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Presented in two parts, this book firstly introduces core considerations in ESP course development drawing on examples from a wide range of ESP and EAP courses. Secondly four case studies show how experienced ESP teachers and course developers went about developing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Gender is a hotly debated topic in the field of education. The role that language plays in educational contexts especially in the classroom has long been acknowledged. Innovatively combining approaches in the analysis of classroom discourse this book offers rich...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This volume stands as a demonstration of resistance to 'the known' (i.e. the tyranny of the expected) through individual and collective counter-conduct within the domain of language education. Supported by data drawn from various local and national contexts, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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The book outlines the evolution and role of minority languages locally and nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; and it assesses the social and economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of theYiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-11
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This book is a cross-linguistic study of the syntax of yes-no questions and their answers, drawing on data from a wide range of languages with particular focus on English, Finnish, Swedish, Thai, and Chinese. There are broadly two types of answer to yes-no questions:...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-10
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This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the focus on young adult literature and its place in post-apartheid South Africa, as well...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-12-07
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Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2015This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-12-05
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Welsh Writing, Political Action and Incarceration examines the prison literature of certain iconicWelsh authors whose political lives and creative writings are linked to ideas about Wales and theWelsh language, the nature of political activism, and the function of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-05
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This volume offers a selection of twenty papers presented at the 28th International Annual Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society held in 2014. The authors’ reflections on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Multilingualism fall into four different areas of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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The book sheds light on the demands of Art. 107(1) TFEU regarding public funding of public service broadcasting (PSB). Broadcasting is of particular importance in the modern structure of democracy. PSB provides broadcasting services that are of higher quality and of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Placed within the context of reception studies, this book investigates how advertisements that rely on re-contextualising shared cultural knowledge are understood by their viewers, and examines their persuasive potential.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book sheds light on the ways in which the on-going Israeli-Arab conflict has shaped Arabic language instruction. Due to its interdisciplinary nature it will be of great interest to academics and researchers in security and middle eastern studies as well as those...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Aus der Perspektive der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft nehmen die Beiträge des Bandes das Zusammenspiel von Rhetorik und Kulturen vom 8.–21. Jahrhundert in den Blick. Rhetorische Konstruktionen tradieren, modifizieren und verweben kulturelle Strömungen als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-12-04
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This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-04
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Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist alternatives,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-12-03
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This is the first book of its kind to provide a practical and student-friendly guide to corpus linguistics that explains the nature of electronic data and how it can be collected and analyzed. Designed to equip readers with the technical skills necessary to analyze and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-02
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Of all the things we do and say, most will never be repeated or reproduced. Once in a while, however, an idea or a practice generates a chain of transmission that covers more distance through space and time than any individual person ever could. What makes such...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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Words are the building blocks of human communication and provide a strong foundation for the development of skilled language production and comprehension. Learning words in a language other than one's own requires long-term commitment and substantial engagement. This...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-12-01
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This volume offers the reader a singular overview of current thinking on indirect reports. The contributors are eminent researchers from the fields of philosophy of language, theoretical linguistics and communication theory, who answer questions on this important issue....
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Springer
Parution :
2015-12-01
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