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This volume is dedicated to Leo Esakia's contributions to the theory of modal and intuitionistic systems. Consisting of 10 chapters, written by leading experts, this volume discusses Esakia’s original contributions and consequent developments that have helped to shape...
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Springer
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2014-06-03
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The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics addresses the interface between the two disciplines and offers a platform to scholars who combine both methodologies to present rigorous and interdisciplinary findings about language in real use. Corpus linguistics and...
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Springer
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2014-06-02
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The origins of this volume lie in the international conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012, convened by the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association.The proceedings of the conference revolved around three major thematic areas: metaphorical and metonymic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-30
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Diese Studie widmet sich aus verfassungsrechtlicher Perspektive den Unternehmensbeteiligungen politischer Parteien im Medienbereich. Es wird der Frage nach der Vereinbarkeit solcher Beteiligungen mit dem Grundgesetz nachgegangen. Dies erfolgt aufgefächert in die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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This book presents an empirical approach to virtual communication. Based on the socio-cultural arguments of the postmodern paradigm, it demonstrates the necessity of analyzing the media pedagogy concept, both epistemologically and praxiologically. The concept of media...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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Der Gedanke an das Sterben ist meist von Ängsten und Unsicherheiten geprägt. Dank der Fortschritte in der modernen Medizin ist es in vielen Fällen möglich geworden, die letzte Phase des Lebens künstlich zu verlängern. Gleichzeitig bieten (teils kommerzielle)...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-05-30
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This book brings together different perspectives on ELT materials from a range of international contexts and a variety of educational settings. All the chapters are underpinned by sound theoretical principles while addressing practical concerns and debates in materials...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book presents an account of object shift, a word order phenomenon found in most of the Scandinavian languages where an object occurs unexpectedly to the left and not to the right of a sentential adverbial. With new and original observations, it is an important...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-05-30
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This book examines diachronic change and diversity in the morphosyntax of Romance varieties spoken in Italy. These varieties offer an especially fertile terrain for research into language change, because of both the richness of dialectal variation and the length of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-29
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This work investigates the development of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ generic competence in reading, writing and translation within the particular Chinese classroom context. It provides a new perspective for the current teaching and research in...
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Springer
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2014-05-28
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One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer's English...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-05-22
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SCIENCE MASTERS
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The state of acquiring more than one language as a child or an adult is not the exception; it is rather an everyday reality for a quite substantial part of today’s society. This book explores the phenomenon of code-switching within the field of child bilingualism from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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This book contains selected papers from the meetings «To think the Identity» and «Identities on the move» held in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida) during 2010. The aim is to understand the reasons that allow social cohesion...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-20
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The book is one of the few in-depth investigations into the nature of EU legal translation and its impact on national legal languages. It is also the first attempt to characterise EU Polish, a language of supranational law and a hybrid variant of legal Polish emerging...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-05-13
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By analysing the folk stories and personal narratives of a cross-section of Palestinians, Sirhan offers a detailed study of how content and sociolinguistic variables affect a narrator's language use and linguistic behaviour. This book will be of interest to anyone...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-13
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Strategies of Representation in Auto/biography investigates how selves are represented and reconstructed in selected auto/biographical readings from African literary discourse. It examines how such representations confirm, validate, interrogate and pervade conversations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-13
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In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well.In Simply English he offers an entertaining and supremely useful A–Z guide to frequent errors, common misunderstandings and stylistic howlers. What is the difference...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2014-05-08
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This book examines how autonomy in language learning is fostered and constrained in social settings through interaction with others and various contextual features. With theoretical grounding, the authors discuss the implications for practice in classrooms, distance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-05-06
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There is a significant amount of research that substantiates the connection between social support/relationships and the development, onset, and/or recovery of several physical diseases/illnesses. Research has shown, for example, that an unhappy marriage can increase...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-05-05
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English in Europe is not one but many, and substantial differences in the way people from different countries communicate using it may cause misunderstandings. This book shows that, through research into the pragmatic behaviour of non-native speakers ofEnglish from...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-05-03
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