Youth-orientated social networking sites, like MySpace, are important venues for socialising
and identity expression. Analysing such sites can, therefore, provide a timely insight into …

This theoretical paper addresses the (im) politeness of swear words. The primary objective
is to account for their nature and functions in anonymous Internet communication …

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities,
has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing …

This book explores translation of feminism in China through examining several Chinese
translations of two typical feminist works: The Second Sex (TSS, Beauvoir 1949/1952) and …

Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009 Traditional
distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being …

The 'narrative turn'in theatre has allowed the 'storytelling movement'to burst its banks on to
the stage. Tom Maguire's book skilfully reveals how this has seeded a new mode of …

Desi Divas: Political Activism in South Asian American Cultural Performances is the product
of five years of field research with progressive activists associated with the School for Indian …

The notion of 'translation as adaptation and selection'was first proposed by Hu Gengshen in
2001 with reference to the Darwinian principles of adaptation and selection. Based on …

Relay translation is generally understood as the translation of a translated text, spoken or
written, into a third language (St. André 2009, 230). It has been widely used in intercultural …

In recent years, a growing group of scholars has begun to draw upon queer theory as they
research aspects of LGBTQ folk performances and texts from around the globe. In the …