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This volume explores the grammar of Niuean, an endangered Polynesian language spoken on the island of Niue and in New Zealand, with a focus on the issue of predication. Since Aristotle, it has been claimed that a sentence consists of a subject and a predicate. Niuean...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-09
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Polite Forms was written between January, 2008 and June, 2011. Although the whole sequence is, perhaps self-evidently, it is a meditation on family life written from the perspective of a man in his early fifties.
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-08
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C. S. Lewis, based on the popularity of his books and essays, is one of the best communicators of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he was hailed for his talents as author, speaker, educator, and broadcaster; he continues to be a best-selling author more than a...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-07
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Mobile communication has dramatically changed over the past decade with the diffusion of smartphones. Unlike the basic 2G mobile phones, which "merely" facilitated communication between individuals on the move, smartphones allow individuals to communicate, to entertain...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-06
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This edited book examines language perceptions and practices in multilingual university contexts in the aftermath of recent theoretical developments questioning the conceptualization of language as a static entity, drawing on case studies from different Northern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-04-03
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In recent years, text and media linguistics have focused on genres in the new media. This is almost always accompanied by the question of the establishment and development of such content. Due to the diversity of genres and their dynamic development one can speak of an...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-02
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Television series are regarded as significant works of popular culture in today’s society, which explains the increasing demand to translate them into other languages to reach larger audiences. This book focuses on one of the two most common modes of audiovisual...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-03-31
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The book provides an assessment of the contribution of pronoun omission to the complexity and efficiency of varieties of English and the influence of language contact on its attestation and pervasiveness. On the one hand, omitted pronouns result in simpler and more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-31
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This book questions whether the news we get is as useful for citizens as it could, or should, be.This international study of news is based on re-thinking and re-conceptualising the news values that underpin understandings of journalism. It goes beyond empirical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-30
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In this book, the author investigates a central issue in language testing research: What are the key features that contribute to item difficulty in a reading test? Results of various statistical analyses of the multiple-choice reading items from the Austrian 2009...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-03-30
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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-25
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In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-25
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This volume provides the most exhaustive and comprehensive treatment available of the Verb Second property, which has been a central topic in formal syntax for decades. While Verb Second has traditionally been considered a feature primarily of the Germanic languages,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-25
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Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people daily in the complex and changing worlds in which they live. It matters...
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Polity
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2020-03-24
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Why It Matters
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Weltanschauungen haben zwischen 1850 und 1945 in Deutschland Konjunktur. Als philosophische, wissens- und wissenschaftshistorische Diskursangebote reagieren sie im Prozess der Moderne auf entstehende Synthesemängel, auf Ganzheitsverluste und auf das, was zeitgenössisch...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-03-23
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This book illuminates the concept of disaster communities through a series of international case studies. It offers an eclectic overview of how different forms of media and journalism contribute to our understanding of the lived experiences of communities at risk from,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-20
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WINNER of the 2021 British Association for Applied Linguistics Book prize
It is well recognized that when people are living with a dementia, effective communication can be a challenge for both them and those they interact with. Despite a plethora of good advice, it...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book explores possible and impossible...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of current research in African languages, drawing on insights from anthropological linguistics, typology, historical and comparative linguistics, and sociolinguistics. Africa is believed to host at least one third of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-03-19
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