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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...
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Penguin
Parution :
2005-06-30
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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 :
2005-06-30
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The new edition ofThe Structure of German has been fully revised to take account of developments in the subject.The author describes German phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. He introduces linguistic theory in order to throw light on every aspect...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-06-30
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This book presents a typological survey and analysis of the co-compound construction.This understudied phenomenon is essentially a compound whose meaning is the result of coordinating the meanings of its components, as when in some varieties of English 'father-mother'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-06-16
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A Dictionary of European Anglicisms documents the spread of English in Europe. It provides the first exhaustive and up-to-date account of British and American English words that have been imported into the main languages of Europe.
English, which imported thousands of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-06-16
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`This book provides an accessible introduction to the meaning-making practices of multimedia. It will help students by providing them with a framework with which to analyse texts and provides some useful suggestions for further investigation of the topic' - Learning,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-06-07
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This reader collects and introduces important work in linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics on the use of linguistic devices in natural languages to situate events in time: whether they are past, present, or future;...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-27
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This book addresses central questions in the evolution of language: where it came from; how it relates to primate communication; how and why it evolved; how it came to be culturally transmitted; and how languages diversified. The chapters are written from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-27
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This book investigates the way grammar deals with the representation of aspectual (aktionsart) concepts, focussing on issues of the lexicon-syntax interface. The authors' innovative analyses of this interface significantly advance our understanding of the role that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-26
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This book explores the interface between syntax and the other components of the grammar, in particular phonology, morphology, and argument structure. The author proceeds through a consideration of case studies, such as clitics and complex predicates (auxiliary and modal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-26
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Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view than with describing the world. Treating pragmatics, semantics, and syntax in parallel...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-26
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'The five authors have drawn on their enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise for this book, which will be essential reading for students in journalism, and as invaluable...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-05-19
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Objects of Metaphor contains a philosophical account of the phenomenon of metaphor radically different from those currently on offer. Yet for all that it is different, the underlying rationale of the account is genuinely ecumenical. If one adopts its perspective, one...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
2005-05-19
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The main argument of this book is that the notion of truth plays no role in speaker-hearers' interpretation of linguistic utterances and that it is not needed for theoretical accounts of linguistic meaning either.The theoretical argument is developed in the first part,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-05-13
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
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The book is the most comprehensive account of the phonology of Danish ever published in any language. It gives a clear analysis of the sound patterns of modern Danish and examines the relations between its speech sounds and grammar.The author develops new models for the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2005-05-06
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When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'?This superbly well-informed - and also...
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Penguin
Parution :
2005-05-05
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`This is a very clear and concise summary of media studies, present and future. There is no other book that can both be used as a teaching tool and can help scholars organize their thinking about new media as this book can' - Steve Jones, University of Chicago
This...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-03-15
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Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet.
Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-03-15
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`This is one of those books that, researchers, students and teachers want to have on their desks, because it answers questions, clarifies confusing areas, and provides accessible overviews of sometimes technical work - and all in prose that is unpretentious and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-03-15
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