Literacy is defined as the ability to read and write. One would expect that as the world enters the 21st century of the Third Millennium, we wouldn...

Literacy, the ability to read and write proficiently, is essential in almost every facet of modern life. Alarmingly, a staggering number of U.S. ch...

Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard

LXX Song of Songs and Descriptive Translation Studies. Dries De Crom intends to stimulate the cross-fertilization of Septuagint Studies and Transla...

The language described in this monograph is spoken by a small hilltribe in Northern Indochina. Its existence has attracted considerable attention b...

Imagine that your father is one of New York City's top gangsters, and that you want nothing to do with him or his criminal empire. Now imagine he's...

There is an urgent need to examine how the emergence of globalisation is influencing the ways the English language is perceived, learned, and taugh...

Native and foreign language competences constitute a widespread object of study among different scholars both in more theoretically oriented framew...

The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern – as well as of patristic and...

This books presents research and issues related to reading and writing acquisition and problems in its acquisition, contributing as a basis for stu...

The Copenhagen Studies in Language Series includes studies of language for general purposes and also language for special purposes (LSP). It covers...

In this collection of scholarly essays, Michael Moser examines the history of the Ukrainian language and takes issue with the verdict of the infamo...

This book focuses on new research advances in the field of immunology which is the study of the body's protection from foreign macromolecules or in...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of sign language. The opening paper concentrates on content structure in an example...

During the last 30 years, the Russian thinker M M Bakhtin has achieved great international recognition for his work with -- among other subjects --...

How number words came about? This book offers a trenchant answer to the question, explaining number conception and application slot by slot through...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all ...

"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium--print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange--means that it may transfer into new t...

This book honours a Danish linguist central to the field of foreign language pedagogy in her country and is arranged in four sections that reflect ...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

George Pullman's lively and accessible introduction to the study of persuasion is an ideal text for use in courses where the understanding and prac...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) occurs in 6.3% of children, twice as much in males than females. Deficits in phonology may include difficulties ...