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This book explores the formative role of mobilities in the production of our close relationships, proposing that the tracks—both literal and figurative— we lay down in the process play a crucial role in generating and sustaining intimacy. Working with diaries, journals...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-09
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Examines the widespread phenomenon of poor literacy skills in adults across the globe This handbook presents a wide range of research on adults who have low literacy skills. It looks at the cognitive, affective, and motivational factors underlying adult literacy; adult...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2019-08-09
Collection :
Wiley Handbooks in Education
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This book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a wide comparable web corpus, the book investigates how discourse markers work in discourse, and compares their differences of position,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-08
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This book provides a research-led guide to public speaking in English, using the foundations of applied linguistics research to analyse elements of spoken presentation, including content, form, persona and audience interaction. The author also introduces and analyses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-06
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This book presents research into various types of professional discourse through the prism of the functional linguistics approach. Focusing mainly on practical aspects of speech, the book discusses various topics, such as structural, semantic, cognitive and pragmatic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Had you said "What a guy!" in 17th-century England, anyone would have understood you were admiring a flaming effigy of Guy Fawkes of the Gunpowder Treason Plot.
How times have changed! In America and, indeed, most of the English-speaking world, "guy" is so embedded in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-06
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Four practice exam papers to test pupils ahead of the GL 11+ Verbal Reasoning test, includingthose taking bespoke tests created by GL for individual schools. The papers are designed to:- Develop and perfect exam technique for GL 11+ Verbal Reasoning tests- Teach pupils...
Editeur :
Galore Park
Parution :
2019-08-05
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Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches toChinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-05
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This is the first book to apply multimedia tools to economic and business storytelling. By examining the journalism essentials as well as the advanced multimedia skills, it helps readers use the latest technological tools to integrate multimedia elements into...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-08-02
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This edited book examines the crucial role still played by African languages in pedagogy and literatures in the 21st century, generating insights into how they effectively serve cultural needs across the African continent and beyond. Boldly positioning African languages...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-08-02
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On Goodness attempts to answer the question "What is goodness?" It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to ethics. Water and wine, a strategy for streamlining maintenance operations, and an oil painting may all be good and in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-08-01
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“This book provides a significant contribution to the discursive analysis of service encounters. It demonstrates, in a very elegant way and based on a solid empirical investigation, how mediated discourse analysis may be enacted to describe and understand the social and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Four practice exam papers to test pupils ahead of the GL 11+ English test, including the bespoke tests created by GL for individual schools. They cover comprehension, spelling, punctuation and grammar, as well as writing. The papers are designed to:- Develop and perfect...
Editeur :
Galore Park
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book focuses on the representation of the Gaeltacht in the Irish press. It examines texts from a key moment in the history of Irish journalism, namely the decade between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (1895-1905). Newspapers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-29
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These four practice exam papers test pupils ahead of CEM 11+ English tests. They cover comprehension, spelling, grammar and cloze, and include writing tasks for those taking bespoke papers by CEM for individual schools. The papers are designed to:- Develop and perfect...
Editeur :
Galore Park
Parution :
2019-07-22
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Da keine Sprache ein konstantes Phänomen ist, ändert sich ständig auch die Fachsprache. Ihr Wortschatz wird erweitert, die Wörter ändern ihre Bedeutung oder verschwinden. Besonders wichtig sind Verständlichkeit und Eindeutigkeit von medizinischen Fachwörtern, weil...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-07-19
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This book addresses eye movements and gestures as markers of language comprehension and production in interpreting as the "visible embodiment" of cognitive processing in simultaneous and consecutive interpreting. It discusses conference interpreting as a complex,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-07-15
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Ursula Alexandra Ohliger untersucht Kennzeichen und den Wandel der Politikberichterstattung im deutschen Boulevardjournalismus seit den 1950er Jahren. Dabei widmet sich die Autorin der Frage, inwiefern sich die gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozesse innerhalb des...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-12
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Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Das Buch untersucht den griechischen Begriff des „polemos“, der die Spaltung der Gesellschaften und Öffentlichkeiten in rivalisierende, gewalttätige Parteien bezeichnet. Es zeigt das neue feindselige Paradigma der Öffentlichkeit, das nicht mehr auf die akklamatorische...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-09
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