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Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and reflect historical cultural understandings of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-07
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The impact of aesthetics is increasing again. For today’s scholars, aesthetic theories are a significant companion and contribution in studying and ana-lysing cultural phenomena and production. Today’s scene of aesthetics is more global than what it is in most...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-07-06
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In a postfactual world in which claims are often held to be true only to the extent that they confirm pre-existing or partisan beliefs, this book asks crucial questions: how can we identify the many forms of untruthfulness in discourse? How can we know when their use is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-07-01
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Die Arbeit eröffnet eine neue Perspektive auf das eigentümliche Phänomen, dass bestimmte komplexe Verben nicht in Verbzweitstellung (V2) auftreten können. Sätze wie „Der Regisseur uraufführt das Stück.“ bzw. „Der Regisseur führt das Stück urauf.“ werden allgemein als...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-07-01
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Translating from English to Japanese poses particular challenges for the translator, arising from the significant linguistic and cultural differences between the two languages. This book explores the various options and techniques available to and used by translators...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-30
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Mass communication theories were largely built when we had mass media audiences. The number of television, print, film or other forms of media audiences were largely finite, concentrating people on many of the same core content offerings, whether that be the nightly...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-30
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The book focuses on boredom, a construct that has been explored in educational psychology but has received only scant attention from second language acquisition researchers. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in positive emotions in second or foreign...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-30
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This book revisits a number of key issues in Chinese Translation Studies. Reflecting on e.g. what Translation Studies researchers have achieved in the past, and the extent to which the central issues have been addressed and what still needs to be done, a group of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-06-26
Collection :
New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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A unique academic reference dedicated to listening, featuring current research from leading scholars in the field The Handbook of Listening is the first cross-disciplinary academic reference on the subject, gathering the current body of scholarship on listening in one...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-06-26
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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Wir alle kommen mit der Superdiversität der Gesellschaft in Kontakt, die zeigt, wie geschichtet, kontextabhängig und veränderlich sich Menschen sozial organisieren und identifizieren. Kulturelle Identität ist schon lange nicht mehr nur mit der nationalen Herkunft...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-06-26
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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965.The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation and discourse...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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The book presents a comprehensive study of Russian prepositions, with a focus on expressing spatial characteristics. It primarily deals with how metaphorical and metonymical transfers motivate the use of Russian prepositional phrases, explaining the collocations of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-06-23
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This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-23
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Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland.
It is also a vigorous contribution to the age-old dialogue between...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-22
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Natural languages – idioms such as English and Cantonese, Zulu and Amharic, Basque and Nicaraguan Sign Language – allow their speakers to convey meaning and transmit meaning to one another. But what is meaning exactly? What is this thing that words convey and speakers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-06-17
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Teaching and Race: How To Survive, Manage, and Even Encourage Race Talk provides an in-depth interdisciplinary analysis of some common student talk about race, its flavor, character, rhetorical, sociological, psychological and educational development sources, and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-06-15
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This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.e., language teachers' use of curriculum materials. It particularly focuses on EFL teachers' use of prescribed curriculum materials in higher education in Mainland China and presents a...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-13
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For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It has taken listeners to parts of the world where they have never gone, and perhaps never would: war zones, refugee camps, elite universities, space...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2020-06-11
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This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors. The book takes a critical approach to understanding professional...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-11
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