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The study of proxemics – the human use of space – is reimagined for the digital age in this book, a compelling examination of the future of the ways we move. Whereas much writing on the subject focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Advances in Intergroup Communication is a timely contribution to the field. It reflects developments in older, more established intergroup settings (e.g., gender, sexual orientation, organizations) whilst introducing newer studies such as the military and political...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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This volume advances theory and research by presenting original, empirical studies as well as theoretical and methodological overviews on dark family communication processes. Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, the volume includes contributions from...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-04-14
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Nominative-accusative and ergative are two common alignment types found across languages. In the former type, the subject of an intransitive verb and the subject of a transitive verb are expressed the same way, and differently from the object of a transitive. In...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-04-12
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Non-professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) is a recent discipline. Books and volumes on this subject that combine all the different fields are extremely uncommon and authoritative reference material is scarce and mostly scattered through disparate specialized...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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The author analyses the reasons behind the electoral success of European right-wing populist parties. Using the Austrian Freedom Party under Jörg Haider as a case study and with a richness of primary material, he argues that their success is only partly caused by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-08
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Do the languages people speak influence their economic decisions and social behavior in multilingual societies? This Handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine the links and tensions between economics and language to find the delicate balance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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This revised second edition is a comprehensive overview of why we speak the languages that we do. It covers language learning imposed by political and economic agendas as well as language choices entered into willingly for reasons of social mobility, economic advantage...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-08
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This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed as an entrepreneurship scholar. It invites them to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Es ist soweit: Sie haben endlose Zeit im Labor, Feld oder über Literaturbergen verbracht und nun ist es an der Zeit, Ihre Erkenntnisse der wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft mitzuteilen; kurzum Sie müssen oder wollen in einer Fachzeitschrift publizieren. Dabei gibt es...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2016-04-07
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Für Dummies
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The Handbook of Portuguese Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of research within the Brazilian and European variants of the Portuguese language. It includes chapters focusing on the key areas of linguistic study, including phonetics, phonology, morphology,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-06
Collection :
Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
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Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed its longstanding engagement with questions of politics, both in the narrow definition of the term, and in a wider understanding that...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-04-01
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Nothing inflames the language gripers like a misplaced disinterested, an illogical irregardless, a hideous operationalisation. To purists these are 'howlers' and 'non-words', fit only for scorn. But in their rush to condemn such terms, are the naysayers missing...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2016-03-31
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This book provides an accessible account of the origins and conceptual foundations of language policy. Florian Coulmas discusses the influence of twenty intellectuals from medieval to modern times, and from a variety of cultures, who have taken issue with language, its...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-03-25
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Seit Jahrhundertbeginn boomt der Markt populärer Geschichtsmagazine in Europa und anderen Weltregionen. Ihre Vielfalt und Auflagenhöhe machen sie zu bislang weithin unterschätzten Agenten der öffentlichen Geschichtskultur und des «Histotainments». Dieser Band widmet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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This collection of papers addresses new trends in Cognitive Linguistics. Three parts of the book focus on Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Integration Network Analysis. Both the theoretical contributions and the empirical case studies stress the importance of contextual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-03-24
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Provides a foundation for understanding a range of linguistic, cultural, and technological factors to effectively practice international communication in a variety of professional communication arenas An in-depth analysis of how cultural factors influence translation,...
Editeur :
Wiley-IEEE Press
Parution :
2016-03-23
Collection :
IEEE PCS Professional Engineering Communication Series
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This book is based on a series of lectures, which begin with a look at the history of the language that we use in order to encode our knowledge, particularly our scientific knowledge, i.e., the history of scientific English. Prof. M.A.K. Halliday poses the question of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-22
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Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-03-17
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This book outlines a system of phonological features that is minimally sufficient to distinguish all consonants and vowels in the languages of the world. The extensive evidence is drawn from datasets with a combined total of about 1000 sound inventories.
The...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-03-17
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