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With contributions from world-class specialists this first book-length work looks at translation issues in forensic linguistics, where accuracy and cultural understandings play a prominent part in the legal process.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-03-19
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This book of new work by leading international scholars considers developments in the study of diachronic linguistics and linguistic theory, including those concerned with the very definition of language change in the biolinguistic framework, parametric change in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-03-12
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This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program. Leading linguists and promising young scholars from all over the world focus on two...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-03-12
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The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics brings together an international team of contributors to create an original, in-depth survey of the field for students and practitioners of speech-language pathology, linguistics, psychology, and education. Explores the field of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-03-09
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The Language Library
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Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing...
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Basic Books
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2009-03-06
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Master the essentials of the English language and write with greater confidence.
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How to Books
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2009-02-27
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Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availability of tense vary in different languages? How do the lines of information from tense, aspect, temporal adverbs, and context...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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In this volume, Luis López sheds new light on information structure and makes a significant contribution to work on grammatical operations in the Minimalist Program. Through a careful analysis of dislocations and focus fronting in Romance, the author shows that notions...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-02-26
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This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of languages has been a tenet of faith among most anthropologists and...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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Language in Cognition argues that language is based on the human construal of reality. Humans refer to and quantify over virtual entities with the same ease as they do over actual entities: the natural ontology of language, the author argues, must therefore comprise...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-02-26
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As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an increasing importance from both practical and scholarly points of view. Written by leading experts...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-18
Collection :
Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
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This diverse collection of gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction explores how gender is reflected and accomplished in relation to other situational and larger-scale sociocultural practices, identities and structures.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-12
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The author presents a new approach to the study of language policy, by focusing on language policy formation and implementation as a dynamic, conflict-laden process involving the interaction of various actors with different motivations and uneven bargaining powers,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-02-12
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Featuring an international contributor list, this long-awaited and broad-ranging collection examines the key issues, topics and research in pidgin and creole studies. A comprehensive reference work exploring the treatment of core aspects of pidgins/creoles, focusing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-11
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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In this manifesto, distinguished critic Wayne Booth claims that communication in every corner of life can be improved if we study rhetoric closely. Written by Wayne Booth, author of the seminal book, The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961). Explores the consequences of bad...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-09
Collection :
Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
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Understanding Minimalist Syntax introduces the logic of the Minimalist Program by analyzing well-known descriptive generalizations about long-distance dependencies. An introduction to the logic of the minimalist program - arguably the most important branch of syntax...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Generative Syntax
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An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field. provides an accessible introduction to the study of language policy...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Language and Social Change
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Thinking Syntactically: A Guide to Argumentation and Analysis is a textbook designed to teach introductory students the skills of relating data to theory and theory to data. Helps students develop their thinking and argumentation skills rather than merely introducing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
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An Introduction to Language Policy: Theories and Method is a collection of newly-written chapters that cover the major theories and methods currently employed by scholars active in the field. provides an accessible introduction to the study of language policy research...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
Collection :
Language and Social Change
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