary, critical,
state-of-the-art research overview for this skill in second
language learners. Expert contributors from around the world lay
out the history of the field, then explore a variety of theoretical
perspectives, methodologies, and empirical findings, and
authoritatively set the agenda for future work. With a variety of
helpful features like discussion questions, recommended further
reading, and suggestions for practice, this book will be an
invaluable resource to students and researchers of applied
linguistics, education, psychology, and beyond.
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Introducing Linguistics
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Introducing Linguistics brings together the work of scholars
working at the cutting-edge of the field of linguistics, creating
an accessible and wide-ranging introductory level textbook for
newcomers to this area of study. The textbook: * Provides broad
coverage of the field, comprising five key areas: language
structures, mind and society, applications, methods, and issues; *
Presents the latest research in an accessible way; * Incorporates
examples from a wide variety of languages - from isiZulu to Washo -
throughout; * Treats sign language in numerous chapters as yet
another language, rather than a 'special case' confined to its own
chapter; * Includes recommended readings and resource materials,
and is supplemented by a companion website. This textbook goes
beyond description and theory, giving weight to application and
methodology. It is authored by a team of leading scholars from the
world-renowned Lancaster University department, who have drawn on
both their research and extensive classroom experience. Aimed at
undergraduate students of linguistics, Introducing Linguistics is
the ideal textbook to introduce students to the field of
linguistics.
The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a
comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign
language (SFL) writing. In this innovative book, a compelling case
is made for SFL writing as an individual, contextual, and
multidimensional ability, combining several theoretically informed
approaches upon which to base diagnosis. Using the diagnostic cycle
as the overarching framework, the book starts with the planning
phase, cover design, development, and delivery of diagnostic
assessment, ending with feedback and feed-forward aspects to feed
diagnostic information into the teaching and learning process. It
covers means to diagnose both the writing processes and products,
including the design and development of diagnostic tasks and rating
scales, as well as automated approaches to assessment. Also
included is a range of existing instruments and approaches to
diagnosing SFL writing. Addressing large-scale as well as classroom
contexts, this volume is useful for researchers, teachers, and
educational policy-makers in language learning.
Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the
themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in
literature and art. In this innovative combination of
place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us
on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe
and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England.
Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends,
chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary
fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It
features familiar lighted windows in English literature (in the
works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold and in the
novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kenneth Grahame)
and examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson
Grimshaw and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. It also considers Japanese
prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; German
romanticism in painting, poetry and music; Proust and the painters
of the French belle epoque; Rene Magritte's 'L'Empire des
Lumieres'; and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and
Linden Frederick. By interpreting the interactions of art,
literature and geography around this evocative motif, Peter
Davidson shows how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of
moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.
German Grammar in Context presents an accessible and engaging
approach to learning grammar. Each chapter opens with a real-life
extract from a German newspaper, magazine, poem, book or internet
source and uses this text as the starting point for explaining a
particular key area of German grammar. A range of exercises follow
at the end of the chapter, helping students to reinforce and test
their understanding, and an answer key is also provided at the back
of the book. This second edition features: Updated texts with
current newspaper and magazine articles and new extracts from
digital media such as chatrooms or blogs Inclusion of a
wide-ranging selection of sources and topics to further students'
engagement with issues relevant to contemporary Germany and Austria
Clear and user-friendly coverage of grammar, aided by a list of
grammatical terms A wide variety of inventive exercises designed to
thoroughly build up grammatical understanding, vocabulary
acquisition and effective comprehension and communication skills
Helpful 'keyword boxes' translating difficult vocabulary in the
texts A recommended reading section offering advice on additional
grammar resources and website links German Grammar in Context will
be an essential resource for intermediate to advanced students of
German. It is suitable for both classroom use and independent
study.
Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion,
Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to
cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In
this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of
great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues
that philosophers and theologians throughout history have
identified as most essential for good character and the good life.
Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane
Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal
themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn
to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with
great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection
questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork
throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition
was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly.
