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This collection brings together several perspectives on language varieties defined according to their contexts of use--what are variously called registers, sublanguages, or genres. The volume highlights the importance of these central linguistic phenomena; it includes...
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Oxford University Press
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1994-01-13
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Offering a new perspective on auxiliaries in particular and language structure in general, this study argues that language cannot be explained satisfactorily with reference to linguistic variables alone; what is required in addition are extra-linguistic parameters...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-09-30
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The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction.The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is anthropological and...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-09-23
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As a field of inquiry, interlanguage pragmatics reflects the growing interest in recent years in understanding the social and pragmatic aspects of second language acquisition. Interlanguage Pragmatics offers an up-to-date synthesis of current research in the field,...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-08-05
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All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exchanged with others have a powerful effect on all of us. Life stories express our sense of self, who we are and how we got that...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-07-01
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All adult speakers in Western cultures have life stories argues Charlotte Linde, and the ways in which these life stories are formed and exchanged with others have a powerful effect on all of us. Life stories express our sense of self, who we are and how we got that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-07-01
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Language is in large part about the description of events occurring in the world around us. Relationships of different sorts may be perceived between those events. And some of these relationships can be expressed by specific verb forms--or by syntactic constructions...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-05-06
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Not everything that can be said in one language can be said in another. The lexicons of different languages seem to suggest different conceptual universes. Investigating cultures from a universal, language-independent perspective, this book rejects analytical tools...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-10-22
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The second volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series, this collection presents recent work in the fields of phonology, morphology, semantics, and neurolinguistics. Its overall theme is the relationship between the contents of grammatical formalisms and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-03-05
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This comprehensive examination of tense and grammatical aspect provides fascinating insight into how languages indicate distinctions of time. Providing an in-depth survey of the scholarship from the ancient Greeks through the 1980s, Time and the Verb explains and...
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Oxford University Press
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1991-06-20
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Most writing is done under pressure. An executive has to produce a three-page position paper by tomorrow at nine. A department head suddenly has to write a one-page action memo by noon. A graduate student has a twenty-page research paper due in a week. Yet, while most...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-12-13
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South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years, these essays by a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-10-04
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Fostering the "pursuit of happiness" was an avowed purpose of the American Revolution, but what was the phrase to mean in practice? How would the new society being created achieve what Enlightenment egalitarians called the "common good"? In this dual biography of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-07-05
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Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as lying outside their rhetorical interactions with others. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and poststructuralist theory, as well as work in the rhetorical tradition and composition...
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Oxford University Press
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1990-04-26
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In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking.
Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1990-04-19
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In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of political speechmaking.
Jamieson addresses such fundamental issues...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1988-07-21
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Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text running...
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Penguin
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1975-07-31
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Lexical Roots of Old Cree: An Etymological Dictionary is the result of over two decades of research on historical and contemporary Cree dialects. Built from extensive linguistic fieldwork with nearly a hundred fluent speakers and supported by lexical databases and...
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Mercury-Mercure
Parution :
2025-11-18
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La Retorica è una delle opere acroamatiche di Aristotele, quelle opere cioè ideate dal filosofo per essere studiate dai suoi allievi nel Liceo. L'opera raccoglie le riflessioni relative alla retorica sviluppate da Aristotele nel corso della propria esistenza. Il testo è...
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Cactus
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2024-08-21
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