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The Language of Sexual Misconduct Cases analyzes the many ways in which language plays a crucial role in sexual misconduct cases. Roger W. Shuy describes eleven court cases for which he served as an expert witness or consultant, and explains the issues at stake in each...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-08-16
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Language and Computers introduces students to the fundamentals of how computers are used to represent, process, and organize textual and spoken information. Concepts are grounded in real-world examples familiar to students’ experiences of using language and computers in...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-08-02
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This book provides the fullest account ever published of the external influences on English during the first thousand years of its formation. In doing so it makes profound contributions to the history of English and of western culture more generally.
English is a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-08-02
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Andrew Carnie’s bestselling textbook on syntax has guided thousands of students through the discipline of theoretical syntax; retaining its popularity due to its combination of straightforward language, comprehensive coverage, and numerous exercises. In this third...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-07-26
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Introducing Linguistics
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A first in multimodal/multisemiotic discourse studies this collection of original articles by international scholars focuses primarily on texts from non-English speaking contexts. The illuminating insights enhance our understanding of how language and other semiotic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-24
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Offering a timely snapshot of current theory and research in the field of psychology in foreign language learning, this book is accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Each chapter focuses on a different psychological construct and provides an overview of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-24
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This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers. Its approach is broadly functional typological but makes frequent reference to work in formal semantics by scholars such as Angelika Kratzer and Paul Portner. The author...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-07-19
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Essential Welsh Grammar will help you get more out of your study of Welsh.Essential Welsh Grammar is an up-to-date introduction to Welsh grammar. You don't need to know a lot about grammar before you start. Everything is explained simply and there are lots of examples...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
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2012-07-06
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The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the book’s core lies a pragmatically...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-07-03
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How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing?
The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Short Introduction,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-06-28
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Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong and its neighboring province, has an unusually rich repertoire of verbal particles. This volume significantly augments the academic literature on their semantics, focusing on three affixal quantifiers, -saai, -hoi and -maai. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-06-21
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Over the last two decades, functional heads have been one of the privileged objects of research in generative linguistics. However, within this line of inquiry, two alternative approaches have developed: while the cartographic project considers crosslinguistic evidence...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-20
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Master Greek script with this straightforward guide from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Read and write Greek script is a clear step-by-step guide to the written language, with plenty of examples from real-life texts to show how it works in...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2012-06-15
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Essential Portuguese Grammar will help you get more out of your study of Portuguese.Essential Portuguese Grammar is an up-to-date introduction to Portuguese grammar. You don't need to know a lot about grammar before you start. Everything is explained simply and there...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2012-06-15
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This edited volume explores how digital games have the potential to engage learners both within and outside the classroom and to encourage interaction in the target language.This is the first dedicated collection of papers to bring together state-of-the-art research in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-12
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This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representation of telicity, change, and the notion of state. The book advances our understanding of these aspects of event structure by combining...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-06-07
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This history of the Spanish lexicon is written from the interacting perspectives of linguistic and cultural change and in the light of advances in the study of language contact and lexical change. The author describes the language inherited from spoken Latin in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-06-07
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This volume addresses some of the most important approaches to the following key questions in contemporary generative syntactic theory: What are the operations available for (syntactic) structure-building in natural languages? What are the triggers behind them? and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-06-07
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This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-06-07
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