Books published by Channel View Publications Ltd

This is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the broader resilience literature. The book examines resilience at individual, organisation and destination levels, and with respect to the wider tourism system. It is designed to be an upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate primer on resilience in tourism.

The aim of this book is to reflect on the effect of femininities in the field and the encountered biases specific to women researchers. The global case studies cover access, attire/conduct, sexual harassment, personal safety, and accompanied research/well-being. The volume is an essential guide for supervisors, students and researchers.

This book examines both specific issues and more general problems stemming from the interaction of religion, travel and tourism with hospitality and culture, as well as the implications for site management and interpretation. It explores pilgrimage along with issues and conflicts arising from the collision of religion, politics and tourism.

The aim of this book is to reflect on the effect of femininities in the field and the encountered biases specific to women researchers. The global case studies cover access, attire/conduct, sexual harassment, personal safety, and accompanied research/well-being. The volume is an essential guide for supervisors, students and researchers.

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over language, and detailing ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that often alienate those they were designed to support.

In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the authors develop a notion of Linguistic Citizenship, highlighting practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over language, and detailing ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that often alienate those they were designed to support.

Our language and gender have an enormous impact on how we understand ourselves and the world around us, and the way we are treated by society. Many popular ideas about gender and language are more complicated than they first appear. This book will change the way you think about language, and give you the tools to challenge the world around you.

This volume shares the results of research conducted within and across the complex nexus of language, religion and the internet. It identifies the dynamic and mobile ways religious practice and language interact online to modify, confirm, transform and consolidate linguistic resources and repertoires.

This book reports on the state of academic journal publishing in a range of geolinguistic contexts, including locations where pressures to publish in English have developed more recently than in other parts of the world (e.g. Kazakhstan, Colombia), in addition to contexts that have not been previously explored or well-documented.

This book reports on the state of academic journal publishing in a range of geolinguistic contexts, including locations where pressures to publish in English have developed more recently than in other parts of the world (e.g. Kazakhstan, Colombia), in addition to contexts that have not been previously explored or well-documented.

This book remains the most in-depth large-scale introductory text on ethics as applied to tourism. This new edition has been reworked and updated to take into account important works published since the first edition, including new references on ethics and tourism ethics, and to engage more with 20th century theorists in philosophy.

This book shows some of the ways in which audiovisual translation (AVT) can be approached from an academic, professional and educational point of view. The studies provide a stimulating and thought-provoking account of some of the themes that are currently being researched in the field of AVT, while also highlighting new directions of research.

This book brings together research on language learning among aging populations. Contributors discuss the issue from various psychological, neurological and pedagogical perspectives, challenge certain familiar preconceptions about older learners and offer the reader ideas for future research in this under-studied area.

Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use.

This book offers rich insights into the practice of community translation. Chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation, quality standards, training and the relationship between community translation as a professional practice and volunteer or crowd-sourced translation.

This book offers rich insights into the practice of community translation. Chapters outline the specific nature and challenges of community translation, quality standards, training and the relationship between community translation as a professional practice and volunteer or crowd-sourced translation.

This ethnographic study explores aspects of institutional bilingual education in the early childhood sector. It provides contemporary research on the provision and practice of language teaching in the pre-primary sector and sheds light on the reception of bilingual education as well as attitudes towards it.

The central importance of involving diverse stakeholders in effective sustainable tourism planning and management is increasingly recognised. Collaboration and partnerships are valuable ways of achieving this. Leading researchers and practitioners examine the processes, issues and politics involved in this new and fast growing field.

This book portrays a fresh approach to tourism. It argues for increased and radical change by the tourism industry and claims that this change is made necessary by the emergent sophistication and increased experience of tourists who require a different style of treatment and type of product.

This book explores the issues of the sociopolitical dimensions of English language teaching and how they are central to the English language professional. It presents these issues to practicing and aspiring teachers in order to raise awareness of the sociopolitical nature of English language teaching.

This book treats second language users in their own right rather than as failed native speakers. It describes a range of psychological and linguistic approaches to diverse topics about L2 users. It thus provides an innovative overview of current second language acquisition theories, results and methods, seen from a common perspective.

This book examines the challenges of educating students recently arrived from other countries, the children of immigrants, as well as historical 'minority groups'. It outlines the relevant theoretical background and provides detailed practical advice for teachers and school administrators in schools serving culturally diverse communities.

This book is a unique collection of research studies on French Immersion conducted from the authors' base as a research team in British Columbia, Canada. It serves as an important resource for educators and policymakers interested in the impact of immersion on educational policy, student outcomes, second language curriculum, and teacher education.

The starting point of this book is the idea that language is not neutral and that, insofar as language is the translator's tool, the act of translating is not neutral either. Translating can never be neutral, as it is charged with ideology and 'games of power'.

This book presents an exciting new perspective on the study of the lexicon, examining ways in which insights from translation and language learning can be viewed as complementary. It brings together research on the mental lexicon, SLA research, translation studies and practice, terminology, language teaching and lexicography.

This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. Students of French, international relations and sociolinguistics will find the book valuable.

This book is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language which addresses bilingual language development within families. It aims to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework and suitable methods for assessment and remediation. This book reports on progress in research and practice in a form accessible to professionals from a variety of backgrounds.

This book deals with the acquisition of understanding of foreign cultures and peoples. It is also a study of the philosophy and purpose of language teaching in all its facets, in the context of foreign language teaching in secondary education. It attempts to raise awareness of the full educational value of foreign language learning.

This book brings together a selection of Professor Fishman's writings on language and ethnicity in minority perspective. Joshua Fishman's well-known dedication to worldwide cultural democracy and cultural pluralism shines through all of these selections and unifies them philosophically as well as scientifically.