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Encourage a life-long love of reading with this Level 4 DK ReaderDiscover the awesome world of skating with the bright and colourful Skate! Meet Gus - the new kid at school. He usually makes friends easily by showing off his skating skills! But here it's different. Read...
Editeur :
Dk Children
Parution :
2013-11-01
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In the decade from 1951 to 1960, Damon Knight was the outstanding critic of science fiction books. Knight's reviews were not mere statements of his personal preferences - his skillful essays analysed the books and told why they were good or bad, to the edification of...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2013-10-31
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"Frei sprechen" ist ein Trainingsprogramm für Moderatoren in Radio und Fernsehen, für Pressesprecher und Politiker, Referenten, Professoren, Speaker, Lehrer, Studenten, Manager, Verkäufer oder Vereinsvorsitzende - für jeden, der öffentlich spricht. Frei sprechen im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Why are second language learners in Japan's universities so silent? This book investigates the perplexing but intriguing phenomenon of classroom silence and draws on ideas from psychology, sociolinguistics and anthropology to offer a unique insight into the reasons why...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
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Bringing together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, this book provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This book considers how people talk about their environment, find their way in new surroundings, and plan routes. Part I explores the empirical insights gained from research in the cognitive underpinnings of spatial representation in language. Part II proposes solutions...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This book is an up-to-date, comprehensive, and theoretically coherent account of the phonology of modern Welsh. It begins by describing the history of Welsh, its relation to the other Celtic languages and its phonetic inventory. Six chapters then explore the structures...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-31
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This is an analysis of the promises and contradictions surrounding contemporary minority language policy. It draws on theoretical and real-world perspectives and interviews with key players within European institutions together with field work undertaken principally in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-30
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This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor of Professor...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-29
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This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-25
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This book examines the rise in popularity of fantasy literature in Taiwan and the crucial but often invisible role that translators have played in making this genre widely available. Topics covered include global fantasy fever, Chinese fantasy, game industry, the social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-24
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Research Methods in Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics GUIDES TO RESEARCH METHODS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS “Up to date and covering a refreshingly wide range of approaches, this is a first-rate guide and resource for both practitioners and consumers of research in...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-10-24
Collection :
Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF Ancient Greek Attested since the fourteenth century BC, and still spoken today by over 10 million people, Greek has been one of the most influential languages in human history. English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic are among the many languages...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2013-10-23
Collection :
Wiley Brief Histories of the Ancient World
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Rupert Murdoch is the most significant media tycoon the English-speaking world has ever known. No one before him has trafficked in media influence across those nations so effectively, nor has anyone else so singularly redefined the culture of news and the rules of...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2013-10-22
ePub
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The sports journalist of today needs to be well equipped for the digital age. From the challenges of minute-by-minute reporting to the demands of writing for online outlets, blogging and podcasting, sports journalism is now fully immersed in new and social media. ...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-10-22
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Reflective Practice in ESL Teacher Development Groups discusses the concept of reflective practice in ESL teachers using data from a 3-year collaborative partnership in which three ESL teachers in Canada explored their professional development through reflective...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-22
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At a very early stage, Japanese civilization asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert...
Editeur :
Collège de France
Parution :
2013-10-20
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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Despite many wanting him to fail, Piers Morgan took over from US TV legend Larry King at CNN in 2010 and went on to cover some of the most shocking news events in recent US history, such as the killing of Osama bin Laden, the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2013-10-17
ePub
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This book considers the sequential deployment of the receiver's response to the caller's request in telephone service encounters between native speakers in the U.K, Germany and Italy analysing the different response formats and their grammatical configuration.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-16
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Social networking is now one of the ways in which anyone can set out to learn or improve their language skills. This collection brings together different sets of learning experiences and shows that success depends on the wider environment of the learner, the kind of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-15
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