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  • Authors: Leo Jones (2005)

  • Welcome! is an intermediate level course for people who need to use or who are preparing to use English in their day-to-day work in the tourism, hospitality and travel industries. Welcome! is for people working or planning to work in the tourism, hospitality and travel industries. The core language skills are developed through a wide range of work-related tasks. Particular emphasis is placed on realistic and integrated communication tasks which give students the opportunity to build confidence and improve fluency. The second edition includes updated content, extensive practice in writing emails and further communication activities aimed specifically at busy professionals

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  • Authors: Andy Kirkpatrick (2020)

  • The Routledge Handbook of World Englishes constitutes a comprehensive introduction to the study of World Englishes. Split into six sections with 40 contributions, this Handbook discusses how English is operating in a wide range of fields from business to popular culture and from education to new literatures in English and its increasing role as an international lingua franca.

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  • Authors: Mona Baker (2018)

  • The third edition has been fully revised to refl ect recent developments in the field and includes a new chapter that engages with the interplay between verbaland visual elements in genres as varied as children’s literature, comics, film, poetry and advertisements.This key text remains the essential coursebook for any student of translation studies.

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  • Authors: Cate Farrall (2008)

  • Professional English in Use Marketing provides specialist vocabulary reference and practice for marketing professionals, as well as business and marketing students.

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  • Authors: George Yule (1996)

  • This book outlines pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. Basic concepts such as the cooperative principle, deixis, and speech acts are explained and illustrated, providing readers with an ideal foundation for further study.

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  • Authors: Andy Kirkpatrick (2012)

  • Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes the differing language education policies of selected countries that also include Indonesia, Japan and Sri Lanka. Noting ASEAN’s adoption of English as its sole working language, it traces the influence of globalization on English language education in Asia: in many systems, it pushes local languages off the curriculum and is taught as a second language after the national one

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  • Authors: Mildred L. Larson (1997)

  • Meaning-Based Translation is designed for training beginning translators and organized chapter by chapter as drill material for the textbook Meaning-Based Translation. The textbook emphasizes the importance of a translation being accurate, clear and natural and the exercises give the student practice in achieving this goal. The exercises follow closely the content of the textbook since this is a drill manual for added practice. The textbook has some exercises as well, but the workbook provides additional practice from one basic source, thus giving students a wider variety of problems to solve during practice time. It also provides material that can be used as homework or as testing material.