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This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots. It focuses on the rise of Catalan cultural, national and linguistic identity in the 20th century. What is happening in Catalonia? What lies behind...
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Springer
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2019-05-16
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The Oxford Guide to Middle High German is the most comprehensive self-contained treatment of Middle High German available in English. It covers the language, literature, history, and culture of German in the period from 1050 to 1350 and is designed for entry-level...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-05-15
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This book examines how translation facilitated the Western conquest of China and how it was in turn employed by the Chinese as a weapon to resist the invasion in the late Qing 1811-1911. It brings out the question on the role of translation as part of the Western...
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Springer
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2019-05-11
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This book investigates the ways in which context shapes how cognitive challenges and strengths are navigated and how these actions impact the self-esteem of individuals with dementia and their conversational partners. The author examines both the language used and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-07
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Are you a graduate, postgraduate or PhD student? Building a CV or profile can be difficult for anyone, but especially for those whose first language is not English. This book is essential for those looking to promote themselves in the academic community, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-07
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This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-05-07
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This edited collection presents a study of innovation in teaching, learning, assessment and teacher development practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The thirteen research-based chapters in this collection examine recent innovations in English language...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-04
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This book is about the challenges that come with initiatives to develop a more humanized, intersectional and negotiable landscape for English Language Teaching (ELT). It sets out to problematize ingrown and ingrained practices in English teaching, weaving together...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-02
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This book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of the different social functions realised by these texts as semiotic artefacts. Framed within the media environment of the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-04-29
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This book presents three case studies that examine how English language students construct affinity spaces to secure target language-mediated socializing opportunities with local people in both academic and non-academic contexts. The studies were conducted in Hawaii,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This volume provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Gothic, the earliest attested language of the Germanic family (apart from runic inscriptions), dating to the fourth century. The bulk of the extant Gothic corpus is a translation of the Bible, of which only a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-24
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This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch. Following an introduction to the basic assumptions of morphological theory, separate chapters are devoted to the inflectional system, derivation, and compounding, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-17
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Gemeinsames Englischlernen in einer bunt gemischten Lerngruppe ist möglich. Ein im Schulalltag umsetzbares, gemeinsam entwickeltes und erprobtes Unterrichts- und Unterstützungskonzept, das die Arbeit mit Lernaufgaben ins Zentrum stellt, lässt Forschung, Lehrpersonen und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-04-16
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This book offers essential insights into the challenges and complexities surrounding the medium of instruction (MOI), its impact on all languages and stakeholders in multilingual contexts, educational processes, developments and outcomes. MOI has been a...
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Springer
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2019-04-09
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This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes. Drawing on a rich collection of theoretically-informed case studies, its authors provide practical advice and examples on implementing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-08
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An der Schnittstelle von Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik kristallisiert sich die schreibdidaktische Relevanz eines rezeptiven Zugangs zum Erzählen heraus. Zugänge wie Sage, Gemälde und Figur eröffnen Schülerinnen und Schülern im Grundschulalter die Möglichkeit, sich...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-04-06
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This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive cross-linguistic overview of an understudied typological phenomenon, the clause-level argument-like behaviour of internal possessors. In some languages, adnominal possessors - or a subset thereof - figure more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-28
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This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.
The study of event structure over the past 60 years has been one of the most successful areas of lexical semantics, uniting insights from morphology and syntax,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-26
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This book presents the first serious attempt to set out a functional-semantic definition of diachronic transcategorial shift between the major classes noun/nominal and verb/clause. In English, speakers have different options to refer to an event, ranging from...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-25
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There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been. Questions of Syntax collects sixteen papers authored by Richard S. Kayne, a preeminent theoretical syntactician, who has sought over the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-22
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