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“The first volume of the Handbook of Historical Linguistics is the best-worn handbook among many in my office and even though it’s almost 20 years old, I still consult it often. Still, historical linguistics is a very different field today than it was in 2003 and this...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-09-15
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere. Certain...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-09-15
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This book investigates twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean literatures in translation. Covering three of the largest linguistic areas of the region – the so-called English-, French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean – the volume offers a comparative study of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Politiker*innen haben in digitalen Mediengesellschaften eine starke, zumeist visuelle und multimodale mediatisierte Präsenz. Nicht nur klassische Massenmedien und strategische PR-Teams lassenPolitiker*innen als Figuren in den unterschiedlichsten Online- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-14
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The Handbook of Asian Englishes provides wide-ranging coverage of the historical and cultural context, contemporary dynamics, and linguistic features of English in use throughout the Asian region. This first-of-its-kind volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-09-14
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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This volume is a compilation of 21 distinguished chapters, an Introduction, and an Afterword with a thematic focus on the functional variations of English in non-native contexts. Highly acclaimed scholars in the field of (applied) linguistics, bringing their expertise...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-14
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This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace. Using three triangulated methods, namely, questionnaire survey, matched-guise technique, and focused interview, the book...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-12
Collection :
Asia in Transition
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The present volume offers an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four studies to readers interested in the religious, philosophical and artistic aspects of initiation. In itself, the concept of initiation presupposes that there is an initiator, someone to be...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-09-11
Collection :
Collection Karoli
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This book presents outstanding articles addressing various aspects related to the ancient Silk Road, in particular the cultural, political, and economic interactions that took place among the civilizations and cultures on the Eurasian continent. In addition, the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-10
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Berlioz, Wagner und Liszt gelten als Protagonisten der sogenannten „neudeutschen Schule“. Dieses Phänomen bildete im 19. Jahrhundert den Kristallisationspunkt eines Paradigmenwechsels, der sich von der Musikkritik ausgehend bis auf die europäische Kulturgeschichte...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-09-10
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This book offers a comprehensive Possible Worlds framework with which to analyse counterfactual historical fiction. Counterfactual historical fiction is a literary genre that comprises narratives set in worlds whose histories run contrary to the history of our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-10
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of language and tourist mobility within an adventure tourism context. It uses a critical and ethnographic approach, contributing to poststructuralist perspectives of social life that are currently undergoing considerable changes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-09
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“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing A master class of 27 lessons,...
Editeur :
Workman Publishing Company
Parution :
2020-09-08
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This volume is dedicated to the concept and several applications of Dominant Language Constellations (DLC), by which it advances understanding of current multilingualism through addition of a novel perspective from which to view contemporary language use and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-07
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This book examines the pronunciation goals of teachers, course leaders, and learners on a ten-week UK pre-sessional access course, particularly with regard to suprasegmental instruction and target of instruction on how these goals are reflected in pronunciation...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-04
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In an age when young people may confuse online chatter with legitimate news, Navigating the News is the first textbook designed to show students how to recognize credible reporting and how real journalists perform their jobs.
The book begins with the basics of how to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-02
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This edited book brings together a collection of perspectives and studies on the role and potential uses of vocabulary assessment in second and foreign language learners' needs analysis. Assessing what vocabulary a student already knows - and what therefore might be a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-01
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The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-09-01
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Economic inequalities have become increasingly prominent in public debate in the last decade as sluggish economic growth, declining or stagnant incomes, high unemployment, and state policy regimes orientated towards austerity dominate many core capitalist regions, often...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-08-31
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This book explores the dynamics of language changes from sociolinguistic and historical linguistic perspectives. With in-depth case studies from all around the world, it uses diverse approaches across sociolinguistics and historical linguistics to answer questions such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-08-31
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