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This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from texts dating from three major stages of vernacular Greek (Attic Greek, Koine, and Late Medieval Greek), and qualitative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-25
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This volume explores the way in which grammaticalization processes - whereby lexical words eventually become markers of grammatical categories - converge and differ across various types of language. While grammaticalization at its core is a unidirectional phenomenon, in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Ideology is so powerful it makes us believe that war is rational, despite both its brutal means and its devastating ends. The power of ideology comes from its intimate relation to language: ideology recruits all semiotic modalities, but language is its engine-room....
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Springer
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2018-10-09
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This open access book provides new methodological and theoretical insights into temporal reference and its linguistic expression, from a cross-linguistic experimental corpus pragmatics approach. Verbal tenses, in general, and more specifically the categories of tense,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-06
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Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in English for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Readers
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Spanish for Beginners has...
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Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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Readers
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in German for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Readers
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An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners."I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersShort Stories in Russian for Beginners has...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2018-10-04
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Readers
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This volume offers empirically grounded perspectives on translanguaging as a locally situated, interactional accomplishment of practical action, and its significance within different domains of social life-school, education, diasporic families and communities,...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-10-04
Collection :
Why It Matters
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This innovative edited collection presents new insights into emerging debates around digital communication practices. It brings together research by leading international experts to examine methods and approaches, multimodality, face and identity, across five...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-29
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Die Wahl der „richtigen“ Ausgangsschriften zum Schreibenlernen wird nicht nur in der Grundschulpädagogik, sondern auch öffentlich viel diskutiert. Eva Odersky untersucht, wie sich diese Schriften während der Grundschulzeit weiterentwickeln. Im Rahmen einer empirischen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-19
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Quotations are an essential part of the fabric of the language. In And I quote, Elizabeth Knowles draws on her experience editing the Oxford Dictionary ofQuotations and employs a wide repertoire of examples, ranging from the classical canon to contemporary popular...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-19
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According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-17
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This book sheds new light on language and literature teaching, and offers examples of teaching language in virtual environments. Providing an overview of virtual environments for teaching, it also includes chapters devoted to methodology design for second language...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-14
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This edited collection brings together the latest research on discourse and society in Latin America and Caribbean in one volume. Employing cross-cutting approaches to current political, institutional and media discourses, it bridges existing theoretical and analytical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-13
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Quotations are an essential part of the fabric of the language. In And I quote, Elizabeth Knowles draws on her experience editing the Oxford Dictionary ofQuotations and employs a wide repertoire of examples, ranging from the classical canon to contemporary popular...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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There is no populated place without a name, and every name is chosen for a reason. This fascinating dictionary unveils the etymological roots and history of thousands of locations and landmarks from around the world. It contains over 11,000 entries, and covers an...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-09-13
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