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This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the city image in the Hebrew Bible, with specific attention to stylistics. By engaging with spatial theory (Lefebvre 1974, Soja 1996), the author develops a new framework to analyse the concept of ‘city’, arguing that a set...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-07-23
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This book contains one hundred typical mistakes relating to papers, proposals, oral presentations, and correspondence with editors (e.g. journal submissions), reviewers (rebuttal letters), and editing agencies.The book is primarily intended for non-native English...
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Springer
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2020-07-17
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This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s, but was extensively documented in the late nineteenth century by two British administrators, Edward Horace...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-07-15
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This book aims to investigate the process of decision-making in subtitling of feature films and entertainment series. The author uses Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson,1986) to argue that the technical, linguistic and translational constraints at work in subtitling...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-13
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This book combines methods including Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics and comparative analysis in order to grasp the complexities and ramifications of multilingual broadcasting journalism in different national and supranational contexts. Starting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-11
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Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-09
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Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and reflect historical cultural understandings of...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-07-07
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Die Arbeit eröffnet eine neue Perspektive auf das eigentümliche Phänomen, dass bestimmte komplexe Verben nicht in Verbzweitstellung (V2) auftreten können. Sätze wie „Der Regisseur uraufführt das Stück.“ bzw. „Der Regisseur führt das Stück urauf.“ werden allgemein als...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-07-01
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The book focuses on boredom, a construct that has been explored in educational psychology but has received only scant attention from second language acquisition researchers. Although recent years have seen a growing interest in positive emotions in second or foreign...
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Springer
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2020-06-30
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The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages provides a comprehensive account of the Transeurasian languages, and is the first major reference work in the field since 1965.The term 'Transeurasian' refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-26
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This book is the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to the linguistics of humor. Salvatore Attardo takes a broad approach to the topic, exploring not only theoretical linguistic analyses, but also pragmatic and semantic aspects, conversation and discourse...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-23
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Natural languages – idioms such as English and Cantonese, Zulu and Amharic, Basque and Nicaraguan Sign Language – allow their speakers to convey meaning and transmit meaning to one another. But what is meaning exactly? What is this thing that words convey and speakers...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-17
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This book examines a ubiquitous, yet under-researched, area of language education, i.e., language teachers' use of curriculum materials. It particularly focuses on EFL teachers' use of prescribed curriculum materials in higher education in Mainland China and presents a...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-13
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This edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professional settings, drawing on the contributions of a set of internationally-renowned authors. The book takes a critical approach to understanding professional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-11
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Nietzsche is perhaps best known for his diagnosis of the problem of nihilism. Though his elaborations on this diagnosis often include descriptions of certain beliefs characteristic of the nihilist (such as beliefs in the meaninglessness or worthlessness of existence),...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-10
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The book comprises a selection of papers concerning the general theme of cultural conceptualizations in language.The focus of Part 1, which includes four papers, is on Metaphor and Culture, discussing general as well as language-specific metaphoricity.Part 2, which also...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-10
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This book presents new research on sight translation using cutting-edge eye-tracking technology. It covers various aspects of sight translation processes of both novice and professional interpreters, such as their textual processing behaviors, problem-solving patterns...
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Springer
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2020-06-05
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This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting. Presenting a study on the performance of Bachelor of Engineering students from various parts of the county, it analyzes the subjects’ language skills on the basis of selected sociolinguistic variables and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-27
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This textbook provides a clear and concise overview of the main schools of linguistic thought and scholarship from the late 18th century to the present day, examining the key tenets and leading figures of each approach and assessing their impact on the field. Combining...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-21
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