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Two years is a long time in the world of new media – a world of phubbing and selfies, of cyberbullying and neknomination, of bitcoins, Prism surveillance and Google Glass. Much has occurred since the first edition of this book: from the extraordinary social media...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-25
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The studies in this volume investigate how multilingual education involves a critical engagement with questions of identity and culture, and a movement towards new ways of being and belonging. It addresses previously under-explored issues, in particular the integration...
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Springer
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2014-07-24
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In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework. They explore the theoretical significance, content, and role of parameters; whether or not variation should be strongly or weakly accounted for...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-24
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This book examines personal names, including given and acquired (or nick-) names, and how they were used in Anglo-Saxon England. It discusses their etymologies, semantics, and grammatical behaviour, and considers their evolving place in Anglo-Saxon history and culture....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-07-24
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This book explores the use of mobile devices for teaching and learning language and literacies, investigating the ways in which these technologies open up new educational possibilities. Pegrum builds up a rich picture of contemporary mobile learning and outlines of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-23
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The end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal aspect theory...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-15
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This book is concerned with cosmopolitanism – a privileged notion of «world citizenship» – and whether or not a cosmopolitan position is conducive to human flourishing when its preoccupation is aesthetic. The Limits of Cosmopolis addresses the question of how human...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-15
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The many secrets of the English language revealed, to help your language become better and stronger!
A reader-friendly book with an informative and enjoyable approach,The Word Spy puts more than 4,000 years of language in your hands. Using fascinating facts, it offers...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2014-07-12
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Know more than ever before about the English language, to become a better speaker, reader and writer!
Join the Word Spy and travel through different lands to go deep into the mysterious realms of language and discover empowering facts about the English language. Using...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2014-07-12
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Utilising a wide range of theoretical traditions from philosophy, sociology and anthropology, this book aims to raise the reader's awareness of the power as well as the limitations of language in relation to special education.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-12
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The present volume assembles a relevant set of studies of argument by analogy, which address this topic in a systematic fashion, either from an essentially theoretical perspective or from the perspective of it being applied to different fields like politics,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-09
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This book comprises a range of general discussions on tradition and innovation in the methodology used in discourse studies (Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Argumentation Theory, Rhetoric, Philosophy) and a number of empirical applications of such methodologies in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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Becoming an African Diaspora in Australia extends debates on identities, cultures and notions of race and racism into new directions as it analyses the forms of interactional identities of African migrants in Australia. It de-naturalises the commonplace assumptions and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-07-08
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The volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of key issues in second language learning and teaching, adopting as a point of reference both psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic perspectives.The papers included in the collection, which have been contributed by leading...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-08
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The book presents most recent investigations into foreign language teaching and learning discussed by prominent scholars in the field. A wide variety of topics ranges from theoretical approaches to foreign language instruction to a discussion of findings of empirical...
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-07-08
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This collection of papers focuses on cognitive metaphor research (CMR) from the perspective of the current debate on linguistic data and evidence. The peculiarity of the book is that it reveals the causes that trigger the methodological problems of data handling in CMR....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-08
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This book analyzes the different topics which highlight the relevance of communication within markets. In using and reformulating concepts of Arrow, Commons, Williamson, North, Becker and others, the author shows the hidden implications of these authors for a new...
Editeur :
Springer
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2014-07-04
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A Communication Perspective on the Military brings into focus the challenge of sense-making in the war state. How do military family members talk to one another about the stress of deployment on their lives? How do media – old and new – render the costs of war...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-01
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Creative writing may be the ultimate form of self-expression. Whether the reader is a creative writing student or someone who feels compelled to create stories and poetry in their free time, Idiot's Guides:Creative Writing helps them master the basics of fiction and...
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Dk
Parution :
2014-07-01
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Reports on joint work by researchers from different theoretical and linguistic backgrounds offer new insights on the interaction of linguistic code and context in language production and comprehension. This volume takes a genuinely cross-linguistic approach integrating...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-07-01
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