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Die Sprache der Pharaonen: Grosses Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch
by Rainer Hannig
A compact Egyptian/German dictionary. Impressively detailed, including both Middle and Late Egyptian terms and with useful lists of names of deities, kings and toponyms.1412p (Hannig Lexica I, Von Zabern 1995)
Hardback. Price GB £65.00
The Medieval Translator: Lost in Translation?
edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead
The central role played by the act of translation in the transmission and reformulation of knowledge between late antiquity and the close of the Middle Ages has been the subject of investigation of the Cardiff Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages for several years. In an intellectual landscape where texts, originally generated in Greek, were successively translated into Latin, often Arabic, and then, several ...
Paperback. Price GB £64.00
Archæologia Britannica: Texts and Translations
by Edward Lhuyd, edited by Dewi W Evans and Brynley F Roberts
Edward Lhuyd's Archæologia Britannica effectively marks the discovery of the Celtic languages and the founding of Celtic Studies. First published in 1707, this was a groundbreaking work in comparative philology, the result of first-hand study of the Celtic languages and an epic four-year journey through the countries where they were spoken. To celebrate the volume's 300th anniversary, Lhuyd's sectional prefaces are republished ...
Hardback. Price GB £29.95
Open Source in Education and Language Learning Online
edited by Birna Arnbjornsdottir and Matthew Whelpton
Learning and teaching languages in an online environment is one of contemporary education's great challenges. The challenge is made particularly difficult because language learners benefit from a social constructivist approach in which individual learners learn by doing together - negotiating meaning in collaborative interaction. The open source revolution in technology has opened up the possibility of communal efforts to develop technological ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £25.00
Archaeology Field Dictionary: English-Russian-English
by Nikita Khrapunov
The novelty of this publication lies primarily in its concept: the dictionary is aimed for practical use during fieldwork, which is to say direct communication with other scholars. Accordingly, the author's aim was to select and include in the dictionary terms that are most widely used in the practical language of archaeologists. The dictionary also contains words that are absolutely necessary for communication in the field (i.e. names of tools, ...
Paperback. Price GB £9.99
Teaching and Learning English in Iceland
edited by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir and Hafdís Invarsdóttir
A collection of research articles on the teaching of English in Iceland. It is the first book of its kind and is an attempt to gather in one accessible publication the most recent research being conducted in the field of teaching and learning English as a foreign or second language in Iceland. The articles cover a wide range of studies on English language learning, pedagogy and teacher education, but their content is relevant to foreign language ...
Paperback. Price GB £31.99
Archaeology Field Dictionary: English-Russian-English (Big Version)
by Nikita Khrapunov
The novelty of this publication lies primarily in its concept: the dictionary is aimed for practical use during fieldwork, which is to say direct communication with other scholars. Accordingly, the author's aim was to select and include in the dictionary terms that are most widely used in the practical language of archaeologists. The dictionary also contains words that are absolutely necessary for communication in the field (i.e. names of tools, ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.50
Concise Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary
edited by Joseph Aquilina
Prof. Joseph Aquilinas Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary in six volumes was published between 1987 and 2000. Since then, a number of the published are no longer used in the spoken language. Moreover, a number of new words have been introduced and are regularly used by the majority of the Maltese. The aim of this Concise Maltese-English-Maltese Dictionary is to help students, translators and the general day-to-day speaker. 1200p (Midsea Books ...
Hardback. Reprinting - orders recorded. Price GB £34.00
Dictionary for Financial Services: English-Maltese, Maltese-English
edited by Carlo Farrugia
The dictionary is a useful tool for translators of financial services documents and a source of information for anyone interested in financial terminology. 168p (Midsea Books 2006)
Paperback. Price GB £13.50
Redifining Regional French: Koineization and Dialect Levelling in Northern France
by David Hornsby
This study challenges the orthodox view that emergent regional varieties of French represent no more than an ephemeral dialect residue of little theoretical interest. It follows the life cycle of an obsolescent urban Picard variety, spoken in a mining town in the Pas-de-Calais, and attempts to unravel the complex reasons behind the survival of some local variants at the expense of others. Applying a sociolinguistic model developed by Peter ...
Hardback. 'Reprint under consideration' - in practice this may mean that the book goes out of print, but orders will be recorded. Price GB £45.00
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