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Language and social interaction scholars have increasingly explored the consequentiality of language use for the production and reproduction of race, racialization, and racism. This timely book proposes a race talk framework that enables researchers to explore how...
This volume examines the concept of the utopic figure, focusing on the textual procedures through which utopian texts negotiate the limits of the imaginable. Drawing from literary theory and criticism, political philosophy, social history, cartography and geography,...
This book focuses on the satirical practice of four contemporary Irish writers spanning over three decades: Patrick McCabe, Emer Martin, Alan McMonagle, and Naoise Dolan, and places these writers in the context of a tradition of Irish satirical writing. Drawing on...
This book explores the political and literary culture of sixteenth-century Savoy through the lens of Emmanuel-Philibert de Pingon, a court poet, diplomat and historiographer embedded in the political life of the duchy. It examines how literary production and personal...
"While Mark McBeth has previously researched and explored forgotten homophobic discourses and their rebuttals through the actors of literacy, Objectionable offers a dynamic account of how literacy and its objects work to shape self and society. He reveals the...
In times of conflict, especially times of war, pressures on freedom of the press, even in societies that value a free press, inevitably increase – and often involve formal government censorship. Support of one’s country or, in the case of internal conflicts, of one side...
This book examines representations of mothering and matrifocality in twenty-first-century Caribbean fiction. Through an analysis of several contemporary novels from Anglophone Caribbean writers, this study rejects the historic problematisation of matrifocality...
This book investigates the miscommunication that occurs within diverse healthcare settings. It includes doctor-patient consultations, multi-disciplinary teams, and intercultural encounters; it also examines adverse patient events. It explores real life situations...
Dr. Carolyn M. Byerly is recognized internationally for her empirical studies and theoretical interventions. Throughout her career, she has presented influential theories, including the Model of Women’s Media Action, Reformulation Theory, and the Intersectional...
This book highlights the significant shifts in China's socioeconomic structure brought about by the country's first four decades of reform and opening-up. It address a number of contentious issues, including: Is the disparity in income growing or shrinking? Has there...
This book focuses on a common prejudice within British society: accent. In doing so, it addresses commonly believed myths regarding accent, and the stereotypes often placed onto the speakers of certain accents as a result (e.g., he’s thick, she’s trustworthy, he sounds...
"In these uncertain times, when Artificial Intelligence appears to challenge the very foundations of Translation Studies, this book stands as a landmark reference for anyone interested in business and financial translation, a specialisation that continues to gain...
“And We have certainly presented for the people in this Qur’an from every [kind of] example that they might remember.” —The Qur’an, Az-Zumar/39:27 “Whatever is written about the ayat, and from the point of view of guidance by the Holy Qur’an,…should not be counted as...
Through an examination of four pivotal theophanic passages from Exodus (3:1-4:17, 19:1-20:21, 24:9-18, and 33:18-34), this book delves into the paradox of biblical wilderness—a space marked by chaos and death, and simultaneously a place for Yahweh to appear. With a...
‘… it is impossible for man to lose Transcendence without ceasing to be man.’ For Karl Jaspers, the central issues of philosophy are Transcendence and selfhood; for him, these are one and the same. In this book, Darius Samadian examines Jaspers’ ‘Philosophy of...
This landmark edited collection investigates parks as places of pivotal significance in the social, cultural, architectural and economic history of the Balkan capitals. Parks are not simply places of recreation and retreat: they are a palimpsest where memory and...
This book concentrates on two major modern Homeric 'wanderings', stemming from two radically different geo-timeframes which were never previously juxtaposed in such a radical dialectical manner: Chichikov’s wanderings around Rus in Gogol's 'Dead Souls', and Bloom’s...
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