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Multilingualism and the Periphery is an edited volume that explores the ways in which core-periphery dynamics shape multilingualism. The research focuses on peripheral sites, which are defined by a relationship-be it geographic, political, economic etc.-to some...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-01-16
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Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage nach Personalisierungstendenzen in den Hauptnachrichtensendungen privater und öffentlich-rechtlicher Sendeformate am Beispiel von ARD und RTL. Theoretisch sprechen parteipolitische Veränderungen, solche in der Wählerschaft und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-15
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The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate how Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be employed in the foreign language classroom with a view to aiding learners in better understanding the complexities of English grammar. Its theoretical part provides a brief overview of...
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Springer
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2013-01-12
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What does it take to be a legal translator?What is expected of legal translation professionals in the public and private sectors? Following recent developments in the field, there is a need to take stock of professional settings, skills and related training needs. This...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-01-11
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Explanations for sound change have traditionally focused on identifying the inception of change, that is, the identification of perturbations of the speech signal, conditioned by physiological constraints on articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms, which affect the way...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-01-10
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Theorizing Crisis Communication presents a comprehensive review and critique of the broad range of theoretical frameworks designed to explain the role of communication in the development, management, and consequences of natural and man-made crises. Brings together the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-01-09
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Foundations of Communication Theory Series
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'Politics and the English Language' is widely considered Orwell's most important essay on style. Style, for Orwell, was never simply a question of aesthetics; it was always inextricably linked to politics and to truth.'All issues are political issues, and politics...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-01-03
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This edited book examines cultures of learning from the perspectives of education, applied linguistics and language learning. The concept can be used to explore socio-cultural features of language learning and use contexts in educational institutions, and cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-01-02
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Now in its second edition, Argumentative and Aggressive Communication is the only text dedicated to the presentation and synthesis of research, theory, and application efforts on the aggressive communication traits of argumentative and verbal aggressiveness. In this...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-12-31
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The study of linguistic landscapes, the analysis and interpretation of the relationships between languages and spaces, is a blooming field in current sociolinguistics. In all their diversity, linguistic landscapes can be seen as the linguistic mirror of the dynamics of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-20
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This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the study of generics and pursues the enterprise of the influential Generic Book edited by Gregory Carlson and Jeffry Pelletier, which was published in 1995. Genericity is a key notion in the study of human cognition as...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-12-20
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This collection of papers takes linguists to the leading edge of techniques in generative lexicon theory, the linguistic composition methodology that arose from the imperative to provide a compositional semantics for the contextual modifications in meaning that emerge...
Editeur :
Springer
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2012-12-18
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Text, Speech and Language Technology
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Second language phonology is approached in this book from the perspective of data-based studies into the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers of the language. The book offers a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-14
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The present book is an interdisciplinary, meta-semantic study of meaning, combining linguistics, semiotics and philosophy. Its main theoretical framework is Cognitive Linguistics.The author demonstrates how the theoretical and historiographic boundaries of the cognitive...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-14
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Das Buch beinhaltet die Beiträge einer internationalen Tagung in Peking im September 2011. Aus chinesischer und deutscher Sicht werden Aspekte von Deutsch als Fremdsprache, chinesisch-deutschen Kulturbeziehungen und interkultureller Kommunikation diskutiert. Dabei zeigt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-12-14
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The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of language, one...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-14
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Ronald W. Langacker created an approach to linguistics called Cognitive Grammar, which is essentially a system of symbols that can be used to organize and analyze how semantics and phonology interact with each other in human language. Cognitive Grammar lays the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-14
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This book confronts the hotly debated claim that language is a species specific trait of humans. It also considers the notion that disentangling the evolutionary history of language is one of science's hardest problems. Building on the recent conceptual breakthroughs of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-13
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Articulatory Phonetics presents a concise and non-technical introduction to the physiological processes involved in producing sounds in human speech. Traces the path of the speech production system through to the point where simple vocal sounds are produced, covering...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-12
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Spreading Patterns examines how new constructions emerge and spread through the grammar of a language, in a process called "diffusion". This is done by tracking the development of three types of complements from the Middle English period to the present day. These are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-12-12
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