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This book provides the most recent overview of media systems in Europe. It explores new political, economic and technological environments and the challenges they pose to democracies and informed citizens. It also examines the new illiberal environment that has quickly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-14
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This book offers insights on the study of natural language as a complex adaptive system. It discusses a new way to tackle the problem of language modeling, and provides clues on how the close relation between natural language and some biological structures can be very...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-11
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This book offers a laboratory phonological analysis of the sonority hierarchy and natural classes in nasal harmony using an artificial grammar-learning paradigm. It is aimed at postgraduate students and linguists in general whose research interests lie in phonology,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-10
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This volume provides a detailed account of the syntax of expressive language, that is, utterances that express, rather than describe, the emotions and attitudes of the speaker. While the expressive function of natural language has been widely studied in recent years,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-10
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This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-10
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This volume covers descriptions and interpretations of social and cognitive phenomena and processes which emerge at the interface of languages and cultures in educational and translation contexts. It contains eleven papers, divided into two parts, which focus...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-05
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book presents a new logical framework...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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This volume presents a crosslinguistic survey of the current theoretical debates around copular constructions from a generative perspective. Following an introduction to the main questions surrounding the analysis and categorization of copulas, the chapters address a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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“Do people know that on average around 25 languages die every year? In one hundred years, if nothing has changed, half of all languages will be dead. At the end of the Twenty-first Century, there should therefore remain around 2,500, and probably many fewerif we take...
Editeur :
Odile Jacob
Parution :
2019-01-02
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This book offers a comprehensive examination of the theory, research, and practice of the use of digital games in second and foreign language teaching and learning (L2TL). It explores how to harness the enthusiasm, engagement, and motivation that digital gaming can...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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The aim of this book is to investigate the discursive power of two original, theoretical lenses when applied to real outsourcing arrangements and phenomena.The Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) and Foucauldian perspectives are brought to bear on five outsourcing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This book explores the role of gender in male- and female-produced efforts to translate a Chinese novel into English. Adopting the CDA framework and corpus methodology, the study examines the specific ways in which, and extent to which, a female British translator and a...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-29
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A comprehensive guide to essential theories and practices of change creation and implementation Organizational Change provides an essential overview to implementing deliberate and focused change through effective communication strategies. Author Laurie Lewis integrates...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Foundations of Communication Theory Series
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This book provides a critical introduction to the current views and controversies regarding language evolution. It sheds new light on hot topics such as: How ancient is language? Did Neanderthals have some form of language? Did language evolve gradually and...
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Springer
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2018-12-18
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Pragmatik – ein zentrales Gebiet der Sprachwissenschaft – hat alle Arten des sprachlichen Handelns zum Gegenstand. Ausgehend von den grundlegenden Paradigmen (Sprechakttheorie, Gesprächsforschung, Relevanztheorie etc.) informiert das Handbuch über aktuelle...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-15
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This edited book revisits the concept of social ‘activities’ from an interactional perspective, examining how verbal, vocal, visual-spatial and material resources are deployed by participants for meaning-making in social encounters. The eleven original chapters within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-15
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This book presents a statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) framework for developing a speech synthesis system where the desired speech is generated from the parameters of vocal tract and excitation source. Throughout the book, the authors discuss novel source...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.
Following an introduction from the editors, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This Handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form. Natural language abounds in these apparently...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-13
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