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Springer
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2006-05-09
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The Penguin Writers' Guides series provides authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable Guides will help you find...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-05-04
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'Lately, I am trying to provoke myself into art - into writing... I wasn't exactly in despair - I was in cynicism, which is despair's more torpid sister... Let me tell you how writing snuck back on me.'Whether you are starting from scratch or need a gentle nudge back in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-05-04
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The contributors to this collection address issues of definition and theory of linguistic areas, analyze the process of convergence, and introduce methods to assess the impact of language contact across geographical zones. New case studies are accompanied by discussions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-02
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There are an increasing number of courses on digital games and gaming, following the rise in the popularity of games themselves. Amongst these practical courses, there are now theoretical courses appearing on gaming on media, film and cultural studies degree...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-04-20
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Are TESOL professionals now fairly seen as agents of a new English-speaking empire? Or, if they wish to distance themselves from this role, are there ways of working and living that would make this differentiation clear? An international group of authors put forward...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-19
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'...it will appeal not only to students of journalism and media but also to anyone interested in the world around them'
- Marie Kinsey, Times Higher Education Supplement
'Professor Tumber weaves together traditional and topical themes to produce a comprehensive...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-04-18
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Chiew Kin Quah draws on years of academic and professional experience to provide an account of translation technology, its applications and capabilities. Major developments from North America, Europe and Asia are described, including developments in uses and users of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-12
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ figurative thinking. This book examines figurative thinking, considers its contribution to language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-12
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xiv 4. Final remarks 349 PETER HOHENHAUS: LEXICALIZATI ION AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION TITUTIONALIZATION 353 1. Introduction 353 2. Lexicalization 353 2. 1 LEXICALIZATION IN A DIACHRONIC SENSE 353 2. 2 LEXICALIZATION IN A SYNCHRONIC SENSE: LISTING/LISTEDNESS 356 2. 3 THE...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-03-30
Collection :
Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
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The accent of many Greek words has long been considered arbitrary, but Philomen Probert points to some striking correlations between accentuation and a word's synchronic morphological transparency, and between accentuation and word frequency, that give clues to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-03-23
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The author questions the status quo in Romance linguistics.The Ergative/Unaccusative syntactic approach has been accepted as the orthodox analytical paradigm. He re-examines both the theoretical imperative and the empirical evidence for that approach, drawing on a large...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-03-21
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This book explores the lifecycle of digital games. Drawing upon a broad range of media studies perspectives with aspects of sociology, social theory and economics, Aphra Kerr explores this all-pervasive, but under-theorised, aspect of our media environment.
Written as...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-03-18
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This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the book also offers...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-03-14
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A great deal of attention has been devoted in the past ten years in the lingu- tic and computational linguistics communities to the syntax and the semantics of nouns, verbs and also, but to a lesser extent, to adjectives. Related p- nomena such as quanti?cation or tense...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-03-02
Collection :
Text, Speech and Language Technology
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Two languages can resemble each other in the categories, constructions, and types of meaning they use, and in the forms they employ to express these. Such resemblances may be the consequence of universal characteristics of language, of chance or coincidence, of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-03-02
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This book introduces generative grammar as an area of study and asks what it tells us about the human mind. Wolfram Hinzen lays the foundation for the unification of modern generative linguistics with the philosophies of mind and language. He introduces Chomsky's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-02-24
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Between the beginnings of European lexicography and 1700, many glossaries and dictionaries were arranged not according to the alphabet, but in a topical order which followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history at that time. Together...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-02-16
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Non-native language teachers have often been viewed as an unavoidable fate of the profession, rather than an asset worth exploring and investigating. Now that non-natives are increasingly found teaching languages, and particularly English, both in ESL and EFL contexts,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-02-09
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This volume collects the recent published articles of Guglielmo Cinque of the University of Venice, one of the world's top linguists. The book is divided into two sections, the first on restructuring, a central topic in Romance syntax and with connections to other...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-02-02
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