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Where East Looks West
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 49.95The aim of this text to explain the constant success in the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) of speakers of the Indian language, Konkani, who live in Goa and to the south of Goa. more...
Languages in America
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 39.95This text tackles the controversial language issues facing an increasingly diverse nation. Highlighting the roles the non-English language have had in American history, it offers a cogent argument against language restrictionism. more...
Making Sense in Sign
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 34.95Words were not enough for Tom; it was signs that made sense of a world silenced by meningitis. This work is an account by a woman of how her son contracted meningitis and of the deafness that resulted. It offers a discussion of the issues surrounding deafness from a parental viewpoint. more...
Understanding Deaf Culture
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 49.95This text presents a "Traveller's Guide" to deaf culture, starting from the premise that deaf cultures have an important contribution to make to other academic disciplines, and human lives in general. more...
Managing Educational Tourism
Multilingual Matters 2003; US$ 30.00Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral component, including cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. The growth of offshore education and lifelong learning has stimulated cross-border movement for language... more...
English in Africa
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 29.95This text offers a critical examination of aspects of the politics of the role of English in Africa and its Diaspora. It looks at its changed location in the post-Cold War era and the challenges it poses to the enduring quest for intellectual liberation, pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity. more...
The Global Nomad
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. more...
Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95In what ways does tourism change the host community? This book offers insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalization. more...
Urban Multilingualism in Europe
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 44.95The final outcome of the Multilingual Cities Project, this book offers multidisciplinary, crossnational and crosslinguistic perspectives on the status of immigrant minority languages at home and school in a dominant Germanic or Romance environment. more...
Vernacular Palaver
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 49.95Vernacular Palaver examines the continuing appeal of the idea of the 'local' for cultural brokers in West Africa, even in instances where they have a growing interaction with diverse global and continental languages of wider communication. more...









