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Multilingual Matters is an international independent publishing house, with lists in the areas of bilingualism, second/foreign language learning, sociolinguistics, translation, interpreting and books for parents. We also publish a newsletter for parents, The Bilingual Family Newsletter. Our recent innovations include a new textbook series.

Channel View Publications publishes books on tourism and environmental studies. There are also four book series: Aspects of Tourism, Tourism and Cultural Change and Climate Change, Economies and Society and a newly launched textbook series.

Latest Books

The Sociolinguistic Competence of Immersion Students
	Reports the findings of a research project on the acquisition of the native norms of spoken French variation by French immersion students who have learnt their second language primarily in an educational context. This book discusses pedagogical strategies to improve the students' mastery of spoken French variation.

Author: Raymond Mougeon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781847692382 List Price: £24.95 Our Price: £19.96 US List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $39.96

Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls Being 'half' in Japan
	Presents an examination of half-Japanese girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied 'hybrid' identities.

Author: Laurel D. Kamada Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781847692320 List Price: £24.95 Our Price: £19.96 US List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $39.96

Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Perspectives on SLA
	Demonstrates the ways in which the developments in non-invasive techniques of brain monitoring allow researchers to test hypothesis related to biological foundations of language acquisition. This book offers psycholinguistic modelling of a number of components of second language competence.

Editor: Janusz Arabski Binding: Hardback ISBN: 9781847692412 List Price: £49.95 Our Price: £39.96 US List Price: $89.95 Our Price: $71.96

Re-Investing Authenticity Tourism, Place and Emotions
	Re-thinks and re-invests in the notion of authenticity as a surplus of experiential meaning and feeling that derives from what we do at/in places. This work examines contemporary performances of authenticity in travel and tourism practices: from cultural place branding to individual pilgrim performances.

Editor: Britta Timm Knudsen Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781845411275 List Price: £29.95 Our Price: £23.96 US List Price: $54.95 Our Price: $43.96

Tourism, Power and Culture Anthropological Insights
	Tourism as an experience and an industry is infused by culture in its various dimensions, and influenced throughout by relationships of power. This work explores issues such as terrorism, ethnicity and World Heritage Sites, and the role of the analysis of power in tourism studies.

Editor: Donald MacLeod Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781845411244 List Price: £24.95 Our Price: £19.96 US List Price: $49.95 Our Price: $39.96

The Experiences of Film Location Tourists
	While most research has focused on the tourism-inducing effects of film productions, not much has been written about the film location tourists themselves. This book examines the on-site experiences of these tourists by drawing from various disciplines, including geography, sociology and psychology.

Author: Stefan Roesch Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781845411206 List Price: £29.95 Our Price: £23.96 US List Price: $54.95 Our Price: $43.96

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