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Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not. They walk around half naked. They carry and eat food in public without offering it to others. They talk about things they see rather than hiding uncomfortable truths. They explicitly refuse to give. Why...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-25
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The book presents theoretical considerations as well as the results of empirical research on the existence of “directed motivational current” (DMC) experiences among Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in order to provide insights into how a DMC is...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-24
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This book presents a form-function mapping (FFM) model for balancing language and content gains within content-based language teaching (CBLT). It includes a theoretical part, which outlines the FFM model and, drawing on the analysis of eclectic teaching methods and...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-22
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Taking Plato’s allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-18
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This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-11
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This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-10
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This volume covers descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena and processes which emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in educational and translation contexts. It contains eleven papers, divided into two parts, which focus...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-05
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“Do people know that on average around 25 languages die every year? In one hundred years, if nothing has changed, half of all languages will be dead. At the end of the Twenty-first Century, there should therefore remain around 2,500, and probably many fewerif we take...
Editeur :
Odile Jacob
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of the theory, research, and practice of the use of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning (L2TL). It explores how to harness the enthusiasm, engagement, and motivation that digital gaming can...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena.The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This book explores the role of gender in male- and female-produced efforts to translate a Chinese novel into English. Adopting the CDA framework and corpus methodology, the study examines the specific ways in which, and extent to which, a female British translator and a...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-29
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This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Pragmatik – ein zentrales Gebiet der Sprachwissenschaft – hat alle Arten des sprachlichen Handelns zum Gegenstand. Ausgehend von den grundlegenden Paradigmen (Sprechakttheorie, Gesprächsforschung, Relevanztheorie etc.) informiert das Handbuch über aktuelle...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This edited book revisits the concept of social ‘activities’ from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original chapters within...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-15
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This book presents a statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) framework for developing a speech synthesis system where the desired speech is generated from the parameters of vocal tract and excitation source. Throughout the book, the authors discuss novel source...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.
Following an introduction from the editors, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form. Natural language abounds in these apparently...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-11
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This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use. Building on insights from over 50 years of research on the relationship between task demands and language use, it examines how referent similarity relates to...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-07
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This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.
Following an introduction from the editors, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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