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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
Parution :
2020-03-19
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This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language. The author uses two case studies, of an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-18
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This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or “evaluative”) gradable terms. Its empirical building blocks are paradigms involving upward-scalar terms like 'few' and 'rarely', and their...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-17
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This book discusses the direction of changes in contemporary culture at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries in Poland on the example of mutual relationships between literature and the media, such as film, radio, TV and the Internet. The interdisciplinary approach...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-17
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This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work integrates typological, general, and theoretical research, documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-13
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The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English Phonology is an accessible, authoritative introduction to the English sound system....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak defends the position that, despite the supposed “lessons” that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013–2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Who the public blames for health problems determines who the public believes is responsible for solving those health problems. Health policies targeting the broader public are the most effective way to improve health. The research approach described in this book will...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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The Doctor Still Knows Best explores an answer to the question: how can medical culture still be marked by paternalism despite the focused attempts by the medical community to put doctor and patient on more equal footing?The recent push within medicine has been on...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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This book explores social media as an alternative channel of communication and resistance in Pakistan, Tunisia and Egypt, and argues that the term "Arab Spring" limits the scope of acknowledgement for the ongoing online and offline political uprisings in the Muslim...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-10
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Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have radically changed the way we live and work, and the field of interpreting is no exception. Interpreter training today needs to prepare students for this new professional reality and ICTs are increasingly being...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-09
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Populism, misogyny, rampage murders. Digital media seem to lie at the heart of sinister, intractable social challenges. Curiously, the very societies who fear such things are often dismissive of media research. Addressing key issues affecting global media industries,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2020-03-09
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This book offers a panoramic view of the emerging eco-paradigm of Translation Studies, known as Eco-Translatology, and presents a systematic study of the theoretical discourse from ecological perspectives in the field of Translation Studies. Eco-Translatology describes...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-03-06
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In Wissenschaftsblogs findet sich eine scheinbar unüberschaubare Vielfalt von Textelementen. Dass sich innerhalb dieser komplexen und heterogenen Textsammlung dennoch Musterhaftigkeiten abzeichnen, belegt die vorliegende Studie. Die Autorin rekonstruiert die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-05
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These empowering essays from leading women writers examine the power of the gendered language that is used to diminish women -- and imagine a more liberated world.Words matter. They wound, they inflate, they define, they demean. They have nuance and power. "Effortless,"...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2020-03-03
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This book offers a wide selection of carefully selected studies examining some of the most compelling issues, which have been explored in the area of literary translation. The contributions were authored by an international group of scholars who focused on the recent...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-03-02
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When MTV (Music Television channel) was established in 1981, an executive claimed that they had "integrated the most powerful forces in our two decades, TV and rock ‘n’ roll." In fact, this problematic relationship began in the mid-1950s, when the advent of rock ‘n’...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-03-02
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This book describes the steps undertaken by language researchers to disseminate their findings at sites of practice. It discusses questions that arise from such efforts and provides meaningful, real-life, first-hand accounts of both interactions with practitioners and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-29
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This book explores the nature of cognitive representations and processes in speech motor control, based primarily on evidence from speech timing. It engages with the key question of whether phonological representations are spatio-temporal, as in the Articulatory...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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