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This book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on the body. By drawing attention to the body's ability to simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the object-subject...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-10
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour ultimate guide to the art of winning arguments, in a brand new editionEveryone is always trying to persuade us of something: politicians, advertising, the media, and most definitely our families. Thank You for Arguing is your master...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new regimes of research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the ‘nation’ as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-05
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This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-04
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This book is a philosophical exploration of the theoretical causes behind the collapse of classical cybernetics, as well as the lesson that this episode can provide to current emergent technologies. Alcibiades Malapi-Nelson advances the idea that the cybernetic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-03
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This book explores the responses of Chinese English teachers (CETs) and learners to the Native English-Speaking Teacher/Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST/NNEST) issue by examining the self-perceptions of Chinese English teachers, the perceptions of Chinese...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-02
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This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles. The current volume pays special attention to underrepresented languages of different status...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-30
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This book contextualizes the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with a particular focus on the professional and academic identity and role of the EAP practitioner. The authors examine previously neglected areas such as the socio-economic, academic and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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The Handbook of Technology and Second Language Teaching and Learning presents a comprehensive exploration of the impact of technology on the field of second language learning.The rapidly evolving language-technology interface has propelled dramatic changes in, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-28
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This volume explores how linguistic research can support the teaching and learning of Chinese as a second language. It responds to a rapidly growing interest in the Chinese language all over the world, and answers the need for a strong research background for the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-23
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Haunting Hands looks closely at the consequences of digital media's ubiquitous presence in our lives, in particular the representing, sharing, and remembering of loss. From Facebook tribute pages during public disasters to the lingering digital traces on a smartphone of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-23
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Der Band bietet eine fundierte Untersuchung neuer Darstellungsformen zur Hintergrundinformation im stationären und mobilen Internet. Dabei werden sowohl die Nutzererwartungen, die Rezeptionsvorgänge, die Produktionsbedingungen als auch die Angebote im Journalismus und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-06-23
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This volume takes a variety of approaches to the question 'what is a word?', with particular emphasis on where in the grammar wordhood is determined. Chapters in the book all start from the assumption that structures at, above, and below the 'word' are built in the same...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-22
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The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities.The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-20
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This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-16
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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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This volume offers theoretical and descriptive perspectives on the issues pertaining to ergativity, a grammatical patterning whereby direct objects are in some way treated like intransitive subjects, to the exclusion of transitive subjects.This pattern differs markedly...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-13
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