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Teaching pragmatics, that is, language in use, is one of the most difficult and consequently neglected tasks in many English as a Second Language classrooms. This Element aims to address a gap in the scholarly debate about Shakespeare and pedagogy, combining pragmatic considerations about how to approach Shakespeare's language today in ESL classes, and practical applications in the shape of ready-made lesson plans for both university and secondary school students. Its originality consists in both its structure and the methodology adopted. Three main sections cover different aspects of pragmatics: performative speech acts, discourse markers, and (im)politeness strategies. Each section is introduced by an overview of the topic and state of the art, then details are provided about how to approach Shakespeare's plays through a given pragmatic method. Finally, an example of an interactive, ready-made lesson plan is provided.

The success of popular webcomics is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. After defining digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, this Element presents a case study of Korean platform WEBTOON, which achieved 100 billion global page views in 2019. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This two-volume reference set, covering the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, provides a comprehensive description of the evolution and diversity of the arborescent gymnosperms, illustrated with distribution maps, form silhouettes and a wealth of colour plates. Invaluable to researchers in palaeobotany, geobiology and evolutionary biology.

This two-volume reference set, covering the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, provides a comprehensive description of the evolution and diversity of the arborescent gymnosperms, illustrated with distribution maps, form silhouettes and a wealth of colour plates. Invaluable to researchers in palaeobotany, geobiology and evolutionary biology.

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance. Challenging conventional views of ineffective African states, Sigman develops a nuanced understanding of 'good governance' in Africa.

In the past decade, feminist scholars and women's rights activists have used the feminist judgment method to reimagine the relationship between law and gender justice, resulting in rewritten 'feminist' judgments from courts around the world. This groundbreaking book extends this approach and applies it to a wide range of decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based court with power to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression in over 120 countries. With over 60 contributors from the Global North and Global South, including countries where the ICC has been active, this book reflects an international and intersectional feminism. Diverse contributions reveal the gendered implications of crimes (both sexual and non-sexual), command responsibility, defences, complementarity, head of state immunity, sentencing, reparations and more. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

This book is written for life scientists and science communicators to help them create more effective visuals for non-specialists in popular science communication. Accessible and concise, this is a useful guide for students, general readers and anyone who creates visuals in popular science communication.

Challenging assumptions regarding authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society.

This book introduces a powerful selection of methodologies and approaches for constructing models from data from various domains from statistics to complexity science. This book uses the estimation of multivariate probabilities as a frame of reference for the entire domain, from linear regressions to deep learning neural networks.

"Examining the classical N-body problem, this book demonstrates that the field is still vibrant, exploring four of the big open questions. It describes the progress made, emphasizing open areas of research. For mathematicians, physicists, and astronomers curious about the N-body problem, this book presents the state of the art"--

Focusing on the Mandombe alphabet and the life-story of its inventor, David Wabeladio Payi, Ramon Sarró combines biography, art, and religion to explore the connections between religious imagination and innovation in Kongo culture. He offers a unique case study of the search for cultural and epistemological independence in the global south.

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged with race in sometimes explicit and sometimes less obvious ways. Combining academic rigor with accessibility, the contributors present non-specialists with a rich picture of this key moment in the literary and cultural history of race.

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged with race in sometimes explicit and sometimes less obvious ways. Combining academic rigor with accessibility, the contributors present non-specialists with a rich picture of this key moment in the literary and cultural history of race.

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.

An innovative and exciting introduction to one of the most influential and controversial ancient authors. Explores Lucian's major contributions to the history of satire, comic dialogues, religion, art, and erotics against the background of the cultural politics of the Greek world in the Roman Empire.

This guide offers a unique perspective on optimizing data processing which blends hardware and software insights, combining theoretical foundations with practical applications. It is a must-read for students and professionals needing to master the synergies between data management and computing infrastructure.

How do we talk meaningfully about sacrality in contexts where conventional religious engagement has so often lost its power? This important interdisciplinary volume teaches us that the idea of the sacred takes on new potency when fully engaged with the creativity that happens across religion, literature, philosophy and the arts.