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The handbook delves into the linguistic features of Southeast Asian and South Asian endangered languages, providing detailed descriptions and analyses. Each chapter covers a range of topics, including linguistic properties, extralinguistic aspects, and issues related to...
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Springer
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2025-06-02
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This book discusses various issues arising from the dominant discourse on language endangerment and loss in linguistics. Are the terms mother tongue, heritage language, and ancestral language interchangeable? Does a child receiving formal education in a mother tongue...
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Springer
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2025-05-30
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Deconstructing Syntactic Theory is a critical examination of the assumptions and methodologies of contemporary derivational syntactic theory. The study ranges from the earliest work inspired by Chomsky's Syntactic Structures and Aspects of the Theory of Syntax to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-05-28
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This book presents an analysis of a particular grammatical phenomenon in Northwestern Chinese, a.k.a. Northwestern Chinese dialects, uncovering a new pattern of contact-induced changes, which can be termed “compromise innovation”. In the vast majority of Northwestern...
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Springer
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2025-05-28
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This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in Japanese, English, and Bantu languages, among others, from morphosyntactic, semantic and historical perspectives. Languages are divided into two types in terms of case: nominative-accusative languages and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-27
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This book presents a critical analysis of the language surrounding Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG), demonstrating how discourse can both sustain harm and serve as a catalyst for healing and change. Grounded in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), it examines the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-26
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This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language and the challenge of translation.Language, historically speaking, has...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2025-05-22
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This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of image semiotics. Going far beyond traditional analyses of static visual texts, it includes dynamic imagery, literary iconography, and psychological images, offering a holistic view of how semiotics permeates various...
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Springer
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2025-05-17
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Diese Arbeit zeigt die Entwicklung eines Modells für inklusive Sprache in der Unternehmenskommunikation. Anhand einer Diskursanalyse wurden Unternehmenswebsites und LinkedIn-Beiträge von 18 Unternehmen untersucht. Das Korpus umfasst ausgewählte Kunden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-12
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Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel?Was ist ein Schnappreitel ? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch, das neben juristischen Fachbegriffen auch Wörter der Alltagssprache in rechtlichem Kontext erklärt. Über 1.200 Jahre...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-09
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Along with a renewed interest in the empirical foundations of linguistics, the increasing accessibility of large-scale corpora has sparked a surge of corpus-linguistic work on the grammar of natural languages. Corpus-based methods enhance our knowledge and understanding...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-05-05
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This book explores Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, from the perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA)—informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). It is designed to encourage researchers to study...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-05-03
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The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book offers a unique perspective on how language facilitates the work of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-30
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This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-25
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This book constitutes a comprehensive study of the field of language play from a linguistic viewpoint, demonstrating how linguistics can throw light on this important, but often under-rated, aspect of language use. It is both theoretical and descriptive in nature....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-16
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This book brings together diverse experiences at all levels of language education in Korea, from government to public and private education to business and industry, to identify the origin of the processes of change and the factors influencing their success. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-09
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This book offers an in-depth exploration of the causes and consequences of competition among language learners, with a particular focus on understanding the intricate relationships between competitiveness, beliefs about competition, and other psychological variables...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-04-08
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This book presents a systemic-functional analysis of aspects of transitivity in Mandarin Chinese, focusing on two major types of clause: material clauses and relational clauses. Material clauses represent actions/events in the material world. Relational clauses express...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-31
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Die Ausgabe der gesammelten Schriften Heiner Eichners umfasst den weit verstreuten wissenschaftlichen Ertrag aus fast sechs Jahrzehnten. Beinahe jeder Sprachzweig der indoeuropäischen Sprachfamilie sowie einige Nachbarsprachen und die Plansprachen wurden in fast...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-03-28
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This volume presents the most comprehensive overview in English of the languages of the Central Andes, spoken primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Efforts to describe and document Central Andean languages, as well as philological research into colonial documentation and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-27
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