Language Issues in Canada
This volume illuminates Canada’s linguistic diversity through innovative studies on language politics, legislation, education, and minority issues. The languages covered include English and French, as well as Aboriginal languages.
This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
This “Self” Which Is Not One
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.
Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
This Watery World
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea.
—Professor Ashton Nichols
These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.
Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance
This collection explores literary works by and about Native Americans, focusing on how they have navigated and resisted dominant white ideology. These essays examine the discrepancy between ideological representations and the actual lived experiences of native peoples.
Ethnicity and Englishness
This book explores nationality, groups and religion through the inner lives of second-generation immigrants in England. It analyses the reasons for prejudice between groups and suggests ways to deal with it.
Video Vision
This volume unpacks the use of video as a research tool, exploring ethics, methodology, and analysis. It presents cutting-edge research with practical strategies for data collection and presentation, accessible to students and useful for social scientists.
On the Wings of Eagles
Gaius Marius was an innovative commander whose reforms changed the Roman military from a short-term militia into a professional standing army. This allowed Rome to expand but came at a cost to the state’s stability. This book charts the military implications of his reforms.
Workplace Emotions
When John Wilkinson accepts a job in Bahrain, he doesn’t expect a lesson in emotional intelligence. As his team works to upgrade an aluminum plant, he witnesses cultural change in a traditional corporation and learns how EI improves performance.
Coast to Coast
Histories of the Pacific are stories of contact and connection. Coast to Coast explores the networks of modernity that connected the peoples of the Pacific, Australia and North America through new transportation and communication from the mid-nineteenth century.
Tribal Land Alienation and Political Movements
This study focuses on land alienation in tribal Andhra Pradesh since the colonial era. It examines how skewed socio-economic development and failed policies have fueled poverty, unrest, and violent political movements, revealing their underlying causes.
Negation Raising
This book explores the syntax of negative sentences, addressing the tension between negation’s variable forms and its stable logical meaning. A new mapping operation is proposed to unify its interpretation and explain phenomena like negative concord.
A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.
The modern world was born reacting against a partial image of Aristotle. Today, we are in a unique position to apply his philosophy to contemporary problems. This book uses Aristotelian concepts to solve the dualisms of modern times.
Sacred Space, Beloved City
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
Medieval Skepticism, and the Claim to Metaphysical Knowledge (Volume 6
This collection of essays explores medieval skepticism and metaphysical knowledge. It features scholarly exchanges on Siger of Brabant’s strategy against the skeptic, Walter Chatton’s critique of Ockhamism, and key issues in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas.
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