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This is a practical guide to all aspects of linguistic fieldwork. It not only discusses techniques for working on the phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse of an undescribed language, but also considers field technology, grant application preparation,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-28
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This book explores the interplay of ICT and language learning within the context of technological and social change, from the printing press to the mobile phone. It considers how technological advances, through their impact on communication, language and education,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-28
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This blends discussion of the role of language minorities in politics with examples of language policy in a range of national contexts. It discusses minority rights and language protection, the policies of the state in privileging powerful majorities, the opportunities...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-28
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Tasks in Second Language Learning aims to re-centre discussion of the ways in which language learning tasks can help offer a holistic approach to language learning, and to explore the research implications. It relates the broad educational and social science rationale...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-27
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Globalization, Development and the Mass Media gives a comprehensive and critical account of the theoretical changes in communication studies from the early theories of development communication through to the contemporary critiques of globalization.
It examines two main...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-11-20
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Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-11-19
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"The study of television, still the most powerful of modern media, has long been fascinated by its capacity for 'liveness'. Marriott offers an insightful analysis of the complexities of this phenomenon, particularly its increasingly vital connection with the use of new...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-11-18
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Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Of the many kinds of ambiguity in language, the two that have received the most attention in computational linguistics are those of word senses and those of syntactic structure, and the reasons for this are clear: these ambiguities are...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-16
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This offers a framework for thinking about technologies that allow online communication, for example, forums, chats, real-time platforms as well as virtual worlds and mobile devices, and the practical issues of using them. The authors offer a thorough appraisal of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-11-12
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This book provides substantial new results in a novel field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. The studies of this volume examine the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2007-11-07
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship, based on the author's research in the region.
Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-02
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A fascinating, thematic exploration of clichés from as the actress said to the bishop to zero hour, explaining what they are and where they’ve come from. Julia Cresswell has taken her best-selling dictionary of clichés (‘Sumptuous…A mine of information.’ Guardian) back...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2007-11-01
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This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology and morphology of Arabic. It is a pioneering work of scholarship, based on the author's research in the region.
Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by some 250 million people in an area stretching from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-01
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Theory in reader-response and stylistics traditions supports L2 work with literature as it is valued by students and helps develop communicative and critical language skills. The author uses insights from empirical research to evaluate current teaching practices against...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-23
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This is a new and revised edition of the title first published by OUP in 2000.
From the reviews of the first edition:
'This book is a comprehensive study of the phonology of Standard Chinese. Not only is it rich in detailed and amazingly accurate factual description,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-19
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This book is the most complete phonology of contemporary Polish ever published. It is topic-oriented and presents the fundamental characteristics and problems associated with each topic, among them syllable structure, vowel-zero alternations, palatalizations, and other...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-18
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Presenting new and exciting data from lesbian and gay conversations, narratives, representations of lesbians in film and erotic fiction, and representations of prominent gay men in newspapers, this book looks at some of the ways lesbians and gay men construct identity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-11
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This pioneering book lays new foundations for the study of reference and truth. It seeks to explain the origins and characteristics of human ways of relating to the world by means of an understanding of the inherent structures of the mind. Wolfram Hinzen explores truth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-11
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This book reconstructs what the earliest grammars might have been and shows how they could have led to the languages of modern humankind.
Like other biological phenomena, language cannot be fully understood without reference to its evolution, whether proven or...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-10-05
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This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-09-27
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