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This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life. N. J. Enfield draws on semantic and pragmatic case studies from his extensive...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-19
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This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use. It focuses on cooperation in language use and on how considerations of reliability influence what is done with the information...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-12-18
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Can linguistic pragmatics be developed without the need to formulate rules, criteria or maxims? The author argues that rules as they have been conceived of within pragmatics, particularly speech act theory, are limiting and out of step with the linguistic science of...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-15
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This book provides an important discussion of the conceptual and practical interconnections between international public relations and public diplomacy. Written by some of the leading thinkers in both disciplines, the volume provides key lessons regarding global...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-15
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This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore's literature, music,...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-15
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This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and interviews with teachers in conversation schools and universities in Japan, to explore many current concerns around teacher identity, gender, and intercultural sexuality in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
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This volume is an up-to-date account of communication theories from around the world. Authored by a group of eminent scholars, each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major issues in international communication theory. While the book draws...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Despite the widely recognized toll of tobacco and increasing action to curb tobacco use (e.g., increased excise taxes, smoking bans), smoking continues. Numerous messages about tobacco, smoking, and health circulate throughout society, but in spite of the prevalence of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Hybridisierung und Ausdifferenzierung sind zwei Prozesstypen, die für die massenmediale Textsortengeschichte von grundlegender Bedeutung sind: So werden für ein Medium neue Textmuster nicht von Grund auf neu entwickelt, sondern es werden oftmals Merkmale bereits...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Humour found in audiovisual products is, of course, performative in nature. If we consider instances of humour – any droll moment occurring in today’s fare of mixed-genre products as a composite of cognition, emotion, interaction and expression – we see that the verbal...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Hitler’s regime invested heavily into radio as the most modern media of its era. First in Germany, later in Austria and the Sudetenland, Joseph Goebbels motivated his Volksgenossen to become active radio listeners. But what approach did the regime take to the first...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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Die Studie untersucht erstmals judenfeindliche Äußerungen im Reichstag der Weimarer Republik und weist nach, dass Antisemitismus ein relevantes Deutungsmuster darstellte. Aus zahlreichen Beispielen der Themenfelder Ostjudendebatten, Barmat-Skandal und Reparationen sowie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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«Describing Who?» reveals the significance of photographs taken in contemporary Poland by professional American, French and Israeli Jewish photographers. Writing critically from the vantage point of her Polish and Jewish background, Joanna Auron-Górska argues that while...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-09
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL WITH THIS COMPLETE, PRACTICAL COURSE.Designed to take you from the moment you first put pen to paper right through to the process of contacting publishers (or uploading an ebook file) and promoting your book, this is the most important book on...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2014-12-05
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This book focuses on the semantic phenomenon of evaluativity and its consequences across constructions. Evaluativity has traditionally been associated exclusively with the positive construction, a term for sentences with a gradable adjective but with no overt degree...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-12-04
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These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning. This linguistic ethnographic study of language attitudes and identities in...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-12-04
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This book brings together the voices of teacher educators working in different national and educational settings. It Covers themes such as change in teacher education practices, the influences of context on practice, and of interculturality, to provide rich insights...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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This volume advances our understanding of how word structure in terms of affix ordering is organized in the languages of the world. A central issue in linguistic theory, affix ordering receives much attention amongst the research community, though most studies deal with...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-12-03
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The book presents the results of multi-parameter corpus research on Polish and English scientific discourses in the field of Linguistics. Highlighting the relevance of contextual variables (including time, culture, L1 vs. L2 language) in research framework, the study...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-12-02
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