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At a very early stage, Japanese civilization asserted itself in a relationship of “linguistic competition” with Chinese, in both the religious, the literary, and the intellectual spheres. This cultural symbiosis linked to the shaping of a language, that Jean-Noël Robert...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2013-10-20
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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Despite many wanting him to fail, Piers Morgan took over from US TV legend Larry King at CNN in 2010 and went on to cover some of the most shocking news events in recent US history, such as the killing of Osama bin Laden, the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and...
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Ebury Digital
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2013-10-17
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This book considers the sequential deployment of the receiver's response to the caller's request in telephone service encounters between native speakers in the U.K, Germany and Italy analysing the different response formats and their grammatical configuration.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-16
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Social networking is now one of the ways in which anyone can set out to learn or improve their language skills. This collection brings together different sets of learning experiences and shows that success depends on the wider environment of the learner, the kind of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-15
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Keith Houston's entertaining book, inspired by his popular blog shadycharacters.co.uk, tells the unexpected stories of some unusual, and familiar, typographical marks and reveals a fascinating history of writing.Every character we write or type is a link to the past,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2013-10-10
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What are the top one hundred words we use the most? How should anchovy, chastisement and tryst be pronounced? How good are you at spelling the most commonly misspelt words and names? For the answers to these andquestions and much more, sit back and let Richard Anthony...
Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2013-10-10
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This book provides a multifaceted, multilayered examination of the processes and challenges language teachers face in constructing their professional identities in multilingual contexts such as Hong Kong. It focuses on how professional and personal identities are...
Editeur :
Springer
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2013-10-07
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Banter like a bowsered giflurt and swear like a sparrow-mouthed snick fadger with the help of this illustrated dictionary of long-lost words and phrases. This crude and quirky volume contains the most amusing vocabulary from the murky Middle English of Chaucer right up...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2013-10-07
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen aus der im Dezember 2011 vom «Max-Herrmann-Neiße-Institut» veranstalteten internationalen Tagung hervor. Sie verorten das vielseitige Werk Max Herrmann-Neißes im Kontext der literarischen Moderne, indem sie seine wechselnden Positionen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-03
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Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. This book brings it into prominence as both a multifaceted topic of deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a testing ground for theories in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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This book brings together many of Peter Culicover's most significant observations on the nature of syntax and its place within the architecture of human language. Over four decades he has sought to understand the cognitive foundations of linguistic theory and the place...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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This book explores the relations between language, the world, the minds of individual speakers, and the collective minds of particular language communities. Pieter Seuren examines the status of abstract rule systems underlying speech and considers how much computational...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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This book argues (a) that there is no principled way to distinguish inflection and derivation and (b) that this fatally undermines conventional approaches to morphology. Conceptual shortcomings in the relation between derivational and lexically-derived word forms,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-10-03
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The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting;...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Computer games have fascinated millions of users for more than 30 years. Today, they constitute the strongest sector in the media-entertainment industry and are part of the experience of digital daily life.Computer Game Studies require a deep understanding of functional...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-10-01
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This book looks at how the human brain got the capacity for language and how language then evolved. Its four parts are concerned with different views on the emergence of language, with what language is, how it evolved in the human brain, and finally how this process led...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-26
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Wordsmiths and Warriors explores the heritage of English through the places in Britain that shaped it. It unites the warriors, whose invasions transformed the language, with the poets, scholars, reformers, and others who helped create its character.
The book relates a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-26
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In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-25
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In this complete survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics, students are introduced to core research questions and the various approaches to tackling these. Provides a comprehensive introduction to this interdisciplinary field of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-25
Collection :
Introducing Linguistics
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