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The book discusses diverse aspects of teaching languages for specific and academic purposes on the example of English (ESP) and French (FOS). Le volume analyse en details des multiples aspects de l'enseignement de l'anglais (ESP) et du francais (FOS).

This book focuses on pedagogy for autonomy in language teaching within a vision of education as transformation and empowerment. It proposes a framework for learner and teacher autonomy based on three structuring elements: the context, the learner, and the teacher.

The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author points out that ipseity is a trace of the postmodern bivalent condition that uses the vivid metaphor mechanism to describe its ontological lability as strength.

This book analyses how contemporary political science can develop as a structure of knowledge gathered by the individual sub-disciplines of political studies, as well as the remaining disciplines of social sciences. This work presents a strategy of integrating knowledge about man and society.

Exploring the genre of advertising in three European languages (British English, French and Polish), this volume offers a contrastive study of the differences between high- and low-context cultures. Aspects covered include the use of foreign languages, the relation between text and images and the interaction between advertising images and readers.

The book is a study of 17th-century Dutch painting, drawing and printmaking, focused on interlocking its descriptive realism with the visual strategy of illusion. The author analyzes this relationship as a conjunction rather than an opposition.

This book explores collaboration in the foreign language classroom through the use of new media. An essential resource for applied linguists and practising teachers/teacher trainees in secondary/higher education, the contributions combine theoretical, empirical and practical insights.

This volume reflects the discussion that emerged around the concepts "communication form", "communicative practice", "medium" and "genre". It combines theoretical contributions with empirical studies on public signage in cities, video games, self-tracking, the "National Geographic Magazine", and the personal blog.

The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary keywords for understanding contemporary American life and culture.

These articles result from "The Polish local society in the process of European integration - a decade of experience". It investigates the EU integration of 6 Polish local communities. The results show a low level of knowledge of the EU in local Poland, with the funds as the main factor determining Poles' positive attitude towards the EU.

In Hate Narratives Jakubowska-Branicka focuses on language's power to build social relationships based on hatred. She analyzes a particular kind of narrative description, namely dogmatic narratives, and examines media-created "parallel realities." Where do we, in a modern liberal democracy, draw the borders of tolerance?

This book analyses the adaptivity of public service media to the digital network age. Terrestrial, analogue public service broadcasters - PBS - of the 20th century appear, on the surface, to have made a successful transition into becoming 2nd millennia public service media - PSM - in the digital network age.

This book analytes the patterns of and factors associated with health seeking behavior and out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) in rural Malawi. This study found that, in spite of a context where care for CNCDs should be free, the utilization rates of CNCD care are still low and OOP payments is rather high.

This book assesses the conceptualisation of international mission in the Methodist Church Ghana. While using multiple models interpreting Ghanaian international mission, this book also proposes twelve models in which diasporic communities engage in mission.

The discussion entails modern literature, oral literature, literary translations, orthography and onomastics. The contributions in the book recommend the promotion, development and preservation of indigenous African languages.

The book shows the various aspects of understanding cognitive characteristics of aesthetic experience. The authors examine the distinction between ordinary and aesthetic experience and propose with their analysis an introduction to the current cognitive research of aesthetic experience.

This book presents empirical comparative research findings regarding the educational effect on political and social tolerance across 24 and 33 countries at two time points. It argues there are several micro- and macro-level conditions that should be fulfilled for the positive effect of education to take place.

This book provides a user-friendly introduction to the process of linking local language examinations to the common reference levels of language proficiency. It encourages local examination providers to assure quality in high-stakes testing, presenting samples and advice on how to improve the effectiveness of local examinations.

This publication presents papers focusing on applied linguistics research and methodology. The papers fall into three major areas of investigation: 1) methodological issues in second language teaching and learning research, 2) experimental research in applied linguistics and 3) spoken and written corpus studies.

This book focuses on the history of Hungarian parliamentarism. The author combines the micro and macro levels of research. He analyses the social composition of the MPs, introduces the Hungarian electoral system and its special ethnic and regional features. The book shows the operation and the problems of Hungarian parliamentarism.

The handbook deals with non-formal language learning in Online Tandems. It gives information on how to start, assist and evaluate the learning process and stresses the importance of a tandem trainer or tutor. It documents research on learner strategies, code-switching, feedback and negotiation of meaning using transcripts of the tandem interaction.

This book reconstructs the perceptions about mixed marriages across generations, starting from a detailed analysis of the statistical background and a description of this phenomenon in the historical past, and then focusing on the case history of families in Transylvania.

This edited volume seeks ways to present a unifying picture of TESOL policies and practices from different contexts in the broader Mediterranean basin and beyond. The main topics are: English language education; English language teacher education and recruitment policy; English language testing policies and practices in different contexts.

The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Waclaw Berent, Boleslaw Lesmian, Stanislaw Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers' linguistic self-consciousness informs and illuminates their implicitly self-reflexive texts.

The book investigates the in situ organization of ethnic and racial categorization in interviews in English as a lingua franca. It proposes the combined ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach. The analysis shows the socially preferred and dispreferred ways of negotiating ethnic and racial identity categories.

This book analyzes Mo Yan's writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizing the class ideology that underwrites what Mo Yan says he "knows" of the "nebulous terrain" where one supposedly experiences moments of "transcending" or going "beyond" class and politics.

This book raises the question of what visuality really is and how it is possible to explain it. The authors outline the topic of visuality and virtual reality in an interdisciplinary theoretical frame from philosophy through communication theory, rhetoric and linguistics to pedagogy.

This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886-1945). The author approaches the multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the figure-ground organization, conceptual metaphors, conceptual blending, image schemata, scripts, cognitive deixis, and empathy.

Azerbaijan is located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. It has a highly strategic geographic position. The country was one of the corridors of the Silk Road used by traders. It was of great importance for the development of international trade. It was also the region's main artery, or "geopolitical pivot".

The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse. Rhetoric places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses and literary history examines the temporal succession of the literary systems.