Talen staan in de hoek waar de klappen vallen. Ze worden weggezet als een zogenaamde zachte wetenschap met weinig maatschappelijke relevantie, en de kennis ervan gaat bijgevolg met rasse schreden achteruit. Men vergeet echter dat zonder ‘taal’ er van wetenschap of sociale media überhaupt geen sprake zou zijn. En is er in tijden van nationaal eigenbelang en fake news net geen nood aan méér talenkennis en beter inzicht in talen?

Deze bundel wil de actualiteit van taal en talen in de verf...

By spanning both historical and current aspects, and by treating the Bible and the Qur’an together, this book breaks new ground and paves the way for future research on the myriad discursive and religious aspects of retranslation.

This carefully curated collection of article argues that the retranslation of canonical religious texts is a multi-faceted phenomenon. The collection demonstrates that retranslations of such texts manifest in different forms, depending on the religious, political ...

Een van de meest fascinerende taalkundigen van de Lage Landen is 75 geworden! Naar aanleiding van die verjaardag selecteerde Joop van der Horst een honderdtal columns die hij in de loop van zijn carrière publiceerde in o.a. De Standaard, Leidsch Dagblad en Onze Taal. Met humor en een scherpe pen ontrafelt hij de wonderen van de Nederlandse taal. Zijn toegankelijke en vermakelijke stijl maakt taalevolutie begrijpelijk voor iedereen, van de nieuwsgierige leek tot de doorgewinterde taalexpert.

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This collection of text extracts provides an invaluable resource for working directly with non-literary informal English of the Early Modern period. The book is organised into eight thematic sections: private diaries; personal daybooks and accounts; autobiographical material; letters; personal documents (wills and contracts); official documents by naive writers; records of spoken evidence given in court; and records of speech forming the basis of Court cases. Texts are arranged by type and ea...

This book describes the ways in which politicians, church leaders, generals, leaders of national movements and others try to influence our use of language. Professor Cooper argues that language planning is never attempted for its own sake. Rather it is carried out for the attainment of nonlinguistic ends such as national integration, political control, economic development, the pacification of minority groups, and mass mobilization.

Many examples are discussed, including the revival of Hebrew...

For courses in English Composition. The platinum standard of handbooks - unmatched in accuracy, currency, and reliability The Little, Brown Handbook is an essential reference tool designed to help readers find the answers they need quickly and easily. While keeping pace with rapid changes in writing and its teaching, this meticulous handbook combines comprehensive research and documentation with grammar coverage that is second to none.

Incorporating detailed discussions of critical reading, m...

How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. This work offers a tour of the central themes raised by these questions.

The Second 100 Japanese Kanji adopts a structural approach that helps students to overcome the initial difficulty of reading kanji and writing kanji and quickly master the basic Japanese characters that are fundamental to this language.

The guide for novice researchers who want to master how to produce first-class research their contemporaries will want to read!

Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field.