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Elizabeth Martin explores the impact of globalization on the language of French advertising, showing that English and global imagery play an important role in tailoring global campaigns to the French market, with media companies undeterred by the attempts through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-30
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The starting point for this collection is a chapter by Dick Allwright on the language learning and teaching classroom experience entitled Six Promising Directions in Applied Linguistics.The other distinguished contributors respond to this discussion with their own...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-30
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The authors examine the continuing poor relationship between boys and the study of foreign languages. Framed by discussion of gender socialization, gendered curriculum practices and cultural narratives about boys and schooling, the core of the book is constructed by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-29
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This book is simultaneously a theoretical study in morphosyntax and an in-depth empirical study of Hebrew. Based on Hebrew data, the book defends the status of the root as a lexical and phonological unit and argues that roots, rather than verbs or nouns, are the...
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Springer
Parution :
2005-11-27
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This book considers how languages have traditionally been divided into families, and asks how they should be classified in the future. It tests current theories and hypotheses, shows how new ideas can be formulated, and offers a series of demonstrations that the new...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-11-24
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This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words. It shows the insights this work offers on natural language processing and the relation between language, mind, and memory. Compounding is an easy and effective way to create and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-11-24
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Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, enquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation to the training...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-10
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Adopting a post-structuralist approach in analyzing the Euromosaic data about European minority language groups, Glyn Williams argues that different states construct minority language groups and speakers in different ways. This leads to an argument about the nature of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-10
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
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Paul Horwich, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers, develops in this book his highly original deflationary conception of language. His main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2005-11-10
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Janet Maybin investigates how 10-12 year-olds use talk and literacy to construct knowledge about their social worlds and themselves. She shows how children use collaborative verbal strategies, stories of personal experience and the reworked voices of others to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-01
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Applying insights from variationist linguistics to historical change mechanisms that have affected the consonantal system of English, Daniel Schreier reports findings from a historical corpus-based study on the reduction of particular consonant clusters and compares...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-01
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Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to Gricean pragmatics is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-10-31
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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In this important and pioneering book Frederick Newmeyer takes on the question of language variety. He considers why some language types are impossible and why some grammatical features are more common than others. The task of trying to explain typological variation...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-10-13
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This book is an exploration of the processes of change in English language teaching. In Part I the principles and strategies of change and factors affecting educational change are presented. Part II focuses on implementing change and looks at key implementation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-20
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This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-09-15
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A state of the art critical review of research into literature in language education of interest to teachers of English and of modern foreign languages. There are prompts and principles for those who wish to improve their own practice or to engage in projects or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-08
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The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2005-08-26
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In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other; and he gives us a deeper understanding...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-25
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Guiding the work of most linguists and philosophers of language today is the assumption that language is governed by prescriptive normative rules. Many believe that it is of the essence of thought itself to follow rules, rules of inference determining the intentional...
Editeur :
Clarendon Press
Parution :
2005-08-18
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In this outstanding collection of new work the methods and theories of formal syntax are focussed on grammatical variation and change. The editors open the volume with an extensive and accessible introduction to the ideas and techniques deployed in the book and the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-08-11
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