Fallacies in Medicine and Health: Critical Thinking, Argumentation and Communication

This book examines the ways in which arguments may be used and abused in medicine and health. The central claim is that a group of arguments known as the informal fallacies – including slippery slope arguments, fear appeal, and the argument from ignorance

Chinese Language Learning Sciences

This book series investigates several critical issues embedded in fundamental, technical, and applied research in the field of Chinese as second language (CSL) learning and teaching, including learning mechanism in the brain, technology application for teaching, learning and assessment.

Going to the Countryside: The Rural in Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915-1965

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth had often crossed the increasing gap between the city and the countryside, which made the act of “going to the countryside” a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China.

English for Business Communication

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals who are studying English for business or workplace communication and covers both spoken and written English.

培養中學生多源信息的多層次處理能力： 理論與實踐

本書為作者團隊完成的有關知識轉移（Knowledge Transfer）系列項目中的一項，力圖把學術研究成果回饋給是中國語文課程、教學與評估的革新；優質教育基金贊助了研究計劃「在完成綜合語文任務中培養中學生多源信息的多層次處理能力」(2016/0122)。

Brand China in the Media: Transformation of Identities

The book examines China’s identity transformations with a focus on self-perceptions and their representations and communication in the mass media. By considering the internal dynamics of change, it explores the emerging multi-faceted ‘China Brand’.

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere communities through Chinese language.

Time Series Analysis of Discourse. Method and Case Studies

This volume serves as a comprehensive introduction to Time Series Analysis (TSA), used commonly in financial and engineering sciences, to demonstrate its potential to complement qualitative approaches in discourse analysis research.

Speech and Language Therapy: A Primer

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to speech and language therapy. Students are introduced to the linguistic, medical, scientific and psychological disciplines that lie at the foundation of this health profession.

The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences: A Corpus and Discourse Approach

In this book, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more fundamental facet.