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Table of Contents: “…Evolution in language studies -- Development of an annotation tool for reading in an online environment -- Online self-presentation and impression management (SPIM) among Malaysian tertiary level students on Facebook -- Website localisation analysis: translation and perspective -- Women's language in online communication environment -- Gender, empowerment and the digital domain: a case study of young Malaysian Indian woman entrepreneurs -- Speech acts in ESL classroom discourse -- Locale, class size and teaching experience: how they impact on students' performance -- Acquiring specialised vocabulary in a food writing course -- The variations of Dao in Malaysian mandarin: a study of grammaticalization -- The use of hedges to realize politeness in Arab EFL students' spoken discourse -- Heterogeneity and the sociolinguistic environment of Malaysian Indian literature -- Manglish cyborgs: paranoia, optimism and the cultural evolution of cyberpunk…”

The land of stories an author's odyssey by Colfer, Chris