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Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offers a detailed study of literary activities emerging out of the publishing house Ga?ga Pustak Mala in the first half of the...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-09-10
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This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners’ awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-07
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This book investigates the diachronic change of the tone sandhi of Southern Min Chinese, which is known for its synchronic arbitrariness and opacity. It argues that in final-prominent tone sandhi, the change of final tones and the change of non-final tones can be highly...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-30
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This book, by a group of leading international scholars, outlines the history of the spoken dialects of Arabic from the Arab Conquests of the seventh century up to the present day. It specifically investigates the evolution of Arabic as a spoken language, in contrast to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-30
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This book is about Positioning Theory (Davies & Harré, 1990) and its potential applications in bilingual and multilingual contexts involving teachers, learners, speakers, and users of a second/foreign or additional language. By using Positioning Theory as a theoretical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-23
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This book re-examines the notion of word associations, more precisely collocations. It attempts to come to a potentially more generally applicable definition of collocation and how to best extract, identify and measure collocations. The book highlights the role played...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-21
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Die digitale Verfügbarkeit großer Textmengen und ihre umfassende Vernetzung beeinflussen unseren Umgang mit Sprache und Geschriebenem.Die Möglichkeit, auf riesigen Textwellen zu surfen und endlos viele Texte immer verfügbar zu haben, verändert auch das Bild, das wir uns...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-16
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This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to the development of the German language from the earliest reconstructable prehistory to the present day. Joe Salmons explores a range of topics in the history of the language, offering answers to questions such...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-09
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-03
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This updated book expands upon prosody for recognition applications of speech processing. It includes importance of prosody for speech processing applications; builds on why prosody needs to be incorporated in speech processing applications; and presents methods...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-02
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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-02
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This book draws on the perspectives of authors, supervisors, reviewers and editors to present a rich, nuanced picture of the practices and challenges involved in writing for scholarly publication. Organized into four sections, it brings together international experts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-30
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A straightforward guide to understanding English grammar This book is for people who have never thought about syntax, and who don't know anything about grammar, but who want to learn. Assuming a blank slate on the part of the reader, the book treats English grammar as a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Linguistics in the World
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This volume presents the results of psycholinguistic research into various aspects of the grammar of quantification. The investigations involve children and adults, speakers of different languages, using a variety of experimental paradigms. A shared aspect of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-25
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This book covers research topics in bilingual education, language policies, language contact, identity of bilingual speakers, early bilingualism, heritage languages, and more, and provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-24
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The book illustrates how the human ability to adapt to the environment and interact with it can explain our linguistic representation of the world as constrained by our bodies and sensory perception.The different chapters discuss philosophical, scientific, and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-21
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This thought-provoking monograph makes a multidisciplinary case for bilingualism as a possible enhancer of executive function, particularly cognitive control. Its central focus is the cognitive operations of the bilingual brain in processing two languages and whether...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-20
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The endangered languages crisis is widely acknowledged among scholars who deal with languages and indigenous peoples as one of the most pressing problems facing humanity, posing moral, practical, and scientific issues of enormous proportions. Simply put, no area of the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-18
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This book asks how we—as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers—can counter the abuse of language in our midst. How can we take back the power of language from those who flaunt that power to silence or erase us and our fellows? In search of answers, Linguistic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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This volume considers the linguistic complexities associated with Shakespeare’s presence in South Africa from 1801 to early twentieth-first century televisual updatings of the texts as a means of exploring individual and collective forms of identity. A case study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-13
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