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This book presents a corpus-based study of spoken learner language produced by university-level ESL students in the classroom. Using contemporary theories as a guide and employing cutting-edge corpus analysis tools and methods, the authors analyse a variety of learner...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-28
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This volume critically examines the phenomenon of “English fever” in South Korea from both micro- and macro-perspectives. Drawing on original research and rich illustrative examples, the book investigates two key questions: why is English so popular in Korea, and why is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-27
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This cutting edge collection considers how the Japanese language functions as a key element of Japanese soft power in Asia. Within Japanese culture itself, the promotion of language has been an area of ambivalence.This interdisciplinary book looks across the fields...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-26
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This book presents a thought-provoking challenge to mainstream theories of second language learning. Focusing on Chinese Hanzi, a self-sufficient meaning-making system that operates via visual shape and the logic built into its formation, it analyses ‘post-lingual’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-19
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This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university. It addresses several topical issues in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) education and Business English teaching, including how ESP students learn, how they develop...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour. It documents and critiques this language from an array of disciplinary perspectives, with chapters on children’s books, government infomercials, television...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book presents empirical findings that reveal various teaching strategies and responses from two sub-cultural groups of students, i.e. local Hong Kong and Mainland students, with regard to their English studies. It puts forward a constructive model for innovative...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This volume comprises twenty eight papers selected from the widely known work of K.A. Jayaseelan and R. Amritavalli on Dravidian. Collectively, these papers cover the entire area of Dravidian syntax: they range from broad questions such as sentence structure and word...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-13
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This book discusses evolution of the human brain, the origin of speech and language. It covers past and present perspectives on the contentious issue of the acquisition of the language capacity. Divided into two parts, this insightful work covers several characteristics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-12
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This book presents a sociolinguistics of academic publishing from an historical and contemporary perspective. Using Swedish academia as a case study, it focuses on publishing practices within history and psychology. The author demonstrates how new regimes of research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-06
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This book challenges the dominant tendency in world Englishes scholarship to rely on the ‘nation’ as a static spatial entity and reliable analytic category. Using the transnational Korean context as a case in point, the authors analyse how the practices and ideologies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-05
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This book focuses on the form and the function of commands--directive speech acts such as pleas, entreaties, and orders--from a typological perspective. A team of internationally-renowned experts in the field examine the interrelationship of these speech acts with...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-07-04
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This book explores the responses of Chinese English teachers (CETs) and learners to the Native English-Speaking Teacher/Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher (NEST/NNEST) issue by examining the self-perceptions of Chinese English teachers, the perceptions of Chinese...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-07-02
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This book contextualizes the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), with a particular focus on the professional and academic identity and role of the EAP practitioner. The authors examine previously neglected areas such as the socio-economic, academic and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-28
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The Handbook of Technology and Second Language Teaching and Learning presents a comprehensive exploration of the impact of technology on the field of second language learning.The rapidly evolving language-technology interface has propelled dramatic changes in, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-06-28
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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The chapters in this volume address the process of syntactic change at different granularities.The language-particular component of a grammar is now usually assumed to be nothing more than the specification of the grammatical properties of a set of lexical items....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-20
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This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, and networked by infrastructures. That is, as...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-19
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This book investigates and analyzes the way in which factors such as communication apprehension, self-perceived communicative competence and group dynamics influence the communicative behavior of a foreign-language learner. It also focuses on interpersonal...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-06-16
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This book explores the wealth of evidence from early Indo-Aryan for the existence of transitive nouns and adjectives, a rare linguistic phenomenon which, according to some categorizations of word classes, should not occur. John Lowe shows that most transitive nouns and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-16
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