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'The ultimate book on the creative skills of journalism'
- Writing Magazine
'Useful and timely... it is refreshing to discover a book so overtly designed to inspire students to think about what can make writing good - or even great.'
- Media International...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-12-28
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This book presents the first systematic typological analysis of applicatives across African, American Indian, and East Asian languages. It is also the first to address their functions in discourse, the derivation of their semantic and syntactic properties, and how and...
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OUP Oxford
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2006-12-21
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Media Law is an essential and accessible introduction to the subject that will assist media; journalism and law students understand key concepts and aid their revision. This book, designed to complement existing textbooks will advise readers on how best to utilise the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2006-12-18
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During the 2001 Linguistic Summer Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, a group of linguists gathered at a workshop to discuss the expression and role of topicalization and focus from a variety of perspectives: phonetic, phonological, syntactic,...
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Springer
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2006-12-18
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Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures. This volume addresses how people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships and how membership of specific social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-14
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This book presents a critical comparison of the two leading theories of linguistic change. After introducing the aims and methods of historical linguistics, Olga Fischer provides an exposition of the main theories used to describe morphosyntactic change and a full...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-12-14
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"As one of the main scriptwriters of the two internal BBC training sessions which were produced following the Hutton inquiry, I can heartily recommend this book."
- Peter Stewart, BBC Training Department
"Packed with illustrations of journalistic heroism and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-11-30
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This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widely-held view that language is an innate mental module with its own special internal organization. It shows that language has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-11-30
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This book seeks to explain how discourse types influence the addressee's understanding of the communicator's intention. Examining global coherence-based accounts as well as proposals based on Gricean pragmatics, it argues that the key to a solution lies in the cognitive...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-28
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This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL language classroom situations. Some of the most prominent scholars from a variety of backgrounds in the field of pedagogical stylistics show how theory,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-22
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Phonology in Context takes a fresh look at phonology in a range of real-world contexts that go beyond traditional concerns and challenge existing assumptions and practices. It brings together research and theory from a range of research areas to suggest new directions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-22
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The first study, based on instances of everyday talk, to analyze prosodic orientation, a conversational strategy by which speakers design their speaking voice according to the vocal patterns used by their conversational partners.The book explores forms and functions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-30
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Your guest at dinner kisses you. What does it mean? Where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-30
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How do people understand metaphorical language? Can a commonplace metaphor affect the way people think even if they don't interpret it? Why does it matter how people interpret metaphors? The author proposes an original communication-based theory of metaphor that answers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-30
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Practical Journalism: How to Write News introduces the beginner to the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age.
The book draws on interviews with dozens of working journalists. They share their thoughts on the profession and we watch them work -...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-19
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This book represents the state of the art in the study of gradience in grammar - the degree to which utterances are acceptable or grammatical, and the relationship between acceptability and grammaticality. Gradience is at the centre of controversial issues in the theory...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-10-19
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I first used the Internet in fall 1993, as a Fulbright Scholar at Charles University in Prague.I immediately recognized that the Internet would radically transform second language teaching and learning, and within a year had written my first book on the topic, E-Mail...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-10-13
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In this book, Hinterhölzl provides a comprehensive study of three salient phenomena of West Germaic, namely scrambling, remnant movement and restructuring, and discusses their interrelatedness.In particular, restructuring is shown to break down into remnant movement of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-10-12
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Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation between logic and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-10-12
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