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This volume presents a selection of papers from the «3rd International Conference on Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages» that was held in 2014 at the University of Surrey, Guildford (UK). The papers in section one deal with the theoretical aspects of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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The literature on translation and technology has generally taken two forms: general overviews, in which the tools are described, and functional descriptions of how such tools and technologies are implemented in specific projects, often with a view to improving the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-31
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This book investigates the changes that affected vowel length during the development of Latin into the Romance languages and dialects. In Latin, vowel length was contrastive (e.g. pila 'ball' vs. pila 'pile', like English bit vs. beat), but no modern Romance language...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-31
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This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014). It provides a comprehensive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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This volume offers insights on experimental and empirical research in theoretical linguistic issues of negation and polarity, focusing on how negation is marked and how negative polarity is emphatic and how it interacts with double negation. Metalinguistic negation and...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-28
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The book examines the changing relationship between minority languages and language policy and planning in the context of globalization, through an examination of the Irish language context. It demonstrates how localized practices are involved in the refashioning of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
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Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-27
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Das Buch befasst sich mit Deutschlands bekanntestem Literaturkritiker: Mit Marcel Reich-Ranicki betrat 1958 ein Akteur die literarische Bühne der BRD, der bis dahin kaum über Kontakte zum westdeutschen literarischen Feld verfügte. Dennoch gelang es ihm innerhalb von nur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-24
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This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development. It introduces and justifies a range of theoretical and methodological innovations, discusses some of the problems that come with these...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-07-24
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Internationalisation has had a forceful impact on universities across the Anglophone world. This book reviews what we know about interaction in the Anglophone university classroom, describes the challenges students and tutors face, and illustrates how they can overcome...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-07-22
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This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-21
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The present volume, Current Approaches to Discourse and Translation Studies, presents innovative theoretical models and applications of the two disciplines in intercultural contexts.The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics offers a platform to scholars who...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
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This superb guide teaches you how to read critically. Its no-nonsense, practical approach uses a specially developed reading code to help you read articles for your research project; this simple code enables you to decipher journal articles structurally, mechanically...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at which they are evaluated. It offers a precise conception of truth and a clear diagnosis of the Liar and Grelling...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Cross-Media Promotion is the first book-length study of a defining feature of contemporary media, the promotion by media of their allied media interests. The book explores the range of forms of cross-promotion including synergistic marketing of mega-brands such as Harry...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Humanitarianism, Communications and Change is the first book to explore humanitarianism in today’s rapidly changing media and communications environment. Based on the latest academic thinking alongside a range of professional, expert and insider views, the book brings...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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This book breaks fresh ground in the interpretation of the Apocalypse with an interdisciplinary methodology called aural-performance criticism that assesses how the first-century audience would have heard the Apocalypse. First-century media culture is probed by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Grounded in path-breaking research but written in an accessible, engaging style Moral Talk Across the Lifespan explores how our most fundamental moral commitments are shaped by crucial conversations with family members, romantic partners, and friends. Taking a lifespan...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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L’histoire récente consacre le passage de la censure étatique directe à des formes intériorisées d’autocensure. Le sujet n’en reste pas moins d’actualité, y compris dans les démocraties occidentales où on assiste à des demandes émanant de groupes religieux pour faire...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-07-20
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This book takes a corpus-based approach, which integrates translation studies and contrastive analysis, to the study of translational language. It presents the world’s first balanced corpus of translational Chinese, which, in combination with a comparable native Chinese...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-07-16
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