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The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In How English Became English Simon Horobin investigates the evolution of the English language,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-28
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This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book explores what makes a book readable by bringing together the relevant literature and theories, and situating them within a unified account. It provides a single resource that offers a principled discussion of the issues and their applications.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings. The authors re-examine Wittgenstein’s fundamental insights into the workings of human linguistic behaviour, its creative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This collection of original articles covers a range of research connecting with the work of the eminent linguist Ruqaiya Hasan. It contains contributions from M.A.K. Halliday, G. Williams, D. Butt, D. Miller and M. Berry among others, an interview with Ruqaiya Hasan,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This book analyses the complex relationship between directness, indirectness, politeness and impoliteness. Definitions of directness and indirectness are discussed and problematised from a discursive theoretical perspective.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Die ersten «Stimmen aus dem Publikum» erscheinen bereits im 18. Jahrhundert. Dennoch bleibt der Leserbrief aus der textlinguistischen Sicht ein schillerndes und schwer zu fassendes Phänomen.Die Autorin setzt sich zum Ziel, diese Vielfalt aufzufangen und darzustellen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-01-22
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Newly updated, Gavin Reid's best-selling handbook remains an essential resource for those helping dyslexic individuals of all ages, from preschoolers to adults in the workplace. Combines theoretical explanations, the latest research, and practical solutions with a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-21
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After 40 years of Cold War, NATO found itself intervening in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, where the ability to communicate with local people was essential to the success of the missions. This book explains how the Alliance responded to this challenge so...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-20
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This is the fully revised and expanded second edition of English - One Tongue, Many Voices, a book by three internationally distinguished English language scholars who tell the fascinating, improbable saga of English in time and space. Chapters trace the history of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-19
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Public speaking and presenting rank in the top ten of people's greatest fears. Yet being able to speak coherently and persuasively in a speech, seminar or meeting room is important when progressing our careers and living our lives to the fullest.In this book, 37 pithy,...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This book aims to develop a framework for a fully explanatory theory of speech production and speech perception. It emphasises the difference between static models (primarily descriptive) and dynamic models that attempt to show how the basic linguistics and phonetics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-13
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Futures for English Studies brings together chapters by leading writers across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language, and creative writing) are located institutionally in higher education and to explore...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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This book investigates the ways in which new developments in areas of language teaching practice, such policymaking, planning, methodology and the use of educational technology spread globally and are adopted, rejected or adapted locally.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we don't. In fact, it argues that in some special contexts, we can lie.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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This book is at the very heart of linguistics. It provides the theoretical and methodological framework needed to create a successful linguistic project. Potential applications of descriptive linguistics include spell-checkers, intelligent search engines, information...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2016-01-11
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