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Representing what someone else has said is an integral part of spoken and written communication. Speech representation occurs in many contexts from news reports and legal trials to everyday conversation. Although commonplace, it requires sophisticated choices regarding...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-11-12
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Möchten Sie mit Ihren Texten und Schriftstücken gut ankommen? Eine Bewerbung oder ein Angebot mit formalen Fehlern werden schnell im ersten Durchgang aussortiert. Die Schreiber von fehlerhaften und altbackenen E-Mails werden oft auch fachlich für inkompetent gehalten....
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-11-10
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Für Dummies
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This book addresses the question: What can close discourse analysis contribute to the understanding of language? To do so, it presents a centering theory-based computational approach to discourse analysis concerning Chinese bei passive sentences, disposal ba...
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Springer
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2020-11-10
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This volume explores the progress of cross-linguistic research into the structure of complex nominals since the publication of Chomsky's 'Remarks on Nominalization' in 1970. In the last 50 years of research into the division of labour between the mental lexicon and...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-11-10
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Penda Maria Bönighausen leistet einen Beitrag zum medientheoretischen Verständnis der Werbefigur, indem sie ein Analyseinstrumentarium zur Beschreibung und Einordnung von Werbefiguren entwickelt und am Fallbeispiel der Figur Herr Kaiser erprobt. Die Autorin verortet und...
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Springer VS
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2020-11-09
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This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the oldest known form of Chinese writing. It presents 120 rubbings made from unearthed animal bones and turtle shells that the Shang royal court employed to record royal divinations 3500 years ago, covering...
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Springer
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2020-11-09
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This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor “the Nation as a Body” among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds. In this first account of an empirical study of cross-cultural global metaphor...
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Springer
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2020-11-09
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This book focuses on understanding the process of problem construction in oral communication in foreign language contexts, examining how speakers of English as a second language approach issues in oral communication, as well as the strategies they employ to overcome...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-09
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Although language plays a key role in national development, African languages are still seen as less important for the development of African nations. This book examines the linguistic situation and the language policy of Burkina Faso and argues that most of the...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-11-06
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Harmattan Burkina Faso
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One of the fundamental properties of human language is movement, where a constituent moves from one position in a sentence to another position. Syntactic theory has long been concerned with properties of movement, including locality restrictions.
Smuggling in Syntax...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-11-06
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This edited book brings together a collection of research-based chapters that address a variety of topics related to the teaching of English in different contexts around the world. The chapters are informed by a critical approach to research, employing a variety of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-05
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Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-03
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This book also focuses on analyzing each trait from the point of view of its higher and lower order structure, as well as from the affective, cognitive, behavioral, social and academic perspectives, apart from outlining the field of personality psychology. Personality...
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Springer
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2020-11-03
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This book, adopting the perspective of cross-cultural communication, theoretically justifies and addresses human variational translation practice for the first time in the area of translation studies, focusing on the adaptation techniques and variational translation...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-11-02
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This book describes the dubbing process of English-language animated films produced by US companies in the 21st century, exploring how linguistic variation and multilingualism are used to create characters and identities and examining how Italian dubbing professionals...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-02
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This book sheds new light on corpus-assisted translation pedagogy, an intersection of three distinct but cognate disciplines: corpus linguistics, translation and pedagogy. By taking an innovative and empirical approach to translation teaching, the study utilizes mixed...
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Springer
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2020-11-01
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This book provides a corpus-led analysis of multi-word units (MWUs) in English, specifically fixed pairs of nouns which are linked by a conjunction, such as 'mum and dad', 'bride and groom' and 'law and order'. Crucially, the occurrence pattern of such pairs...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-31
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In der Forschung zur Wortbildung sind auch in jüngeren Publikationen einige Punkte strittig. Das betrifft im Deutschen die Fugenelemente sowie ihre Rolle bei der Komposition und im Polnischen die Interfixe -o-, -i-, -y-, die Wortbildungen aus dem präpositionalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-10-30
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As polarized factions in society pull apart from economic dislocation, tribalism, and fear, and as strident attacks on the press make its survival more precarious, the need for an institutionally organized forum in civic life has become increasingly important. Populist...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-28
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This book names and confounds the mono-mainstream assumption that invisibly frames much research, the ideologies that normalize monolingualism, monoculturalism, monoliteracy, mononationalism, and/or monomodal ways of knowing. In its place, the authors propose multi- and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-26
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