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This book presents a novel analysis of concealed-question constructions, reports of a mental attitude in which part of a sentence looks like a nominal complement (e.g. Eve's phone number in Adam knows Eve's phone number), but is interpreted as an indirect question (Adam...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity, gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is possible to distinguish between particular subclasses of adjectival predicates—relative...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-23
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As the most widely documented language in human history, English holds a unique key to unlocking some of the mysteries of the uniquely human endowment of language. Yet the field of World Englishes has remained somewhat marginal in linguistic theory. This collection...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-14
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This is Volume 1 of Dangerous Language.This book examines the rise of the international language Esperanto, launched in 1887 as a proposed solution to national conflicts and a path to a more tolerant world. The chapters in this volume chart the emergence of Esperanto as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-10
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This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the basic tools that allow us to dissociate what we say from what is actually going on, allowing us to talk about what might...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-02-09
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This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of ‘Hong Kong English’. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This book provides an in-depth study of controlled languages used in technical documents from both a theoretical and practical perspective. It first explores the history of controlled languages employed by the manufacturing industry to shape and constrain the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-30
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This book presents a novel analysis of the learning of motion event descriptions by Anglophone students of Spanish. The author examines cross-linguistic differences between English and Spanish, focusing on the verbal patterns of motion events, to explore how learners...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-28
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This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country. The chapters present a range of frameworks and methodologies used in sociolinguistics and apply...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives. Combining theoretical and psycholinguistic questions concerning the nature of alternative sets, it sheds new light on the theory of focus and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book makes an original contribution to the fields of sociolinguistics, language planning policy and Chinese language studies. It examines the effectiveness of the Singapore’s Speak Mandarin Campaign in changing the language use of dialect speakers towards...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-19
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This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin, explores the relationship between language and migration. Berlin is a multicultural city in the heart of Europe, but what do we know about the number of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-17
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This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages. Part I considers...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-01-12
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This book discusses the contribution of articulatory and excitation source information in discriminating sound units. The authors focus on excitation source component of speech -- and the dynamics of various articulators during speech production -- for enhancement...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-11
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This book examines acknowledged practices and demonstrates to teachers how to make the most out of their assessment practices. It also explores different assessment methods for skills such as reading, writing, listening and speaking. Forecasting the future of assessment...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-10
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This book explores pedagogical concepts, metaphors and images of non-white, non-western researchers and research students on the inter/nationalization of education. Specifically, this book draws on the intellectual resources of China and India to explore the pedagogical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-05
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This is the first volume to present individual chapters on the full range of developmental and acquired pragmatic disorders in children and adults. In chapters that are accessible to students and researchers as well as clinicians, this volume introduces the reader to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-01-05
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At a time when social, cultural and linguistic diversity has become a characteristic of education systems around the world, this timely text considers how teacher education is responding to these developments in the context of increased mobilities within and across...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-02
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Übersetzen impliziert zuerst Interpretieren, denn der zu übersetzende Text muss vom Übersetzer verstanden werden. Und « Man versteht immer anders, wenn man überhaupt versteht » (Hans Georg Gadamer). Deshalb ist das guteÜbersetzen keine leichte Arbeit. Mit seiner...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2017-01-02
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This book presents theoretical considerations and the results of empirical research on pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) deployed by pre-service trainee teachers majoring in English as a foreign language who experienced different levels of language anxiety (LA)....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-12-29
Collection :
Second Language Learning and Teaching
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