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This book provides a thorough yet approachable history of the Scots language, a close relative of Standard English with around 1.5 million speakers in Scotland and several thousand in Ireland, according to the 2011 census. Despite the long history of Scots as a language...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-28
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We narrate everything.We construct the world around us by telling its stories, shaping the language we use to describe what is happening to us; language that is used and adapted in the media in response to moments of crisis. This language in turn shapes how we see the...
Editeur :
John Murray Languages
Parution :
2023-09-28
Collection :
Language Acts and Worldmaking
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This book introduces English-speaking audiences to tsuji, who were interpreters in different contexts in Japan and then the Ryukyu Kingdom from the late 16th to the mid-19th century. It comprises seven historical case studies on tsuji in which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-27
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This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With contributions by established and emerging scholars in the field, this collection explores and expounds, with the combination of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-26
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Der Roman als Netzwerk: Formen, Ideen, Waren beschäftigt sich mit dem zeitgenössischen englischsprachigen Roman und seinen Derivaten und Nebenprodukten wie Graphic Novels, Comics, Podcasts und Quality TV. Dieser Sammelband untersucht die Bedeutung des Romans im größeren...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Diese Studie soll dazu beitragen, den Sprachgebrauch einzelner Individuen als relevanten Forschungsgegenstand für die Linguistik auszuweisen. Durch die Analyse dialektaler Daten aus einem umfangreichen Korpus von WhatsApp-Textnachrichten werden neue Erkenntnisse zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-25
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Welche Auswirkungen haben Domäne, Zeitraum und Berufserfahrung auf das berufliche Schreibverhalten von Ingenieuren? Basierend auf der Analyse von Experteninterviews, die über einen Zeitraum von 18 Jahren in den Bereichen Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft durchgeführt wurden,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-09-23
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What do we mean by semiotic perception? Why should the concepts of perception and expressivity be reinterpreted within the encompassing framework of a dynamic theory of semiotic fields and forms? Can we redeploy the concept of form in such a way as to make...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-23
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This book, the first of its kind, investigates the historical trajectory and current situation of popular journalism in the People's Republic of China. Taking a popular cultural perspective, the book redefines “popular journalism” as a particular journalistic genre and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-22
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This guide draws on English-related errors from around 6000 papers written by non-native authors, 500 abstracts written by PhD students, and over 2000 hours of teaching researchers how to write and present research papers.
This new edition has chapters on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-22
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This is an open access book.SSEME workshop on social sciences and education serves as an international platform for scholars and engineers from around the world with the focus on education and other social sciences related fields. It aims to promote scientific...
Editeur :
Atlantis Press
Parution :
2023-09-21
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Publishing your research in an international journal is key to your success in academia. This guide is based on a study of over 1000 manuscripts and reviewers' reports revealing why papers written by non-native researchers are often rejected due to problems with English...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-20
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This book delves into the realm of effective language education programs, examining them from both macro and micro-policy-making perspectives. It unravels the distinguishing features of exemplary language programs and explores how these programs are implemented in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-19
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The fully updated new edition of the essential single-volume reference, covering the full fields of linguistics and phonetics Now in its seventh edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics remains the definitive resource work for students of linguistics and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-09-19
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This text takes a wholly new look at a major early twentieth-century Dutch poet and novelist from the perspective of world literature, situating his work in both a national and a world literary context as measured against contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-15
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This book presents the history of investigative journalism in the United States. It includes biographical details of various journalists and writers who wrote about possible wrongdoing by businesses and state or federal employees. Several of those discussed helped bring...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-09-13
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This open access volume offers valuable new perspectives on the question of how mobility, locatedness and immersion in the physical world can enhance second language teaching and learning. It does so through a diverse array of empirical studies of language, literacy,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-12
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INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION FOR EVERYDAY LIFE Face the global challenges of the future with this accessible introduction to communication across boundaries Communication between cultures can be challenging in a number of ways, but it also carries immense potential...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-09-08
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The book addresses some raging questions in linguistics today: What kind of variation do typologically related languages display? Do we expect to find the same variation in genealogically unrelated languages spoken in the same area? What makes dialects different?The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-09-08
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**‘Unmissable’ Stephen Fry'A delight' Katherine Rundell‘Illuminating’ Susie Dent'Brilliant' Philippa Perry'Enthralling' Jeanette WintersonWhat do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2023-09-07
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