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This book delves deep into how the concepts of identity and similarity, which are fundamental to human beings, are expressed in the grammar of Mandarin Chinese. Here, we investigate a variety of constructions in Mandarin that can convey equivalence between entities,...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-02-09
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This book examines the behavioral and neural bases of morphological processing with evidence from Mandarin Chinese. While the role of morphology in alphabetic language processing has been widely explored, how the human brain encodes morphological information in Mandarin...
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Springer
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2026-02-06
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The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language offers a comprehensive guide to the role that iconicity - resemblance between form and meaning - plays in all modes of languages, on all levels of language, and in all aspects of language.The originally semiotic notion of...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-02
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This book provides an important exploration of empathetic practices and approaches in and to creative writing – both as a guide to the practice itself and to the teaching of creative writing. Contributors explore connections forged through creative writing; for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-29
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This book presents the first cross-linguistic experiment on how the abstract concepts of LIFE and DEATH are embodied in English, German, and Persian. Using two complementary approaches, it first identifies the prototypes—color, form, vehicle, material, place, body...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-27
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This book analyses search engines as indexing systems: structures of social memory, designed to organise information access when knowledge is stored in archives. It views indexing systems as a highly improbable outcome of socio-cultural evolution, and charts the main...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-23
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This book evaluates emergent forms of musical virtuosity within American musical cultures during the age of electronic media, a period spanning from 1920—when radio became a household technology and sound recording and playback both gradually became...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-23
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The goal of speed reading is learning to read information faster without affecting your ability to understand it. In this book, you’ll learn a wide variety of strategies to boost your reading speed.The beginning will discuss setting up a plan for speed reading before...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-04-13
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Speed reading is the solution to your problem because it allows you to quickly grasp the important information from a document, read quickly to study, catch up on those work emails, or even just learn new thinks effectively and efficiently. There are many applications...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-04-10
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You will naturally improve as you continually practice speed reading, the strategies do not require any extra equipment or skills.You will learn how to test your current reading speed, as well as what you are doing that might be impeding your efforts.You will learn the...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-03-28
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The goal of speed reading is learning to read information faster without affecting your ability to understand it. In this book, you’ll learn a wide variety of strategies to boost your reading speed.The beginning will discuss setting up a plan for speed reading before...
Editeur :
Rob Satterfield
Parution :
2026-03-19
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How can history education equip students to understand and confront the economic crises of yesterday and tomorrow? Since the beginning of the 21st century, the economic consequences of the debt crises of 2007 and 2008, of the Covid-19 pandemic and of Russia’s war of...
Editeur :
Council of Europe
Parution :
2026-03-19
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Academic freedom is in peril – and with it, the democratic soul of Europe. Across the continent, universities once seen as bastions of independent thought now face increasing pressures: political interference, legal intimidation, censorship and chilling online...
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Council of Europe
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2026-03-18
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'A deeply immersive portrait of daily life in Israel and the West Bank' The Best Books to Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Financial Times'Brims over...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2023-10-03
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Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most people think?Most of us have a sense that our...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-04-13
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This book presents a thoughtful and thorough account of diverse studies on Chinese translation and interpreting (TI). It introduces readers to a plurality of scholarly voices focusing on different aspects of Chinese TI from an interdisciplinary and international...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-02-02
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New Frontiers in Translation Studies
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To respond to the multilingual turn in language education, this volume constitutes a challenge to the traditional, monolingual, and native speakerism paradigm in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging lens. The...
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Springer
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2020-09-12
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This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia – the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic – as well as their interaction in the modern era. It locates the emergence of language...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-11-24
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This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.
Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-26
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This Handbook maps the contours of an exciting and burgeoning interdisciplinary field concerned with the role of language and languages in situations of conflict. It explores conceptual approaches, sources of information that are available, and the institutions and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-18
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