"[A] lively treatise on building character through
books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Creativity in the English Curriculum is essential reading for
anyone involved or interested in the teaching of English, offering
both a detailed history of how creativity has informed the
tradition of teaching English, and how it should be used to
position this teaching in the future. Highlighting the need to
promote creativity as a rich, intellectual pursuit, Creativity in
the English Curriculum celebrates artistry in English past and
present, and argues for its restoration to the curriculum. It
emphasises that creativity is at the core of a humane education,
not only through stimulating and enhancing the growth of the
individual, but also through developing understanding of the
importance of community, society and collaboration. Smith presents
the historical relationship between curriculum policy and
creativity, demonstrating that creativity has and always will be
the life blood of teaching and learning. Including dialogues
between expert English teaching practitioners and leading
professionals concerning the place of creativity in English,
Creativity in the English Curriculum includes practical,
research-informed ideas for effective creative practice for any
English classroom. It is a must-read for teachers, educators,
parents and guardians to prepare all learners for life in and
beyond school.
Jack Pun's book offers up the latest research in a variety of
health communication settings to highlight the cultural differences
between the East and the West. It focuses on the various clinical
strands in health communication such as doctor-patient
interactions, nurse handover, and cross-disciplinary communication
to provide a broad, comprehensive overview of the complexity and
heterogeneity of health communication in the Chinese context, which
is gradually moving beyond a preference for Western-based models to
one that considers the local culture in understanding and
interpreting medical encounters. The content highlights the
cultural difference between the East and the West, and focuses on
how traditional Chinese values underpin the nature of clinical
communication in various clinical settings and how Chinese patients
and practitioners conduct themselves during medical encounters. The
book also covers various topics that are unique to Chinese contexts
such as the use of traditional Chinese medicine in primary care,
and how clinicians translate Western models of communication when
working in Chinese contexts with Chinese patients. This volume will
appeal to researchers working in health communication in both the
East and West as well as clinicians interested in understanding
what makes effective communication with multicultural patient
cohorts.
Another Mother gives voice to women who become mothers through the
routes of adoption, surrogacy and egg donation, and their silent
partners - the birth mothers, surrogate mothers and egg donors -
who make motherhood possible for them. Exploring experiences of
motherhood beyond the biological mother raising her child,
Everington draws on interviews and a range of interdisciplinary
approaches to produce illuminating personal testimonies which
expand our understanding of what it means to be a mother. The life
writing narratives also examine the unique and hidden relationships
that exist between adopters and birth mothers, egg donors and women
who become mothers through egg donation, and surrogates and women
who become mothers through surrogacy. Offering a fresh approach in
life writing, using hybrid form encompassing edited interview,
re-imagined scenes, poetry, personal essay and quotation collage,
this topical book is recommended for anyone interested in
motherhood studies, gender and women's studies, life writing
studies, the sociology of reproduction, creative non-fiction
writing approaches, oral history, and ethnography studies.
*1. This is the only textbook on the market that takes a critical
look at modern translation theory. *2. It is ideal for translation
theory modules which are part of every translation studies course
*3. Unlike other textbooks, it has a very clear focus on theories,
includes succinct explanations and has engaging pedagogy.
In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
is presented in full, with newly established texts and detailed,
wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began to write verse in the
nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems
repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This
edition of Yeats's poetry presents all his verse, both published
and unpublished, including a generous selection of textual variants
from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date,
explaining specific references, and setting poems in their
contexts; it also gives an account of the vast range of both
literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems
are presented in order of composition, and major revisions or
rewritings of poems result in separate inclusions (in chronological
sequence) for these writings as they were subsequently reconceived
by the poet. In this third volume, Yeats's poetry of the first
decade of the twentieth century is brought into sharp focus,
revealing the extent of his efforts to re-fashion a style that had
already made him a well-known poet. All of the major modes in
Yeats's earlier work are subject to radical re-imagining in these
years, from poetic narrative founded in Irish myth, in poems such
as 'Baile and Aillinn' and 'The Old Age of Queen Maeve', to the
symbolist drama-poetry of The Shadowy Waters, here edited in its
two (completely different) versions of 1900 and 1906. In a decade
when the theatre was one of Yeats's principal concerns, his lyric
poems, which were becoming increasingly explicit in personal terms,
began to discover new intensities of conversational pitch and
mythic resonance. Poems such as 'The Folly of Being Comforted',
'Adam's Curse', 'No Second Troy', and 'The Fascination of What's
Difficult' are given close attention in this new edition, alongside
topical and epigrammatic pieces that are often passed over in
accounts of Yeats's development. The evolving complexities of
Yeats's personal and political lives are crucial to his artistic
development in these years, and the commentary gives these generous
attention, showing how the poetry both feeds upon and often
transcends the circumstances of its composition. The volume offers
strong evidence for this decade as a crucial one in Yeats's poetic
life, in which the poet created wholly new registers for his verse
as well as new dimensions for his imaginative vision.
Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special
interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character
Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an
open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented, queer hero in both comics
and fanfiction. Despite claims that Wolverine embodies Reagan-era
conservatism or hegemonic hyper-masculinity, Wolverine does not
conform to gender or sex norms, not only because of his mutant
status, but also because his character, throughout his publication
history, resists normalization, making him a site for a
queer-heroic futurity. Rather than focus on overt queer
representations that have appeared in some comic forms, this book
explores the queer representations that have preceded Wolverine’s
bisexual and gay characterizations, and in particular focuses on
his porous and vulnerable body. Through important, but not overly
analyzed storylines, representations of his open body that is
always in process (both visually and narratively), his creation of
queer kinships with his fellow mutants, and his eroticized same-sex
relationships as depicted in fan fiction, this book traces a queer
genealogy of Wolverine,. This book is ideal reading for students
and scholars of comics studies, cultural studies, gender studies,
sexuality studies and literature.
A highly relevant topic, given current discussions around fake
news, fake facts, and misinformation in the media and public sphere
This book offers a valuable contribution to how public discourse is
impacted by personal bias, beliefs, and convictions Addresses the
role and impact of conviction in the public sphere, education, and
in political and cultural discourse It discusses where our
convictions come from and whether we are aware of them, why they
compel us to certain actions, and whether we can change our
convictions when presented with opposing evidence that prove our
personal convictions "wrong" It brings together scholars from
multiple fields, such as philosophy, psychology, comparative
literature, media studies, applied linguistics, intercultural
communication, and education It will be of particular interest to
scholars in communication and journalism studies, media studies,
philosophy, and psychology It will contribute substantially to the
study of conviction as an aspect of the self we all carry within us
and are called upon to examine
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'If you want to write a novel or a script,
read this book' Sunday Times 'The best book on the craft of
storytelling I've ever read' Matt Haig 'Rarely has a book engrossed
me more, and forced me to question everything I've ever read, seen
or written. A masterpiece' Adam Rutherford Why stories make us
human and how to tell them better. There have been many attempts to
understand what makes a good story - but few have used a scientific
approach. In this incisive, thought-provoking book, award-winning
writer Will Storr demonstrates how master storytellers manipulate
and compel us. Applying dazzling psychological research and
cutting-edge neuroscience to the foundations of our myths and
archetypes, he shows how we can use these tools to tell better
stories - and make sense of our chaotic modern world. INCLUDES NEW
MATERIAL.
Bringing together the latest research from world-leading academics,
this edited volume is an authoritative resource on the
psycholinguistic study of language production, exploring
longstanding concepts as well as contemporary and emerging
theories. Hartsuiker and Strijkers affirm that although language
production may seem like a mundane everyday activity, it is in fact
a remarkable human accomplishment. This comprehensive text presents
an up-to-date overview of the key topics in the field, providing
important theoretical and empirical challenges to the traditional
and accepted modal view of language production. Each chapter
explores in detail a different aspect of language production,
covering traditional methods including written and signed
production alongside emerging research on joint action production.
Emphasising the neurobiological underpinnings of language, chapter
authors showcase research that moves from a monologue-only approach
to one that that considers production in more ecologically valid
circumstances. Written in an accessible and compelling style,
Language Production is essential reading for students and
researchers of language production and psycholinguistics, as well
as anyone that wishes to learn more about the fascinating topic of
how humans produce language.
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