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English Vocabulary Elements draws on the tools of modern linguistics to help students acquire an effective understanding of learned, specialized, and scientific vocabulary. This fully refined and updated edition helps develop familiarity with over 500 Latin and Greek...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-01-03
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This book advances the growing area of language policy and planning (LPP) by examining the epistemological and theoretical foundations that engendered and sustain the field, drawing on insights and approaches from anthropology, linguistics, economics, political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-01-01
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While Verb-third (V3) patterns have long been studied in verb-second (V2) languages, a similar pattern in which an initial adverbial constituent is resumed by a clause-internal element has been much less studied. The latter is referred to as 'adverbial resumption' and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-12-20
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Illicit digital activity is a substantial and growing problem. Extremists' use of social media over the past decade or so has raised increasing concern among governments and media corporations alike. In Digital Grooming Nuria Lorenzo-Dus analyzes manipulation practices...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-12-16
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This edited volume on contextualism and pragmatics is interdisciplinary in character and contains contributions from linguistics, cognitive science and socio-pragmatics. Going beyond conventional contextual matters of truth-conditions and pragmatic intrusion, this text...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-15
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This book provides a critical overview of contemporary world issues in Language and Literary Studies. It offers specific ideas as to how to move away from the traditional literary canon, on the one hand, and traditional native-speaker norms in English language teaching,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-12-14
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This book is a groundbreaking study of etiquette in the nineteenth century when the success of etiquette books reached unprecedented heights in Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. It positions etiquette as a fully-fledged theoretical concept...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-12-06
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This book discusses ten grammatical items, with main focus on prepositions and plural nouns, to illustrate the structure of Japanese English or the English spoken by 32 Japanese nationals who are the L2 users of English. Adopting an inductive, theory-neutral, analysis...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-12-06
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A new approach to sociolinguistics, introducing the study of the social meaning of English words over time, and offering an engaging and entertaining demonstration of lexical sociolinguistic analysis The Social Life of Words:A Historical Approach explores the rise and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-12-01
Collection :
Language in Society
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This book focuses on Japanese science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students and their experiences of learning English. Students majoring in STEM face unique circumstances regarding their English language education. Despite the global use of English in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-30
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This book explores the construction of agreement in the argumentative process, aiming to investigate how the activation of shared knowledge, values and beliefs leads to the creation of a common ground between the speaker and the audience in the pursuit of persuasion. In...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-29
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This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The recent expansion of agreement theories has revealed new ways of integrating...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-11-17
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This book presents overviews on the specific methods for the study of verbal politeness, which is deeply and constantly involved in our social life. The text offers an original and specific synthesis of traditional and innovative methods for the study of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-16
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This book argues that, in line with the tenets of positive psychology in SLA and the rhetorical/relational goal theory, positive teacher-student interpersonal relationships are deemed to be of great significance for empowering students to accomplish favorable academic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-11-16
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A groundbreaking new work that sheds light on case studies of linguistic human rights around the world, raising much-needed awareness of the struggles of many peoples and communities The first book of its kind, the Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights presents a diverse...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-11-14
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book traces raciolinguistic ideologies in England’s schools, focusing on post- 2010 policy reforms which frame the language practices of low-income, racialised speakers as limited and deficient. Across interviews, policy mechanisms and classroom observations, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-12
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Mittels inter-, trans- und multidisziplinärer Ansätze behandeln die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes Autostereotypien und Heterostereotypien in der politischen Kultur in Europa während des „langen 19. Jahrhunderts“. Der Band versammelt Beiträge der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-11-08
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Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits. By introducing a new method, this book focuses on helping any learner to get...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
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The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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This volume showcases innovative research on dialectal, vernacular, and other forms of “oral,” speech-like writing in digital spaces. The shift from a predominantly print culture to a digital culture is shaping people's identities and relationships to one another in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-10-31
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