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This book offers a valuable contribution to the discussion on the complexities of L2 learning processes that pose a challenge to learners. Focusing on the cognitive, affective and socio-cultural perspectives, the papers included provide important insights into the...
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Springer
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2017-04-21
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In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital. At the heart of these...
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Springer
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2017-04-19
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This text focuses on the motivational regulation in English language learning of Chinese college students. Considering the importance and necessity of motivational regulation study in foreign language learning, it systematically explores strategies used by Chinese...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-04-14
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This book examines historical changes in the grammar of the Indo-Aryan languages from the period of their earliest attestations in Vedic Sanskrit (around 1000 bc) to contemporary Hindi. Uta Reinöhl focuses specifically on the rise of configurational structure as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-04-14
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This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research. More broadly, the content is linked to the realities of living speech through a connection (via...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-04-08
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This book uncovers exactly what is involved when researchers from different disciplines engage with one another in research projects. The authors identify the opportunities and difficulties involved in interdisciplinary engagement, and challenge current claims about...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-30
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This book combines an authoritative examination of the field of discourse-based research with practical guidance on research design and development. The book is not prescriptive but instead invites expansive, innovative thinking about what discourse is, why it matters...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-30
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This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based...
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Springer
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2017-03-29
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This book advances the theory of action research, analyzing how it can be used to develop autonomy among language teachers. Although acknowledging that the research process is not always linear, the authors proceed according to a clear progression which teachers can...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-27
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This book examines reports that are written by reviewers of submissions to a peer-reviewed journal.This includes a thorough study of the reports from the perspectives of context, content and genre, as well as from the point of view of pragmatics and politeness. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-25
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This volume presents articles that focus on the application of formal models in the study of language in a variety of innovative ways, and is dedicated to Jacques Moeschler, professor at University of Geneva, to mark the occasion of his 60th birthday. The contributions,...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-20
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This book explores new territory at the interface between semantics and pragmatics, reassessing a number of linguistic phenomena in the light of recent advances in pragmatic theory. It presents stimulating insights by experts in linguistics and philosophy, including...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book explores a key issue in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-03-16
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Questo volume si concentra sulla nozione di attributo e di frase attributiva, un terreno particolarmente fertile per la definizione di una cesura tra l’approccio, o meglio gli approcci, presenti nella tradizione tedesca e le categorie usate in Italia e in genere fuor di...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-03-10
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This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-03-08
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"The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections, balancing coverage of enduring questions and important recent work. Those...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-03-08
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Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book provides argues for a compositional, truth-conditional, crosslinguistic semantics for evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of the source of information on which a statement is based. Central to the proposed theory is the distinction between what...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-03-02
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This volume addresses innovations in language teacher education, offering a diversity of personal/psychological perspectives and topics in the theory and/or practice in language teacher education. The text deals with innovations in teaching for learning, teacher...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-02-28
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This book reveals how 'double-voicing' is an inherent and routine part of spoken interactions within institutional contexts. Baxter's research shows that women use double-voicing more than men as a means of gaining acceptance and approval in the workplace....
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-02-24
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Context Counts assembles, for the first time, the work of pre-eminent linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff. A career that spans some forty years, Lakoff remains one of the most influential linguists of the 20th-century. The early papers show the genesis of Lakoff's inquiry...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-24
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