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Are you looking for a complete course in Polish which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Polish will guarantee success!Now fully updated to make your language learning...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2011-12-02
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Are you looking for a complete course in Hungarian which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Hungarian will guarantee success!Now fully updated to make your language...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2011-12-02
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Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts presents critical practitioner research into innovative approaches to language learner autonomy. Writing about experiences in a range of widely differing contexts, the authors offer fresh...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-25
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Is this the right book for me?Want to get more out of your study of German?Essential German Grammar is an up-to-date introduction to German grammar. You don't need to know a lot about grammar before you start. Everything is explained simply and there are lots of...
Editeur :
Teach Yourself
Parution :
2011-11-25
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This book advances research on grammatical change and shows the breadth and liveliness of the field. Leading international scholars report and reflect on the latest research into the nature and outcomes of all aspects of syntactic change including grammaticalization,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-24
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This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-24
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This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to linguistic fieldwork, reflecting its collaborative nature across the subfields of linguistics and disciplines such as astronomy, anthropology, biology, musicology, and ethnography. Experienced scholars and fieldworkers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-24
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As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-11-22
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This newly revised edition is both a lively introduction and practical guide to the main concepts and challenges of intercultural communication. Grounded in interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this work integrates theoretical principles and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-11-21
Collection :
Language in Society
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In The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution, sixty leading scholars present critical accounts of every aspect of the field. The Volume's five parts are devoted to insights from comparative animal behaviour; the biology of language evolution (anatomy, genetics, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-11-17
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Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora of spokenSpanish ever assembled for a single city, Otheguy and Zentella demonstrate the extent to which the language of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-02
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This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent stories about themselves and the social world they inhabit. It explores their use of metaphors, their myths and how language...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-26
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Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational knowledge, and general world knowledge. A central role in this process is played by the argument structure of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-20
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This book offers a range of analyses of the multiplicity of opinions and ideologies attached to rendering, in familiar or unfamiliar voices, languages known as non-standard varieties. The contributions include theoretical reflections, case studies and comparative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-10-19
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Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition “With its cornucopia of information, both thorough and practical, this book is a must for our methodology shelves. Its study questions and project suggestions will be a boon for many research methods courses.”Robert M....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-10-18
Collection :
Guides to Research Methods in Language and Linguistics
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Extraction and Representation of Prosodic Features for Speech Processing Applications deals with prosody from speech processing point of view with topics including: The significance of prosody for speech processing applicationsWhy prosody need to be incorporated in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-17
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This book presents the state of the art in research on grammaticalization, the process by which lexical items acquire grammatical function, grammatical items get additional functions, and grammars are created. Leading scholars from around the world introduce and discuss...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-13
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Forensic Speaker Recognition: Law Enforcement and Counter-Terrorism is an anthology of the research findings of 35 speaker recognition experts from around the world. The volume provides a multidimensional view of the complex science involved in determining whether a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-05
ePub
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Much of everyday work is done through talk between practitioner and client. Conversation Analysis is the close inspection of people's use of language in interaction. The work reported in this collection shows how CA can be used to identify, and improve, communicative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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An investigation of the historical evolution of figurative language within the framework of cognitive linguistics. It examines how and why metaphors evolve through the ages; discusses the role of culture; patterns of metaphor evolution; how many people use particular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-03
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