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This book presents the latest work in the field of complementation studies. Leading scholars and upcoming researchers in the area approach complementation from various perspectives and different frameworks, such as Cognitive Grammar and construction grammars, to offer a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
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This book discusses the impact of spectral features extracted from frame level, glottal closure regions, and pitch-synchronous analysis on the performance of language identification systems. In addition to spectral features, the authors explore prosodic features such as...
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Springer
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2015-03-31
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The second edition of the highly successful Handbook of Discourse Analysis has been expanded and thoroughly updated to reflect the very latest research to have developed since the original publication, including new theoretical paradigms and discourse-analytic models,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-03-30
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Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Die Beiträge dieses Buches untersuchen verschiedene Fragestellungen zu religiösen Bezügen in nicht-religiöser Sprache, etwa in Redewendungen, Ortsnamen, Ökonomie-Diskursen oder politischer Rhetorik, und zu nicht-(nur-)religiösen Konstruktionen in religiöser Sprache,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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From mobile phones to surveillance cameras, from fracking to genetically modified food, we live in an age of intense debate about technology’s place in our culture. Culture and Technology is an essential guide to that debate and its fascinating history. It is a primer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-26
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The impact of globalization is widespread, affecting every sector of society, and the Church is not immune from such influence. Churches are awakening to diversifying pews and finding it difficult to insist on strict homogeneity. This shift in congregational composition...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Diese Untersuchung zeigt, wie sich TextproduzentInnen beim Verfassen eines Textes an ihrem Leser orientieren, wie sie die Planung, Formulierung und Überarbeitung ihres Textes auf einen spezifischen Adressaten zuschneiden. Bei der kontrastiven Analyse dreier...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Onur Bazarkaya befasst sich mit der Person Wolfgang Koeppens, dessen literarisches Werk von einer starken, durch lange Publikationspausen bedingten Disparität gekennzeichnet ist. Er fragt nach der Autorenrolle, die Koeppen in der Literatur nach 1945 gespielt hat und die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-26
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE AND PERFORM STAND UP COMEDY.A new edition of Be A Great Stand-Up, now fully revised and updated with new material on setting up and running a comedy night and mining almost any subject for jokes.Logan Murray has successfully taught the techniques of...
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Teach Yourself
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Learn how to write comedy that makes people laugh.Masterclass: Writing Comedy will reveal to both beginners and experienced writers the distinctive features that mark out comedy from other forms of creative writing. Having identified these, it will help you then to...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2015-03-26
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Why literally shouldn't be taken literally.Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What's wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic? Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-26
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This book investigates the phenomenon of control structures, configurations in which the subject of the embedded clause is missing and is construed as coreferential with the subject of the embedding clause (e.g. John wanted to leave). It draws on data from English,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-26
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This book examines this contested relationship between assessment and autonomy from a number of perspectives in a variety of Higher Education language-learning contexts in Europe and the Far East. The contributors to the book describe research into assessment both for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-25
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This book discusses the way Chinese scholars developed a national grammar. Chinese didn’t develop grammar until China’s contact with Western grammar books in the 19th Century. The first indigenous grammar was published in 1889. It included some traditional notions, but...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-03-23
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This book explores communication between humans and robots. Using a range of communication theories, it highlights how each theory provides a different perspective on the communication that occurs. The analysis of human interactions with a variety of forms of robot...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-03-20
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This book examines the nature of the interface between word meaning and syntax, one of the most controversial and elusive issues in contemporary linguistics. It approaches the interface from both sides of the relation, and surveys a range of views on the mapping between...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-20
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Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, from Plato and Aristotle, through the Stoics, to medieval thinkers, both Islamic and Christian; from the Renaissance and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-03-19
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La ricerca sistematizza le modalità di presentazione del sapere specialistico in linguistica. Si esplorano le forme del saggio e dell’articolo nelle riviste linguistiche moderne.La metodologia applicata combina la retorica con l’analisi dei generi del discorso. Le...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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This book sheds new light on the relationship between conservative Christianity and Hollywood through a case study of Walden Media, which produced The Chronicles of Narnia franchise. Financed by a conservative Christian, Walden Media is a unique American company...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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In seinem neuen Buch vermittelt der Autor mit historisch-soziologischem und zugleich naturwissenschaftlichem Zugriff die grundlegenden Funktionsweisen menschlichen Gesellschaftslebens. Dessen Entstehung und Funktionieren führt er an konkreten Beispielen aus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-03-16
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