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This book is a cross-disciplinary study, incorporating political science, law, and sociolinguistics in its examination of Hong Kong’s National Security Law which has impacted many aspects of life in the city. Through a critical discourse analysis lens, it details...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-24
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This book investigates the language used by protagonists in four major political debates in the early history of the United States. The first of these concerns the controversy in the first United States House of Representatives in the summer of 1789 on whether a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-19
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This volume investigates the methods and techniques used to investigate expressivity, a term used to describe linguistic phenomena that serve an expressive function and deliver sensory information about an event, entity, or other culturally-determined category through a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-16
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This book argues the case for indigenous African languages, which have been stripped of their importance and are now often overshadowed - both officially, through governmental language policies, and informally, through attitudes and ideologies - by former colonial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-15
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This book introduces a new area of research known as "translator's posture". With technical, pedagogical, and sociological dimension, posture is valuable to learners, researchers, educators, and practitioners alike. The technical dimension aims to invite practitioners...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-15
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This volume addresses the pressing need for integrating technology into language learning and teaching practices. In an age where technology shapes every aspect of our lives, educators face the challenge of harnessing its power to enhance language education.This book...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-14
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An essential resource for understanding linguistic landscapes and their role in multilingual contexts worldwide The Handbook of Linguistic Landscapes and Multilingualism provides an in-depth exploration of linguistic landscapes as a tool to understand multilingualism...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-13
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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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 Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This volume explores a wide range of structural...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-12
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This book offers an accessible introduction to the main issues in language policy today, and to the origins and conceptual foundations of the relationship between language and the state. Florian Coulmas draws on specific examples from around the world to explore how...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-10
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This book attempts to build semiotics on a new foundation, which is “meaning-making”. At the very beginning, the central terms of signs and semiotics are redefined, as the old definition for sign (one thing standing for another) is far from satisfactory. Sign is a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-06
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Including detailed discussions of both the current state and future directions of the field, this comprehensive textbook presents a complete overview of multilingualism. Written by internationally recognized researchers and educators, Understanding Multilingualism: An...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2025-03-03
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This edited book brings together research investigating foundational issues relating to the generation and restriction of alternative sets from theoretical and empirical perspectives. It includes contributions from noted scholars in the field to provide theoretical...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book investigates three interesting questions arising from the intriguing cross-linguistic perspective of Meiteilon and Nyishi, two Tibeto-Burman languages respectively spoken in the states of Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh in India. The first question relates to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This book explores how international students construct target language- (TL-) mediated social spaces for socializing. The author asks what factors either prevent or promote the construction of TL-mediated socializing opportunities by international students, how such...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-28
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This volume focuses on glocalization in English language teaching and learning, examining the challenges of its implementation. It describes the innovative practices of multilingual TESOL practitioners from various parts of the world, offering nuanced perspectives on...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-27
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The languages of the world make use of a variety of techniques for describing events and putting sentences together. This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages outside Europe, especially in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-25
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This handbook explores quantitative linguistics, pedagogy, and Mandarin language acquisition in an integrated fashion and helps readers grasp how insights from quantitative linguistics can shed light on Mandarin language acquisition. It focuses on issues related to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-25
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This book examines how aspects of gender and identity are represented in some of the best-selling children's book series published in English over the last 100 years. Combining the quantitative methods of corpus linguistics with Critical Discourse Analytic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-02-25
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Dieses Buch bietet einen kritischen Überblick über zeitgenössische Weltfragen in der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Es präsentiert spezifische Ideen, wie man sich einerseits von dem traditionellen literarischen Kanon und andererseits von den traditionellen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-02-24
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This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects and accents can be examined and parsed with the view of understanding better the devices and paths through which language,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-02-24
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