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This book presents an empirical study to develop and validate a proficiency scale of business English writing in the Chinese tertiary context. Through a mixture of intuitive, quantitative and qualitative methods, the book demonstrates how a pool of descriptors are...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-29
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This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers in order to examine how and to what extent the challenge of language revitalisation should be reassessed and reconceptualised to take account of our fast-changing social context. The period of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-28
Collection :
Language and Globalization
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This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on word classes. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and is based on the use of distinctive features analogous to the ones used...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-22
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This reference work is the first to examine pragmatic language disorders of clients in complex and underserved populations. In chapters written by a range of experts, the unique pragmatic language skills of clients are examined, allowing for a broad overview. The text...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-22
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This book focuses on the idea of Academic Persian in the growing competition of many Middle Eastern languages to produce and highlight their academic discourse. Similar to academic English, most West Asian languages including Persian, Turkish, and Arabic are developing...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-17
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This book offers a unique analysis of how political representatives construct ideas about the nation in contemporary Indonesian politics. In their struggle to define what the authors call the ‘national narrative’, would-be national leaders seek to develop a story about...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-09-16
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An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day
The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-13
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This book addresses a controversial issue regarding SL-TL transfer in the translation process, namely the question as to the dominant route in English-Chinese and Chinese-English professional consecutive interpretations, respectively: the form-based processing route or...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-13
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This book brings together contributions on learner autonomy from a myriad of contexts to advance our understanding of what autonomous language learning looks like with digital tools, and how this understanding is shaped by and can shape different...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-09
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This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics. The advent of new media that is global in reach and impact has created the need for a journalism ethics that is global in principles and aims. For...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-02
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"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence from many...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2021-09-02
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Von gewaltiger Architektur in Videospielen über weite Landschaftsaufnahmen in Dokumentationen bis zu orchestraler Musik in Spielfilmen – manche unterhaltsame Medieninhalte scheinen explizit dafür geschaffen zu sein, uns in Faszination und Staunen zu versetzen. Während...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-09-01
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Some educational researchers claim that videogames can energize learning in both traditional and non-traditional contexts; cultivate skills more useful to a changing economy; and present information in ways more appealing to students. The notion of «serious games» dates...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-09-01
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Checkpoint World English Stage 9 is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education.This series offers full coverage of the learning objectives for the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second language curriculum framework (0876) and is mapped to the...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2021-08-31
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Social media is changing the business of representation in the Senate. If you want to know what your senator is up to, you don't need a newspaper, just your phone. Some senators are social media minimalists while others are digitally long-winded, but each senator has...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-27
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This volume explores how human languages become what they are, why they differ from one another in certain ways but not in others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. Research on the language-emotion interface has to date concentrated primarily on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-26
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This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago. Although...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-25
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The last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional options that can be employed in teaching grammar structures (e.g., deduction and induction, different types of corrective feedback, input-based vs....
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-24
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This book brings together selected revised papers representing a multidisciplinary approach to language, music, and gesture, as well as their interaction. Among the number of multidisciplinary and comparative studies of the structure and organization of language and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-08-23
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