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This book presents the latest research in various areas of cross-linguistic influence (CLI), providing educators with insights into how previously learned languages influence the learning of an additional language at different levels, such as phonetics/phonology,...
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Springer
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2019-07-09
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This volume studies the relationship between the writers of specialized text and their readers in a broad range of settings, including research, popularization and education. It offers younger researchers an insight into the targeting process, helping them consider the...
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Springer
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2019-07-05
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Politik braucht Beratung und der Bedarf wächst. In diesem Handbuch werden daher relevante Felder der Politikberatung systematisch dargestellt, neue Entwicklungen analysiert und aktuelle Trends aufgezeigt. Neben den Grundlagen, Strukturen und Akteuren sowie den Feldern...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-05
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This book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how these same ideas might once more be harnessed to assist us in the new climate challenges facing us in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran’s languages at home and in the diaspora. The first part of the book examines the politics of minority languages and the presence of hegemonic discourses which favour Persian (Farsi) in Iran, exploring issues such...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-29
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This book explores the practices in a Zen Buddhist temple located in Northwest Ohio against the backdrop of globalization. Drawing on the previous studies on Buddhist modernization and westernization, it provides a better understanding of the westernization of Buddhism...
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Springer
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2019-06-27
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This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-06-26
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This book features the latest research on translation by a dozen leading scholars of translation studies in China. The themes discussed are diverse, and include: translation policy, literary translation, medical translation, corpus translation studies, teaching...
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Springer
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2019-06-26
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This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form ‘if p, q’ and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using ‘if’....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-24
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law’s engagement with sexual identity, marriage, and transgender rights. The judgement was handed down in 1970, but the decision has shaped decades of debate about the law’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-21
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This book develops a minimalist approach to cross-linguistic morphosyntactic variation. Ian Roberts argues that the essential insight of the principles-and-parameters approach to variation can be maintained - albeit in a somewhat different guise - in the context of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-20
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Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger dieses Sammelbandes untersuchen Migrationsbewegungen als Lern- und Bildungsanlässe. Es werden die deutsche Migrationsgeschichte, internationale Erfahrungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen analysiert, sodass Migration in einen historischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-06-19
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The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-06-13
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This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a billion people, there is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-11
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This book investigates –s marking in English verbs, specifically its manifestations in main verbs, in the past tense of BE, and in existential constructions. It embraces the many ways in which –s marking varies across the English speaking world, and considers both how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-11
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This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors. In addition, it deals with several state-of-the-art topics with regard to indirect reports, such as trust, politeness, refinery and photosynthetic...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-11
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Stefanie Lange erforscht das immersive Erleben von enhanced E-Books. Die Rezeption dieser digitalen Literaturform unterscheidet sich vor allem durch ihre Multimodalität und Interaktivität vom Lesen von Printbüchern. Somit verändern sich die Wahrnehmung und das...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2019-06-10
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This book aims to reconcile the generative considerations of Jackendoff’s Parallel Architecture (PA) with the European structuralist approach to naming. It shows that there are good reasons to single out word formation as a separate component in PA. It demonstrates that...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-10
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This edited collection challenges the perceptions of disciplinary, linguistic, geographical and ideological borders that run across language education. By highlighting commonalities and tracing connections between diverse sub-fields that have traditionally been studied...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-08
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This book revisits discourse analytic practice, analyzing the idea that the field has access to, provides, or even constitutes a ‘toolbox’ of methods. The precise characteristics of this toolbox have remained largely un-theorized, and the author discusses the different...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-07
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