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Enables students to understand their assumptions and beliefs about the language they use every day In Navigating English Grammar, Anne Lobeck and Kristin Denham offer an engaging introduction to the linguistic study of the structure of English. Teaching basic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-10-11
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This book demonstrates that the grammatical systems of individual languages encode unique semantic structures. Zygmunt Frajzyngier examines these semantic structures with particular reference to how languages convey information about the location of an entity or an...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-10-10
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Die Metonymie im Deutschen ist bislang sowohl auf theoretischer wie auch auf empirischer Ebene vernachlässigt worden. Bei dieser Forschungslücke setzt das Buch an und befasst sich mit dem deutschsprachigen Migrationsdiskurs.Die Arbeit ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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Neste libro faise unha caracterización do verbo, xustifícanse as análises morfolóxicas do paradigma regular, dos verbos de irregularidade común e dos verbos de irregularidade propia na variedade galega do concello de Castrelo do Val (provincia de Ourense). O traballo...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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A questão central subjacente a esta antologia sociolinguística é a de averiguar onde os falantes veem as fronteiras, os espaços e os pontos de transição no mundo lusófono. No presente volume, as teorias relevantes da dialetologia perceptual (Perceptual Dialectology) e...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-10-07
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This edited collection delves into the multifaceted theme of 'Silenced Voices,' showcasing a diverse array of perspectives from scholars around the globe. From historical reflections to contemporary analyses, the book examines the complex dynamics of voice suppression...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-04
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This book examines public, political and media discourse in the context of failed states using Lebanon, a country torn by wars and political-financial corruption, as a contemporary case study. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), the author brings political and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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This book compares the ways in which the national media in two different countries construct (frame) and develop the image of the religious other, in this case Muslims in all their variety. Although it introduces concepts such as race and racism, otherness, Orientalism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-28
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This handbook brings together contributions from the main experts in the field of multilingualism and language varieties (including dialects, accents, sociolects, and idiolects of specific speech communities) as expressed in fictional dialogue on-screen in films, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-26
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As fans of Just a Minute know, the key to the game is knowing your way around the English language: how it works, how it’s evolved, and how words connect, often in surprising ways. When it comes to the English language (and Just a Minute), Gyles Brandreth has seen it...
Editeur :
Bbc Digital
Parution :
2024-09-26
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This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of language education, acquisition and assessment, contemporary political debate, modern and historical print media, and clinical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-26
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Engaging Indonesia
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The 19th-century copyright revolution gave authors and translators powerful tools over the use of their works. It encouraged publishers to form networks that connected them to writers, translators, authors’ societies, and literary agents worldwide. This book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This book presents the author's personal overview of Speech Prosody, and in particular the different areas in which he has been especially interested over the last few decades. These include the acoustics of speech prosody, prosodic transcription, the relationship...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This book offers a fascinating picture of how state censorship affected children’s literature translation in post-Civil War Spain. Focusing on the Spanish translations of Mark Twain’s children’s classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This handbook comprehensively covers the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature. It establishes an incontrovertible connection between literary devices - figurative language, rhetoric, and so on - and pedagogy and poetics in both written...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Die spanische Morphologie hat (ebenso wie die der anderen romanischen Sprachen) seit ihren Ursprüngen eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Wandlungen erfahren. Im Bereich der Verben sind hier u.a. bestimmte Formen der Vergangenheitstempora betroffen: Vielfach sind die aus...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-24
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This book is an original study of Cold Rush, an accelerated race for the extraction and protection of Arctic natural resources. The Northernmost reach of the planet is caught up in the double developments of two unfinished forces – rapidly progressing climate change and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-23
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The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by social media and the ubiquity and velocity of the internet, it has been subject to some grave assaults. There appear no longer to be any rules,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-09-19
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The main purpose of the publication is to present a linguo-cultural picture of traditional values (such as the value of life, freedom, dignity, family, religion, community, truth, good, beauty, and God) reflected in Anglo-American and Polish paremiological units.The...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-09-19
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Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aware of living in the present, of the constant flux of our sensations and thoughts, and of time itself flowing. In Temporal...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-19
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